bopuc/links: Interesting Archives

Homer »»

# May 4, 2005 @ 11:55 | Interesting

http://www.robertoparada.com/gallery1/homer.html

Brought to life, as imitated by art.

Night shadows of the past »»

# March 18, 2005 @ 13:48 | Interesting

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/005003.php

Reflective paint street "art". Inspiration for Roadsworth for next summer if he's still game, and not in jail?

The inevitable, uncontournable »»

# March 12, 2005 @ 20:37 | Interesting

http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2005/Update46.htm

Besides growing demand in all sectors, food included, "If the Chinese use oil at the same rate as Americans now do, by 2031 China would need 99 million barrels of oil a day. The world currently produces 79 million barrels per day and may never produce much more than that."

Another dimension »»

# March 12, 2005 @ 13:29 | Interesting

http://flickr.com/groups/secondlife/pool/

Second life, er, live-ers?... are moblogging from within the... um... game?

The Thought Project »»

# March 9, 2005 @ 01:47 | Interesting

http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/

Really nice photo project. The photographer stopped people on the street, took their close-up portrait and asked them to tell him what they were thinking of just as he stopped them...

Longitude/Latitude based news aggregation »»

# February 27, 2005 @ 14:41 | Interesting

http://www.local-news.net/go/-73.5833/45.5/

Grabs news items from local sources, worldwide.

Yamanote line pics and jingles »»

# February 24, 2005 @ 00:08 | Interesting

http://hisaai-hp.hp.infoseek.co.jp/JREast/Yamanote/Yt_s_eg.html

*deep sigh*

How to cut »»

# February 20, 2005 @ 21:35 | Interesting

http://www.hertzmann.com/articles/2005/fables/

French kitchen cutting techniques. (thx Jim)

MyLifeBits »»

# February 15, 2005 @ 22:09 | Interesting

http://www.research.microsoft.com/barc/MediaPresence/MyLifeBits.aspx

Heard about this before of course but Karl just sent me the URL at MS. I would love to know how this has affected the minds of the researchers.

Flickr color picker »»

# February 6, 2005 @ 09:34 | Interesting

http://krazydad.com/colorfields/

Nice. Jim suggests real-time photomosaics next.

Japan Association for Working Holiday Makers »»

# January 23, 2005 @ 08:00 | Interesting

http://www.jawhm.or.jp/eng/index

Iiiiinteresting...

Phuket tidal wave »»

# December 27, 2004 @ 19:52 | Interesting

http://www.pbase.com/issels/phuket_tsunami

Gallery of photos of incoming tidal wave, taken from a hotel balcony. Hope the guy in the water managed to grab onto something. :\

Processing > Reas »»

# December 27, 2004 @ 19:16 | Interesting

http://users.dma.ucla.edu/~reas/

Reas, the co-developper of Processing (Ben Fry is the other) produces beautiful stuff!!

Child consumer culture remix art »»

# December 25, 2004 @ 01:21 | Interesting

http://www.artic.edu/~akijima/html_pages/gallery.html

Ai Kijima. Fused, machine quilted. Recycled materials including curtain, pillow case, bed sheets, clothes, apron, handkerchief, tablecloth.

Collaborative sketchbook »»

# December 22, 2004 @ 13:04 | Interesting

http://www.imaginationcubed.com/FrameSet

Kinda neat. I wish I had better a better interface to it than a mouse or tablet.

Winter Music Sampler 2004 »»

# December 7, 2004 @ 15:40 | Interesting

http://stalelife.com/tsl/winter04/wintermusic04.html

Some more good trax.

The New York Review of Books: Passage to China »»

# December 5, 2004 @ 17:44 | Interesting

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17608

"The development of printing, had a powerful effect on the development of democracy, but even in the short run, it opened new possibilities for public communication and had enormous consequences for social and political life in China. Among other things, education achieved a new level of importance with the rise of learning, marked by the great spread of printing, literacy, and schooling."

A bit of history »»

# November 3, 2004 @ 15:34 | Interesting

http://www.benhammersley.com/weblog/2004/11/03/savonarola.html

One of many precedents.

Move to Canada? »»

# November 3, 2004 @ 15:25 | Interesting

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=6704292

Not so fast. Sorry...

Whatchoo' talkin'bout? »»

# October 28, 2004 @ 22:51 | Interesting

http://languid.cantbedone.org/

Maciej has put up a web-service "language guesser". Cool.

She does awesome stuff »»

# October 21, 2004 @ 02:55 | Interesting

http://web.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/

Fernanda Viegas

The E-Commerce Petri Dish »»

# October 15, 2004 @ 12:25 | Interesting

http://brandautopsy.typepad.com/brandautopsy/2004/10/the_ecommerce_p.html

"reputation management may trump brand management" "reputation can impact prices consumers are willing to pay online" Bingo.

The making of the terror myth »»

# October 15, 2004 @ 01:53 | Interesting

http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1327904,00.html

The Guardian weighs in about all this terror alert bullshit. What do you call it when so-called leaders use fear-mongering to influence the populace. And I thought a democracy is where the people are supposed to influence their selected leaders...

MattJones++ »»

# October 4, 2004 @ 02:28 | Interesting

http://blackbeltjones.typepad.com/work/2004/10/cloud_atlas.html

The actual past is brittle, ever-dimming + ever more problematic to access + reconstruct: in contrast the virtual past is malleable, ever-brightening + ever more difficult to circumvent/expose as fraudulent.

PM Martin Scolds UN »»

# September 23, 2004 @ 22:30 | Interesting

http://platform.blogs.com/passionofthepresent/2004/09/canadas_prime_m.html

Canada's Prime Minister Paul Martin scolds UN for failure to act on Sudan and crimes against humanity, uses "unusually strong and blunt language"...

A million monkeys at a million keyboards for only three years... »»

# September 20, 2004 @ 01:29 | Interesting

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_press_releases/One_million_Wikipedia_articles_(US)/Print

See what they can accomplish? ;)

Hunter S. Thomson quotes »»

# September 10, 2004 @ 02:51 | Interesting

http://www.aracnet.com/~lewallen/quotes/hstquotes.html

Some real gems in here.

Shame on you Zell »»

# September 8, 2004 @ 15:56 | Interesting

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_09_05.php#003438

The text of a letter former President Carter sent to Zell Miller.

Prescient Onion »»

# September 8, 2004 @ 15:45 | Interesting

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:eSpSf9-yKmAJ:chak.org/pages/onion/bush_nightmare.html &hl=en

A spoof written in January 2001 turns eerily real... "Bush: Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity is Finally Over."

Shidtigal »»

# September 4, 2004 @ 23:15 | Interesting

http://kc.typepad.com/ken_clarke_images/2004/09/shidtigal.html

Good friend Ken muses on digital photography.

Force feedback in Marketing »»

# August 29, 2004 @ 21:39 | Interesting

http://brandautopsy.typepad.com/brandautopsy/2004/08/what_the_market.html

Still evil, but right on the money. *Cough*

I want more »»

# August 29, 2004 @ 20:57 | Interesting

http://www.video-c.co.uk/microsite.asp?vidref=fait002

Dance music video for Faithless' "I want more" totally made up of footage from a documentary on North Korea. Quite amazing.

3D Display Cube v3 »»

# August 26, 2004 @ 01:12 | Interesting

http://jamesclar.com/jamesclar.htm

Super cool 3D LED cube (and other stuff)!

Mirror Shibuya »»

# August 22, 2004 @ 22:40 | Interesting

http://mirrorproject.com/mirror/recent/?id=25142

Nice shot.

Holograms! »»

# August 17, 2004 @ 16:01 | Interesting

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/002408.php

Not super duper hitech, from what I can tell, but close enough to Star Wars style holograms!

Mathew Good blog »»

# August 15, 2004 @ 13:31 | Interesting

http://www.matthewgood.org/web/mblog/

Never got into his music, but it's a damn fine blog.

Metal Rubber »»

# August 13, 2004 @ 14:30 | Interesting

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,676853,00.html

"NanoSonic is busy meeting the demand for its 12-inch-by-12-inch samples, which take custom-built robots up to three days to create. That's speedy, if you consider that Metal Rubber, a product of nanotechnology, must be fabricated molecule by molecule."

Let the games begin »»

# August 9, 2004 @ 19:29 | Interesting

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=814602004

Article about sex in the Olympic Villages

PhotoChopped "art" »»

# August 3, 2004 @ 17:46 | Interesting

http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=3253&display=photoshop

If famous painters had done portraits of current Hollywood celebrities. Hate the celebrities part, but appreciate some of the very well done work of some of these.

ACNE genome popped »»

# July 30, 2004 @ 15:54 | Interesting

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996222

I never thought one of the early results of sequencing the human genome would result in the furthering of anti-acne treatments. Amen.

Lather, rinse, repeat »»

# July 30, 2004 @ 15:35 | Interesting

http://www.lowculture.com/archives/002173.html

Cheney waxes metaphysical... dumbed down for the masses of course and repeated enough times to sink it in: "You see! Eisenhower MEANT me to be here!"

Objective rhetoric »»

# July 28, 2004 @ 20:49 | Interesting

http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/002890.html

David, as so often, puts it best. Words are not truth.

Burnquist Organics »»

# July 27, 2004 @ 21:28 | Interesting

http://burnquistorganics.com/

Pro Skater Bob Burnquist started his own organic food company, and reportedly refuses all junk food endorsements. The marketing is very "skatestyle"; in-your-face, lifestyle based. Very cool.

Liberty Hooded »»

# July 27, 2004 @ 12:36 | Interesting

http://cdn.moveon.org/hooded/ads/rumsfeld.mov

Anti-Rumsfelf MoveOn TV Commercial.

blik wall graphics »»

# June 23, 2004 @ 17:02 | Interesting

http://www.whatisblik.com/sg.html

Gallery of Computation »»

# February 4, 2004 @ 17:47 | Interesting

http://www.complexification.net/

Acid trip »»

# January 12, 2004 @ 04:50 | Interesting

http://www.cowboybooks.com.au/html/acidtrip1.html

Disinfopedia »»

# December 31, 2003 @ 03:10 | Interesting

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml

zip code visualizer »»

# December 23, 2003 @ 02:35 | Interesting

http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/zipdecode/

Music Videos »»

# December 16, 2003 @ 17:20 | Interesting

http://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/personal/musicvideos.html

Franklin on Constitution »»

# December 13, 2003 @ 22:03 | Interesting

http://se1.com/ush/fd/franklin_on_constitution.htm

The French Revolution »»

# December 13, 2003 @ 22:03 | Interesting

http://members.aol.com/agentmess/frenchrev/summary.html

Scientific American: Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor »»

# December 2, 2003 @ 02:49 | Interesting

http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0005339B-A694-1CC5-B4A8809EC588EEDF

NYT - Decoding the New Cues in Online Society »»

# November 29, 2003 @ 19:35 | Interesting

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/27/technology/circuits/27frie.html?ex=1385269200&en=50a5d84e0734eec4&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND

Leonardo DiCaprio - Global Warming »»

# November 28, 2003 @ 22:45 | Interesting

http://www.leonardodicaprio.org/globalwarninglaunch.html

Proskenion - Website of Edward Castronova, PhD »»

# November 22, 2003 @ 13:55 | Interesting

http://business.fullerton.edu/ecastronova/

JULIAN DIBBELL »»

# November 22, 2003 @ 13:54 | Interesting

http://www.juliandibbell.com/

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms »»

# November 21, 2003 @ 00:59 | Interesting

http://www.laurentia.com/ccrf/ccrf.htm

LED watches , Directly from Tokyo Japan »»

# November 2, 2003 @ 01:07 | Interesting

http://www.tokyoflash.com/

The Food Section »»

# October 13, 2003 @ 12:42 | Interesting

http://www.thefoodsection.com/

Digital Democracy »»

# October 7, 2003 @ 16:00 | Interesting

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/digitaldemocracy/

3's Weblog »»

# October 6, 2003 @ 17:31 | Interesting

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/three/

Bob Frankston »»

# October 6, 2003 @ 16:50 | Interesting

http://www.frankston.com/

Archaeologists & the web »»

# October 3, 2003 @ 16:55 | Interesting

http://archaeology.about.com/cs/publicarchaeology/a/seeinglight.htm

Employment Insurance »»

# September 29, 2003 @ 15:00 | Interesting

http://www.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/ae-ei/employment_insurance.shtml

addyourown: Manhattan restaurants and reviews (Wiki) »»

# September 27, 2003 @ 12:40 | Interesting

http://www.addyourown.com/

The goal of the site is to provide a fast, easy, free way for people to find New York restaurants. The unique feature of Addyourown is that all the restaurant listings and reviews are user-generated. You can add to, or edit, almost anything on the site.

EARLASH: music reviews »»

# September 25, 2003 @ 12:55 | Interesting

http://www.earlash.com/index.php

Optical illusions »»

# September 19, 2003 @ 20:02 | Interesting

http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/saishin-e.html

the research of Akiyoshi Kitaoka

Camera in glasses »»

# September 18, 2003 @ 18:42 | Interesting

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3111004.stm

I want!

BloggingWorks »»

# September 17, 2003 @ 03:13 | Interesting

http://www.bloggingworks.com/

Learn how your business can harness the power of weblogs to improve communication and efficiency at this hands-on workshop.

About Norbert Wiener »»

# September 17, 2003 @ 03:12 | Interesting

http://www.well.com/user/mmcadams/wiener.html

Norbert Wiener, 1894-1964. Mathematician, born in Columbus, Mo. Professor at MIT, 1919-60. Books include Cybernetics (1948), The Human Use of Human Beings (1950), Ex-Prodigy (1953), I Am a Mathematician (1956), and God & Golem, Inc. (1964).

Semaview Inc. »»

# September 17, 2003 @ 03:10 | Interesting

http://www.semaview.com/

Semaview is developing a suite of personal information management products using the power of The Semantic Web. RDF - XML

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