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After exiting sales of the Wii from Nintendo, physical computing hit the game console and gamers. Nintendo launches a recall of 3,2 Million straps for their Wii remote control. After numerous injuries appeared, where gamers try to play as usual. This marketing strategy inspired gamers to re design and poetry spam the manual and the safety suggestions. A very nice example of a professional marketing strategy which understands the need of selling the product through live style, if on purpose or not it does not matter. Question is here only what is cheaper the Caifornien law suits which may spark out and may generate more PR, or a agency which makes the same with actors. -----> see pictures, and claim new strap here Nintendo strap recall

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Lord Steven’s investigation into the car crash which killed Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed is published. The former Met chief's inquiry, costs £4 milion, is said to bring together some 20,000 documents and 1,500 witness statements. The Operation paget inquiry report into the allegation of conspiracy to murder a must read for all fan’s of Agatha Christie or the male counterpart Sherlock Holmes. But also perfectly fitting to any erotic imaginations from fetishists of institutional polished inquiry reports.

I have recently visited the Sonic Bed_London exhibition at the RichMix in East London.

At first I was surprised. What I was looking at resembled a giant wooden speaker laid on the back with mounted mattresses and cushions on it. Next to the wooden stairs that lead into the box was a decoratively written label saying "Please remove your shoes."

The Venice Project is trying to revolutionize how you watch TV.

You should be able to watch tv where and when you want to, and see TV that is actually of interest to you. This includes using/extending features such as “Web 2.0”, f.x. creating and using community-based information — using P2P and the client the software itself is based on XULRunner.

An interesting story here from amazon-noir, UBERMORGEN the art group have made the news again this time for stealing books from amazon dot com, the group have a highly controversial art style which leads them into collision with corporate bodies such as amazon dot com...

The Bad Guys (The Amazon Noir Crew: Cirio, Lizvlx, Ludovico, Bernhard) stole copyrighted books from Amazon by using sophisticated robot-perversion technology coded by supervillain Paolo Cirio. A subliminal media fight and a covert legal dispute escalated into an online showdown with the heist of over 3000 books at the center of the story.

Codev2 by Lawrence Lessig Codev site

From the Preface: "This is a translation of an old book—indeed, in Internet time, it is a translation of an ancient text." That text is Lessig's "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace." The second version of that book is "Code v2." The aim of Code v2 is to update the earlier work, making its argument more relevant to the current internet.