It seems that some people like to use GMT hours and never forget to add "local time" when they talk about local time, which nobody normally does. Let's call those people "gmt freak".For those lost with UTC/GMT concepts: UTC/GNT conversion, you will better ground your conversation with your gmt-frea...
[TheWorld] Now beta-testers show off
Read in NYT, software testing used to be done by serious computer users. Now, testers are motivated less by service than by the status of being among the first to try the newest software. "There's a lot of cachet associated with being an early adopter," said Nicco Mele, 26, a former Internet strate...
[Research] Jeffrey Huang
Yesterday, I met Jeffrey Huang, who is Associate Professor at the Harvard Department of Architecture. We had a interesting chat about my phd and CatchBob. Huang, J., "Future Space: A Blueprint for a New Business Architecture," Harvard Business Review, April 2001. Although the Internet is an essen...
[Space and Place] A good list of micro-nations
I found a very smart list (as long as a list could be judged smart) of micro-nations. Few examples here: NSK ELECTRONIC EMBASSY . http://www.ljudmila.org/embassy/ PRINCIPALITY OF SEALAND . http://www.sealandgov.com/ REINO UNIDO DE SAYED . http://rsayed.cjb.net/ REMONY OF LADONIA . http://www.ladon...
[MyResearch] CatchBob Logfiles
Here is the kind of logfile I have to parse:16:44:18,381|533097;152498|Zeno|refresh 16:44:27,622|532990;152509|Fab|refresh 16:44:32,543|533073;152510|Zeno|refresh 16:44:32,544|533073;152510|Zeno|message|Icon|532929;151726 16:44:32,544|533073;152510|Zeno|message|Fab|532822;152074 16:44:44,039|532947...
[MyResearch] Catchbob under the sun
We played CatchBob! on this sunny afternoon. It is pretty robust now that we got rid of the VPN problem. Positioning is fine, as represented on the picture, there are few errors but it's OK. The only problem is when we tried to form the triangle to "circle" the object: it is difficult to see the ve...
[Prospective] Alan Moore still on the edge
Alan Moore on Salon.com. Very smart. I feel that we may be approaching a cultural boiling point. I'm not saying this is a good thing or a bad thing; I really don't know because I can't imagine it, quite frankly. But I think we may be approaching the point at which the amount of information we are t...
[Weird] What is your useless knowledge?
I was talking with JD, Mirweis and Fab about the concept of useless knowledge: the specific knowledge in a targeted area every individual has. For instance: football players from 80s (Fab), merging companies (me), nuclear submarine (Emmanuel)... I can personaly draw a topic map of Napalm Death form...
[Research] Kohonen Maps for spatial data analysis
Read in a cognitive science mailing list. It is about a project at France Telecom. They aim at using Kohonen Maps for data mining. The point is to use it in order to:- detect and visualize individuals trajectories between clusters - to see if their is a segmentation along the time Using Kohonen Car...
[Video Games] Game Culture and Technology Lab
Game Culture and Technology Lab is an interdisciplinary faculty from both the UC Irvine and UC San Diego campuses + partnership with artists and industries. It seems interesting but it is difficult to understand what they actually do. The mission of the Game Culture & Technology Lab is to expand t...