This family in japan owns a pet king penguin, and they’ve trained it so that it will walk all the way to the fish market with its little backpack to get fish everyday. it’s super cute…

Via @jina

If you’re saying to yourself, “WTF?”, you’re not alone. Apparently this is honest and true, first-class Microsoft advertising. Ryan Tate dissects this one for us on Valleywag.

This is a fantastic opportunity to come out and mingle with other microformatters, learn what it’s all about and share your ideas.

Sponsored in part by: Object Adjective

Sponsored in part by: Object Adjective

Celebrate the 4th birthday of microformats.org!

Come out and join us in celebrating 4 years of doing it with class. This evening, Friday, June 26, 2009 at 7:00pm is the Microformats.org fourth birthday bash. In honor of the great achievements the organization and its voluntary community of contributing developers have made, there will be a party at B Restaurant and Bar in San Francisco. If you love portable data and semantic markup, we’d love to see you there.

To help out with or attend the party, please add your name and RSVP.

Sponsored in part by: Object Adjective

Noteboek from Evelien Lohbeck on Vimeo.

Algorithmia: An exhibition about problem solving

Algorithmia Opening Reception: Saturday March 14, 2009 at 7:00pm. Object Adjective’s own Lauren Scime curates an exhibition that explores the relationship between math, science, programming, and the effect these have on our relationship to the changing world.

Unlike many math oriented shows of the past, this exhibition does not draw the line at simply defining algorithm as the use of a mathematical equation, but rather opens up the door to a broad array of artistic interpretations, both literally and conceptually referential.

Just as the algorithms of nature constantly work in flux to solve and create problems, so does the human use of algorithmic processes towards advancement. The science fictions of yesterday are rapidly becoming the realities that shape our everyday. From iPods shuffling our favorite songs and videos, to web applications that allow us to do everything remotely online, to the “smart bombs” that target enemies of the corporate world, we are surrounded by the good, the bad, and the ugly sides of computational progress.

Algorithmia consists of both physical and web-based work, presenting diverse procedures for problem solving, and explores the ways these methods, in turn, program us.

Curated By: Lauren Scime, Bryan Hewitt, Vita Mei Hewitt.

Elemental. The quintessential English fellow, explorer, scientist, exotic dancer and some might say raving lunatic.

Moog teamed up with Elemental after he was lured into his laboratory under the promise of laudanum.

The laudanum never appeared.
This video however, did.

Patrick examines what makes an application indispensable to users and why companies mistake incremental improvements for innovation. In this examination he hones in on the real hurdle for developers, which is trusting in your own ideas and following through with them.

Read: Why We Bend Lines

If a lolcat is an image combining a photograph of a cat with a questionably humorous and idiosyncratic caption, a lolbot is an even more questionable attempt at humor. But, we luvs the lolcat and we supr luvs da robots. So, here you go.

Welcome in LOL BOTS, a website completely dedicated to this new art form. As they put it:

Robots are the new kittens

I CN HAZ TOKYO – Mothra’s Diner, www.lolbots.com

I HAS BLING – Indeed you do!, www.lolbots.com