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Posted by Raj Patel on Apr 27th, 2010 | 0 comments

I heard you like football…

This Columbian white gold, silver or platinum ring encrusted with Andean Emeralds is the official ring of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. It’s a bargain, costing between $2500 and $250 000 a piecem featuring miniature bejeweled stadiums and soccer balls. The platinum rings are selling for a quarter million, featuring 220 emeralds. Theres only seven of these being made. Theres thirty three white gold versions for...

Posted by Raj Patel on Feb 17th, 2010 | 0 comments

Review: Darwinia+

Darwinia has made it’s presence known on the Xbox Live Arcade in the form of Darwinia+. This game has won multiple awards and received lots of attention in the past in it’s PC incarnations. Introversion Software has now brought it to the console where it is surprisingly easier and more natural to navigate. They even threw in the multiplayer incarnation ‘Multiwinia’ to boot. The game exists in it’s own...

Posted by Raj Patel on Jan 26th, 2010 | 2 comments

A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter

Check out Caleb Larsen’s work. He’s got this one project; an unassuming black acrylic cube (I love it already) which perpetually attempts to auction itself off on ebay. As Caleb writes: Combining Robert Morris’ Box With the Sound of Its Own Making with Baudrillard’s writing on the art auction this sculpture exists in eternal transactional flux. It is a physical sculpture that is perptually...

Posted by Raj Patel on Jan 18th, 2010 | 0 comments

Posh Pork Product

Do you like to eat? Do you like to spend? Do you like to combine these hobbies? Well feast (pun intended) your eyes and potentially your wallet on the world’s “most expensive” leg of ham! Selfridges’ Oxford Street flagship shop is hocking it (again, pun intended) for a modest £1,800 for the full seven kilograms. What makes this ham so expensive? Well Pig farmer and “ham expert”...

Posted by Raj Patel on Aug 12th, 2009 | 0 comments

Being a hipster is bad for you.

ABC News (of all places) has some content you should really check out for the sake of the beloved hipster in your life. Skinny jeans are apparently (and medically) bad for you. Ugly boots can be damaging to your feet. Even that over-sized purse can be harmful. Clearly its time to either suffer for your (lack of) fashion, or really re-think your life choices here. In short: Check yourself before you wreck yourself...

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About Me

Hi, I'm Raj Patel. Nice to meet you. I'm a writer, photographer, film producer, avid reader, gamer, architect, programmer, artist, community manager, and general nerd.

Here at Ohmpage I try to cover the news and trends at the intersection between technology and culture. In practice this means you get a lot of high-tech, new-media, type of fun stuff (the stuff that interests me) presented to you. I surf hard so you don't have to.

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