2008

Aug

“The work presents a system for automatically producing a wide variety of video enhancements...

“In looking for someone to hire, you look for three...”
— Warren Buffet, via John...

” Sci-fi author Vernor Vinge talks about the run-up to a technological singularity and what we...

“Aurora is a concept video exploring one possible future user experience for the Web, created...

“Systems dump excess energy in the form of structure.”
— James Burke, via Tim Oren....

Jul

“Understanding beats code. Communication beats process....”
— Me (assembled and filtered...

“It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best’. You have got...”
— Winston Churchill

“…in any given society the Remnant are always so...”
— Isaiah’s Job by Albert...

Jun

“Made with Processing. Audio by Flashbulb…This is a time-based documentation of how the...

“Visualizing the commit history of the Python scripting language project.” lots more at...

“Legendary journalist Bill Moyers address the National Conference for Media Reform in...

Mark Pesce ‘Only Connect’

May

“Displacements is an immersive film installation. An archetypal Americana living room was...

Clay Shirky on his new book “Here Comes Everybody”.

“Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is...”
— Jeffrey Zeldman

“We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that...”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Multi-tasking is dead. It never worked and it never will....”
— Timothy Ferriss

Awesome graffiti animation, by BLU

Net Neutrality documentary, via Melanie McBride

“What about “the big now,” though? It’s shorthand for the...”
— Adam Greenfield

Apr

Clay Shirky at 2.0 Expo 2008

Another neat little video from Michael Wesch

Bruce Sterling at Innovationforum Interaktionsdesign

Rob Hopkins on Transition Towns, part 3

Rob Hopkins on Transition Towns, part 2

Rob Hopkins on Transition Towns, part 1.

“Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it...”
— Ray Ozzie, CTO, Microsoft, via...

Mar

Earth Hour is tonight! 8 p.m.

“In the very near future, that which will primarily condition choice and action in the city...

Food Court Musical, by Improv Everywhere.

Feb

Pangea Day trailer

No child intellectual labor

As of 2008-02-26, google returns zero hits for the phrase “child intellectual labor”....

No future shock doctrine

On 2008-02-08, google returns zero hits for the phrase “future shock doctrine”

“On a cold Saturday in New York City, the world’s largest train station came to a sudden halt....

Holographic monster in Tokyo

“If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe...”
— Goethe

Jan

“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to...”
— Charles Du Bos

Zero hits for 'constructivism "social...

As of 2007-01-22, google returns no hits whatsoever for ‘constructivism “social object...

dan le sac VS scroobius pip. Missed this the first time around.

Promo clip from upcoming BBC documentary shows how Omaha Beach battle recreated using 3 guys...

“[T]his influx of object worlds coincides with changing...”
— The Market as an Object of...

2007

Dec

Cute little intro to the semantic web. Extra points for ‘I can has cheezburger’...

“The secret of American schooling is that it doesn’t teach...”
— John Taylor Gatto, via Gatto...

Let the mystery be, via Rigorous Intuition

“Until we get some great new (non-standard) CSS features out...”
— Alex Russell

John Cale - Frozen Warnings (Nico Cover)

“Something else begins to happen around 1750 as well: the...”
— John Clute, Fantastika in the...

Nov

Dvinsk Clan-Le Parkour, via William Gibson

Daft Hands - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger This is what the future is all about: something new...

Stigmergy + "social object"

Just noticed that google has only 4 links (or 10, with ‘omitted results included’) for...

“If you make people think they’re thinking,...”
— Don Marquis

ArtofMentalWarfare.com: The Warning

Hyperwords 3.0, looks pretty cool!

Disabled Feeds

No more del.icio.us or twitter feeds here. That should make things a little more compact.

Oct

Another fantastic short piece from the guy who did ‘Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing...

“…businesses established by owner-managers, once the...”
— Dave Pollard

“Arrogance without humility is a recipe for high-concept...”
— Clay Shirky

Jul

“To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and...”
— George Spencer-Brown, The Laws...

As of July 4 2007, Google returns only one hit for ‘twitter’ plus “vanishing...

Putting together a Millenium Falcon lego model. Great!

Jun

Great intro to social networking

Roxy Music, 1972

“Cognitive Dissonance development (CDD) - In any organization...”
— Scott Berkun

Happy Happy Joy Joy

“What’s going to really fuck people up, out in the real...”
— Bryan O’Sullivan, in...

Apr

The End of Suburbia (short version)

Mar

“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively...”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

“With fractal compression techniques it is entirely possible...”
— Adrian Gargett, Ph.D.

YouTube - Identity 2.0 Keynote

Things to Avoid: Samsung E900

When you dial a number, you have a choice of seeing said number in a gigantic, ghastly typeface, or...

YouTube - Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

YouTube - Save the Internet!

YouTube - Day of the Longtail

23C3 - Lawrence Lessig - On Free, and the Differences between Culture and Code - Google Video

Feb

“The ethanol craze means that we’re going to burn up...”
— Unidentified farmer, via...

“…the big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are...”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“We are the New Civilization We are here. We are waking up...”
— Flemming Funch

“So I can write science fiction, and even get it in print,...”
— Bruce Sterling

Cities will soon get really hilarious.

“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would...”
— Thomas Edison