9-eyes.com is a crazy collection of what can best be described as interesting/artistic scenes captured by Google’s Streetview.
(Yes, Winnipeg’s infamous pickup truck party makes the cut.)
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TIL William Gibson wrote an episode of The X-Files
in CultureI’ve been re-watching The X-Files on Netflix. 1997’s season 5 has an abnormally high number of good monster of the week episodes.
Today I watched Episode 11, “Kill Switch,” a story in which rouge AI has sexy-time with Mulder. I was pleasantly surprised (then not surprised at all in hindsight) to find out that the episode was written by William Gibson (and Tom Maddox). Directed by Rob Bowman, director of some of my favourite Star Trek: TNG episodes (like the on where Wesley Crusher falls in love with a girl who turns into a giant monster, literally).
Anyways, check it out if you have the Netflix.
PS. This is what email on TV looked like in 1997. Not sure exactly why they felt the need to make it look worse than reality.
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Tim Hortons printing news tweets on sleeves in the UAE
in DesignOK. This is cool.
Gulf News (the #1 English language newspaper in the region) is partnering with Tim Hortons to print breaking news on coffee cup sleeves. The campaign is the brainchild of Y&R Dubai, who claim they’ve increased website traffic by 25% and subscribers 1.5% [case study. video].
I have to admit, this is a pretty clever campaign all around. It’s a good use-case for QR codes and the custom built tweet printer’s pretty cute!