Street smarts

Buongiorno,

Ever wonder just how far in you can zoom in using Google Maps? Well in this video Google Street View gets even more invasive, with a thing that Valleywag calls "improving geolocated search". I call it the future I don’t want to live to see.

And you thought Google Street View was creepy before
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPgV6-gnQaE


Look at those holo'd out cheeks
Also creepy is this holographic display-o-rama of model Kate Moss, who looks only slightly less ethereal than usual. (Thanks Gordon)
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=GQT0vcw7xZM&NR=1


Roller skating in limbo
Roller skates, cars, chin scrapes. Uh...you have to see this one to understand. Pretty impressive. (Thanks Heather)
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=95f_1199561795


QuOTeD
"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible." -- Vince Lombardi


Happy New Year's Eve -- if you're celebrating the Chinese New Year, that is. A couple of items in recently on that front...

Bad cookie
Real Chinese fortune cookie, on the web. Does not require eating virtual Cashew Chicken.
http://www.badcookie.com/

A name of your own
Type in your English name, gender, DoB, some desired characteristics and voila -- your new Chinese moniker.
http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html


Getting out the vote, graphically
And finally, despite all the hoopla -- no to mention the sheer pleasure of exercising one's Constitutional privilege -- some people need a little encouragement to hit the polls. Well AIGA, the professional association for design, asked designers from across the United States to create nonpartisan posters that would encourage the American public to participate in the electoral process, and to vote for a presidential candidate. As the AIGA put it, "Good design makes choices clear". Given the ballot I've seen, I wouldn't go quite that far.
http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/37963/43588

Ciao.