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Thousands of complaints to the mayor have been unearthed in New York City going back to the 1700's.

Originally from NYT > Home Page by ANDY NEWMAN reBlogged on Jul 8, 2006, 12:00AM

Originally posted by ANDY NEWMAN from NYT > Home Page, on July 8, 2006 8:56 AM

Trailer for The Science of Sleep, directed by Michel Gondry. Michel Gondry? Michel Gondry. Michel Gondry. Michel Gondry.

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Jul 8, 2006, 12:42AM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on July 8, 2006 8:55 AM

Just because you can blog your email doesn't mean you should.  (And yes, I know the story's not over yet.  But c'mon, you honestly think it will end up offering a different moral?)

Originally from this is sippey.typepad.com by Michael Sippey reBlogged on Jul 8, 2006, 2:17AM

Originally posted by Michael Sippey from this is sippey.typepad.com, on July 8, 2006 8:49 AM

I've had a number of requests for people wanting to export a VoodooPad document as OPML. And this evening after seeing OPML mentioned a couple of times on the web and remembering that I told someone it could be done via a Lua script plugin, I decided to give it a quick shot.

And after browsing the spec... wow, there's not much to OPML, is there? (Here's the Wikipedia link too). Looks like it's great for short entries used in an outliner, which is no surprise since that is what it was designed for... So I'm left wondering what the benefit of exporting a VoodooPad document in this format is? Can anyone enlighten me on this? Is this just another export format to check off on.. but without much use to folks?

I'm wondering if maybe the people who have asked for this think of VP as a hierarchy of links?. Maybe they wanted the document to be exported in a hierarchy? But VoodooPad is a web, and maybe that's why I'm so confused.

I put the script up on the wiki if anyone wants to see it. Like I said, I gave it a "quick shot" and only spent 7 minutes on it tops, so the script is not exactly pretty. But it does show how to open up a save panel from Lua (and how to write out files).

Originally from Gus's blog, adventures in Flying Meat. reBlogged on Jul 8, 2006, 3:27AM

Originally from Gus's blog, adventures in Flying Meat., on July 8, 2006 8:49 AM

The Bacon of the Month Club is "the go-to gift for that person in your life who loves bacon, who has everything or who has very little." The annual fee is $140 for one portion every month or $215 for two. You get a monthly delivery of "artisan pork", a toy pig, a membership card, a nice pen, and "informative notes on all bacon selections."

Originally from A Full Belly by David Jacobs reBlogged on Jul 7, 2006, 9:50AM

Originally posted by David Jacobs from A Full Belly, on July 7, 2006 6:19 PM

The world was shocked when President Putin kissed a boy on the stomach because he resembled a kitten, but according to Putin's letters to Russian schoolchildren, we shouldn't be too surprised.

Vladimir Putin’s decision to stop a small boy as he walked through the Kremlin and kiss his stomach was prompted by a desire to “touch him like a kitten,” the Russian president said on Thursday… “People came up and I began talking to them, among them this little boy. He seemed to me very independent, sure of himself and at the same time defenseless so to speak, an innocent boy and a very nice little boy,” [said] Putin. “I tell you honestly, I just wanted to touch him like a kitten and that desire of mine ended in that act.” —Reuters, July 6, 2006 * * * Dear President Putin, I am five years old. My brother, Alexander, is writing for me. I would like to be an army captain. Please keep Russia safe from terrorists. I do not sleep well. Please send me a fighter jet.—Roman Dear Roman, Thank... Click here to continue reading this article.

Visit The Morning News.

Originally from The Morning News reBlogged on Jul 7, 2006, 10:45AM

Originally from The Morning News, on July 7, 2006 6:19 PM

The Eames Lounge Chair is the modern day mark of any hipster bachelor. Look, I don't care if it's an expensive chair, and I don't care about the way it's designed because I've seen the *original* model from the Eames collection in person. I'm not impressed by your DWR replica, and dudes, I'm serious here: It's still smacks of self-importance and a wasteful lifestyle.

Save yourself the cash and get these nice Eames chair costers instead. You'll still be able to look at it longingly and pretend you're some fancy power executive just throwing his money around on things because they're trendy and comfortable and people will admire you for them, but when you bring a girl home she won't say to herself, "Ohhhhhhhhhhh. He's got that chair. No wonder."

Originally from Awesome! by S H reBlogged

Originally posted by S H from Awesome! , on July 7, 2006 6:18 PM

Buried in this extensive listing of the most valuable players in the NBA by Bill Simmons, is a little muse about NBA stars playing soccer, which I will reproduce here in its entirety so you don't have to go searching for it:

By the way, I've been watching the World Cup for four weeks trying to decide which NBA players could have been dominant soccer players, eventually coming to three conclusions. First, Allen Iverson would have been the greatest soccer player ever -- better than Pele, better than Ronaldo, better than everyone. I think this is indisputable, actually. Second, it's a shame that someone like Chris Andersen couldn't have been pushed toward soccer, because he would have been absolutely unstoppable soaring above the middle of the pack on corner kicks. And third, can you imagine anyone being a better goalie than Shawn Marion? It would be like having a 6-foot-9 human octopus in the net. How could anyone score on him? He'd have every inch of the goal covered. Just as a sports experiment, couldn't we have someone teach Marion the rudimentary aspects of playing goal, then throw him in a couple of MLS games? Like you would turn the channel if this happened?

Link via David, with whom I was chatting last week about Mr. Iverson's excellent chances, soccer-wise.

Originally from kottke.org reBlogged on Jul 7, 2006, 4:13PM

Originally from kottke.org, on July 7, 2006 6:14 PM

Tomorrow, July 8th, the New York Transit Museum will be celebrating its 30th Birthday with discounted admission. It will be charging the original fare of $.50 for adults and $.25 for kids. The birthday festivities will include birthday cake, arts & crafts for kids, a trivia game, movies, and a "special guest vehicle."

Really though, the best part of any trip to the Transit Museum has to be checking out the old subway cars. Longtime residents can take a trip down memory lane wandering the cars they used to ride. If it doesn't come right back to you, try to imagine them covered in spray paint and they may seem a bit more familiar. Newcomers can marvel at the fact that this system has actually managed to keep running for 100 years.

Originally from Brooklyn Record by Brooklyn Record reBlogged on Jul 7, 2006, 10:06AM

Originally posted by Brooklyn Record from Brooklyn Record, on July 7, 2006 9:42 AM

I have been looking for good sunscreen for years. One or two. Now I can kick back and drink an OE under my sun lamp because I've found the best.

The Helioplex technology used in this product is supposedly what the Europeans have been using for years and any suncreenie (like foodie, humor me) knows that the Europeans have superior sunscreen. That coupled with the fact that it does not feel greasy when applied on the face is great. And it's spf 55 which is good for people (me) who have recently discovered sunspots and realize tanning is not as cool as it was in the 7th grade when people (I) covered the Thriller record album (folded out, remember?) with aluminum foil and sat in the optimal sun attack spot.

Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry-Touch Sunblock SPF 55.

Full disclosure: Neutrogena has been advertising their helioplex technology like crazy so I'm not sure to what degree their advertising has influenced my opinion on this product.

Originally from Andrea Harner by Andrea reBlogged on Jul 6, 2006, 10:30AM

Originally posted by Andrea from Andrea Harner, on July 7, 2006 9:42 AM

"Up until the 1980s, all buttons were physical, actual tangible things that you push, press, hit or slap. At the same time, all computer software was text-based, codes and commands that you had to master and type in. Then someone got chocolate in their peanut butter."

Originally from tecznotes links by Michal Migurski reBlogged on Jul 6, 2006, 11:23AM

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on July 7, 2006 9:42 AM

Architect and set designer David Rockwell was hired to design the “interior experience” (arrival, departure, retail space) of the new JetBlue terminal being built at JFK Airport (Gensler handled most of the architecture). Looking for a new angle on movement vs. environment, Rockwell took a strange turn: He hired choreographer Jerry Mitchell to help him. At the New JetBlue Terminal, Passengers May Pirouette to Gate 3 examines the collaboration and takes a look at the dance of people in public spaces. There’s also an accompanying audio slide show that looks at the process and its results.

The duo started out by looking at what they considered well choreographed spaces in New York, like the Grand Foyer at Radio City Music Hall, Grand Central Station (top photo), and Union Square (bottom).

After examining the dance at these places, the choreographer urged the terminal’s architects to eliminate crisscrossing and straight edges in favor of a merry-go-round approach since “people move easiest in circles.” He also urged them to recognize the “different emotional experiences” of arrival and departure and treat them accordingly. The resulting design for the terminal can be viewed in the slide show or this PDF.

Here’s more on how it all went down:

So he and the architects looked for ways to alter the shape and pace of passenger movement within the terminal, drawing less on transportation hubs (which are patronized of necessity) and more on urban spaces that people actually choose and enjoy. At Union Square, as Mr. Rockwell explained on a recent tour through some of those sites, the paths are wide enough for pedestrians to move along them in both directions at once, allowing for the pleasure of proximity without discouraging eye contact. (Squeeze people too close, as on a rush-hour subway train, and they won’t look at one another.) The paths are also gently curved, allowing some surprise about what’s around the next bend. And those curves seem to stretch time; as we circulated slowly, we were always aware of how we were deviating from the Manhattan grid, which nevertheless persisted as a faint impression, like a distant drumbeat…

Out of such thoughts, and Mr. Mitchell’s choreographic insights, came the Rockwell Group’s solution for the JetBlue terminal. Various obstructions (principally two large bleacherlike seating areas rising up like icebergs after the security checkpoints) would subtly lead outbound travelers toward the periphery of the space — the longer, more circular route — while inbound travelers would be directed straight between them, down a level and swiftly out. The periphery walls would be curved like the paths at Union Square to slow down the outbound experience and, not incidentally, enhance the likelihood of lingering over merchandise. And the bleacherlike seating areas, improving on the usual pods of wee chairs and tables at floor level, would encourage people to get above the action and watch the shapes of the promenade that they were recently part of.

Inspiration doesn’t always come from obvious people or places. Kudos to Rockwell for seeking solutions under unusual rocks and to Gensler/JetBlue for recognizing the value of this unorthodox approach.

Related: JetBlue’s Terminal Takes Wing [BusinessWeek]

Originally from Signal vs. Noise reBlogged on Jul 6, 2006, 11:36AM

Originally from Signal vs. Noise, on July 7, 2006 9:42 AM

Fort Greene residents took a break from last weekend's heat to submerge themselves in the nieghborhood's outdoor public pool at North Elliott and Flushing. The pool is open from 11 am to 7 pm everyday for the rest of the summer. Lap swimmers have free rein from 11 am to noon and, if demand warrants, additional hours may be added. Just don't try to bring in a camera. As we found out the hard way, photos are prohibited within pool bounds.

Originally from Brooklyn Record by Brooklyn Record reBlogged on Jul 6, 2006, 11:46AM

Originally posted by Brooklyn Record from Brooklyn Record, on July 7, 2006 9:42 AM

The number of gadgets we're carrying around on a daily basis - from BlackBerrys and mobile phones to iPods and PDAs - means men in the UK may be forced to embrace the metrosexual phenomenon of the 'manbag' , reports Silicon.com.

"And while four per cent of men surveyed for a piece of research from business communications company Damovo still go for the 'batman' utility belt approach of clipping their gadgets around their waist, it seems that stereotypical image of the gadget fan at large is being killed off by the manbag."

Picture left from manbag.com and below, a selection of man-bags off a catwalk.

Originally from textually.org by emily reBlogged on Jul 6, 2006, 12:09PM

Originally posted by emily from textually.org, on July 7, 2006 9:42 AM

"Times like these try men's souls. How trying it is to live in these times! These are trying times for men's souls. Soulwise, these are trying times."

Originally from tecznotes links by Michal Migurski reBlogged on Jul 6, 2006, 11:46AM

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on July 7, 2006 9:38 AM

This teak bath mat showcased by the folks at uncrate, reminds us how important it is to seek out and use reclaimed materials.

Originally from ReadyMade Blog by Timothy reBlogged on Jul 6, 2006, 12:13PM

Originally posted by Timothy from ReadyMade Blog, on July 7, 2006 9:38 AM

As Zach Papale watched France's victory over Portugal at Bar Tabac in Cobble Hill, he told the Daily News, "This is as French as you can get in Brooklyn." Bar Tabac is one of the neighborhood's many French eateries — which also include Marquet Patisserie, Provence en Boite, and Patois. On July 16, 7,000 French people are expected to flock to Smith Street for the Brooklyn's fifth annual Bastille Day party. Bar Tabac will the country's largest pétanque tournament as part of the celebration. This year's match is expected to include 80 teams — and many of the players are from Brooklyn.
Nabe is a Soupcon of Home for French [NY Daily News]
[Photo by Pentanque America]

Originally from Brooklyn Record by Brooklyn Record reBlogged on Jul 6, 2006, 1:35PM

Originally posted by Brooklyn Record from Brooklyn Record, on July 7, 2006 9:38 AM

We hate having water on our bathroom floor, but hate having a towel or not-so-sweet rug on the floor even worse. We were delighted then when we saw the Teak Bath Mat ($70). It's made...

Originally from Uncrate

reBlogged by Matthew Haughey on Jul 6, 2006, 3:05PM

Originally from mathowie reBlog feed reBlogged on Jul 6, 2006, 1:04PM

Originally from mathowie reBlog feed , on July 7, 2006 9:36 AM

Edward Tufte is deeply suspicious of presentation software. Hans Rosling makes it sing. And they're both right. In the wrong hands PowerPoint can bore you, mislead you or far, far worse. In the right ones it can inform and illuminate.

Mr Tufte (a TED veteran) makes his case and tells us much more in his new book Beautiful Evidence, the fourth in a series of exquisite titles all of which he has written, designed and self-published. His standards are incredibly high, making his books some of the most thoughtful and beautiful objects you will ever own.

Mr Rosling makes his case through Gapminder. They are both concerned with the effective representation of evidence, I wonder what they make of each other's work.

Originally posted by noemail@noemail.org (russell davies) from TED Blog, on July 7, 2006 9:33 AM

Photo: Mary Ellen Mark

Serra: I think the great thing about Warhol was his cynical, critical banality of conversing with the media. Warhol’s provocation is lost now and has been replaced by a superficial simulation of banality; that is banality for banality’s sake where everybody’s in on the meta-joke. Only the meta-joke of art about art can become tiresome real quick. Cynicism has been replaced with sentimentality. The problem with a lot of work today is its predictability. Its only allusion is to something we already know; it reframes, or re-references the known over and over again. It can’t possibly give us the same kind of inventive diversity and fulfillment and complex evolution of the formal language of art that invention can provide. I find it interesting that there’s no post-modernism that doesn’t deal with re-representation.

http://brooklynrail.org/2006-06/art/richard-serra-with-phong-bui

Originally from post.thing.net - A lean, mean, media machine. reBlogged on Jul 6, 2006, 5:51PM

Originally from post.thing.net - A lean, mean, media machine., on July 7, 2006 9:29 AM

Ralph McQuarrie (AKA “the man who designed Darth Vader”) has a new web site. Ironically, it’s a very poorly designed site - but the man inspired generations of industrial designers and breathed life into the modern myth - so we’ll let it go. [Link]

Originally from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog by Matt reBlogged on Jul 6, 2006, 6:25PM

Originally posted by Matt from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog, on July 7, 2006 9:29 AM

CALL FOR PAPERS

Art in the Age of Technological Seduction: Call For Papers; Fall 2006 issue of NMC media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus; Guest Editors: Legier Biederman and Joshua Callaghan: DEADLINE JULY 30, 2006.

The fall 2006 issue of Media-N, Art in the Age of Technological Seduction, is a collaborative platform, a diverse questioning, re-considering and re-imaging of what, when and how new media arts practice is viewed by artists, practitioners, theorists, critics and historians working in the field today. We seek a broad range of contributions discussing the scope, values, and definitions of diverse new media arts practices and hope that this issue of Media-N will be a departure as much as much as an arrival. Four general questions have been posed by the members of the new media caucus as points of entry for an engaging, vibrant discussion.

The issue will be divided into two sections: The first section invites brief personal accounts and anecdotal responses addressing and/or expanding one of the four questions, and we encourage everyone to respond to this section, as weÂ’d like to include as many responses as possible. The second section invites papers that address these questions in a more lengthy and detailed form.

Four Questions:

1. Defining and Re-imagining

What are new media arts? Is it necessary that we define new media arts? How do we begin to discuss or teach new media arts? What sets new media arts apart from other disciplines or practices, or what connects them? What's (still) new about new media or what was, if anything ever was? What defines your work as new media art and why? How do you explain new media arts to your students and colleagues? What did or currently does attract you to new media arts practices?

2. Discourses on New Media Arts

What do the discourses do to the practice? How might one describe or define the discourse/s on new media arts? How does new media arts discourse relate to new media practices? In other words, what does the discourse/s do or attempt to do to new media arts? Are theory and practice being brought together in new media arts discourse, and if not, how might we begin to do so? What do you find interesting or problematic about new media arts discourses? Do you think there is a disjuncture between new media arts practice and the discourses on it? As a new media artist, do new media arts discourses affect your practice?

3. Authorship, Relationships & Relationality

Does your work maintain a traditional relationship between the artist/author/producer and the spectator/viewer? If not, how does it transgress these boundaries? Do you feel it necessary to challenge these boundaries? Do you consider relationality, the non-hierarchical intertwining of data, artwork, artists, and viewers etc., an important aspect of your work? In what context/s is your work shown and how does effect it. How do recombinatory practices commonly found in new media such as sampling, appropriation, and mash-ups, challenge traditional author/viewer conventions? While autonomy and relationality have long lineages in art history, how do they function within new media arts practices and discourses?

4. E-litism: Technospheres and the Everyday

How do notions of location, language, identity, and cultural understandings of communication inform or effect new media practices? Who is left out of, disproportionately under-represented, in the world of new media art practices? Is, as some have argued, the openness often associated with information technologies and new media practices, paradoxically, replacing the national politics of a past with the global connectivity of cosmopolitan tourism? How does your particular specificity (sexual, gender, ethnic, racial, class) affect your practice, your work or its reception?

Event reviews: The editorial board also invites proposals for reviews of exhibitions / events / festivals / conferences, etc.

For more information: http://www.newmediacaucus.org/media-n/call.htm.

[] Send manuscripts via email to: Legier Biederman (lbiederm[at]ucla.edu) by July 30, 2006
[] Paper format and media format are in the 'Submission Guidelines' link
[] Media-N author's agreement is available from the 'Copyright Statement' link
[] Questions: contact guest editors Legier Biederman (lbiederm[at]ucla.edu) and Joshua Callaghan(joshua[at]joshuacallaghan.com)

THANK YOU

Originally from networked_performance by jo reBlogged on Jul 6, 2006, 8:30PM

Originally posted by jo from networked_performance, on July 7, 2006 9:29 AM

I came home last night and found Julian Dibbell's Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot waiting for me. And sat down and read it all in one sitting.

Entire parallel economies exist in these worlds, and they can be quite addictive. One of the reasons we started Ludicorp to build the Game Neverending, was my addiction to Neopets, where I was making a killing arbitraging JubJub hats (until the bottom dropped out of the whole JubJub market, as suddenly and inexplicably, JubJub hats were being fed into the marketplace at an astonishing rate). Dibbell spent most of his time in Ultima Online, a sword and sorcery MMOG, but sometimes, it seems, the real cloak and dagger activity isn't happening in the game, but behind the scenes, where quasi-criminals devise ingenious cheats to raise game money, which they then sell on eBay, possibly even running Chinese and Tijuana sweatshops on the side where workers are employed to level up and generate even more game money. A fascinating account. Even though I'd spent a lot of time in these worlds, Dibbell raised a lot of interesting questions, and conjectured a world where work is becoming increasingly indistinguishable from play. And I loved this:

The Kpelle people of Liberia, to name one, scarcely make the distinction at all, allowing for a difference between arduous "forest work" and lighter "town work" but generally avoiding all work that can't be done playfully, amid song and dance and jest. It's not that they're slackers. On the contrary: Diligent rice farmers, they organize their lives around the constant activity of cultivation. But when government advisors pressured them to switch from dry rice farming to more productive paddy-based methods, they resisted--not because they had no interest in making more money, but because they had no interest in working joylessly. The techniques of paddy-rice farming might be more efficient, the anthropologist David Lancy has explained, but they would reduce the Kpelle's daily activity to "just plain work", bereft of "the vital leavening of gossip, singing and dance" that makes Kpelle work worth doing.

Originally from Caterina.net by noemail@noemail.org (caterina) reBlogged on Jul 6, 2006, 11:56PM

Originally posted by noemail@noemail.org (caterina) from Caterina.net, on July 7, 2006 9:27 AM

I had to come up with a three minute rant for the Alliance for Community Media workshop on "Evaluating the PEG (Public Access) Model of Community Media." This is the rant I decided not to use:

For years we talked about the coming media revolution. This revolution was going to put the power of mass media in the hands of The People. The People were the individuals and small (non-business) organizations who were ignored, marginalized, and disinfranchised. They were going to use television to allow people to take over the airwaves and make their voices heard. They were going to produce, organize, and take action. Most importantly, this revolution was going to happen because of us.

Well the revolution happened and we weren't there to broker it.

The revolution came in the form of blogs and iMacs and cameraphones and MySpaces and YouTubes and it had the full backing of Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Rupert Murdoch, and the Fortune 500.

The revolution wasn't broadcast quality so we thought the revolution wasn't worth our time. The revolution was agnostic and equally exploitable by all so we said the revolution had no ideology. The revolution reduced all of our paperwork to one click agreements so we said it was too irresponsible. The revolution didn't route through us so we thought the revolution wasn't the real revolution.

The revolution was unorganized and we didn't know how to deal with it.

But now's the time to start dealing with it.

Because although more folks are talking, they still need models for organization and effective action.
Because although anyone can blog, the power laws still apply.
Because although everyones actions are becoming more explicit, no one's holding our institutions more accountable.

Most of all, because the revolution is here and it looks just like any other day.

Originally from braintag reBlogged on Jul 7, 2006, 4:14AM

Originally from braintag, on July 7, 2006 9:25 AM

Seen on Ko Samui in Thailand. Bought my ferry ticket to Ko Tao there.

Mario Travel

Mario Kart

Originally from hello, nintendo by John Emerson reBlogged on Jul 6, 2006, 10:35AM

Originally posted by John Emerson from hello, nintendo, on July 7, 2006 8:51 AM

Great rant from Michael Ruhlman about the ethics of eating. "Beyond the fact that our current hand-wringing foreshadows an America that increasingly regulates how we live our lives, which is scary enough, the more insidious danger to me is that we think clams and ducks and lobsters are people too."
Update: Anthony Bourdain responds to Ruhlman's rant.

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Jul 6, 2006, 3:59PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on July 6, 2006 9:28 PM

Advice for cleaning the CCD image sensor on Nikon digital SLR cameras. Doesn't look that scary....does anyone have any experience doing this? My D70 needs a little TLC in this area. (Comment on this)

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Jul 6, 2006, 1:31PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on July 6, 2006 9:28 PM

Amanda Congdon announces her departure from Rocketboom.

Yesterday, Amanda Congdon announced on her personal video blog that she is leaving Rocketboom. I am so sorry it has come to this. Amanda and Rocketboom producer Andrew Baron had spent the last two weeks struggling to repair their strained relationship. The rift had been growing for some time, and when it came to a head last month, I feared there was no way of repairing it. The two of them tried to solve their differences with the assistance of friends, family and colleagues mediating the conversation. Emails flew back and forth on the Rocketboom field correspondents list. They even decided to put Rocketboom on a summer hiatus to try to work things out, at the urging of many of us on the list. In the end, though, nothing could be done to mend the breach.

Amanda and Andrew are two of the most creative, hardest working people I've had the pleasure of knowing on the Internet. They turned their low-budget video blog into a force to be reckoned with. And now the future is uncertain. Amanda's moving to LA, while Andrew will push forward with Rocketboom. I know both of them will be successful with whatever endeavor they choose to embrace; I am just saddened they won't be doing it together anymore. -andy

Originally from unmediated by yatta reBlogged on Jul 6, 2006, 2:57PM

Originally posted by yatta from unmediated, on July 6, 2006 9:23 PM

Through its programme of presentation, debate and play WLT explores how technologies enable and enhance creative engagement.

Originally from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs by yatta reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 10:53PM

Originally posted by yatta from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on July 6, 2006 9:47 AM

My absolute favorite summer treat has to be a fresh ripe mango - but boy have I made a fool of myself trying to cut them up. This instructional video demonstrates how to cut off big clean slices from a mango around it's flat, oval pit. The video's a bit Blair Witch, so if you're prone to vertigo, consider yourself warned.

Once the mango's cut, to cube it, you can score it in a box pattern and push the cubes of the skin by inverting your slices. That part isn't shown in the video, but this photo tutorial link covers it well. — Gina Trapani

How to cut a mango [Wild Oats Natural Market]

Originally from Lifehacker reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 7:00PM

Originally from Lifehacker, on July 5, 2006 11:10 PM

I started the Red Sweater Links blog as a place where I could feel comfortable spitting out short pointers to interesting things without worrying that I was overloading the main blog.

This solution has been a partial success, but there are some definite down-sides. I often find it difficult to choose whether something is a link or an article. And often a link turns into something I want to talk more about. I am feeling a draw to just merge the two back into a single blog.

This is your chance to share advice or opinions before I “throw the switch.” If you’re a subscriber to both the links and the main blog, would you find it easier to just have one source to monitor?

Another thing I could do is attempt to aggregate several “links” into a single post to minimize “entry pollution” while still having a unified feed.

Can you tell I’m confused about this situation?

Originally from Red Sweater Blog by Daniel Jalkut reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 7:04PM

Originally posted by Daniel Jalkut from Red Sweater Blog, on July 5, 2006 11:10 PM

Regina has a new article up: Real Sex, Virtual Worlds.

Online sex has always been about real connection in a virtual environment, despite unflattering stereotypes about who has cybersex and why.

But it seems to me that bringing sex out of chat rooms and into animated platforms is also lifting some of the shame and secrecy that has historically shrouded cybersex.

Originally from Sex & Games by BrendaBrathwaite reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 7:46PM

Originally posted by BrendaBrathwaite from Sex & Games, on July 5, 2006 11:10 PM

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.

-- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Originally from Caterina.net by noemail@noemail.org (caterina) reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 7:57PM

Originally posted by noemail@noemail.org (caterina) from Caterina.net, on July 5, 2006 11:10 PM

Maxell is bringing back the "blown away" guy -- the classic image of the guy in the chair. All the details in this Times story, including details about the original photo shoot.

"Layers of hairspray held the model's hair in wind-blown position and some strands were tied to the ceiling" with fine fishing line, the article reported. The fishing line was also used on the lamp shade and cord in the photograph, to make it seem as if they, too, were being buffeted by the force of the music.

Ahh, Madison Avenue.  Next up -- the Gorilla in the cage with the Samsonite luggage.  Or has that one already been resurrected?

Originally from this is sippey.typepad.com by Michael Sippey reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 9:07PM

Originally posted by Michael Sippey from this is sippey.typepad.com, on July 5, 2006 11:08 PM

I am disheartened by Andrew Baron's decision to spread misinformation. He knows I cannot move to LA without a job...but insists on spinning things this way to shore up his assertion that I am "walking away" from Rocketboom. I did not walk away. I did not accept Andrew's idea of "partnership". I'll explain more a little further down.

It's not true. I'm presently living with my parents in Connecticut until I can get back on my feet.

Below you will find a letter written by Andrew on Sunday, June 25, two days after he pulled the plug on Rocketboom. My responses, which were sent to Andrew on the same day, are in red.

Andrew responded the next day by saying he would not respond to this letter. This then was followed by days of back and forth negotiations, ending yesterday, on Independence Day, with Andrew telling Chuck Olsen, our mediator, that he was taking control of the show and my option was to be the "face" of rocketboom with no involvement beyond that (I might in the future be allow to "produce shows", but not for the time being). Very old media. Considering I have personally written, produced, and hosted Rocketboom and was already a producer on Jet Set, this was totally unacceptable. I don't know any "partnership" that functions like that.

I had hoped to keep things civil, and thought my video message to the Rocketboom viewers was very neutral. I felt the need to communicate with the RB audience, without getting into the nitty-gritty of "he said, she said". Dirty laundry is not attractive. That said, ALL the facts, at this point, based on Andrew's actions, need to be presented.


...


Dear Amanda, this is my last attempt to reach out and let you know I really wish you would stay.

Andrew, you fired me.

After everything that has built up over the last several months (and longer apparently) and with everything I have learned about your disinterest in my various levels of critical input, I can understand why you would need to leave and I as I have always said, I will never hold you back.

I'm sorry you feel that way. I've repeatedly expressed my respect for your many gifts. Especially:

1. You are an exceptional executive producer. Your instincts for what will work or not, and your general vision for the creation of content and distribution for videoblogs is, I believe, unparalleled.

2. You are an exceptional speaker. Whether at conferences, in business meetings or during consulting, you excel at describing the power of Rocketboom and the medium.

3. You are an ingenious curator. Your extraction of outstanding content from all resources is, again, unparalleled.

4. You are a superb navigator of the blogosphere. Additionally, I have always entrusted you with the final decisions of the physical design of Rocketboom.

In fact, it saddens me that you have not had the time and/or willingness to significantly participate creatively in Rocketboom for some months now. We've sent you things during the production process, and what we've received back is criticism after the show has already been produced or after it is too late to make changes. Statements like "I'll continue to check my blackberry but please dont wait on me if it starts to slow you down" and "I will have my phone so I can still chime in but dont feel ever wait on me for any answers if I cant respond in time" really don't cut it.

As you know, when I gave you the 49% of Rocketboom I told you that I hoped it would work out and that the reason why I gave you that percentage was so that you would become involved enough to stay with the company.

I have always been and still am intensely involved in Rocketboom.

Since I told you so many times that I would never want to hold you back from moving on to L.A. to pursue your own thing - since you always said this was really your passion well before I met you -we agreed that you would not take the 49% if you were to move away to L.A. on your own.

That is completely incorrect. There was no agreement about forfeiture of the 49%. We together have had a detailed plan for some time in preparation for the move to LA. And please note I was moving to LA on Rocketboom business, not only to "do my own thing". You did say you would never hold me back, and you also made it clear that doing Rocketboom would not be mutually exclusive of pursuing other passions. Our plan was as follows:

5/05 Amanda told Andrew she was serious about moving to LA by 10/05. Andrew agreed and said that was completely reasonable, since current technology allows Rocketboom to be produced from anywhere.

10/05 Amanda and Mario stored their possessions, gave up their apartment and took a sublet in preparation for the move. Andrew was fully aware.

10/05-4/06 Amanda and Mario continued to sublet. The move was repeatedly delayed, long beyond the original "completely reasonable" time frame. Finally, with Andrew's consent, Rocketboom moved forward to actual transition.

4/06 A plan was implemented for Andrew and Mario to co-direct shoots, gradually transitioning Mario to be interim director. A new professional director was to be hired in LA. What actually happened was that Andrew attended shoots infrequently and by 5/06 had stopped attending altogether.

5/21/06 At this time, the term of Amanda and Mario's sublet was up. Andrew had not attended shoots for nearly a month, and there would be no Rocketboom paycheck for June. Nevertheless, production continued by Amanda and Mario at Amanda's parents' home in Connecticut.

6/16/06 Andrew, Mario and Amanda agreed upon a departure date for LA within the next couple of weeks. Within the next few days, June 30th was chosen. Andrew's assistant had a list of possible editors in LA (which was never delivered to Amanda despite numerous requests). Zadi and Steve were excited to have Amanda nearby to better co-produce Rocketboom's project, The Jet Set Show.

6/23/06 Mario received a call from Andrew in essence saying that Mario and Amanda must either move back to New York or Rocketboom was over.

Since you have claimed that you are moving next week, and because you have never suggested a plan for how this move can integrate into Rocketboom, and because you have already said your goodbye, I get the message and will now move on myself the best I can.

Andrew, see our long term and extensive plan described above.

And, as it turns out, I cannot move to LA because our plan was for me to be engaged in, and compensated for, work on Rocketboom there. Since you will no longer allow that, I have no source of income and therefore cannot move.

With regards to tomorrow's show and the future of Rocketboom, I am not sure what I will do, but you will be honored and respected and encouraged. My plan is to simply say that you are moving on to L.A. to take on the world, that this was always your dream and that you are a obviously a brilliant personality who will no doubt take it by storm.

Please do not speak for me. We've had a long standing agreement in good faith about me continuing Rocketboom from LA, which you have now reneged upon.

Should anyone react and consider the move to be a shame, I will always defend you for following your own dreams and aspirations and staying true to your own interests with acting and now producing.

Again, please do not speak for me. My dreams and aspirations included Rocketboom.

You have wanted to move to L.A. since before I met you, so I am sorry that we could not manage getting there sooner together with Rocketboom still working.

As we've both acknowledged, Rocketboom could not only work but grow stronger by having a presence on both coasts.

With all my love and support for you as a friend, I will never stop caring about you and will always look forward to seeing you bloom.

Andrew, I've said repeatedly that I think you are a genius. Still, there have been problems. Recently, you have treated me as an employee rather than a partner. That may explain your feelings about the 49%.

Business and production can and should be done from both coasts, as we have both acknowledged. To dictate where I live is unnecessary and outrageous and has resulted in the present situation.

And Andrew, our agreement stands. I do own 49% of Rocketboom.

With respect to our show, I suggest we delve into the archives and do a "best of" week. This will allow us some time to work things through.

We had an agreement, Andrew. You should honor it.

Please let me know your thoughts.

Andrew

Sincerely,


Amanda

Originally from Amanda UnBoomed by Amanda reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 10:01PM

Originally posted by Amanda from Amanda UnBoomed, on July 5, 2006 11:08 PM

On Tuesday, with the first of five programs, the Alvin Ailey dancers offered Parisians a fresh definition of sensuality in motion.

Originally from NYT > Arts by ALAN RIDING reBlogged on Jul 6, 2006, 12:00AM

Originally posted by ALAN RIDING from NYT > Arts, on July 5, 2006 11:08 PM

He's Getting Closer!, originally uploaded by triciawang 王 圣 㨗.

Originally from Hi Tricia! by Tricia Wang 王 圣 㨗 reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 8:40PM

Originally posted by Tricia Wang 王 圣 㨗 from Hi Tricia!, on July 5, 2006 11:04 PM

How to retire Six Months Every Year. The article is from 1970 so the numbers are completely fictional by now, but you get the idea. (via ch)

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 8:30AM

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket, on July 5, 2006 7:02 PM

Terry Wallis, a man who was in a coma-like minimally conscious state for 19 years after a car crash, seems to have shown brain re-growth since he recovered consciousness.

A research team led by Henning Voss scanned Wallis' brain using a technique called diffusion tensor imaging or DTI that can pick out the white matter pathways in the brain.

An image from Wallis' DTI scan is shown on the left, and shows the connections in the rear section of the brain.

The image is shown as if we're looking down and from the side into the brain. Note how the structures do not match on either side - often a good indicator of brain injury.

Crucially, the researchers re-scanned Wallis' brain after 18 months and found that the density of the white matter seemed to increase over time, suggesting that his axons were regenerating. These are the long insulated fibres that connect the brain's neurons.

When scanned using a PET scanner, the increase in white matter also seemed to match an increase in the use of glucose, suggesting greater levels of brain activity in these areas.

In the last decade it was discovered that adults can grow limited numbers of new neurons, but the regeneration of the brain's connections is still largely unknown, and especially not in people who have suffered such severe brain injury.

Wallis was the subject of a 2005 Bodyshock documentary called The Man Who Slept For 19 Years.

Contrary to depictions in many films (where people tend to gently open their eyes and return to normality), Wallis is still markedly disabled by his brain injury and is not able to care for himself.

Wallis' recovery is no less remarkable, however, and highlights shortcomings in the scientific understanding of both coma-like states and the neuroscience of consciousness.

UPDATE: Pure Pedantry has a great article looking at some of the background issues to do with this case, such as the exact definitions of different coma-like states. Well worth checking out.

Link to 'Rewired brain' revives patient after 19 years from New Scientist.
Link to write-up from The Age (thanks Kate!)
Link to full-text of scientific study.
Link to previous Mind Hacks story on minimally conscious state.

Originally from Mind Hacks by vaughan reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 5:32AM

Originally posted by vaughan from Mind Hacks, on July 5, 2006 7:02 PM

Photographer: SimplyWithStyle

Originally from Wooster Collective reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 8:57AM

Originally from Wooster Collective, on July 5, 2006 7:01 PM

UPDATE: .mov version with Japanese subtitles!!!! Thanks, Yuji!

large .mov

small .mov

.mp4

iPod .m4v

Thanks to blip.tv for the gracious hosting!

Originally from Amanda UnBoomed by Amanda reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 8:33AM

Originally posted by Amanda from Amanda UnBoomed, on July 5, 2006 7:01 PM

Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you know that yesterday, in addition to being a national holiday, was also the occasion of the 91st annual Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. Leading up to the contest, there had been high hopes that Joey Chestnut, a 220-pound civil engineering student from San Jose, California, would give the 160-pound defending champion a run for his money. Chestnut took an early lead but, as Gothamist, which live-blogged the event, noted, he appeared to hit a wall when the two were tied at 40 dogs apiece with only 4 minutes to go. In the end, Chestnut fell 1 1/2 hot dogs short. Kabayashi, who took home $25,000 for his efforts, set a new record of 53 1/2 hot dogs.
Kobayashi Sets New Hot Dog Eating Record [Fox News]
Liveblogging Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest [Gothamist]
Kobayashi Wins [Newyorkology]

Originally from Brooklyn Record by Brooklyn Record reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 9:57AM

Originally posted by Brooklyn Record from Brooklyn Record, on July 5, 2006 7:01 PM

Kenneth L. Lay, who was convicted of fraud and conspiracy for his part in Enron's collapse, died of a heart attack early this morning.

Originally from NYT > Home Page by THE NEW YORK TIMES reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 10:08AM

Originally posted by THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT > Home Page, on July 5, 2006 6:58 PM

Last week, I found myself at a show for the group MODESELEKTOR purely by accident. I was in the neighborhood and went to listen to my friend open for a German band I’d never heard of. I figured it was more “martini bar” music, but it ended up being one of the best shows I’ve [...]

Originally from ReadyMade Blog by Mia reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 10:56AM

Originally posted by Mia from ReadyMade Blog, on July 5, 2006 6:58 PM

Holy Crap, VoodooPad 3.0 is done!

(finally.)

It is a universal binary, and it's for 10.4.6+.

You can find out what's new on the "New in VoodooPad 3.0" page. You can download from the main VoodooPad page - including links to Lite and Pro. And you can upgrade or buy from the FM Store.

And if you _just_ bought it (ie, May 5th or later)- you can upgrade to 3.0 for free from here.

I'd like to say it's time to relax... but that won't happen for a couple more days since I get to put out little fires here and there, and try and figure out what it is about the new website that bugs me. But hey- it's done. 3 months late, but done!

Ohhh- and here's an oddity. This post is #1500. And the build number for VP3 is #1000. Round numbers- good or bad?

Originally from Gus's blog, adventures in Flying Meat. reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 11:36AM

Originally from Gus's blog, adventures in Flying Meat., on July 5, 2006 6:58 PM

New Yorker review of Chris Anderson's new book, The Long Tail. Oddly, there's no disclaimer that Anderson works for the same company that publishes The New Yorker. Not that the review is all synergistic sunshine; the last half pokes a couple of holes in Anderson's arguments.

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 11:41AM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on July 5, 2006 6:58 PM

Taking Manhattan, savoring one street-food delicacy at a time is a good look at the various on-the-go food options that fill the city. I love our street food, but it's nothing compared with the tasty stuff that lined the roads of Bangkok when I visited.

Originally from megnut.com blog by meg@megnut.com (Meg Hourihan) reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 12:31PM

Originally posted by meg@megnut.com (Meg Hourihan) from megnut.com blog, on July 5, 2006 6:58 PM

We can post autoplaying videos on our blogs now? WTF? When Livejournal mentioned the other day that they’re going to be backporting the YouTube functionality from Vox (nice to know Vox is giving something back rather than just as well as shamelessly cannibalising all LJ’s code and community features) everyone was all ‘don’t let video clips autoplay, pleeeease, we don’t wanna be MySpace!’ And LJ were like, ‘yeah, well, obviously we’re not going to let them autoplay because that would be completely antisocial’.

Congratulations guys, wordpress.com is now officially further downmarket than Six Apart’s Cinderella service that they’re dismantling for spare parts. Let’s look at the evidence. You have no paying customers. Your only customisation options are changing the headers on selected themes. And now you’re letting the teenybloggers inflict random videos on dial-up users without a by-your-leave. Seriously, people are not severely inconvenienced by having to click a play button. Was there any thinking behind this decision whatsoever?

Originally from wordpressâ„¢ wank by wank reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 1:58PM

Originally posted by wank from wordpressâ„¢ wank, on July 5, 2006 6:55 PM

their best feature is that they act as a mirror for all your files; unlike BitTorrent, no need to run a local server  

Originally from Waxy.org Links reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 2:34PM

Originally from Waxy.org Links, on July 5, 2006 6:55 PM

hot dog, culture

enter the ugly myspace competition!

you must add an ugly duckling to your page:
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watch me get ugly

Originally from the show with zefrank reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 2:53PM

Originally from the show with zefrank, on July 5, 2006 6:55 PM

Zinedine Zidane's goal in the 33rd minute lifted France to a 1-0 victory over Portugal today and a spot in Sunday's final vs. Italy.

Originally from NYT > Home Page by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 4:32AM

Originally posted by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT > Home Page, on July 5, 2006 6:54 PM

Jimmy Wales blogs about Campaigns Wikia on his blog today. It's a new initiative of his at Wikia to use wikis for political campaigns.

(Disclosure: I'm an investor in Wikia.)

Comment - TrackBack

Originally from Joi Ito's Web by jito@kula.jp (Joi) reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 3:49PM

Originally posted by jito@kula.jp (Joi) from Joi Ito's Web, on July 5, 2006 6:54 PM

Windows only: Open source software Console is a tabbed command line client for Windows.

If you spend much time working from the command line, you know it's easy to end up with a cluttered desktop full of command line prompts. Console's tabbed windows takes care of that. Aside from the tabs (which in itself is pretty great), Console adds copy and paste functionality to the command line along with several display tweaking options (color, transparency, etc.) and fully-configurable keyboard shortcuts. And don't forget - you can also run Lifehacker favorite Cygwin from the command line, so it's just as easily tabbed in there as well.

Console is Windows only, be sure to download the beta 2.0 (the consol-devel link), as the 1.5 release doesn't include most of these features. — Adam Pash

Console [Sourceforge via Download Squad]

Originally from Lifehacker reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 4:00PM

Originally from Lifehacker, on July 5, 2006 6:54 PM

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Tesla Rhea Yaginuma

Originally from Kokochi by Mie reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 4:34PM

Originally posted by Mie from Kokochi, on July 5, 2006 6:54 PM

Reviews of some recent logo redesigns. That new MasterCard logo is...yikes.

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 4:51PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on July 5, 2006 6:54 PM

Quick, somebody fetch Neo, as it would appear that The Matrix is leaking into Canada.

Thanks to nousagi and Mark.

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Originally from Google Sightseeing by Alex reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 4:57PM

Originally posted by Alex from Google Sightseeing, on July 5, 2006 6:54 PM

Fireworks. Photo by pizzapancakes
ATP Seeks Partner in Crime [Across the Park]
Columnist Resorts to Name-Calling [AY Report]
Sitt's Billion-Dollar Dream for Coney Island [Brownstoner]
4th of July Gift [Callalillie]
Police Action in North Slope [Daily Slope]
Time to Get Your Giglio On [Gowanus Lounge]
Red Hook, Brooklyn [Lex's Folly]

Originally from Brooklyn Record by Brooklyn Record reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 5:06PM

Originally posted by Brooklyn Record from Brooklyn Record, on July 5, 2006 6:54 PM

she implies she was fired, while Andrew says she quit, Amanda shoots back; vlog drama!  

Originally from Waxy.org Links reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 7:17PM

Originally from Waxy.org Links, on July 5, 2006 6:52 PM

A couple of great quotes from the 2006 Fortune Brainstorm conference in Aspen. "It just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it's wireless!"

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 7:08PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on July 5, 2006 6:52 PM

Girl (LOUDLY, to cell phone): Oh, hiii! Our plane just got in; we were super, super delayed.

Originally from Letters to an Unknown Audience by ezra reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 6:34PM

Originally posted by ezra from Letters to an Unknown Audience, on July 5, 2006 6:52 PM

Last night, from the rooftop of a Huron Street building in Greenpoint, Justin Farrow got some great shots of the fireworks. Check out his album here.
Fireworks in Greenpoint, Brooklyn [justiNYC]

Originally from Brooklyn Record by Brooklyn Record reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 6:32PM

Originally posted by Brooklyn Record from Brooklyn Record, on July 5, 2006 6:52 PM

procycling | Valverde now aiming for Vuelta

Caisse d'Epargne team leader Alejandro Valverde will make an unscheduled start in September's Vuelta a España, which must have organizers rubbing their hands together in glee.

The 26-year-old, knocked out of the Tour de France yesterday with a broken collarbone, went down when teammate Oscar Pereiro clipped his front wheel as other riders slowed ahead. George Hincapie apparently didn't realize the danger when he rode Pereiro's wheel to victory in Stage 15 of last year's Tour.

Originally from Tour de France 2006 by Frank Steele reBlogged on Jul 5, 2006, 5:48PM

Originally posted by Frank Steele from Tour de France 2006, on July 5, 2006 6:52 PM

"Because I am sick of watching the Knicks lose and sick of hearing about how terrible they are on ESPN, I am offering my basketball loyalty to any other team in the NBA. It can be any team, any league. Yes, even the Blazers."

Originally from del.icio.us/for/djacobs by yatta reBlogged on Jul 4, 2006, 9:49PM

Originally posted by yatta from del.icio.us/for/djacobs, on July 5, 2006 1:35 AM

Forgive me the heavy Blazer focus, but it has been a long time since good pieces of Blazer news came in bunches.

It says here, here, and here that the Blazers have reached an agreement with young, hard-working, defensive-minded center free agent Joel Przybilla--and thanks to their cap situation, they didn't have to sign him to an insane contract either.

According to Jason Quick's blog, a key issue was his belief that the team turned some kind of corner on draft day. Here's agent Bill Duffy:

"I think it came down to a number of things at the end of the day, first and foremost he and his wife absolutley love Portland,'' Duffy said. "The community, the people, the lifestyle. The only negative was the situation with the organization, but Joel was impressed with the moves they made in the draft. He felt like they were serious about changing. And at the end of the day, Joel is a loyalist. Two years ago, when nobody else believed in him, Portland signed him to a two year deal. He felt very strongly about that.''

Lots of other free agent action. More details tomorrow. Happy Fourth everyone.

Originally from True Hoop by Henry Abbott reBlogged on Jul 4, 2006, 11:04PM

Originally posted by Henry Abbott from True Hoop, on July 5, 2006 1:35 AM

a web blog in which the author literally & metaphorically bares his heart. the artist-blogger wears a GPS-enabled Heart-rate monitor throughout parts of the day, then blogs the data along with matching personal experiences, events, & musings. for 3 weeks, the site will blog a series of posts contextualizing heart-rate visualizations, GPS-maps, & personal journal entries. online users are given a rare entrance into personal medical-grade statistics, location tracking, & the private thoughts of the blogger.
[turbulence.org]

Originally from information aesthetics by infosthetics reBlogged on Jul 4, 2006, 11:05PM

Originally posted by infosthetics from information aesthetics, on July 5, 2006 1:32 AM

Joseph J. Sitt's ideas for Coney Island include an indoor ski hill, a giant Ferris wheel and a dirigible and helicopter landing station atop a tower.

Originally from NYT > Home Page by CHARLES V. BAGLI reBlogged on Jul 4, 2006, 12:00AM

Originally posted by CHARLES V. BAGLI from NYT > Home Page, on July 4, 2006 2:31 PM

The industrialized world is on a collision course with nature, says environmental hero and leading expert Al Gore, who passionately urges a Stanford Business School audience to take action to save the environment. In his presentation on global warming Gore presents with alarming clarity, conclusiveness, and humor, that the fact of global warming is not in question and that its consequences for the world we live in will be disastrous if left unchecked.

Originally from IT Conversations reBlogged on Jul 4, 2006, 1:00AM

Originally from IT Conversations, on July 4, 2006 2:31 PM

Behold an ancient Japanese "Sangaku" table -- the Sudoku of the 17th century. Sangaku emerged during the 100-year period that Japan forcibly cut itself off from West, allowing only one Dutch ship a year to dock. The cultural isolation did some weird things to the country's mathematicians. Because they never heard about calculus -- which was developed in Europe -- they developed brute-force ways of solving classic calculus problems, such as how many circles of a particular size fit in a square. They'd draw the enormous, sprawling solutions out on beautifully illustrated wooden tables, which they regarded as religious offerings. (I love it: Using math to praise God. Man, wouldn't it be nice if more religious conservatives in the US made that connection? It's quite a venerable once, too, since many historic mathematicians -- most particularly Newton -- regarded math as the language in which God spoke.) Anyway, Sangaku fell into disrepute during the 20th century, but Tony Rothman, a Princeton Nobel nominee, is helping spearhead a movement to restore what he calls the sudoku of the 17th century. Like Sudoku, Sangaku was based in principles so simple that children could solve them, as Rothman says in this story: "Some of the tablets feature solutions provided by 12-year-olds," he said. "But that doesn't mean they were easy. Today's high school geometry problems tend to require only five or six lines to solve, whereas the old problems often demand pages and pages of work. Sangaku were more like math Olympics problems, or the sort of thing your teacher might have put on the wall for extra credit."

Originally from collision detection reBlogged on Jul 4, 2006, 1:51PM

Originally from collision detection, on July 4, 2006 2:31 PM

Peach Italian Ice
Originally uploaded by yatta.

Originally from braintag reBlogged on Jul 3, 2006, 3:21PM

Originally from braintag, on July 4, 2006 10:14 AM

My Beating Heart is a blog matching personal experiences with data from a GPS-enabled heart-rate monitor. Meg hooked herself up to a heart-rate monitor for the 2004 AFC Championship.

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Jul 3, 2006, 3:37PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on July 4, 2006 10:14 AM

Pixelsurgeon features a nice interview of Toshio Iwai.

A japanese media artist, building electronic/physical instruments (and designing games such as Elektroplankton), Iwai gives some hints about his activity: the importance of tangibility, the need for visual feedthrough, a need to design for play and everyone:

In projects like Tenori-On, how important is the physical interface - the thing you touch and hold? How does it affect the act of making music?

Any instruments are characterised by their physical interface, such as the key of a piano or the bow of a violin. And these physical interfaces give important direction to the way they are played and the sound itself. However, as long as electric instruments are concerned, this aspect is not emphasised very much. In the Tenori-On project, we started from thinking what is the reasonable interface for an electric instrument or digital instrument.
(…)
For the digital instrument, interface, exterior design, software, sound and so on are independent each other. I am examining the way all of them naturally unite, just like in the violin.
(…)
The design of the visual interface is very important. The flow of time is not visible and very difficult to handle, but by expressing it visually it can be understood and handled by everybody. Moreover, music can give different impressions when it is expressed visually. (…) Since it became possible to make sound electrically or electronically, the synthesizing of sound has been separated from the visual world. However with the senses we are borne with, we think it is more natural to experience sound and vision at the same time.
(…)
As everybody wants to touch instruments or toys which he or she hasn’t seen before, when I design something, I am trying to create it so that it is very attractive at first sight. And when players touch it, it can be instinctively understood and they can be pulled into it very strongly and start trying to create their own designs in many different ways.

Why do I blog this? because of current research about tangible interfaces I am interested in Iwai’s work; which I found great. Elektroplankton is fantastic (easy to handle and I discover new features everytime I play). What he is describing is very intriguing: how to create new musical instruments (new objects then) with simple affordances, linking sound and visual patterns to engage people in playful activities.

See also his blog about tenori-on, a brand new musical instrument / musical interface for the 21st century which I have been developing under the collaboration with YAMAHA Corp.

Originally from pasta and vinegar by Nicolas reBlogged on Jul 4, 2006, 3:54AM

Originally posted by Nicolas from pasta and vinegar, on July 4, 2006 9:57 AM

Splitscreen is a blog dedicated to split, composite and multi-screen visuals.

Originally from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs by exiledsurfer reBlogged on Jul 4, 2006, 9:29AM

Originally posted by exiledsurfer from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on July 4, 2006 9:55 AM

Filed under: Industry, Rants and raves, Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO), Apple Computer (AAPL), eBay (EBAY)

The internet is really a set of tubes? Well, that's what Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) claims. In a bizarre attempt to explain why he voted against Net Neutrality amendment he attempted to explain how the internet worked with statements like the following:

"I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?

Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially."

While this complete ignorance of how technology works in any sense may benefit companies that can throw lobbyists against a wall until people like this Senator become worried about how internet 'tubes' work, can government and tech-dependent small businesses really interact safely?While large telecommunications companies pushing this bill will survive, would the Googles, Apples and eBays that we track now spring into existence when legislators like this get involved in trying to legislate the internet?

And with so many tech corporations having an effect on the stock indexes, what effect will it have to our country when the fundamentally technologically illiterate are allowed to craft legislature? It's probably time for old Ted to use those 'tubes' of his that are connected to his house so that he can maybe fire off a few 'internets' to someone who can educate him...

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Originally from Blogging Stocks by Tobias Buckell reBlogged on Jul 3, 2006, 9:34AM

Originally posted by Tobias Buckell from Blogging Stocks, on July 3, 2006 3:32 PM

This beautiful carpet seems to exist only as a picture, lightboxed onto the floor...

What would I give to have an actual invaders carpet? If only the artist were to make some as merch..

(via Aeropause)

Originally from Wonderland by Alice reBlogged on Jul 3, 2006, 2:50AM

Originally posted by Alice from Wonderland, on July 3, 2006 1:30 PM

Someone's taken a shot at writing a management plugin for MT Notifier.

Originally from Movalog Sideblog reBlogged on Jul 3, 2006, 5:17AM

Originally from Movalog Sideblog, on July 3, 2006 1:30 PM

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Originally from Stupidfool.org by Benjamin Trott reBlogged on Jul 3, 2006, 11:51AM

Originally posted by Benjamin Trott from Stupidfool.org, on July 3, 2006 1:28 PM

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Originally from Stupidfool.org by Benjamin Trott reBlogged on Jul 3, 2006, 11:51AM

Originally posted by Benjamin Trott from Stupidfool.org, on July 3, 2006 1:28 PM

Google News…

…displayed visually by Newsmap.

“Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator…Newsmap does not pretend to replace the googlenews aggregator. Its objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media.”

Originally from Signal vs. Noise reBlogged on Jul 3, 2006, 12:38PM

Originally from Signal vs. Noise, on July 3, 2006 1:28 PM

Ubilabs | Tour de France - Google Maps Tracks

Using rider GPS and heart-rate monitor data, Ubilabs has set up a cool Tour tracker that lets you monitor the position of 8 riders: Jens Voigt and Christian Vande Velde of CSC, Filippo Pozzato and Bram Tankink of QuickStep, Michael Rogers and Patrik Sinkewitz of T-Mobile, and Sebastian Lang and Beat Zberg of Gerolsteiner.

It also shows the course with intermediate sprints, king of the mountain lines, and feed zones.

Very cool.

(Via Typolis and Martin - Thanks!.)

Originally from Tour de France 2006 by Frank Steele reBlogged on Jul 3, 2006, 8:13AM

Originally posted by Frank Steele from Tour de France 2006, on July 3, 2006 1:27 PM

On the extinction of experience. Are today's kids spending too much time in mediated environments at the cost of learning about the world first-hand? (via dm)

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket reBlogged on Jul 3, 2006, 8:30AM

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket, on July 3, 2006 1:27 PM

I've never read his advice column before, but wow, I like this guy.

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket reBlogged on Jul 3, 2006, 8:30AM

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket, on July 3, 2006 1:27 PM

The past week I have been testing the Nokia N73 and I have to say it is the best Nokia NSeries they made to date. I really like the design; clean ergonomis and with cool styling details. The 3.2M Auto focus camera with Zeiss optics render amazing pictures; the light flash for lower light macro shots is great (see the pictures in the The Fat Duck post they were shot with N73). The slideshow feature with Ken Burn’s effect is very cool. The stereo speakers are great. The bigger 2.3” screen is really great, big and bright. Having the full screen as a view finder is a good improvement. With the new Mini Map browser it is arguably one of the best mobile browsing experiences to date. Generally the speed is acceptable clearly better than N90. If you are looking to buy a camera phone then this is a great choice, as I predicted when I first saw the specs. The N73 renders the digital camera into the gadget sediment. At some point I might buy an SLR, but right now I have no time to have photography as a hobby, I only life record. Having a camera always with you, having it ready fully charged each day will any day outweigh the drawbacks of having to carry two products.

What makes the N73 special is: For the first time the N Series has appealing industrial design. It is clean, functional and still has an edge to it. The edge I refer to is the ‘aluminum grille’ protecting the stereo speakers in either ends of the device and the tapering towards the back making it sit great in the hand. The screen also screams big to the user. The fact that they kept the back clean is great only a big slide to expose the great camera. A key area of improvement is speed of camera activation also I do not like that one cannot use the joystick for photography. This is a huge step back.

If you are a 6600, 7610 or 6630 user this is the product to upgrade to. If you have been waiting for a good camera phone get this one and start to record your life. It is a lot of fun to capture the small mundane moments. With time some become monumental.

Originally from ChristianLindholm.com by Christian Lindholm reBlogged on Jul 1, 2006, 5:24PM

Originally posted by Christian Lindholm from ChristianLindholm.com, on July 3, 2006 12:02 AM

david posted a photo:

Originally from david's Photos by david reBlogged

Originally posted by david from david's Photos, on July 2, 2006 2:32 PM

After reviewing about 17 dozen dynamic RSS reader homepages on Lifehacker (like Google’s Personalized Homepage and Netvibes and Protopage) - which are all basically the same - it warms my heart to see a tutorial on how to build your own.

Hopefully this means these “desktop” homepages have jumped the shark and everyone move their “WebOS” dev efforts onto something a bit more innovative (and useful!).

AJAX Desktop tutorial [MuseStorm]

Originally from Spun by Gina Trapani reBlogged on Jun 26, 2006, 4:02PM

Originally posted by Gina Trapani from Spun, on July 2, 2006 10:52 AM

It seems obvious enough - right?

There's also a video of a more sober yatta singing "Raspberry Beret" but I'm embarrassed to say that I already sang it a few months ago at David's birthday party. One more time and it becomes my staple like Cally and her frikkin Aretha.

Thx Anthony.

Originally from braintag reBlogged on Jun 27, 2006, 8:22PM

Originally from braintag, on July 2, 2006 10:51 AM

Being a child of the 80s and a techie by trade, this project appeals to me on so many different levels. Gflixer’s Rubik Cube Mario is by far one of the coolest projects I've ever seen. Haven’t quite mastered the cube yet? Glass tiles will also do the trick.

Originally from ReadyMade Blog by Mia reBlogged on Jun 28, 2006, 5:30PM

Originally posted by Mia from ReadyMade Blog, on July 2, 2006 10:51 AM

image © Jill Greenberg
See more at Paul Kopeikin Gallery web site…

There is a bit of controversy on-line regarding the End Times series of photographs by Jill Greenberg. The photographs depict a series of children in differing stages of frustration and rage. It’s basically a bunch of toddlers screaming and crying. Thomas Hawk has gone so far as to call for her arrest on child abuse charges.

The use of a child in any media endeavor (film, tv, theater, art installations, child beauty pageants, etc) is exploitative. Obviously, a young child can’t make an informed decision as to their participation in a particular enterprise so they are all being ‘used’ to some degree.

The question of whether or not the children in Jill Greenberg’s photos are being exploited is simple. Yes they are. But why does Thomas Hawk see this as any worse than the thousands children being exploited everyday in our media? Why does he perceive child abuse in these photographs?

My answer is that the power of the photos overwhelms him; he’s a naive viewer. He sees compelling photos of distressed children and can’t separate the fiction of the photo from the reality of its making.

Hawk is simply a fool. He has no idea what went on in Greenberg’s studio, but that doesn’t stop him from screeching “child abuse” as loud as he’s able. He has no facts, he only has the photos — a fiction — but he recklessly calls for the artist’s arrest. It’s inexcusable. In fact, according to Greenberg’s husband (Hawk posted a comment from him at the bottom of this post), the children were made to cry by having lollipops taken away from them. If that’s child abuse we’ll need to lock up 99% of the parents in this country. Greenberg’s husband goes on to say that this is the industry standard method of getting kids to cry on camera. I have no idea, having no experience and the source of this info is obviously tainted.

This is the part of the post where I’m a dick. I’m trying to figure out why Hawk went ballistic regarding Greenberg, when this sort of thing goes on daily in the media industry. My guess is that he’s jealous. He’s an amateur and not very talented photographer whereas Greenberg is a very successful and enormously talented commercial and fine art photographer. Her End Times photos are incredibly well crafted, beautiful and powerful, whereas his answering photo is trite and cliche.

Note: In the time it took me to start and finish this post (a span of a few days), Jill Greenberg and her husband have done a few not-so-nice things to try to shut Thomas Hawk up. They should have kept the moral high-ground, but they decided to try some bully tactics. Their actions are inexcusable. But Hawk’s a self-rightous fool so I guess it evens out.

Originally from MTAA Reference Resource by T.Whid reBlogged on Jun 28, 2006, 9:12PM

Originally posted by T.Whid from MTAA Reference Resource, on July 2, 2006 10:51 AM

Herewith, the last of the photos from my “Digital Photography Shooting Workshop” class at New York University. Tonight was the last night, sadly, but I learned a hell of a lot, a hell of a lot. And I had a tremendous amount of fun, too, which doesn’t hurt at all. All of which is the result of the easy-going yet comprehensive expertise of our instructor, Joe Holmes; he’s going to be teaching this course again in the fall, and if you own a digital SLR camera and want to become a better photographer, I highly recommend signing up. Worth every penny.

In just the four short weeks in which the class ran, I grew pretty fond of my classmates, and we all built a nice little camaraderie in shooting out in the field and in our Wednesday night critiques. It’s kind of sad to see it’s all over, and I hope it’s not last time I’ll see all of them. Luckily, one of them set up a Flickr group for us all to continue sharing photos with one another.

In the meantime, I’m posting my final selects here (each thumbnail links to the full-size picture over at Flickr). They were all shot this past Saturday afternoon out at Coney Island, in the staging area for the annual Mermaid Parade. Now I’m going to get some sleep.

Originally from Subtraction by Khoi Vinh reBlogged on Jun 29, 2006, 12:56AM

Originally posted by Khoi Vinh from Subtraction, on July 2, 2006 10:51 AM

There is a new service which collects code fragments (I call them that to not confuse them with actual TextMate snippets.)

Each code fragment can be tagged which makes it possible to later do a simple tag based search.

The neat thing is that you can submit and retrieve code fragments from within TextMate. Watch their screencast for an example of this.

My only objection is that Get Snippet uses ⌃⌥⌘P as key equivalent, which is overloaded to do Preview for various markup languages and Show Web Preview (mostly for HTML) — but that is easy to change.

Originally from TextMate Blog by Allan Odgaard reBlogged on Jun 29, 2006, 11:05AM

Originally posted by Allan Odgaard from TextMate Blog, on July 2, 2006 10:50 AM

There’s “just enough software” which is often only a “super wizard” that lets users do one thing really well. Step A, Step B, Step C, Repeat. A simple calculator is like this. Then there’s “everything anybody could ever want software” which often must resort to a boatload of “wizards” just to expose functionality to the user. Hmmm….how do I do that again with this enormous software package? Example: Windows XP.

The philosophy behind Joyent Connector is to provide a collection of tools which customers can use to create their own “applications”. We offer email, calendar, contacts, files, backup and more applications coming soon such as voice. But we’re most proud of our efforts to help customers transcend these “silos” so that they can work with data in the connected way it exists in real life. This post from Tom Webster shows Connector doing just that.

Originally from Joyeur reBlogged

Originally from Joyeur, on July 2, 2006 10:50 AM

Could Lois Lane have Superman's baby? "His Kryptonian biological makeup is enhanced by Earth's yellow sun. If Lois gets a tan, the kid could kick right through her stomach." More discussion here. And here.

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Jun 30, 2006, 9:26AM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on July 2, 2006 10:50 AM

Hey fam, been dealing with health and home, so I apologize for the delays in getting the next entry together for this and the PBS blog. But now it's live!

For those of you who have been around me for a minute, this may be some old stuff, but it's a prelude to some killer interviews on Native American hip-hop and the National Hip-Hop Political Convention coming next...

Here's the teaser:

Hip-hop is hardly the sum of the images you see on video shows or the sounds you hear on commercial radio stations. The truth is: at its most elemental, hip-hop remains a lived, local culture. It's not just a CD or DVD being hawked by well-dressed folks posing in a magazine. It's a culture practiced — and evolved — daily by millions of young people all around the world.

So it makes perfect sense that the young woman or man who goes to the poetry slam, the b-boy/b-girl competition, the turntablist exhibition, or is just hanging in the park playing the latest jams on the weekend, would on Monday be angry with the way their school has been turned into a series of security checkpoints, the way the plant next to their house is spewing toxic fumes, or the fact they have no place to gather in their city without harassment from authorities. Hip-hop provides a way for young people to express not only joy and a love of life, but pain and a desire for change...

Also, just wanted to mention that the great Linyee Yuan put together a very cool piece on your boy for Theme. I was already a mangous fan of the Theme crew, but then they went and did this. I'm super humbled.

Big shout out to the AMC and Clamor Mag crew and everyone I met (the dog was mad cool) for an awesome weekend. Big love to Detroit Summer and Invincible. You're my heroes. And thanks to all for putting up with my general incoherence. Finally, to Amanda with the cool stretching advice, I never went to Antioch! I checked. I think you meant Oliver. Ha!

What's up, Bakari! Another big shout out to the good people at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for hosting me on Monday. Dr. C, holla. Edmonton native power in the house. It was a wonderful way to end a tour. Del Fuegos, baby!

Finally if anyone has any more good tips on dealing with travel-induced sciatica, holla! Right about now I just feel like I want to amputate my ass. Which would be a shame, because it's the best part of my body and I talk out of it so much.

Originally from zentronix: dubwise & hiphopcentric by Jeff reBlogged on Jun 29, 2006, 6:45PM

Originally posted by Jeff from zentronix: dubwise & hiphopcentric, on July 2, 2006 10:50 AM

Not to go on and on about it like the stupid announcers on American TV, but this passage from Jeffrey Toobin's New Yorker piece (sadly not online), may explain why the American team did so poorly in the World Cup:

Every kid in the American suburbs, it seems, owns a pair of shin guards. Soccer accords nicely with baby-boomer parents' notions about sports: every kid gets to play, no one stands out too much, there's plenty of running and trophies for all. If [John Robert's] children are typical, they will play neighborhood soccer for a few years, with enthusiastic but inexperienced parent coaches, and then wander away from the game by adolescence. Great high-school athletes tend to migrate to football and basketball, where they can play in front of big crowds and perhaps qualify for college scholarships. Soccer in the suburbs serves mostly as a bridge between Barney and Nintendo; it's a pleasant diversion, not a means of developing brutes like Jan Koller, to say nothing of the magicians who stock the Brazilian team.

This dovetails nicely with what my friend David wrote during a discussion about the disappearance of the US from the World Cup:

Our best athletes go to basketball, football, and baseball, roughly in that order. Soccer gets the dregs, sadly. Don't you think Terrell Owens would be a better striker than Landon Donovan? Even a 50-year-old Darrel Green might be faster than the fastest player on the US Soccer team, and so on.

We know these guys are smart players, and they may have the same instincts that even the Brazilians and Ecuadorians do. But they're just not nearly as good. Watching Brazil decimate Japan yesterday, even briefly, it was obvious how much stronger they were than the US team.

Over IM just now, David and I were musing about Allen Iverson's possible greatness as a soccer player; so creative, quick, and fearless. I bet if some the NBA's best players grew up playing soccer the way they played basketball, the US would have a pretty great team.

Originally from kottke.org reBlogged on Jun 29, 2006, 3:34PM

Originally from kottke.org, on July 2, 2006 10:50 AM

This weekend, I happened to pull into the Molly Pitcher rest stop on the New Jersey turnpike just as the New Jersey Regional Qualifiers for the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest got underway. Here's a link to a few photos I took before hopping back on the road to D.C.

Originally from shey.net reblog reBlogged on Jun 27, 2006, 12:58PM

Originally from shey.net reblog, on July 2, 2006 10:18 AM

The problem: Nice road bikes that don't have kickstands. You have to lean them against something but sometimes they roll and fall over. Ouch!

Solution: Before your ride, take a wine cork and cut one end into a wedge with two simple cuts that make a nice tapered end. Then squeeze one of your break handles and insert the wedge end into the gap that appears between the handle and the hood. This keeps the brake deployed and your bike won't roll. Viola!

It's free, fast, and the cork stows away unnoticed in your jersey pocket or tool bag. Whatever your opinion of synthetic wine corks, they work wonderfully well when cut for a bike brake.

I learned the trick 25 years ago from a bike shop owner in Virginia, yet I have yet to find a cyclist who knows about it. My biking friends are converts.

-- Steve Leveen

Originally from Cool Tools reBlogged on Jul 1, 2006, 9:00AM

Originally from Cool Tools, on July 2, 2006 10:08 AM

The Brooklyn Museum's Graffiti exhibition opened today and will remain on display though September 3. In honor of the show, NY Magazine traces the history of modern graffiti back to the late '60s, but the art review in the Times isn't showing much love for the exhibit. Ken Johnson feels that transferring graffiti to a gallery destroys the illegal art form's "outlaw allure":

"Below ground, in motion, accompanied by the roar of the trains, graffiti paintings covering whole cars could have exciting, hallucinatory and sometimes frightening effects. On stationary canvases in clean, brightly lighted galleries, drained of its guerrilla mystique, it dies."

He also has a beef with the walls in the main gallery that were erected for children to scribble on. He has a point there — rather than teach kids that it's okay to vandalize gallery walls, they probably should have just left some extra pens in the museum's bathroom stalls.
When Aerosol Outlaws Became Insiders [NY Times]
Graffiti in Its Own Words [NY Magazine]
Photo: Courtesy of Martinez Gallery via NY Magazine

Originally from Brooklyn Record by Brooklyn Record reBlogged on Jun 30, 2006, 11:38AM

Originally posted by Brooklyn Record from Brooklyn Record, on July 2, 2006 10:07 AM

With France's magnificent victory over Brazil my prediction is that they're going to win the world cup. Which is very convienient as I head off to Paris tomorrow and get to watch the rest of the world cup there.

Posted to culture

Originally from Stunned reBlogged on Jul 2, 2006, 8:53AM

Originally from Stunned, on July 2, 2006 10:06 AM

Excellent 3D world cup goal visualisation tool which lets you replay all goals from multiple points of views.
via information aesthetics

Posted to new media

Originally from Stunned reBlogged on Jun 27, 2006, 8:27AM

Originally from Stunned, on July 2, 2006 10:06 AM

The Harvard Crimson's coverage of Forbes Smiley's guilty plea naturally focuses on the maps taken from Harvard's Houghton Library. When last we heard, Harvard was conducting an inventory; according to the article, "Houghton Library discovered that 13 maps were missing...

Originally from The Map Room by Jonathan Crowe reBlogged on Jun 30, 2006, 4:29PM

Originally posted by Jonathan Crowe from The Map Room, on July 2, 2006 9:57 AM

We enjoyed a witty post on Daily Candy earlier this week about deeds done that need forgiving. We were amused to see that the worst offence necessitated a peace offering in the form of a tree. “The time you lost your best friend’s earrings, a heartfelt e-card did the trick. And when you crashed her car, you sent roses (and a check). But now that you’ve gone and given mouth-to-mouth to her crush, it’s time for the big guns. Something along the lines of an entire tree from Eternitree.” Obviously we think the gift of a tree is wonderful for any occasion, we’re not sure you need to go to such drastic measures to give or receive one! You might even want to treat yourself to some shady foliage; see Alex’s recent tips on how to keep cool this summer. In any case if you feel, for whatever reason, in a tree buying mood, rest assured it’s a growing bond for Eternitree. They ship trees year round to any state in the US. via: Daily Candy. Thanks to Simran for the tip. ::Eternitree

Originally from Treehugger

reBlogged by Matthew Haughey on Jun 30, 2006, 5:15PM

Originally from mathowie reBlog feed reBlogged on Jul 1, 2006, 12:32AM

Originally from mathowie reBlog feed , on July 2, 2006 9:56 AM

Last night Stephen Colbert said two words I never thought I'd hear on television:

Monkey Butter.

I guess it's here, but I can't tell since the Comedy Central website is complete shit. (There's a downloadable copy here.)

Dear Lazyweb, I would like:

1. A copy of the video. Got it, thanks!

2. To know the trick for downloading videos from Comedy Central when you don't have a WMV plugin. Presumably there's a direct URL somewhere, but I couldn't figure out what it might be.

3. Where to find a copy of the alleged private-beta of the Flip4Mac plugin that works on Intel Macs.

Originally from jwz by jwz@jwz.org reBlogged on Jul 1, 2006, 5:50AM

Originally posted by jwz@jwz.org from jwz, on July 2, 2006 9:56 AM

VeloNews | McQuaid: Hamilton facing lifetime ban; four years possible for Ullrich, Basso

UCI chief Pat McQuaid told VeloNews that Tyler Hamilton could face a lifetime ban if claims that he was a client of a sports doping ring in Madrid are proven.

“With the evidence which we seem to see in this dossier, he's gone for life,” McQuaid told VeloNews on Saturday. “The implications for the riders in the case are two years from WADA code and two years from the ProTour, that's four years. And Hamilton, a ban for life. That would be a second offense.”

McQuaid also maintains that Hamilton can't return from his suspension in September, because his punishment wasn't finalzed until 2005, when the ProTour doping rules took effect, stacking a two-year World Anti-Doping Agency suspension and a two-year UCI suspension, effectively keeping riders out of the sport for 4 years.

The UCI expects to see the full 500-page Spanish Civil Guard report on Monday, but the UCI, the Amaury Sport Organisation, which sponsors the Tour, and the involved teams have all seen an executive summary outlining key evidence against riders.

McQuaid also told Reuters Saturday that cyclists were not Dr. Fuentes' only clients:

“Only riders have been named so far. But many footballers, tennis players and [track and field] athletes are on the list.”

Originally from Tour de France 2006 by Frank Steele reBlogged on Jul 1, 2006, 4:18PM

Originally posted by Frank Steele from Tour de France 2006, on July 2, 2006 9:53 AM

"Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information. Below is a live example that you can play with. Pan the timeline by dragging it horizontally."

Originally from tecznotes links by Michal Migurski reBlogged on Jun 30, 2006, 1:22PM

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on July 2, 2006 9:53 AM

"Can't really be discerned from the picture, but this is actually a mildly clever intervention in the streetscape: graffiti from the site has been erased and *replaced* with a placard rendering the same message in a format compliant with the official municipal signage standard."

Originally from tecznotes links by Michal Migurski reBlogged on Jul 1, 2006, 1:49AM

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on July 2, 2006 9:53 AM

Charles and Ray Eames movie explaining computing terms, from 1968. Especially gorgeous shots in the first 2 minutes.

Originally from tecznotes links by Michal Migurski reBlogged on Jul 2, 2006, 1:07AM

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on July 2, 2006 9:53 AM

Horror in many forms: tragic Hervé Villechaize; unwatchable Connie Chung; liquidating Verne Troyer; Conjoined twins; Younger brother gets his Barkley on.

The most soul-crushing E! True Hollywood Story I ever saw was about the actor Hervé Villechaize. This was dark stuff even by tabloid standards: drinking turpentine, stabbing his own self-portrait, smashing guns into his assistant’s face. As a child, I adored Fantasy Island, but by the time this show was over, I didn’t feel bad for Hervé so much as terrified he might come and get me. Forget the Boogeyman. You should see what Hervé can do with a seven-inch blade. I was reminded of all this when I came across a softer, gentler Hervé earlier this week. In the context of his gun-brandishing and eventual suicide, this earnest plea for peace and sunshine is either that much more poignant—or that much more morbid. Either way, I couldn’t help but lose a little piece of goodwill toward man when I saw the first comment: “this suxx send this child to... Click here to continue reading this article.

Visit The Morning News.

Originally from The Morning News reBlogged on Jun 23, 2006, 10:56AM

Originally from The Morning News, on July 2, 2006 9:52 AM

From economists to politicians, pundits the nation over argue organized labor is fast becoming extinct. If unions survive, it's safe to assume not much will change when it comes to ground-level operations. People, after all, will be people. And robots--uh, will be robots.

Minutes from the Intergalactic Transformers Union, Local 760’s Bi-Monthly Meeting Present: All union card-carrying Local 760 Autobots and Decepticons Absent: Management (Optimus Prime, Megatron); Omega Supreme (could not fit inside meeting hall) Quorum present? Yes. Mediator present? No. Proceedings First speaker: Headstrong (Decepticon): Headstrong thanks all Transformers for attending. Mentions he is there acting only as fellow employee, not as the “craziest, most bad-ass robotic rhinoceros the universe has ever known.” After then shouting, “Go Decepticons! What, what!” states he left his plasma cannon outside of meeting hall, and that he hopes everyone else has done accordingly. Proceeds to state thoughts on latest problems, blaming Optimus Prime for constantly siding with Hasbro regarding employee grievances. Then stands up, points at Autobots, and chides, “Yeah, Optimus Prime, my metallic ass. More like Optimus Nut Massager! I’ve never seen a guy so far down someone’s pants! EEH-AH-OH-AH-EET!” Next speaker: First Aid, Protectobot... Click here to continue reading this article.

Visit The Morning News.

Originally from The Morning News reBlogged on Jun 29, 2006, 11:01AM

Originally from The Morning News, on July 2, 2006 9:52 AM

Bruce Nussbaum writes that the much anticipated $100 laptop-- the centerpiece of an effort to bring more of the world online--has jumped to $140. Price can come down as volume grows. But this laptop's core market, that extra $40 could mean another week's work, or more. The laptop may price itself out of its target market, and end up selling to pennypinchers in rich countries.

Originally from BusinessWeek Online - Blogspotting by stephen_baker reBlogged on Jun 23, 2006, 12:21PM

Originally posted by stephen_baker from BusinessWeek Online - Blogspotting, on July 2, 2006 9:50 AM

If Nokia ever equipes mobile phones with metal-detectors, as its reported patent filing suggests, we're in big trouble. (ex Gizmodo) Imagine the fear and paranoia on earth if the world's largest producer of communications electronics figured there was a niche big enough to build for. The target: the millions of humans who have reason to fear that their neighbors, busboys, taxi drivers are planning to kill them.

However, Nokia says the device is oriented toward hearing enhancement for customers who need a boost. There's no reason to doubt that. Nokia focuses on markets. There's an enormous and growing market for people who need to hear their phones better. And for the time being, at least, they greatly outnumber bomb-throwers. But if one day people are scared enough to buy these phones and use them to frisk their guests and neighbors, if that group develops into a growth market for Nokia, things are sure to be pretty dire outside.

Originally from BusinessWeek Online - Blogspotting by stephen_baker reBlogged on Jun 29, 2006, 3:52PM

Originally posted by stephen_baker from BusinessWeek Online - Blogspotting, on July 2, 2006 9:50 AM

Ok, so with a new blog being created every second, you wouldn't really think that there is a need for new blogging technologies aimed at newbies. But though Technorati tracks more than 37 million blogs, the fact is we still don't know what blogging is going to evolve into. And, more practically, it's still not as easy as it should be to blog.

Ok, ok, so you might say, hey, it's easy to cut and paste, when you want to add a photo or a YouTube link to your site. But my response is, if you think that's the case, you're still a geek. And most of the world isn't made up of geeks, no matter how many you know....

And this gets me to my point about Vox, the new blogging platform under development by blogging pioneer startup Six Apart. Mena Trott and Andrew Anker stopped by this week to talk about Vox.

The innovation is how much they have simplied blogging. And I think that this is finally the thing that might get my mom or cousin to blog. You never see any HTML and you don't have to search through your directories for images or on YouTube, because they create handy image driven storage places for your pieces of art. It shows what they have learned from their LiveJournal acquisition.

But the next step is allowing you to create filters around who sees your posts. And what's intriguing about this is how it can lead to a different use of voices within the same blog. This idea appeals a lot to me. Right now, I feel like I have one set, determined voice. But if I were writing for my close friends, it would be different. And if I were writing for my family, it would also have a different tone. I haven't thought much about how the ability to create different levels of conversation will play out, but it feels like a very powerful notion. And while I know it's possible through other tools to do this, what's nice is the combination here in one package of a variety of innovations.

Originally from BusinessWeek Online - Blogspotting by heather_green reBlogged on Jun 30, 2006, 11:53AM

Originally posted by heather_green from BusinessWeek Online - Blogspotting, on July 2, 2006 9:50 AM

extremely faithful adaptation to the stage, with the entire thing hosted on Google Video  

Originally from Waxy.org Links reBlogged on Jul 1, 2006, 5:07AM

Originally from Waxy.org Links, on July 2, 2006 9:49 AM