The first ad as part of CPB’s campaign for Windows. I’ll have to digest this one first or see the next phase to be able to comment.

• Justice Case Files – a comic against internet piracy (hit ‘preview a copy’ on the right)
• CG actress Emily, a stunningly realistic animation
• Intel demos a wireless power broadcasting system, imagine the possibilities
• Bad news for the hippies among you: Burning incense linked to respiratory cancers
• Japanese guy takes a picture of a vending machine each day and then documents the changes on his blog

We just launched the DevSta Challenge 2008, a competition to engage the community as part of the overall marketing activities for Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008. So if you’re a developer and live in Oz, sign-up now and make sure you’re ready once the brief gets released. If you’re good then you might be going to Vegas.

Nice street art execution for EA’s Spore game. The campaign site features a link through to Google Maps so I suppose it’s not virtual but for real. So if you live in Brussels go an check it out. Courtesy of ADN.

Associate Professor and Head of School, Communication and Media at Bond University in Queensland, Dr. Jeffrey E. Brand’s presentation about the role of new media and gaming in today’s communication landscape, held at our McCann Take-Away event last Friday. What a sentence. I should try to reformulate that but can’t be bothered. Anyway. Watch this. Peace out.

• A post on FlowingData on data visualisation tools
• The periodic table of the elements in videos
• 1,000 developers in 25 teams are working on Windows 7
• Most popular websites for kids

Microsoft’s long awaited Photosynth finally became public today. Now you can create 3D environments based on your pictures. Unfortunately the thing doesn’t work on my Mac here so I’ll properly check it out at work tomorrow:

Unfortunately, we’re not cool enough to run on your OS yet. We really wish we had a version of Photosynth that worked cross platform, but for now it only runs on Windows.