Ola's posterous

Lawrence Lessig is trying to change the congress

By creating a donors strike organized from his site Change Congress.

Change congress is calling a donor strike!

Special interests pump millions of dollars into elections, giving them more influence over our political system than the rest of us. Can you be part of the solution?

<br /><a href=" ">Lawrence Lessig</a> from Doug MacMillan on Vimeo.

He's using a lot of social web platforms to push this thing, check out this list...  TWITTER, FLICKR,  MYSPACE, BLIP, YOUTUBE, FACEBOOK APP and FACEBOOK.

Pretty cool initiative, hope he manages to bring some real change. I wish him the best of luck.

augmented reality, the toys take on it

<br /><a href=" ">Augmented Reality Toys (Work in progress)</a> from Frantz Lasorne on Vimeo.

http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/03/16/surreal-becomes-real-with-toys-and-ar/

Kid = Never ending Demand For NEW Toys! This equation holds true in all homes, however designer Frantz Lasorne has an excellent project for us that gives a second lease of life to the existing toy collection. Called Augmented Reality, the project combines the joys of virtual reality, imagination and tangible toys.  Using Augmented Reality Tangible User Interface (AR TUI) via head-mounted glasses, loads of imagination and old toys, a new environment is created that allows a child to live his fantasies.

What the font? iPhone stylee

One more via Swissmiss ...

whatthefont_for_iphone

I have big news! What heFont, the ingenious font recognition app that I use on a regular basis is now available for the iPhone.
With the iPhone version of WhatTheFont you can use the phone's built-in camera to photograph the text in question (or choose an existing image from your photo albums). The app allows you to crop the image, focusing on only the important parts before uploading. After confirming which characters are used in the image, the app provides a list of possible matching fonts. You can then either e-mail a link to a MyFonts page with more info on that font, or open it up in the iPhone's built-in Safari web browser.