February 2009
Hey Sting, Mind If We Pick Your Brain? →
The Globe and Mail
“Sting isn’t like most of us.
We’re not talking about his journey from agitated blond guy watching every breath you take, every move you make, to age-defying singer-bassist with yoga mat in hand. No, what makes him so different, and one of the world’s most popular musicians, are a few tiny brain cells in the back of his head.
Sting has “these...
January 2009
The Loneliness of the Early Adopter →
Technologizer/ Rod Bauer
“I’m an Early Adopter. I like to be among the first to try out new products and services. If you were looking for me on the Rogers Technology Adoption Lifecycle—the bell-shaped curve that’s a favorite of product managers—you’d find me on left side of the curve, just after the truly courageous Innovators but before the onset of the rabble of the Early Majority.
...
Like the kid who... →
musebin:
Like the kid who glued his hands together in a d.t. lesson, Cats in Paris are just seeing “what happens if…” Courtcase 2000 by Cats In Paris rockfeedback loved it 2 yea, 0 nay, 0…
Digital Canada →
slaw.ca
“A wave of spending is about to take place pretty much all round the globe, and some of that money will be directed to improving “infrastructure,” the underpinnings required for businesses and individuals to prosper. A portion of infrastructure spending will, in many places, be devoted to bettering the internet and our access to it, typically described as improving “broadband”...
Sharing is Creepy →
Britannica Blog
“A while back, I wrote about the affliction of avatar anxiety, in which one’s self-consciousness about one’s online self amplifies one’s self-consciousness about one’s actual self. Here’s the nub:
Your online self … is entirely self-created, and because it determines your identity and social standing in an internet community, each decision you make about how you portray...
A Walk Through The Court of the Crimson King →
Pulse/ The BG News
“Of all the artists likely to be featured in an Influential Artist column, King Crimson will surely leave the greatest number of students scratching their head. Without any hit singles to their name, very little chart success with their records and virtually no radio airplay, selecting King Crimson for a column like this may cause some to wonder how a band so few people...
Closing in on clean metadata: artist and track... →
Last.fm/ the Blog
“Ever since I joined Last.fm back in 2005, my long-suffering coworkers have had to put up with endless grumbles about the state of the metadata on our music catalogue pages and how we desperately needed tools for putting things right. Well, as of today they can all breathe a collective sigh of relief: Last.fm now automatically corrects common misspellings of artist and...
““Circa 1955: The best way to describe this awesome find? “NEW CONSTRUCTION FROM...”
– Today On Tumblr, Pix & More: Frozen In Time “New Construction From 1955!” Thanks Bebelestrange!
Pomegranate | NS08 →
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The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry: Twitter →
stephenfry.com/
“The original gently rising path that marked the growth of my Twitter followers has recently taken a sharp upward path, due in part no doubt to my (cut short) discussion of Twitter on the Jonathan Ross show on BBC television, broadcast in the UK in the third week of January.
I cannot tell you how touched and pleased I am to have so many loyally following of my tweets. It...
UK Will Not Legislate on Piracy →
BBC NEWS/ Technology
The UK’s Intellectual Property minister David Lammy has said the government will not force internet service providers to pursue file sharers.
“There had been mounting speculation about government legislation on the issue as the music industry steps up its fight against the pirates.
Other countries, such as France, have supported tough action on file-sharers, who...
ALIENATION, DELAYED! HERE COMES CLOUD COMPUTING →
tsparks:
Excellent commentary on the nature of alienation and cloud computing. Via: BradFidler
2012: THE END IS NIGH! →
New York Post
“The end of the world is nearly upon us, but there’s a silver lining: At least you know when your 401(k) will finally hit bottom. Mark Dec. 21, 2012 on your calendar. That’s the exact day that lots of normally sane people believe some disaster will befall our planet - and not the kind of annoying everyday disaster like your cable going out or Ethan Hawke writing...
“Silvio Gaggi’s scholarly work elucidates these truths. In From Text to...”
– From an essay on The Blog of Innocence: Where do we stand on Internet Copyright Law?
Inside the Underbelly of the Eiffel Tower →
associated press - msnbc.com/ travel
“A model of refined simplicity on the outside, the iron lady that symbolizes Paris is a complicated piece of work inside her elegant A-line figure.
Custom-fitted pumps, heaters and long-life bulbs keep the 119-year-old Eiffel Tower working and sparkling, while industrial-sized cogs, gears and cables spin, bump, grind and purr deep inside the...
Planet Harddrive →
BLDGBLOG
“For several years I’ve been fascinated by what might be called the geological nature of harddrives – how certain mineral arrangements of metal and ferromagnetism result in our technological ability to store memories, save information, and leave previous versions of the present behind. A harddrive, though, would be a geological object as much as a technical one; it is a...
Facial Yoga →
Photo Essays/ TIME Magazine
“Exercising your face muscles tightens, tones and, according to practitioners, combats aging. Photographer Gene Moz offers a gallery of some of the more intriguing poses…”
Emma Hack : Artist →
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The Conet Project (218)
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Richard Thompson (170)
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feedsqueezer →
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“feedsqueezer provides sophisticated tools for the management of RSS feeds Our web services platform delivers audit-ready analytics, a powerful rules engine and flexible feed and content delivery for all types of feeds, including podcasts and other downloadable media platform features analytics • audit-ready subscriber and download reporting • feed re-distribution...
Science Solves 'Italian Job' Cliffhanger →
Science/ News/ The Independent
“It was probably the greatest cliff-hanger in cinema history, leaving fans of The Italian Job wondering how the mobster Charlie Croker could have extricated his gang – and the gold bullion – from a bus hanging precariously over the edge of a mountain road.
The getaway complete, the robbers were celebrating on the road to Switzerland when the bus went into a...
“Most closely associated with the Norse Berserkers, gangs of warriors who fought...”
– Mental Floss: Running Amok vs. Going Berserk
Henchman's Helper →
“When you have to be evil, at least have a cool lair to back it up. With wall of monitors it would be impossible not to. Something to do for fun… and evil…”
WatchCarts of Darkness by Murray Siple - NFB - 59m27s
Murray Siple’s feature-length documentary follows a group of homeless men who have combined bottle picking with the extreme sport of racing shopping carts down the steep hills of North Vancouver. This subculture depicts street life as much more than the stereotypes portrayed in mainstream media. The film takes a deep look into the lives of...
"We're All Gonna Die: 100 Meters of Existence" →
Simon Hoegsberg
100m x 78cm, 178 people over 20 days
Information Design Patterns →
Christian Behrens
“This website is part of the Master’s thesis The Form of Facts and Figures, developed by Christian Behrens in the Interface Design program at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. Its goal is the development of a design pattern taxonomy for the field of data visualization and information design. The project core consists of a...
“Christopher Parsons, a grad student at the University of Victoria (the...”
– How Canadian ISPs throttle the Internet
Ryan Schude's Ten Photographers
spaceminer:
Part four of a ten part series: My favorite emerging photographers list their favorite emerging photographers.
Glitzy, glamorous, and oh-so-perfect: You can almost tell just from his photo selections that Ryan Schude is from LA. Enjoy these highly polished and professional images from photographers that can just barely be considered “emerging.”
See also: (My) Ten Photographers to...
Building the Flickr Collection on Getty Images →
Flickr Blog/ Heather Champ
“Invitations are being sent out en masse to photographers across the Flickrverse, introducing the tens of thousands of photos that could eventually find a home within the Flickr Collection on Getty Images.
Since the initial announcement of our partnership, we’ve had the opportunity to meet with a number of the Getty Images editors both in Seattle and in London...
“It has 1,352 components all working together, driven by a 450 link chain and...”
– Cabestan/ A watch so complicated it’s a shame it only tells the time
Speech-completing Technology for Voice Input... →
TechPak/ yet2.com
“Speech completion is a novel speech interface function that helps a user enter a word or phrase by completing (filling in the rest of) a phrase fragment uttered by the user. Although the concept of completion is widely used in text-based interfaces, there have been no reports of completion being effectively applied to speech. By using a filled pause, we enable a user to...
2063 A.D. →
Matt Novak on Lulu Download: 1 documents, 48718 KB
Printed: 49 pages, 21.59 cm x 27.94 cm, perfect binding, full-colour interior ink
“The booklet 2063 A.D. was published by General Dynamics Astronautics, and placed into a time capsule in July of 1963. It is believed that only 200 copies were ever printed. The 50 page book contains predictions by scientists,...
The Aesthetics of Neural Buddhism →
The Immanent Frame
“The first three postings in this series remind us how complex the individual topics of cognitive science, Buddhism, and religious experience can be. Certainly there are many interpretations of each—many more than an entire monograph could account for, let alone a column in the New York Times—and reminders of the density of such topics are valuable and need to be...
Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) →
Apple
Pro/ Profiles/ Video
Link by Link - Historical Photos in Web Archives... →
New York Times/ Noam Cohen
“In barely 100 years, photography has gone from a magical, even mystical process, to an afterthought. Nothing better captures how much of an afterthought photography is today than the banal miracle that is Flickr, the photo-sharing site owned by Yahoo that has more than three billion photographs online. Billion.
“Flickr is to photography what the Pacific Ocean is...
First Monday →
A Grateful Dead analysis: The relationship between concert and listening behavior analysis…
“This article presents a framework to compare online patterns of music usage aggregated from dedicated online music services to offline patterns of music performance collected from live concert set lists. This framework is employed to explore the relationship between band live concert and...