The BBC has a neat, inventive profile of a Swiss initiative to equip the thinking machines with the communication substrate that tinkerers and programmers--and regular users--may take for granted. Though developers, engineers in either robotics or software or chariots of exploration, are not having to reinvent the wheel on a regular basis, though taking a second look at first-principles or learning by rebuilding the family jalopy are experiences more tactile and perhaps more valuable than ethereal modeling, but their inventions succeed and struggle in a relative vacuum.
Wednesday 9 February 2011
freeware or zeroth law
catagories: ๐ค, technology and innovation, ⓦ
Monday 7 February 2011
sabbatical
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, foreign policy, revolution
Sunday 6 February 2011
sunday drive: hรผgelland
Friday 4 February 2011
my illudium q-36 explosive space modulator
catagories: ๐ฎ๐ธ, technology and innovation, transportation
Thursday 3 February 2011
1001 words or tiny url
Not really having tried it before--though I do not really foresee myself doing the Twitter--I dismissed it too soon as short attention-span theatre, an obnoxious venue for spouting off unfinished ideas, but I see the message and the medium really can be something outstanding. Reading the stream of quick updates limned a full picture and one felt immersed in the experience, the scene, like a bat in the night twirling through a field of impressions made up of sonar.
Echo-location certainly seems to leave up more to the imagination than available, substantiated footage and facts. In a contradictory move, journalists are rounded up but the floodgates of the internet are gradually restored, but I find that I am rather endeared to having my news as unfiltered, telegraphic dispatches. Succinct and unvetted, spinning in an array of blurbs become whole galleries together. These avatars are from the brilliant and prolific Ape Lad, who always has something new to offer.
catagories: graphic design, networking and blogging, revolution, Star Wars
Wednesday 2 February 2011
cornflower revolution or oh mary, don’t you weep, pharaoh’s army got drown’ded
catagories: ๐, ๐, economic policy, revolution
Tuesday 1 February 2011
baud
catagories: antiques, foreign policy, networking and blogging, revolution
simoom, samoom
The popular uprising in the Egypt has many hopeful and many pensively watching. Either through revolt, control slouching away in great chunks like with the military forces, or peaceable retirement--however, concessions, negotiations, revisions are not none too convincing, emanating from the same tenacity that has kept the country under a never-changing aegis of emergency powers called regional stability, called peace.
catagories: ๐, foreign policy, Middle East, revolution