Category: Media
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The Unfolding Universe
The Discovery Channel Documentary, The Unfolding Universe sounds really interesting. I only home my new lemon of a Direct Tivo box stays alive long enough to record it tonight.
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Doors I Touched Today
The day is June 3rd, and one mad genius decides he’s going to photographically document every door or drawer that he touches. Surprisingly interesting. I think I need to get myself one of them new-fangled digital cameras – and an imagination. link
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Kartoo – Interesting Visual Search Engine
Kartoo is an interesting new search engine. The interface elements are built in flash, and it presents results as a highly visual map of interconnections. I don’t really understand all of the elements. It’s an interesting experiment. Some of the connections seem pretty random though.
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BookCrossing – A Neat Idea
BookCrossing is a really neat idea. 1. You read a book. 2. You register the book on the site and record your comments. 3. You lable the book and leave it for somebody else to find. 4. You track the progress of the book as it is passed from person to person. I will have…
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A Cinematic Geek Fest
There’s nothing like geeking it up at the movies on a lazy Saturday afternoon. No, I didn’t see this one. I don’t plan to see that for at least a couple of weeks. I didn’t even see this one since I saw it a few weeks ago. Nope, I saw this quiet little gem. Actually,…
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Watching the Alpha Geeks
Tim O’Reilly’s keynote from the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference explores how you can see the shape of emerging technologies by watching hackers and other alpha geeks. Of course I like to think of myself as a bleeding edge alpha geek, but compared to the people O’Reilly is talking about, I’m somebody’s grandma. Interesting Read all…
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Partical Physics
There’s a very interesting essay on partical physics over on kuro5hin. More and more I feel like I want to go back to school. Physics, Statistical Analysis, Language — I don’t understand these things as completely as I’d like. The first time I went through school, I didn’t know yet what I wanted to know.…
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Mixmatcher
Mixmatcher is a tool to share your musical ideas and expand your musical tastes. It seems like a cool idea and it’s certainly well done. Generally I’m not a fan of these let’s get together and build a list of stuff types of community tools. The major problem here is that there’s no way to…
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Narrative as Landscape
Some gray Sunday when I have the time to focus on it, I want to take time and go through every one of these links that Peter Merholz assembled on branching and parallel links. For now I’m afraid to click on even one of them as I’m sure I’d get sucked in for the rest…
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Participatory Design: Star Wars Galaxies Case Study
I’ve never really gotten into any of the multi-user on-line games. But, this story about the development of the upcoming Star Wars Galaxies game is fascinating from a participatory design point of view. I have needed to at least marginally think about community building on-line, and this provides an interesting angle on those types of…