Learning at the Societal Level

Informal Poll

2008-06-29T19:29:07Z

Which would you like to see more of?

1. Random stuff related to urbanism, futures studies, spimes, and social informatics, with occasional funny or kewl-looking stuff.
2. More stuff like what I've been doing so far.

Open-Source Bollywood Sanitation System Fabrication on "One Laptop per Child" machine

2008-06-26T01:10:54Z

Thanks Bruce, totally "Beyond the Beyond"

barcode plants

2008-06-24T01:05:15Z

Pop Culture using Business Charts

2008-06-20T01:21:43Z

Graph Jam

History of Python Visualization Video

2008-06-20T00:08:46Z

code_swarm - Python from Michael Ogawa on Vimeo.

the culture of the culture industry

2008-06-11T16:03:05Z

Muppet cover of Talking Heads

2008-06-01T01:08:35Z

one world, one penstroke

2008-05-26T17:27:17Z

The world's biggest self portrait

Gary Kasparov, chess champion and Russian presidential candidate, attacked by dildocopter

2008-05-24T15:53:33Z

the making of a food mythology

2008-05-19T19:20:49Z

Le Chambord at Haachtse Steenweg 10, 1210 Sint-Joost-ten-Node, België (Belgium) just replicated the memories of a dish (seafood linguini) I had at Maggie's in Bayfield, Wisconsin in the summer of 1994 (http://www.maggies-bayfield.com), but which they don't serve anymore (and lost the recipe by the second time I visited, ~4 years later). It's a very beautiful thing (as you might know if you've ever seen that Ratatouille movie and liked it).

Break the screen that is my body

2008-05-10T22:22:41Z

The "Birth Clock"

A slide deck good for all occasions

2008-05-06T14:04:03Z

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What do you get when you cross a squid and a kite?

2008-05-05T23:48:32Z

"It was a nasty surprise, but not as nasty as that last speed bump"

2008-05-04T12:19:39Z

The satcom

Tardiness for Insomniacs

2008-04-29T01:33:31Z

S and I ordered from Insomnia cookie the other day, and they took an hour and fourty minutes. We thought "What the hey?" but then it turned out they sent the guy out to our apartment on a bicycle ! Makes us feel better: sincere incompetence instead of negligent disregard. The only way to make this story better was if he was using a pogo stick. "I'm sorry I'm so late, but when you delivers cookies with a pogo stick, you gotta be really careful."

kellotron's first

2008-04-27T02:11:10Z

Image courtesy of bleeker

Two funky guys from Germany doing hardcore geotagging in Japan

2008-04-25T00:33:10Z

Enkin from Enkin on Vimeo.

Oddly enough, you'll need the sound turned up

2008-04-19T17:40:06Z

Dick Cheney's sunglass mystery solved!

the death rate here is still one per person

2008-04-16T00:47:07Z

some risk stats

Very easy camera stabilization technique for photographers

2008-04-12T22:00:51Z

$1 Image Stabilizer For Any Camera - Lose The Tripod - video powered by Metacafe

A Poem from Perl to VB

2008-04-02T00:29:55Z

The Symbolic Poem
by Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese

<> !* ' ' #
^ " ` $$-
!*=@$_
%*<> ~ #4
&[ ]../
|{,,SYSTEM HALTED

How this poem is spoken:

Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.

Apparently this sequence does make some VB editors crash.

Itialian Spiderman!

2008-03-22T17:44:10Z

courtesy of plogon

Friend request meets first person shooter

2008-03-21T01:34:16Z

six-word sci-fi

mapjunkie @ 2008-03-17T21:58:00

2008-03-18T02:59:05Z

Restricted Boltzman machines

mapjunkie @ 2008-03-03T20:28:00

2008-03-04T02:28:33Z