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  • August 24, 2008
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  • Sita Sings the Blues
    Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as "The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told."
    (tags: film animation india epic)
  • stair porn
    Lots and lots of lovely pictures of lovely staircases. Extraordinarily captivating.
    (tags: homes architecture design photography blog)
  • Find and Promote Social Objects to Improve Your Business « The BigTreetop Blog
    More on social objects…
    (tags: networks sharing social_objects)
  • Infovore » Playing Together: What Games Can Learn from Social Software
    Nice little piece on social software, social objects and Nike+
    (tags: culture gaming play social_software toread)
  • Rotman magazine interview with Harry West from Continuum:
    "Creating a product for people without studying them first simply doesn’t make any sense. The products we create are meant to help and serve people, and in order to do that we need to understand what people need, what they value and what their aspirations are, and use that understanding to drive the creative process." – via Steve
    (tags: design user-centred innovation business)
  • UK has more people of pensionable age than children under 16 | World news | The Guardian
    For the first time, the UK has more people of pensionable age than children under 16, the Office for National Statistics revealed yesterday….the number of people of state pensionable age – over 65 for men and over 60 for women – rose by 1.9% last year to 11.58 million. They account for 19% of the population, overtaking the 11.5 million children under the age of 16. The statisticians identified the over-80s as the fastest growing age group, saying they accounted for over 5% – or 2.7 million – of the population.
    (tags: social_care healthcare ageing demographics UK population)
  • Steven Levy on How the Chumby Could Become Man's New Best Friend
    Chumby is a $180 Internet-widget device that uses Wi-Fi to grab Flash video, RSS feeds, Net audio, and other mini apps. In other words, it's a clock radio for the Twitterati. By sheer force of personality, Chumby gets you to stick around long enough to discover its virtues.
    (tags: Chumby gadgets technology wifi)
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