The full slideshow is on Vanity Fair.

Irish Times writes

Soft drinks company Pepsi, TV network CBS and publishers, Time Warner have partnered to insert a paper thin interactive video screen into the September 18th copy of Entertainment Weekly .

The screen will be powered by rechargeable batteries, the videos will be held on a tiny microchip.

When readers open the magazine on the correct page videos will automatically load, similar how musical Christmas cards work. Readers will be able to touch the screen to view one of five videos. In total they will be able to watch 40 minutes of video.

It is an interesting move from two mediums that are subject to a lot of pressure from the Internet. I have to think that it is more of a one-time deal as the cost has to be pretty high for the technology and would have to drop a long way before being cost effective.

The  package will include ads from Pepsi to help underwrite the cost, I am sure this will get a lot of buzz so may be money well-spent.

The artificial lagoon and swimming pool is eight hectares in size and contains a quarter million cubic meetings of water. The pool is 1km in length, the next closest is only 150 meters.

Now if only I could take that vacation.

Recently I have been wondering if cloud computing is really ready for prime time. The news flow suggests that the jury may still be out on that. Twitter’s data in the cloud at Google Apps was hacked and downloaded and emailed to TechCrunch. Then there was high profile hosting company Rackspace who have spent nearly $290 million on equipment to allow hosting on the cloud since last year. The problem is there has been a couple of outages taking sites down such as Justin Timberlake and a couple of people I know who were not best pleased. TMCnet contributor writes

Origin Storage, the storage systems integration provider, reportedly said the company does not find the repeated security breaches in Twitter surprising. The company said that such attacks will be expected as many IT staff and managers are being pushed into adopting cloud computing services on a fast track basis.

There are two forces at work at many companies, they are getting pressure to go to the cloud to cut costs and streamline development but technology heads are not usually keen to leave security in the hands of others and recent cases such as those above are not going to encourage them.

I think in summary that cloud computing will change the way people use computers and companies do business, however it does have some way to go and it could get bumpy.

Via Digital Trends

In a Big Brother move, Amazon has deleted two George Orwell titles from Kindles in use, including, yes, 1984.

Writer George Orwell wrote about the overweening power of Big Brother in his prophetic novel, 1984, probably never dreaming how close to the truth he’d come.

Custom Letters is an evolving category that includes calligraphy, sign painting, graffiti, stone carving, digital lettering, hand lettering, paper sculpture, and type design (we’d prefer to feature new/original type over, say, revivals).

Custom, in this instance, means built from scratch; we aren’t looking for customization—a type treatment or 3d treatment—of an existing typeface.

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