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February 10, 2010
Augmented Reality: The Internet Eats Everything It Touches
*Speaking of "Everything Buckets," here's yet another Tish Shute interview. I really don't know how the woman does it. It's like she's got three heads.
(((You know, it's worse than that. I suspect that I do in fact know very well how the woman does it. I see this kind of polymorphous, lateralizing, network-centric, riffing discourse mainstreaming all the time n...
The World is an Everything Bucket
*I totally get where this guy is coming from. He thinks like good programmers have been trained to think.
*But the structured hierarchy just isn't gonna do it. The structured hierarchy is eleventy-seven irrational kinds of doomed. We used to generate data faster than human Yahoo! indexers could structure it, and now we generate data faster than MACHINES can structure it, and since the real-world is an everything bucket rather than a code platform, we're NEVER gonna structure it....
The Craftsman, or, the MAKE magazine of 1916
*When they first made up the term "artsy-craftsy," they meant leafing through a mag like this while the lamps were going out all over Europe.
*Via @sarahrich
February 9, 2010
Nice malware pitch, boys
*Learn to spell in English and you'll be harvesting Windows bots like nobody's business.
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Music break: Cibelle — Lightworks
* I like musicians and I like new-media artists, so it's pretty gratifying when musicians turn into new-media artists. You go, Cibelle C. aka Sonja K.
Cibelle in: 'Lightworks' from Crammed Discs on Vimeo.
Exciting news about the very very old
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/dinosaur-fossil-reveals-true-feather-colors/#more-17750
*Dinosaurs sure seem a lot less "dinosaur-like" today. I wonder what would happen if we looked really, really hard for evidence of dinosaur atomic fission and/or dinosaur spacecraft.
*While dinosaurs were actually becoming birds and nobody knew, spiders, by stark contrast, haven't done a darn thing in absolute eons. I really hadn't thought of spiders as being dirt-lazy living fossils. Spiders...
When electric doorbells were new
Rene Binet.
"Art Nouveau master, Binet, created some of the period's most memorable decorative motifs such as the main gate at the 1900 World Fair in Paris. He was inspired by the artist and scientist Ernest Haeckel and with the variety of patterns and ornamentation found in the microcosm of nature."
The Singularity cleans my carpet
*I see that, after seven years, somebody has finally bothered to invent a competitor for the only commercially successful domestic robot. You know: the Roomba, that blind hockey puck that bangs into walls.
*I don't mind it much that techie blogs run eager gadget ads rather than actual news copy — gosh, that's what blogs are for! — but "singularity"? That's a singularity a-borning there — a Roomba knockoff with a laser range-finder? This isn't exactly a wildly accelerating exponential ramp ...
February 8, 2010
Big Infoviz Gig
Aesthetics, Methods, and Critiques of Information Visualization in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (((oh come on who can't like that)))
May 20 - May 22, 2010 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Organized by HyperStudio – Digital Humanities at MIT
How do visual representations of complex data help humanities scholars ask new questions? How does visual rhetoric shape the way we relate to documents and artifacts? And, can we recompose the field of digital humanities to integrate...
The Authors of Voxopolis speak
*This is the first BEYOND THE BEYOND comment that I have ever transformed into a post.
*You probably don't read any of the blog comments around here — I know I sure don't, because all comments here are all ruthlessly pre-edited by "Bruno," a 14-year-old Italian cyberpunk kid from Milano who volunteered to edit the spam on a WIRED blog for no pay (when not reading Neural and Digicult).
*But this stuff is pretty good.
*I would be quite keen to see a debate on parametric architecture and/or...
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