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March 2004 Archives
Avez-vous déja? ça vous arrive?
Ai-je vraiement déja connu l'amour? Ou fut-ce purement le désir fulgurant d'y croire? Je l'ignore, et ce fait me décortique à l'écoeurement. ça vous arrive de vouloir tomber en amour? L'envie de tout oublier, de tout laisser et de vous...
Light through concrete
optics.org - News - Concrete casts new light in dull rooms (March 2004) The days of dull, grey concrete could be about to end. A Hungarian architect has combined the world's most popular building material with optical fiber from Schott...
Can't wait to pack
Just picked up a new suitcase. (Mine is nicer than the one shown... mostly black with a red trim.) The little forest green piece of crap I've been carrying around just wasn't cutting it. Besides this new one is almost...
Watch your fingers
SawStop Videos In our video demonstrations, we are cutting a sheet of plywood or particle board and place a hot dog in the path of the blade to simulate a user's finger. The SawStop system detects contact between the hot...
IM and email and presence, oh my
Beware of geeks bearing 'presence' | CNET News.com Someday your PC will be able to tell minute-by-minute how others should communicate with you, based on where you are, what you're doing and who's trying to make contact. But for now,...
Complexity visualization
Ben Fry doing awesome work on visualization technology for complex and evolving data sets. This stuff is getting more and more important....
Brits Going at It Tooth and Nail
Wired News: Brits Going at It Tooth and Nail "toothing," where strangers on trains and buses and at bars and concerts hook up for clandestine sex by text messaging each other with their Bluetooth-enabled cell phones or PDAs....
I and U
Jyri posits: What counts as a person? What might it mean to design not for preexisting, independent individuals with fixed boundaries but for partially known, locally enacted performances, out of which "individuals" may temporarily materialize as relational effects? How might...
Smartlists please
A post I just left in Apple's Discussion forums: Hello! Feature request here: Smartlists. Like in iTunes. Ratings. Also like in iTunes. These features would be hugely useful in both the AddressBook and Mail. For example: In Address Book I...
F CC u
[IP] BBC makes fun of FCC Puritism It seems some of the Brits are rather amused at the goings on recently at the FCC. Channel Four International (C4i) asked a number of US and UK film and TV stars what...
Emergent Volvoism
The Mystery of Dalarö Thirty-two people in a small town in Sweden all went and bought the same car on the same day. A "documentary" about the "phenomenon". It'd be interesting if they also provided information about how much Volvo...
While in Austin
Others took pictures of me: Justin snapped this moment with Cory. Min Jung Kim going crazy with the lipstick. Group photo in Bruce Sterling's washroom for The Mirror Project Dav Coleman's gallery of SxSW2004. Thanks Dav! Jon Lebkowsky's Gallery has...
Attention spans, worthwhile content and UI
Interesting thread over at blork blog: Brain rot. As Mike mentions in the comments, he and I have been talking about this stuff a great deal. I met him and immediatly told him: "you need to blog!" (ugh... sorry... the...
Kisster
iwaskissedbyminjung.org MJ went through a stick of lipstick and marked her social network at Bruce Sterling's SxSW 2004 party. Big warm skwoochy kisses, by the way. ;)...
Learning Kana from a monkey... or two
In San Francisco I picked up this book. While it is definitly playful and aimed at children, it is a wonderfully effective way to learn Hiragana. (The bookstore had copies of it in both the "Learn Japanese" and "Children's"...
Appreciate the technique
I am not a big fan of dogs, or of stupid pet tricks, but this is really quite impressive. (WindowsMedia... of course... It's a dog's world.)...
That what is true for you
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all...that is genius... A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his...
Maiko dances
Finally got around to stitching together the handful of 30 second video clips I took that night in the Gion District of Kyoto last July. These were taken with my tiny Pentax Optio S which only does 30 seconds...
Right, right.. I had forgotten what we were all doing here...
"correct, we are advancing civilization so that we might get obliterated by an asteroid" (Overheard in #joiito)...
When thoughts collide
I received today my copy of Christopher Alexander's "The Timeless Way of Building" and floated down through the two first chapters as though carried by a gently nimble stream of clear water. More peaceful pondering on that later. I ordered...
Skewed logic
Nika: I only blog from work. I don't even have a computer at home! Aaron: Hm. Me: If I didn't have a computer at home, I'd kill myself. Silence Maciej: I'd just go out and buy one... Does that...
This phone will self destruct in 10 seconds
Imagine this was your ringtone... "Oh! My phone! It is ringing! I must answer it!" Do-do-doooo "Where is my phone? I must find it! The song is coming from..." Doom-doom-doom-doom... "Will I make it!? Will I be too late! I...
One ringtone to, in the darkness, bind them
This would drive me sailing clear over the edge. Make sure to listen to the whole thing... It starts out quite appropirately, as a sweetly rythmic tonal melody and WHAM! You best make sure to answer that phone before it...
Time flies
Seems I just got back, but already I am scampering to finalize travel arrangements which have me taking off within a week. Mid-march will be spent in Austin, Texas for SxSW and a few days in Tampa, Florida, visiting the...
Whistling in the dark
For years I have been regularly singing a little song to myself, and sometimes a bit louder for others. To me it speaks of the madness of symbols. To those who hear me sing it, it speaks of the madness...
Amen
Mark Federman, Chief Strategist over at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology has posted this for us: What is the Meaning of The Medium is the Message? I need to go lie down now. ;)...
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