Thanks, Frank. = c
Ah, Saturday Morning…
Turned onto this by a new friend, David Calvo: Cheers, David. = c
Murmur
[Showing at the Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota now through August 23th, 2009] Murmur Study is an installation that examines the rise of micro-messaging technologies such as Twitter and Facebook’s status update. One might describe these messages as a kind of digital small talk. But unlike water-cooler conversations, these fleeting thoughts are accumulated, archived and…
Yet another small lifeform outsmarting us every minute
From the BBC: We think we have big, sophisticated cities. We are proud of our ability to organize and accomplish common goals. Meanwhile, a single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony,…
Metaplace: Embed Virtual Worlds
From Wikipedia: Metaplace provides user-generated virtual worlds. As Metaplace is browser based, worlds made with Metaplace can connect to each other through hyperlinks. Every object in Metaplace has a unique URL. This character of Metaplace allows advanced users to use these URLs in setting up and reading RSS feeds, set up ad services within worlds,…
Ordinary Affects
Ordinary Affects is an exercise, not a fact. I like this very much. Ordinary Affects is a singular argument for attention to the affective dimensions of everyday life and the potential that animates the ordinary. Known for her focus on the poetics and politics of language and landscape, the anthropologist Kathleen Stewart ponders how ordinary…
Harvey Milk : Human Rights Champion
From Wikipedia: Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Politics and gay activism were not Milk’s early interests; he did not feel the need…
Walks the walk: Jim Rossignol
Jim Rossignol is an interesting fellow, particularly in the context that he writes in a unique way about gaming and its influence on culture. Not to mention, the trajectory and contrast of his own story against what he writes makes him an authentic source IMO. I am anticipating the arrival of his book, This Gaming…
Fahrenheit versus Celsius
In my quest to learn to translate between Fahrenheit and Celsius quickly and accurately, I’ve put this handy calculator here to help me and also to enable me to cheat until I can do it on my own. Type a value in either field below and its equivalent will populate the other: FAHRENHEIT : CELSIUS…
3G vs 3Gs : Video Comparison
Some of us have been capturing video since the beginning via Cycorder on the 2g. The 3G had little or no differences in its capabilities from the 2G. That isn’t the case with the 3Gs. First, there is a distinct advantage to the 3Gs due to its frame-rate capabilities. 30fps beats the snot out of…
Douglas Coupland: Generation A
Douglas Coupland’s new book is due in September of this year: In the near future bees are extinctâ€â€until one autumn when five unconnected individuals, in Iowa, New Zealand, Paris, Ontario, and Sri Lanka, are stung. Immediately snatched up by ominous figures in hazmat suits, interrogated separately in neutral Ikea-like chambers, and then released as 15-minute-celebrities…
Wind Power Will Save Us All
Wind power has already sparked a clean energy revolution, however, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science finds that wind power could provide for the entire world’s current and future energy needs. In order to estimate something like the planet’s capacity for this, researchers first sectioned Earth into areas of…
My Body is a Cage : revisited
Win’s voice is nearly shot in this footage taken from Glastonbury in 2007, but the song doesn’t lose any of its momentous meaning: “My Body Is A Cage” My body is a cage that keeps me From dancing with the one I love But my mind holds the key My body is a cage that…
Sirikata : BSD-licensed platform for virtual worlds
Sirikata is an BSD licensed open source platform for virtual worlds. The aim is to provide a set of libraries and protocols which can be used to deploy a virtual world, as well as fully featured sample implementations of services for hosting and deploying these worlds. The team is aiming for an alpha release in…
Super Herd
Another gem from Pierre: = c
Time-lapse
Seems I spend a lot of time shooting, watching and seeking out good examples of time-lapse photography. It moves me. It puts me in a mindset somewhat more aware of the passing of time. I like the way it makes me feel small. That perspective is something I crave. Naturally, I like learning more about…
Do YOU Drink Wilkins?
If only commercials were still as cool as these for Wilkins Coffee – thanks to Pierre for the tip – made my day : )
Learning Not Alone
One of my interests is instructional design. I think this is primarily due to being subjected to training and other instructional situations that left me feeling not empowered and confident but muscled around, confused and sometimes even empty. I find that I am influenced by the most unlikely sources, which I incorporate into my own…
Fleet Foxes : Live
Can’t get enough of these fellas lately: From Wikipedia: Robin Pecknold and Skye Skjelset both attended Lake Washington High School in Kirkland, a suburb of Seattle, and soon became close friends. Pecknold and Skjelset bonded over a mutual appreciation of Bob Dylan and Neil Young and began making music together. Their parents influenced their musical…
The Conversation
I had a brief chat *conversation* with a pal this morning about The Conversation: colin 10:39 i never realized hackman could do THAT c 10:39 his best film – period he was great as lex luthor, too, tho ; ) colin 10:39 the final shot of him in the room all alone c 10:39 seriously…
Pay them and they will come
For just a moment there, I thought I’d misread the thing. The article stated something about teachers making $125,000 a year and I had to stop what I was doing because some pals and I have agreed with this approach for years. Same as in most any other field, it’s often the pay scale that…