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Intro to Processing: Functions

January 31, 2010 - 7:16 pm

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Start­ing a series of videos on some basic con­cepts and tech­niques for using Pro­cess­ing. First up: functions.

Intro to Processing: Linked Sketch

January 26, 2010 - 9:31 am

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A quick demo of link­ing to a Pro­cess­ing sketch from Word­Press since embed­ding the applet is a pain.

Passing Through: Less Than Free Software

November 18, 2009 - 11:39 am

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Google’s Less-Than-Free busi­ness model sounds a bit familiar…

Passing Through: Bus-Tops

November 11, 2009 - 10:18 am

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Inter­ac­tive art that can only be seen from the top of a bus

Passing Through: Radioactivity is the Path to Power

October 30, 2009 - 5:23 pm

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Research­ing the his­tory of crit­i­cal­ity acci­dents made me won­der how acci­den­tal expo­sure to mas­sive lev­els of radi­a­tion became the de rigueur method of achiev­ing superhero-dom. And, while I sup­pose comic book writ­ers would have a well-formed opin­ion or two on this, I decided to ask a group of peo­ple whose point of view I’d never […]

Passing Through: Hat for the Insufficiently Happy

October 29, 2009 - 10:08 am

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[Lau­ren] has cre­ated a facial con­di­tion­ing device dubbed the Hap­pi­ness Hat. The hat mea­sures a sen­sor at the wearer’s cheek to deter­mine if the wearer is smil­ing. When the hat does detects the wearer is not smil­ing, it acti­vates a servo that prods the wearer.
Ok.  I’m dis­turbed.  Maybe it’s just because I read too much […]

Creeping Inevitability: Search Engines Index Tweets

October 28, 2009 - 4:11 am

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Won­der­ing what the point of Bing and Google index­ing Tweets might be…

Passing Through: Portable Data in the Cloud

October 20, 2009 - 2:04 pm

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[…] many web-based ser­vices make it dif­fi­cult for you to export your data. Worse, they’ll charge you a fee for the priv­i­lege. Some offer APIs — a bonus if you’re tech­ni­cally astute, but a solu­tion that leaves the aver­age user short on options.
To pre­vent such headaches, Google recently launched the Data Lib­er­a­tion Front, an initiative […]

Digestion: Rethinking the Long Tail Theory

October 12, 2009 - 8:03 pm

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#social­me­dia A Whar­ton paper on the Long Tail makes me won­der about social rec­om­men­da­tion systems.

Blatant Plug: Open Source Art

October 9, 2009 - 6:15 pm

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#OSS A quick link to my arti­cle on open source art projects in this month’s OSBR.

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