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Russel's Teapot made my day. (Click for bigger version.)

Adobe jumped the Opensource bandwagon by releasing source code from the latest ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2) to the Mozilla Foundation for inclusion in upcoming versions of its products.

Implications:

• SVG is dead, long live Tamarin
• Expect some fantastically rich web-applications in a couple years, that will blow away gmail and the likes
• Who'll need a host OS anymore? Will this be Web3.0?

I, for one, do welcome our new Tamarin overlords.

Mind Game = super freaky. It's visually spectacular, entertaining, deep, thoughtful and it has a cute girl with big breasts. See it.

I cannot even start describing how much this film touched me. Pure genius, please see it now.

Via: SE

iBar is a system for the interactive design of any bar-counter. Integrated video-projectors can project any content on the milky bar-surface.

Pictures, Video.

“Scan my skin [giggle].” Check out the newest way to pick up a Japanese mobo-booth-babe! This barcoded booth-babe has a QR code (the block with lots of dots) on her back, and she wants you to use your cam-phone to scan for her personal information, hee, hee.

I wonder when we'll start seeing QR Code tattoos...

I've just spent a couple hours playing with our QR Code generator and here are the results: please welcome... color QR Codes!

The KAYWA Reader seems to handle colored codes pretty well, as long as the light color stays clearer than the dark one, and there is enough contrast between the two.

Just give it a try: can you decode the QR Code to the left?

Generating colored codes is pretty straightforward, here is how it works: all you have to do is to specify the parameters in the URI of the requested QR Code itself:

http://qrcode.kaywa.com/code/ F S DARK-COLOR LIGHT-COLOR / DATA

...where:

• F is the desired format ("P" or "F") of the generated code. More on this later.
• S is the size (in QR Code "units") of the code, from 4 to 12.
• DARK-COLOR is the color of the darker color, in web-color format. For example 000077 for a dark blue.
• LIGHT-COLOR is just the same, but for the light color. For example 44aa44 for a light green.
• DATA is the actual (url-encoded) data you want to encode in the QR Code.

Note that any of these arguments can be skipped!

Confused? Here are a couple examples that should clarify the matter for you:

• http://qrcode.kaywa.com/code/83344ff/20207996

  Has a size of 8 and a dark color code #3344ff. The light color defaults to white.

• http://qrcode.kaywa.com/code/p000000ffcccc/20207995

  Is a PNG QR Code, having a default size, a black dark color (#000000) and a light color code of #ffcccc.

Still confused? Not sure how to obtain a given color? You can simply copy/paste the colors out of this table.

But back to our QR Codes...it gets even better: you can get a PDF document for any QR Code, just by setting the format parameter to "F"! For example, the URI of the last code above, in PDF format, is:

http://qrcode.kaywa.com/code/f000000ffcccc/20207995

Now, how neat is that?

Kaywa lauched a complete set of of web-bsed services today, bringing QR Codes to the european mobile market, the mobile web in your mobile phone.

• Generate URL, SMS, PHONE and TEXT QR Codes on qrcode.kaywa.com
• Decode them by installing the free QR Code decoder on your mobile phone.

I'm beta-testing the coComment web-service, which tracks and aggregates the comments you leave on blogs you visit.

coComment also alerts you (via an RSS feed, soon via email or SMS) when new comments are added to the conversation.

Note: while it is being beta-tested, the service is semi-closed and you need an invitation code to sign-up. I have a couple invitations, feel free to get in touch with me if you want to give it a try.

Update: sorry, no more invitations!