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Seamless patterns of tea leaves and coffee beans



Hearts and coffee beans

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Edible encoded messages: QR Code Chocolates By Chocolate Graphics for Marketing Advantage

QR Code Chocolates By Chocolate Graphics - Get The Chocolate QR Code Marketing Advantage:


Edible encoded messages. So how many people out there actually use these QR codes? Marketing executives want to know. I like the range of information you can put into a graphic. Over at http://www.qrstuff.com/ you can choose from 17 different input data types (below) including YouTube videos and big chunky plain text documents. The sample below is a list of the free apps on Amazon from January this year, clocking in at 152 words with 725 characters.

You can also go to bit.ly (URL shortener / tracking) and generate QR codes with link to your webpage, in this case a links to the article on about Amazon apps for the month of March 2012.

The bit.ly links can be customized with your own words or number system that you create. Use the bit.ly URL shortener prefix, or their equivalent j.mp prefix: http://j.mp/Free-Kindle-Apps. See the stats of any biy.ly or j.mp links by adding a plus sign: http://j.mp/Free-Kindle-Apps+

 Website URL
 YouTube Video
 Google Maps Location
 Twitter
 Facebook
 LinkedIn
 FourSquare
 iTunes Link
 Plain Text

 Telephone Number
 SMS Message
 Email Address
 Email Message
 Contact Details (VCARD)
 Event (VCALENDAR)
 Wifi Login (Android Only)
 Paypal Buy Now Link

And to cap it all off, you can integrate this with Google Analytics by encoding their "UTM codes" into the bit.ly link at the same time. These codes can be used to find out where your visitors are coming from with Analytics -- the information appears under "Campaigns".  If you click the link to see the stats above, you'll see the link also includes the google analytics UTM that comes after the standard URL (too many acronyms). P.S. If you haven't checked out the Analytics "Visitor Flow" stop what your doing and check it out - information rich. 

Update: See Real Time tracking beta. It works! Try opening and closing a page on your site.

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Camouflage Fabrics battle dress uniform | Brittany Dyeing and Printing Corporation

The Fabrics - Camouflage | Brittany Dyeing and Printing Corporation:

MARPAT-Marine Pattern

BDU - Battle Dress Uniform

Three Color Desert Camo

ABU - Airforce Battle Uniform

CADPAT: Canadian Disruptive Pattern

Canadian camo patterns; CADPAT™ Temperate Woodland (TW) and Arid Regions (AR). CADPAT TW has been rated best tropical and Temperate Camouflage by NATO soldiers in a recent scientific study. The Canadian studies show there is a 40 percent less chance of being detected from 200 meters away with CADPAT Versus Olive Drab.

MARPAT: Marine Pattern Camouflage

The U.S. Marines considered adopting CADPAT for their new pattern, however the Canadian government owns the copyright for the pattern. The Canadian government supplied information and manufacturers to help the Marines with the computer-generated Digital Pattern pixilated uniform the Canadians had been developing since 1988.

The new U.S. Marine MARPAT (Marine Pattern camouflage) Forest, Desert and Urban. The Marines have not yet officially produced the Urban pattern in a full production run. Uniforms with the urban grays are likely unauthorized replicas of the trial uniform.

MARPAT was developed with the help of the Canadian Department of National Defence and their extensive research used to develop CADPAT.

Read more at: Digital Camouflage History

Duckhunter pattern

Bape 1st Camo Pertex Poncho

Camo cargo pants and shorts

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Mapping Cleanliness: Roomba Vacuum Art | Architizer Blog

Architizer Blog » Blog Archive » Mapping Cleanliness: Roomba Vacuum Art:

For those of you who are love lasers, robots and household chores, here is the perfect activity for you. Artists from around the world have been attaching various lights on top of Roomba vacuums, the saucer-shaped vacuuming robots straight out of the Jetsons, and taking long-exposure photographs documenting their automated excursions across the floor. The results are wild, like scenes from Tron or a tripped out Dan Flavin-themed party. Click for more.

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Art Collection In Dress Form: Damien Hirst pop-up store London | style.com

Damien Hirst’s Art Collection—Now In Dress Form: style file: daily fashion, party, and model news:

"Damien Hirst’s bookstore/gallery, The Other Criteria, on London’s New Bond Street, emptied it out and, voilå, an instant pop-up for her own clothing line, Mother of Pearl"

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The Showcase of Brilliant Pattern Designs - Noupe Design Blog

The Showcase of Brilliant Pattern Designs - Noupe Design Blog:

"showcase of different examples using stunning pattern designs, just open your eyes and watch out for the next pattern."

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Recycled wood theater: Top 10 Smartest Buildings + london thaeter scene | Tom Mallory: Green Design

Tom Mallory: Green Design: Top 10 Smartest Buildings

Jellyfish Theatre in London by Folke Koebberling and Martin Kaltwasser

One man's trash is another's man treasure, says Martin Kaltwasser. Koebberling & Kaltwasser have worked alongside volunteers to create The Jellyfish Theatre is the first fully-functioning theatre made entirely from recycled and reclaimed materials. For more information and images, Click Here.
Image: Koebberling/Kaltwasser

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The God Particle, Quantum Entanglement & The Holographic Universe

The God Particle, Quantum Entanglement & The Holographic Universe:

"Then a second laser beam is bounced off the reflected light of the first and the resulting interference pattern -- the area where the two laser beams ...

"One of the detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has picked up signals that could be the long sought after Higgs boson or God particle. If so, that would be an enormous coincidence at Easter. One of the main scientific goals of the world's largest atom smasher, costing some 9 billion dollars, is to prove the existence of the Higgs boson or God particle, which makes the universe possible by giving mass to everything including all of us and the objects we can touch!"

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