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I just sent an empty text message ("SMS") to someone. It happened because I was thinking the message as I went though the process of creating new message, adding contact... and send. woops. désolé Izo....

(get past the melodrama and the fact that it's an anime / "oh it's cheesy scifi" ;) Just as there are many parts needed to make a human a human there's a remarkable number of things needed to make an...

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From a list of undergraduate projects available at the Center for Intelligent machines at McGill, "Content-Based Image Retrieval": 2. Finding Animals in Internet Imagery Using Learning Methods This project, based on a recently published paper, involves finding images on the...

This afternoon I set up a "logger bot" which monitors and logs the GlobalVoices IRC channel. About an hour ago, Karl showed me the log he tweaked for the Semantic Web Interest Group IRC channel and mentioned how he structured...

The irony. I have not been able, yet, to "moblog" from my new Nokia N80. I am able to browse websites and use a chat program, via both my mobile provider's GPRS and my WiFi networks at home and at...

I've long been telling stories about how I seem to be quite aware of many of my thought processes, and often these stories take on computer jargon analogies. Stuff like "the scripts I have running in the background" to make...

Awesome. Merci Francis. ;)...

"The Diamond Age : Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" (Neal Stephenson) I thought: Nanotech will bridge cyberspace and "realspace". Why? Because if indeed in cyberspace anything is possible, it is so because anything can be created from scratch and...

It's not that I am going senile or any such thing... it's just that... "my memory space is being flattened, in places, especially recently, by prolonged use of asynchronous text-based tele communication" In other words, I am beginning to suspect...

Justin's made his backchannel experiments an official project at the USC IMD, where he is studying. Having experienced several types of backchannel setups myself, though never of the intensely focused and tweaked 14 screens of the ZML, I can say...

Prologue       Just on the border of your waking mind       There lies... another time       Where darkness & light are one       And as you tread the halls of sanity  ...

About a week ago I went for chinese food with Michael. We hadn't seen each other in a few weeks and Mike had just returned from what seemed like a very exciting trip to Europe. He recounted parts of his...

This looks very interesting. Some 250 words account for over 50% of English usage. These words are mapped onto the AlphaTap layout so that you can type them with just one or two pen strokes. To become productive, you only...

This is stunning. By combining Google Maps and craigslist housing listings you get a very quick visual contextualization of the economic distribution of population for a city; which the affluent neighborhoods, which are less so. Not that that is necessarily...

Steven dreams out loud about where he'd like to be someday: I managed to hitch a ride on the floating city 'GCS New Mosul' by agreeing to give my presentation 'Safeguarding your cyberprivacy - without slowing down your interface' at...

Here we go, here we go, here we go yo! Guardian Unlimited | Life | Meet the mind readers: In that moment, Nagle made history. Paralysed from the neck down after a vicious knife attack four years ago, he is...

bopuc: I got a machine And I took over the world In one weekend I took over the world With my machine I did it because I was looking for a project And it was either Take over the world...

The screen is really messing with my head. I don't mean just the screens of my computer.. I mean "the screen", as the interface to the network and my expanded mind... (Here he goes again...) Two examples. Last night, moblogging...

I write an inordinate amount of “weblog entries” in my head. Ninety-nine percent of them never make it to the keyboard, let alone get published. A funny side-effect of this is every so often someone will bring up an entry...

Samsung Lets Subscribers Dictate Text Messages (What a silly title for a news item... Samsung "lets"?? How about "facilitates" or "provides the ability to"... I don't need any mega corp "let" me do anything! Pshaw! Anyways...) Samsung supposedly has a...

An Interview with Derrick de Kerckhove Director, McLuhan Program   conducted by Álvaro Bermejo AB: In spite of its totalising ambitions, can the Net develop a new Humanism, a new Enlightenment? DdeK: Maybe, but Humanism and Enlightenment may not be...

Do Android Crows Fly Over the Skies of an Electronic Tokyo? The Interactive Urban Landscape of Japan (Architecture Landscape Urbanism) 2001 - Akira Suzuki Picked this little gem up at the CCA bookstore the day I attended the Devices...

I want all my data to relate. I want to connect Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor to Cornelius' Wataridori (because played back-to-back they are a force of nature, IMHO). I want to relate that relation to a friend's...

Joey... I think you have some serious competition... McRorie One Man Live...

Matt posted a rant about the upcoming ETech: It's just that the topics on offer: y'know - the copyfight, social software, bloody blogs, web services etc. might still be worthy topics for discussion, but I feel like I've been around...

I just tried pushing the screen of my PowerBook back... using the cursor......

Following a post by Nika, I thought it'd be cool to start a "thing", a "meme" perhaps... whatever. Use the TrackBacks, Luke! To find your first Sony Walkman, check out Pocket Calculator's Vintage Walkman Museum: Sony So, "I'll never forget...

I finally got down to doing some work I've been putting off for weeks. I haven't received an e-mail or IM request in about two hours. Perfect. I decided to quit Mail, then iChat, then Proteus. Ok, I can DO...

In order to avoid ambiguity, over- or false- interpretation, it is crucial that one properly contextualize every element, in relation to every other element in it's environment. Meaning can only be found in the relationship of each object with each...

I was gonna write an entry today about how bored i am but Phillip Torrone has given me something to be excited about again. That's twice now... I think I'm gonna owe him! the portable geek gym... i was told...

Wired News: Brain Music: Not Much to Dance To Wired article about the DECONism events i also attended last weekend in Toronto. Update (2006-11-12): Mark Federman posted pictures (I was also at the Stellarc thing, featurd in the previos entry...