Stumbled across this All the Plants of the Bible. It is an impressive list of useless knowedge that I fancy. I won't learn them because I hate learning bloody latin name of plants (which I did once during my biology degree in a previous life). ...
[Movie] It's always refreshing to watch a Jacques Tati movie
I watched recently one of my favorite Jacques Tati movie: 'Jour de Fête'. I like this character 'Francois le facteur americain' (Francois the americam postman). There is now a nice website about him. ...
[MyResearch] Looking for a catchbob2 scenario
In order to move forward from our catchbob environment, I need a more complex task, where there should be a mapping between a problem space and the space visited by the participants. A good example would be a cluedo-like task where people need to gather cues all around the campus (finding the weapo...
[MyResearch] Next Step for CatchBob
We plan to export the PDA version of CatchBob on tablet PCs. The point is to get rid of the communication problem (at the moment the communication feature only consists in drawing strokes) by allowing users to draw and write directly on the screen. There should be two zones on the tablet PC display...
[Prospective] Spinrad's syndicalism anarchism
In the Social Future as seen by six SF Writers, I mentioned yesterday: as I stated earlier, I like the idea of syndicalist anarchism — 'anarchism that knows how to do business' — no national governments per se.” Norman Spinrad too is skeptical of global control systems but sees a break-up of the ol...
[LifeHack] The lifehacks wiki is improving
The Life Hacks wiki seems to be less minimal. Now there are categories worth to read: - SelfImprovementPatterns - SecretScripts - IdeasRot - LifeHackerScreenshots - GettingThingsDone - WishList - A list of things users wish they had when it came to life hacking - LifeHackerLanguages ...
[Blogs] Here comes the trackback spam...
Here we are, the spam on trackback just began on my blog... Five Most Recent Pings legs and stockings 2004.09.11 legs and stockings 2004.09.11 legs and stockings 2004.09.11 free gay clips 2004.09.11 teens in thongs 2004.09.11 crap... ...
[Prospective] The Social Future as seen by six SF Writers
Brilliand reading: The Social Future as seen by six SF Writers: Cory Doctorow, Pat Murphy, Kim Stanley Robinson, Norman Spinrad, Bruce Sterling and Ken Wharton. In the past you've written science-fictionally about the social future. What's changed in your estimate of the social future since then? ...
[Weird] A website for seat gurus
Seatguru is a tough source of information about airline seating. Welcome to SeatGuru.com, the source for airplane seat information. * Do you have a long flight coming up and want a quiet seat? * Could you really use some extra legroom? * Do you keep getting stuck in a seat that doesn't recline? * H...
[LocativeMedia] pdpal: mapping personal relationship to space
pdpal is "a mapping tool for recording personal experiences in public space". Yes, it is another location-based annotation tool that aims to be an "emotional gps". As usual, I am wondering if it is really used. The only successful program I know is Urban tapestries. There are so many tools like tha...