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(for Photoshop CS)
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A book by Rob Bryanton, visualized via Flash
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a Flickr group to celebrate “their’s” and suchlike
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a Flickr group to bemoan stuff like /”fresh” strawberry’s/ (honestagawd I saw that once in Nova Scotia)
Monthly Archives: November 2006
links for 2006-11-21
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aka sheetrock, gyprock, etc. A nice historical summary of domestic technology, by Mark Allen
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“Robotic anachronisms, clockwork futurisms, antique artifacts as cybernetic tools, old technologies as new media… “
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“Typewriters, printing presses and movable type – anything to do with the mechanical reproduction or creation of the written word.”
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don’t miss this… Bruce Sterling calls it “turbofolk… Check out the way “Seve” is cybernetically trampling the streets of Zagreb on some kind of Google-mapped, satellite- imagery, hypermediated scale. Man, the semiotics of this piece are something else…”
links for 2006-11-17
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green-on-black writing environment… hmmm not sure what I think about a throwback to 1984
links for 2006-11-15
Foodies will appreciate immediately
Mapping pictures of food… what an obvious thing to do, and what a delightful thing to find that Flickr has already enabled. Here’s Bangkok, for starters, but dextrous zooming and panning will get you a whole world of others. I look forward to what this will develop into as more people get the bug. And here’s a modest beginning for St. George Maine.
links for 2006-11-14
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a pointer to a summary of spimes, via e-Clippings (Learning As Art)
Requiem for a digital device
“Born digital” at one end… “deceased digital” at the other. My 40GB iRiver H340 will now hold its charge for only about 10 minutes [the battery is only in theory replaceable], but in the two years since I bought it (and hopped aboard the mp3 juggernaut) it’s accumulated some 35GB of files and been in daily use. Like many bits of technology, its presence has changed my life in all sorts of unanticipated ways. Some of its features (Line In, and support for .ogg for instance) turn out to be a bit difficult to replace, but I think the 2GB SanDisk that Amazon will deliver tomorrow will be OK for a while. I don’t use iTunes or other retail services, trafficking only in non-DRM’d mp3s, so iPod and Zune don’t have much attraction for me.
What I REALLY want is a device that allows me to MARK points in an mp3, for later return –but that’s because much of what I listen to isn’t “songs”. What, I wonder, would life be without the constant stream of new stuff from Radio Open Source, IT Conversations, This American Life, and podcastified talks by luminaries like Stephen Downes [though nobody’s like Stephen, bless him] and people at Long Now Foundation and TEDTalks.
links for 2006-11-13
links for 2006-11-10
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via Lifehacker, a tool with a million possibilities
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“Make Firefox Inline Spell Checker More Useful “, bless you Amit Agarwal
Gobsmacked again
A posting on Lifehacker pointed me to one of those things that made the 100 watt lightbulb come on. Mojiti.com‘s “Spot Tickers” allow one to annotate Web video with subtitles. I tried it out with an Ismail Tuncbilek video:
My comments don’t add much to this particular video, but it was EASY to add them and I am beginning to imagine a whole raft of other applications…