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That TEDxWellington received the highest number of applications for speakers and performers ever!
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Play first person Tetris.
A Data Commons for the biomaterial community.
A searchable movie HD stills database linked to AI.
Phosphor is a flexible icon family for interfaces, diagrams, presentations… all for free.
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If you own a Mac and updated to the new operating then ‘Your Computer Isn‘t Yours‘, so sad.
Activists are now turning Facial Recognition tools against the police, the trackers become tracked.
French bulldog elected mayor in Kentucky hamlet.
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Handz, A 3D illustration library available for free (or pay what you want).
Tiles, a great little free window manager / app for MacOS.
Buy ‘Eau de Bookstore‘ which is a fragrance from one of my fav book stores.
Make WordArt like in the old days with this emulator.
An online tool just to loop over and over a YouTube video.
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The moment Wales went into national two-week ‘firebreak’ Covid lockdown.
Brexit Is Looming | The Emergence Of The New United Celtic Nation.
Why Peru opened Machu Picchu ruins for one tourist.
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This thread of me handing out the TEDxWellington Call for Speakers / Performers cards.
The Rasterbator: enlarge images to multiple pages so you can print and combine them into huge posters.
If you need to chill and with 8 hours of sounds / views from sleeping in a tent when it rains outside.
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My fatherland is struggling as several more Welsh counties to go into coronavirus lockdown.
Ireland may have the answer when it comes to Facebook and data sovereignty.
Who knew how much tourism power Wikipedia has.
Suing the patent office on behalf of AI.
Why I’m taking a break from Creative Leadership NZ this year.
Cocooning in technology for the privileged.
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Here’s a directory of free graphic design resources that you can use for personal or commercial use.
Here is the bible of remote work tools.
A Random Two-Word Phrase Generator for inspiring weird and wonderful ideas / thoughts / names.
Transform any hands-drawn design into a HTML code.
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How NZ’s law is nowhere near ready for Facial Recognition Technology.
A short ebook online from Cory Doctorow on ‘How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism‘.
If you ever used Siri on your iPhone or Mac this will scare you.
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Borrow a private island in Sweden for one week to work on a creative project.
A list of open source video conferencing tools to use.
Orson Welles’ 1937 radio version of Les Miserables.
An online 3D Book Cover Creator which is very easy to use.
Facilitating Inspiration (aka Herding Cats) explores the components of effective facilitation & my reflections of the recent ‘Creative Ideation Workshop.’
From those clever duo at The Minimalists, a guide to start a blog in 2020.
If Facebook were a country it would be North Korea.
After someone posted about having cancer on Facebook their feed became full of ‘Alternative Care’ ads.
Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves (I want to believe).
The above are the first three episodes of Creative Welly… subscribe here!
Over 500 customizable free SVG icons.
Rave DJ allows you to mashup up to songs (or more) on YouTube (here’s my attempt).
Now’s your chance to apply to be a TED Fellow!
How many big companies are freezing the sale of facial recognition technology to US Police Departments whilst Boston bans it outright in the city.
Zoom closes account of US-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event.
Another Facebook software engineer resigns in protest over the social network’s ‘propagation of weaponised hatred’ – shudders.
This website for background noise for working (and / or for drifting off to sleep).
Art that can be used for posters, flyers & other personal or commercial projects with no attribution required.
The Speedread bookmarklet, select text on the page and it will be displayed word by word (roughly).
Don’t know why you would ever need it but just in case… a website which has the bouncing DVD logo.
AudioAlter, a collection of easy-to-use web tools for all your audio files.
Why an Amazon executive resigned over company’s ‘chickenshit’ firings of employee activists (stop buying from Amazon).
A flood of coronavirus apps are tracking us – now it’s time to keep track of them.
Our lives are now run by ‘Persuasion Engineers‘ – shudder!
How Facebook could use Giphy to collect your data.
Another Apple whistleblower goes public over lack of action – “I am extremely concerned that big tech companies are basically wiretapping entire populations…”
Your illustration dances to the music.
The spoken articles list of Wikipedia.
A curated timeline of COVID pandemic events related to Wellington city here in NZ.
Free video conferencing background images of empty sets from the BBC Archive.
Play with Mikutap—great for bored kids / kidults alike.
Blush: Create, mix, and customize illustrations made by artists around the world—then use them commercial free.
AutoDraw which converts rough scribbles and doodles into beautiful, symmetrical icons/clipart that you can download for free.
Check out this platform which make acapellas from any song or this one which remove vocals from any song.
thisworddoesnotexist.com creates words which does not exist using AI.
Forgive yourself if you’re barely functioning right now.
Not a comfortable read but how one person freaked out after getting their file from Clearview AI.
Māori tribe restricts hongi greeting over coronavirus.
If you’re on a Mac use Fluid and turn your favorite web apps into real apps.
Nine Inch Nails releases some free music.
Upload a video or GIF & remove the background with Unscreen.
Some free royalty free premium music for projects (cleared for YouTube) via UnMinus.
The most dangerous writing app.
Undraw is a constantly updated design project with beautiful SVG images that you can use completely free and without attribution.
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Another face-collecting AI company hosting three billion images hacked (this one scrapped their database from Facebook so nothing to worry about really).
How Amazon tracks all that you read.
About a mystery radio signal from deep space appears to be following a 16-day cycle.
Some deep truths here about the lack of ethic consideration in technology advancements.
How 1,000 is now a 100 in terms of what is needed as a fan base to sustain oneself.
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Those nice people from The Smithsonian Institute have just released 2.8 million images free to access and use.
This great example of environmental storytelling & journalism from Norway.
A brimming online database of old book illustrations.
