A question asked to James Delleck, Gravite Zero singer: ce serait quoi pour vous la boîte idéale? Un appartement transparent, qui flotterait autour du noyau d'un atome de laine d'un bonnet peruvien. ...
[Research] FOAF workshop
The FOAF workshop is promising. I am particularly interested by those paper:- Bootstrapping the FOAF-Web: An Experiment in Social Network Mining - Keyword Extraction from the Web for FOAF Metadata - Junichiro Mori, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Boi Faltings ...
[Research] Workshop on Video Games and Social Interaction
The workshop on video games and social interaction in Leeds seems pretty interesting. The position papers are available here. I am eager to meet these people. - Liselott Brunnberg & Oskar Juhlin, Mobility Studio, The Interactive Institute, The Road Rager – Making use of traffic encounters to enhanc...
[Research] Paper accepted: rss4you for FOAF
The paper I wrote with Roberto for the FOAF Workshop has been accepted: rss4you: Web-Based Syndication Enhanced with Social Navigation Abstract: this paper describes rss4you a web-based news aggregator that provides users with a social navigation feature. It aims at augmenting current syndication b...
AUGUST BREAK
I'm on holiday... august break... till mid-august... ...
[Culture] O'reilly magazine: MAKE
It should worth it: MAKE... coming in 2005... Make brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. Make is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. This is a magazine that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and...
[VideoGames] Video Games as political space?
Via Gamasutra, "The Potential of America's Army as Civilian Public Sphere" by Zhan Li. This thesis, researched during 2002-03, examines the political life of the America's Army fan community, comparing the activities and identities of three exceptional gamer groups (real life soldiers and veterans;...
[Space and Place] The oldest celestial map
The oldest celestial map: 3600 years old: ...
[TheWorld] Amazing list of skateboarding tricks
I have always been amazed by the name of skateboarding tricks. My favorite is the "stale fish". ollie/switch ollie/kickflip/heelflip/varialflip/180 kickflip/180 heelflip/pop shuv-it/360 shuv-it/outward varial heelflip/inward varial heelflip/hard flip/360 flip/180/big spin/grind-slides/50-50/5-0/boa...
[LifeHack] Lateral Thinking: a creative problem solving technique
According to wikipedia, lateral thinking is: a term invented by Edward de Bono. He defines it as a technique of problem solving by approaching problems indirectly at diverse angles instead of concentrating on one approach at length. Edward De Bono, Lateral Thinking : Creativity Step by Step, Harper...