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One of the things I absolutely love about the iPad is all the mind blowing melding of interface and things you just never see combined like music, sound and visuals. OK, how can anyone not like fingerpainting sound? I mean, why have people not been screaming at me about this. So cool. Oh, and Singing Fingers is free. Download now . I am having much fun with it. Absolutely brilliant.

Oh, and works on the iPhone and iPad, but so much nicer on the iPad with the extra screen real estate.

Great campaign ad from FalseEconomy.co.uk on how the British government’s severe austerity choices are liable to stall the economy and make the crash worse rather than deal with some of the real issues we could use it to deal with - and also how those measures will unfairly impact the poor and average earners rather than those who caused the financial crash. Great video.

via GetUp’s Oli .

Every year, Reuters takes untold numbers of photos covering the news and every year they honour the best from amongst them. Here’s the 55 best for 2010 (note: some of these are quite graphic and depict suffering, so be forewarned). That said, some of these are brilliant and amazing. Love this one from Thailand, though tough pick between it, the guy in Mogadishu wit the sharp and the out of focus Chilean carrying the dog. Amazing.

Fascinating article on Germany , long derided as the sick man of Europe for its economy, got a lot of things right and is now the strongest economy in the world (well, second only to China, but hey, the DE only has 82M people vs. China’s 1B).

I do find it interesting as it brings together a couple of themes that I’ve seen recurring lately, the idea of the small, good businesses (mittelstand) which create real economic value even when they’re not trying to do billion dollar IPOs (most vehemently pushed by 37Signal’s DHH and JF) and a lot of what Umair Haque has been saying about America’s toxic economy full of value destroying, rather than creating, businesses being its problem. Too many people speculating, and shifting inflated value around rather than creating it themselves. And the focus on long term strategy for success, rather than short term tactics.

Fantastic interactive data animation of the scale of the universe you’re currently calling home. Pretty impressive effects. Move the slider back and forth to get a nice interpretation of everything from unimaginably infinitesimal quantum foam to DNA, through to the planets, our local supercluster and the estimated size of the whole thing. Very cool.

Even as a trained economist, I kind of keep wondering what the hell the Federal Reserve is doing in the States. Makes no sense though imagine they are trying to stave off a similar crisis that we’re seeing in Ireland and that is threatening to spread to the rest of Europe. Anyhow, if you’re confused by the whole thing, there’s nothing like cute cartoon animals to explain it to you. Bit long, but great.

Much like cookie monster, I am reviewing new career options myself. Seriously, I’m sooo much more than just a tech guy (And I prefer the term “geekery enthusiast”, ahem… )

Stay tuned!

Oh, and please help get cookie monster on SNL!

Or Keynote, for that matter.

Great “things to avoid” presentation. And great rule of thumb: A killer one hour presentation takes 30 hours of prep. Phew.

via Lifehacker .

Kinda cute. Pretty creative. Nice tagline.

You don’t have to be a Superhero to save the planet.

via GetUp’s guru of video awesomeness Dee-Dub .

Great list of animated films for us, ahem… adults from the always hilarious and entertaining defective yeti (whose blog you should totally be reading if you aren’t already).

Was actually surprised at the number of these I hadn’t seen (and some I’d never heard of). Adding to the list of things to watch now.

• Animal Farm
• Fantastic Planet
• Heavy Metal
• Plague Dogs
• Grave of the Fireflies
• The Iron Giant
• Spirited Away
• Waking Life
• The Triplets of Belleville
• Renaissance
• Persepolis
• Waltz with Bashir
• Sita Sings the Blues
• Wall E
• Mary and Max
• Coraline

Oh, and just a personal one from me. Wallace and Gromit The Curse of the Wererabbit totally needs to be in there.