Archive for February, 2009

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It looks like NYC street artist Poster Boy NYC was arrested last weekend by a group of plainclothes policemen at a gallery event in SoHo. He’s the guy who uses a razor blade to remix and reuse NYC subway poster ads. Although someone who was previously identified as Poster Boy in New York Magazine insists that Henry Matyjewicz, the Bushwick resident arrested Friday night, was merely a stand-in and that Poster Boy is more a movement than an individual. Either way, take a look at some great Poster Boy subway ad remixes and spend some time riding the rails with him. Or catch more from Friends We Love.

Umbrella Today keeps it simple. It only answers one question, Do I need an umbrella today? If you want to get fancy, it’ll send you a text message in the mornings.

Ghislain Poirier+ Neneh Cherry + Old White Label

The latest release of Google Earth is out and version 5.0 has added some amazing 3D views of the ocean. Along with views of the terrain features below the sea, you can also see wave action (if your video card is new enough) and links and features from National Geographic, Cousteau Society, BBC, NOAA, and locations of shipwrecks and GPS tracks of sea life. GE5 now shows you historical views of locations, all the better to watch a suburb sprawl in a 50-year time lapse. Full exploration of planet Mars has also been added– and the flight simulator (Ctrl + Alt + A to start it) even works on the Red Planet. If you need to dig down more into the specifics of the 3D bathymetry or read more about the new release check out the (unofficial) Google Earth Blog or the (official) Google Lat Long Blog.

New-to-twitter technology columnist David Pogue learns how to cure the hiccups in seconds.

London just got slammed with its heaviest snowfall in 18 years, getting 20cm (8in). And while flinty Mid-western Americans may scoff at any amount less than a foot or so, the English seem to have been driven barmy by it. But several Twitter feeds and mashups showing real-time information about the storm sprouted up. One mashup from Ben Marsh uses postal codes to show location and intensity of the storm in a blizzard of tweets live on a Google Map of the UK.

Help out some of the broke heroes of your childhood. Buy a vintage world championship ring. The key price point seemed to be about $3K.