The Creators Project is a new network dedicated to the celebration of creativity and culture across media, and around the world. At a time in the history of the arts where digital technologies have revolutionized distribution, democratized access, and completely re-imagined the scope and scale with which an artist can create a vision and reach an audience…thecreatorsproject.com

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The big cheese of Apple as a big cheese. The Cooks Den has the recipe.

With every beat of my heart…

In Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier, FRONTLINE presents an in-depth exploration of what it means to be human in a 21st-century digital world… boingboing.net

Originally aired February 2,2010,  but can be viewed online.

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Videogames are no longer the preserve of adolescent males in dark bedrooms. Their emergence as a social medium is changing the way we work, learn and fight wars… prospectmagazines.com

Artist Gabriel Dishaw really outdid himself with his latest project, The Junk Dunk. As a junk artist, Gabriel Dishaw knows his way around a dumpster, but this pair of Nike sneakers are a little special. This pair of kicks is made entirely from old electronic parts… trendhunter.com

A new study by the University of East Anglia (UEA) suggests computers are now better at lip-reading than humans… sciencedaily.com

Chrome OS, Google’s newly announced computer operating system, is coming this autumn and promises to revolutionize netbooks and other underpowered machines… wired.com

Designer Marlies Romberg rebels against the world of plastic and aluminum with her final project at the Utrecht School of the Arts. Dear Diary 1.0 is a wooden table with the keyboard laser cut into it, a computer tucked neatly underneath, and a flat panel built into a wooden structure. The whole thing is just downright clever…dvice.com

Dear diary 1.0 is thus both the literal and the figurative manifestation of the worlds colliding. A physical reminder that increasingly, the real and the digital are becoming indistinguishable.

Like most things, the Internet has its good and its dark side. And, considering the pervasiveness of the Internet in society, it is certainly having an effect on our brains ...sherweb.com