Breakfast Links: NYC, Britain & Japan
If you live in New York City there is no chance that you haven’t seen those Dan Smith Will Teach You Guitar flyers posted in every bodega and restaurant in the entire city. Well, some awesome MFA student from Parsons has, as his art project, plastered new Dan Smith Will Teach You posters all over the place, he’ll teach you hunting, keystroke logging, sewing, and a wide variety of things you might not have expected ol’ Dan to know. It’s pretty awesome, he posts some of the voice messages he’s gotten as response to the campaign. Some of them are… creepy. (although he shoulda bleeped out their phone numbers when he posted the messages, I wonder if he’ll get in trouble for that). And just remember Dan Smith will teach you.
So some of you will remember when we posted a bit ago about how Britain was adding loudspeakers to the cameras that they have all over the place to invade your privacy. They did that so they could publicly yell at you if you were doing something they didn’t think you ought to be doing. Well now, chiggity check it out, they’re going to add lip reading software to those cameras so they can “hear” what you’re doing and take some actions if they don’t like what you are talking about in public. Wow. Britain must really hate its citizens, it’s madness I say. Madness? No.. this.. is… BRITAIN! Whoops sorry, I thought it was a month ago.
Ok, I wasn’t sure about this last one. It’s a video medley of some “Rube Goldberg” machines that some japanese folks whipped up. Some of them are crazy and some of them are a little lame, but my issue with this is that, shouldn’t Rube Goldberg machines do something at the end like make an omelet or turn on a light switch or something? These ones kinda just end. I mean, really, if you’re going to go through all the trouble, at least crack an egg at the end for christmas’ sake!
