In my continuing quest to become all powerful I have noted this handy tool. It let’s me view all the key locations for nefarious activity around the world, real time an provides a handy laser location device and the ability to shut off all power.
Expect great things.
http://henchmanshelper.com/
PS It’s just a great Creative Commons project and a nice Friday afternoon toy. Enjoy.
This video gives you a much better impression of our work on the HMI (human machine interface) for Lincoln that I posted about on Friday.
Whoever Fizzy Farmer is I’m greatful to him for posting this to YouTube.
I feel it’s time to give a bit of space to our amazing design team who have just finished the first phase of a striking new in-car interface for Lincoln.
They showcased it at the Detroit Autoshow and I think it looks beautiful and very exciting. 
Here it is write large at Alan Mulalhly’s presentation. It’s a very innovative voice activated interface.
You can read more here….
Did you hear yet about the mall opening in Nanjing? It only stocks fakes. China is the land of the fakes after all and they are quite unrepentant about it so it should be no surprise that a whole mall is being dedicated to them.
At the mall you wil be able to sample such delights as Bucksstar Coffee and Pizza Huh – I kid you not.
But although I understand the righteous anger of the people who design and market the real thing, a little part of my brain wonders if fakes add value to them. After all, there is a sense of shame or cheapness or non-achieving attached to buying fakes. Or if you buy it not knowing it’s a fake then a sense of, well, foolishness that might accompany finding out it’s not the geniune article.
Either way I think fakes can add value to the brand.
Check out the full news article on the Mirror website no less….
Ok I am going to cheat and include some 25s and some 5s but since everyone likes to sum up a year or a period of record sales or whatever the hell you care to mention by using top 10s I thought I would too. Only I would point away from myself to some interesting pieces and writing by others. Here goes:
10. Top 25 Auto brands discussed online – Does it equate to sales?
9. Top 13 Science Stories of 2008 on Wired - including a couple of ETs
8. Top 10 Strategic technologies for 2009 - including cloud computing of course and green computing
7. Top 10 predictions for the mobile marketplace in 2009 – refreshing to see someone say that “Monile TV still won’t take off in 2009′ . Props for the most realistic prediction!
6. Top 6 predictions for digital advertising – my favourite being digital linking to the physical world. About time.
5. Top 42 marketing predictions from Junta – whether there is much value in having 42 predictions I don’t know (let’s face it some of them have to come true). However, I like the exuberance of it in these crunchy times.
4. Top 10 games of 2008 from the Guardian – predictably including Tombraider Underworld, delightfully including Spore, pleasingly includng World of Warcraft and frustratingly including Fable II when I haven’t even played Fable yet.
3. Top 10 most powerful blogs – Predictable but keep going to the top 50 for some more interesting options
2. Top 10 most obvious news stories of 2008 – scroll past the “photos” of food (why?!) to get some corkers.
1. Top 30 failed technology predictions – always good to avoid hubris…
