TTMMHTM: Braille body mods, Tesco hack, Placemaker talk video, old superheroes, steampunk, accessible Opera and cat control

Things that made me happy this morning:

• You can now show your appreciation for accessibilty by getting a “Braille body modification”:http://www.digital.udk-berlin.de/en/projects/summer07/haupt/bodytech/braille.html or as Rob of b3ta put it “readable acne”:http://twitter.com/robmanuel/status/2629570725. Then again it makes more sense than “stuffing donuts in your forehead”:http://blog.oneplusinfinity.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/crazykids.jpg
• Tesco is “running a hack day in August”:http://techfortesco.blogspot.com
  as they are releasing an API!
• Skills matter released “the video of my placemaker talk”:http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/placemaker
• There’s no party like a “panda birthday party”:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/10/join-the-panda-birthday-p_n_229810.html
• Google releases a “list of Google Twitter accounts”:http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-accounts-on-twitter.html
• The Telegraph have a nice section of comics that show what happens “When Superheroes get old”:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/5709426/When-comic-book-heroes-and-villains-get-old-Superheroes-Decadence-by-Donald-Soffritti.html
• “Wikitude”:http://www.wikitude.org/ is the “Augmented Reality (AR) platform which allows you to browse the world and helps you discover information about places and points of interest around you.”
• Some Amazing “steampunk gadgets”:http://www.toxel.com/tech/2009/07/12/12-steampunk-gadgets-and-designs/
• Good overview over “Opera’s accessibility features”:http://www.iheni.com/opera-accessibility-where-were-at/
• Great “photos of the Eniac”:http://ftp.arl.army.mil/historic-computers/
• Proof that “cats do control humans”:http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090713/sc_livescience/catsdocontrolhumansstudyfinds and not the other way around

Tags: body modification, braille, cats, eniac, Google, hack, panda, placemaker, skillsmatter, steampunk, tesco, twitter, video

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