The next generation of the Flash Player is here. Adobe has released a beta version of Flash Player 10, which promises better performance, improved text handling, custom photo effects filters and native 3D animations. It’s available as a free download at the Adobe Labs website.

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This week’s AdWeek features an Op-Ed piece by your’s truly. Please enjoy it.

Exhausted from a long day at the office I decided to stay home this Saturday night and do nothing. I just saw the start of Showtime at the Apollo and I was reminded of this act from 2 years ago. Takahiro kills it.

Isabella Rossellini has put out a series of shorts entitled Green Porno. Never has a housefly’s decapitated, maggot-ridden head ever looked so chic.

I don’t have to much time for an extended post, so I apologize in advance. I will just give you a link, then say, check it out for yourself. Lots and lots of possibilities in visualization.

http://processing.org/

There is an application you can download, and there you can the run the provided example scripts to give you an idea of some of the possibilities.

Here are the same ideas, for mobile devices.

http://mobile.processing.org/

Toodles

Our good friend & collaborator Peter Rhoads just released his latest work NOLAF (done for Tostitos). Rare are the moments that brand work is able to truly make you yelp with laughter, but this is quite possibly one of the best chunks of web humor i’ve seen in a long while. kudos mr rhoads, kudos.

Sliced my finger last night. 5 hours in St. Vincent’s hospital triage and 5 stitches later, I’m ok.

Discharged.