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   Sara Quinn mentioned Layar, an "augmented reality" phone app that picks up hidden code in media products so that the user simply holds the phone up to view videos, buy tickets, download a coupon ... She suggested that it also promises to use facial recognition tech, so that you could hold your phone up to a crowd and get the handles of whoever is tweeting, etc. Aim your phone at a crowd.
   How does it work? I have no idea.
   DOES it work? I have no idea.
https://www.layar.com/products/app/

Parallax scrolling is something beautiful being done using graphics software. Here are a few gee-wiz exemplars, which I suspect Phil Martin and the other of you hep cats on staff who read widely in the digital world are already well aware of. But I am not a person who reads widely in the digital world, so I would find a links collection like this useful, and thus, ta-da:

The New York Times
• "Tomato Can Blues," in which graphic novel illustrations shuttle themselves into a suggestion of 3-D as you scroll down the page, reading
 http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/tomato-can-blues/
• "Snow Fall," a lovely package about an avalanche, which even I have watched already, maybe because Kim told us about it. I forget.
 http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunnel-creek

Sports Illustrated "The Ghost of Speedy Cannon" http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/longform/speedy/index.html

Pitchfork.com's "Machines for Life" http://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/daft-punk/

Steve Martin's audiovisual album Let's Get Small which uses Spotify

The Washington Post: "Cycling's Road Forward"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/sports/wp/2013/02/27/cyclings-road-forward/