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.

“Just in time for the New Year! At long last, we can share with the world a taste of the Tagged Tanakh (TT) prototype!” JPS Interactive

We spent the better half of 2009 working with JPS to develop the Tagged Tanakh prototype and at long last, we can give you a sneak peek.

The Tagged Tanakh prototype has a pretty healthy base of core functionality that we hope will compound under future development. The prototype allows users to interact with the English version of the Jewish Bible, by adding remarks, using tags to contextualize the relationships between their remarks and their selection from the Tanakh, respond to remarks left by other users and create custom feeds to follow the users and/or topics of interest to them. In addition, we have also developed a fairly intricate rank and moderation system, that will help users find discussions and topics that are relevant and of interest to them.

Social networking features, integration of third party data sets, Hebrew text, and the release of an API are all in the pipline and we’d love to get your first impressions. You can read more in our working case study.

If you are interested in supporting the Tagged Tanakh, you can make a donation directly to JPS.

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

Photo by: cocoro no akari

I spend a lot of time looking at things. No really, A LOT OF TIME. It makes sense, seeing as I’m a designer by profession. Aside from the obvious, inspiration, I find looking at things is meditative (or maybe it’s the seduction of drone, for me). In any case, it’s something I thoroughly enjoy. So I thought I’d share with you, a few of the places that have been calling my droning gaze.

This time, I’ll share with you some of the great things I’ve been looking at, in the world of print design and packaging design.

Noteboek from Evelien Lohbeck on Vimeo.

Object Adjective is please to announce the launch of Change the World for Ten Bucks. Once again, Chronicle Books approached us to help them build an community website, this time to help change the world.

“We Are What We Do is a new kind of movement inspiring people to change the world one small action at a time. It’s not just politicians, institutions, and big business that change the world – it is also ordinary people like you and me.”

The opening paragraph on changetheworldfortenbucks.com alone, sums up our feelings on the matter and we were incredibly delighted when Chronicle Books asked us to develop the community website for this campaign.

Ready Case Study

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.