Shared Items – July 1, 2009

A brief list of interesting things, culled from the items I shared in Google Reader in the last week:

YouTube – Living with First-Person Shooter Disease
Iran Tries to Pacify Protesters With *Lord Of The Rings* Marathon
Sometimes a headline is so good I don’t even care if it’s true.
How to Make Strawberry Mochi (Daifuku)
I spent a whole week in Japan bitching about the lack of sweet things. Now I really miss mochi.
Google City Tours Builds Itineraries for Multi-Day Trips [Travel]
This Google Labs app was developed by a friend of mine. I’m thrilled to see it opened to the world, and happy to have had a very small part to play in its development.

Shared Items – June 10, 2009

A brief list of interesting things, culled from the items I shared in Google Reader in the last week:

Color Picker
I keep seeing references to this hypothetical pen with colour-picker that would mix red, green, and blue ink to match any color you want. No-one seems to comment on the fact that mixing those three colours would give you an ugly brown most of the time. What’s needed is cyan, yellow, and magenta (and possibly black too, for better and cheaper dark tones).