It is now definitely time to upgrade my cellphone:
http://mobile.processing.org/
Archive for September, 2005
Processing Mobile is online!
Thursday, September 22nd, 2005Digital Derive in Graz
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
It’s nice to visit boingboing and read that MIT researchers had a project going in your hometown of twohundredsomething thousand inhabitants:
Digital Derive harnesses the potential of mobile phones as an affordable, ready-made and ubiquitous medium that allows the city to be sensed and displayed in real-time as a complex, pulsating entity. Because it is possible to simultaneously ‘ping’ the cell phones of thousands of users – thereby establishing their precise location in space at a given moment in time – these devices can be used as a highly dynamic tracking tool that describes how the city is used and transformed by its citizens.
wikipedia goodness
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005I stumbled over a Wikipedia entry named “Internet phenomenon” by chance. If you’ve ever had to try to explain phenomena like 1337-speak to people who don’t use the web for anything but e-mail, you’ve probably wondered where to start in order to describe the unique manner of propagation of memes on the internet.
What I like about the Wikipedia article however, is not the explanatory paragraph. What I like is the categorized list of dozens if not a hundred of past examples of websites, videos, pictures and ideas that quickly spread around the world, including Apple’s Ellen Feiss commercial, Limecat, Mahir Cagri and many, many other things, complete with short descriptions of the meme in question and links. As such, the article both provides entertainment and serves as an interesting and descriptive historical outlook on online culture.
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Brain Fusion Kodama Kid Icarus Kodama
Tuesday, September 13th, 2005Two of the best software synthesizers ever, ReBirth and RubberDuck, are now completely free. I tortured many a roommate with my awful ReBirth tracks in the 90’s.
I called the effort Brain Fusion, then Kodama, then Kid Icarus (whoops, already taken), then Kodama again. As I remember it, more kids were messing with cracked copies of ReBirth in high school than were trying to play guitar.
(via RepeatWhileTrue)
Summer Bits
Friday, September 2nd, 2005I’m back from another summertime lapse in posting. Life has been pretty good, and very busy over the last two months.
In July, I began a new job developing software for the government. My coworkers are great, and I’m learning a lot of new technologies and design practices. The future looks promising.
Otherwise, I’ve been juicing the last weeks of summer with as bohemian a life as I can. I’m biking almost every day, logging about twelve miles a trip. Reading is fun again too; I strongly suggest Monkey King: Journey to the West.