The New Generation of Graffiti

This is awesome. The Graffiti Research Lab built a system that uses a laser pointer to control a video projection that they can shine on buildings.

There's a howto here: GRL Laster Tag Howto

ikea hacker - A Great Idea

Here's an example of remix culture at work -- ikea hacker. This blog (microsite?) encourages people to share their customizations of IKEA's products.

People hunting for ideas get their fix. IKEA gets free product research. The verdict: everyone wins.

Hey Corporations -- please don't be afraid of this.

Wireless Range Hack

Here's an interesting way to increase your wireless range. I wonder if it works on a Mac.

Google Mapit bookmarklet

Here's a simple bookmarklet that I cobbled together because I got tired of copying and pasting addresses from the browser into Google maps, and then having to do it twice because the multi-line copy/paste didn't work. You should be able to drag this right onto your toolbar:

Mapit

Then you just highlight an address and click it, or setup a hotkey for it. I haven't tested it across all browsers yet, but it's working fine in Camino, Firefox, and Safari on my mac.

Here's a prettier version so you can see what it does:

javascript:var url = 'http://maps.google.com/maps?q=';
if (window.getSelection) {
 var sel = window.getSelection() + '';
 url += sel.replace(/\n/g,%22, %22);
} else if(document.getSelection) {
 url += document.getSelection();
} else if (document.selection) {
 url += document.selection.createRange().text;
}
void(window.open(url));

Wartoddling

A stroller plus a wireless laptop equals this. TUAW called it "wartoddling", but the voice synth should be pitched up a few octaves.