As promised by the Wooster Collective, this video made my brain go wild.
What if you used a sheet of water with detergent – you could excite just portions of the water to luminesce, creating a non-scrolling display.
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Music for free: The Black Angels
I subscribe to the internet archive’s public domain music feed and caught this: The Black Angels Live at Chop Suey on 2006-06-19.
I’d only heard the excellent “Young Men Dead” before, but if you want a good feel for this band then give a quick listen to track 3: “The Sniper at the Gates of Heaven”.
The whole concert is available for dl in 64K mp3 or vbr mp3. You can also give a listen using the embedded flash player.
Moves moves moves
I’ve switched roles within my group – now I’m working on a new real-time application. I’ve also moved up a floor. I miss my old seat, pictured empty below in Tim’s post.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GuessmansGuess/~3/http%3A%2F%2Fguessman.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F07%2Fworking-in-solitude.html
On the other hand, the new floor has a blender. Smoothies ahoy!
alright which of you did this?
first http://matthewkatzisajerk.com, now this. I get the message. In cassidy’s bathroom between 5&6 on 56th.
Bocce Season Begins
Old Dirty Barristers is representing in the Floyd Bocce Tournament. Last season we came in second, this time we are going for the gold. Training will begin immediately in our firm’s training camp.
I popped our games in google calendar if you’d like to come out and cheer for the future champions.
If you’ve got a google account, you can subscribe by clicking this button:
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Other stuff, you’ll probably want the iCal address.
I, for one, welcome our death-dealing barking robot overlords
http://feeds.we-make-money-not-art.com/wmmna?m=895
I know quake is free now, but couldn’t they have trained it on a copy of the sims instead?
update: I can’t find the article anywhere now. Found it in my feed reader, it was about scientists who were growing a neural net using cultured dog brain slices. They were supposedly training it by using a grid of electrodes somehow connected to a game of quake. The more I think about it, the fishier it sounds. Having read recently about how neural nets actually work when used by scientists, it is hard to believe bunging some electrodes in -> playing a rendered 3d game. I will try to be more careful in the future. This article was something I found and wrote about while on the subway, so I couldn’t read further about it first.
Eric Newman: How to ask for help on the web, the bad way
Something in internet land directed me to Steven Hargrove’s page on status 301 redirects, which we use at work. The real story here isn’t 301 redirects. No, the undercover awesomeness here is in the comments, when Eric Newman begins asking for help.
Steven Hargrove: How to redirect a web page, the smart way:
“and i know the source is correct because it gave me a source to use and it looks right to me i know this program works because i see other web pages work and it specified that windows xp can work which that is what im using (professional)and i talk with other people and they have no idea on this and i have one more question what is redirect web page mean im makeing pages from a web program called “web page maker v2″ i put the source to use the program after i create the page and i know i told where to look for it to”
Also:
“Please answer my question Mr.Hargrove i need to know and i have one more question to ask how do i get a sponsorship because i need a bigger harddrive,fast internet,some connections, and a pro of doing this business thing so please tell me i know i sound desprite sorry.If this will make you feel better i will have a link to this site.”
Ah, if it were only so simple.
Wooster Collective: Seen In The French Alps
The Mighty Power of the Feed
After not publishing for approximately forever, Fafblog is back, and I only knew because I was faithful and reverent and had it in my bloglines.
Fafblog! the whole worlds only source for Fafblog: After the end of the world.
“Albatross or not albatross?” says me.
“Hmmm… albatross!” says Giblets.
We reach in the ol cardboard box an pull out a rusty coke can. “Not albatross!” says me.
“This is stupid!” says Giblets. “Albatross Or Not Albatross is the lamest game ever!”
“Now to be fair it was a lot more excitin back before we ran outta albatrosses,” says me.
It only gets better from there. Fafblog is the thing on the internet most likely to cause my actual real face to have an actual real smile on it.
Net Art: We Feel Fine / by Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar
We Feel Fine / by Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar
It’s not just pretty. This applet polls various rss feeds and collects posts where people describe how they feel. Then it uses various relationships and attributes to present that data in innovative ways.
These various graphs are playful and informative. Found this via MonkeyBites, which has a great writeup. Also of note is an API so that other artists can use this search without having to do the backend coding.