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Even though it's aimed at a younger audience, it's good to see game play and genetics coming together, especially in Darwin's 150th anniversary year. Routes is an online adventure following comedian Katherine Ryan as she tries to find out whether her genes or her environment have given her cancer and lupus by the age of 23. Developed by Channel 4 Education in association with the Wellcome Trust it aim to explore wht information is hidden in one’s personal genome and how dangerous is it to divulge such data. The fun begins late January.

Do I need to say anything more? Check them out here ...

Starting the new year on a good note. I've been tracking Objectified for a while as it comes from Swiss Dots, who are the same people who made the design porn feature that is Helvetica.

Our good friends at Resident Advisor have given us 5 pairs of tickets to their awesome Christmas party this Saturday at Matter. I know it's a long way away, but this is the best line-up the club has had and we're not just saying that because they are our mates. Fancy winning? Simple, first five people to hit us up with a good enough reason gets to go. Good luck!

Boom! Forget the fact it looks awesome and works like a dream, the above JS-909 is entirely built in javascript which means it's iPhone friendly and therefore good for some mobile beats at your next house party. Sweet.

Perfection is every sense. Via our friends over at Core 77

We're doing a little Christmas jam this Thursday with our man Dante Fried Chicken as part of Mutate Britain at Cordy House. We're bringing him over from NYC to cook up a fine feast and then leave it to the Patchwork Pirates & Co to kill it on the decks. It's open invite for all Protein peeps, but you *must* RSVP as the list is supatight. More details here and this is how his last party went down out.

New dopeness by Evan Roth of Graffiti Research Labs for Hov’s latest cut off the up-coming Notorious film soundtrack.

Cloud computing just got one step closer ...

Via Plasticbag Twitter

Doesn't really need an explanation, but if you need one, read this.

Damn. Just found this sexy ass calendar by not-quite-porn photographer Terry Richardson for the upcoming issue of Vogue. The pin-up style feature is a little tame compared to his usual work [and switch SafeSearch off], but it still works for me. The December/January issue will hit stores November 28th.

I hate TV ads, except the good ones of course. However, I might be more open to not hit mute/change channel if the ads were more relevant to me and tell me about Apple Store discounts, new Pointer ranges or places to go on crazy new adventures.

Even though I don't have Sky [when are you going to hook me up Julian?!] I would consider signing up if they launch their new ad tailoring service to individual households. Using demographic data generated by households opting in to receive targeted advertising, Sky would be able to push toy ads to families, or beauty products to young women. The ads would be swapped into programme breaks from a vault of ads stored on the Sky Plus PVR box.

It's one step closer to a Google TV Adwords type system and the media agencies seem keen. MediaCom's head of broadcast implementation Rhys McLachlan said: ‘It would make us re-evaluate the TV trading mechanics. We would need to be able to measure the impacts. But we only pay for the eyeballs we get so we are all in favour of making TV sharp and accountable.'

Where do I signup?

I was wondering where the little spike in traffic come from the other day and we can now share the link love with our friends at b3ta who we rather taken with our immersive 360 degree video post.

Just wanted to wish our good friend at Shooting People a big Happy 10th Birthday. They have been described the by director Morgan Spurlock as "a necessity for anyone who works, lives and breathes independent film", and I tend to agree.

I first met Jess and Cath [picture above with Mike Figgis] back in 1998 when they were thinking about setting up Shooting People as they wanted some advice about how I was running the Protein Feed mailout. Needless to say, they I didn't need to say much as they had the very capable Mr Tily already on-board running things.

My man INSA has been a busy boy. As well as finishing off the new Cordy House facade for the Mutate Britain, a sick calendar with the Fuel Girls, doing dope parties, and various other colabs, he has also release his own line of killer heels.

In the same vein as the previous post, this post was also left in the drafts until the new site was live. However, four months in and it's still fresh, so grab your RED ONE, your GPS and let's go make a GPS film.

One the main things I missed when the Feed was offline was being able to telling you about things like this. If you've already been following the considerable internet hype to Spike Jonze's latest film adoptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, "Where the Wild Things Are", then you can skip straight to the new monster [in both meanings of the word] interview and photos Ain't it Cool News has just posted with Mr Jonze.

We have allows been big fans of colour here at Protein, so how could we not love Christmas by Colour, a not-for-profit exploration into what colours people really associate with their Christmas.

Designed by Raw Design Studio, you can define the real Christmas colour spectrum by suggesting your own colour and its personal meaning. Abstract, funny or literal, the choice is yours. They'll will then collating all the best ideas to make a Christmas by Colour poster and individual v-cards. Nice.

Let's not fuck around here. If you want to make a film, you need a RED. No contest. We've been tracking them since they first launched their game changing RED ONE digital motion camera a year or so ago. Some might say the RED ONE was going to be hard to beat, but then you haven't met these guys that have million bit megapixel brains.

For those not subscribed to the Mad Decent podcast do it now and we won't tell anyone as you're missing killer mixes like this one from from South Rakkas. They made it for the Good Life clothing store out of Glasgow and it features a big mix of retro dancehall, old & new hip hop, South Rakkas originals mixed. There's about 90 tracks in 75 minutes and artwork from the formidable Will Bankhead, so who could ask for me?

Our good friends at onedotzero are returning to London this weekend to begin a new residency at the BFI Southbank, showcasing the "brightest up-and-coming talents alongside world-leading creative luminaries and bringing together the most innovative short films, animation, motion graphics, music videos, groundbreaking feature film previews with director Q+As, alongside interactive installations, explosive live audiovisual and music performances, artist discussions, hands-on toy-hacking workshops and parties." Not much then.

Betacast, Protein's new film channel, is putting on the UK Premiere and after party for Beautiful Losers with Nike, BFI and the Patchwork Pirates. It's going to fun so you should all come. Get your tickets now.

Venkatesan Renugopalakrishnan, a professor of Biomedical Engineering at Florida International University and an internationally recognized expert in protein structural biology and engineering has invented a next-generation means of storage technology that dwarfs current technology.

Renu (as the professor is known) and his team at BioFold Inc., a California-based firm that he founded in 1999, in collaboration with FIU and other corporate labs, are designing a single-layer DVD that can store up to 198 gigabytes of data – more than 20 times the capacity of a dual-layer DVD-9. The technology will be able to store even up to 50,000 gigabytes (about 50 terabytes), he says.