Some morons left the windows open during the week end and it sadly rained. Consequently my PC did not appreciate this wet flood of water (nor my phone which emits odd farts). Somebody came and I am left with this: ...
[Research] Riots, action nodes and Schelling points
[Via hakank], Interesting paper about riots in LA and Schelling's focal points. As we saw in the case of Los Angeles, riots do not occur everywhere at once. Most of the homes and businesses in south-central L.A. and Koreatown (which cover a number of square miles) were untouched by the riot. Damage...
[Space and Place] Pictures from Lyon
Street Art stuff in Lyon: sticker art, sidewalk tag, pillar box tag and a bunch of hair found on the streets... ...
[VideoGame] TumikiFighter
Tumiki Fighter is cool video game designed by Kenta Cho. It is very retro-gaming like (as Rez was). You can download it on the website. ...
[Research] SOUPA: Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications
SOUPA (Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications) is "a set of ontologies for supporting pervasive computing applications.". It seems very promising. ...
[Tech] Are blog the ultimate social software?
I really think blogs are cool social software, I already expressed this feeling here. There is now a debate about this. Peter Caputa, guest-blogging at socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com says “Blogging is the Ultimate Social Software.” So far so good, but he makes that statement based on this assertion ...
[Research] Jeffrey Huang's talk
Today at the epfl summer seminar: "Designing Interactive Systems for Knowledge Sharing" by Jeffrey Huang. My notes are here This talk addresses problems associated with the development of interactive systems for knowledge sharing. I will present recent projects in my research group at the intersect...
[Prospective] European Scientists vanished
In the Financial Times, a paper today about the scientific brain drain... Politicians subsidise pre-industrial economic activities while Europe's best and brightest leave in droves, writes Ann Mettler, of the Lisbon Council. ...
[Space and Place] A boxy tower with temporary
I like this boxy skyscraper with temporary houses for future builders (found here). I don't know why they did not remove them, maybe they are planning to build other stuff. ...
[TheWorld] Social navigation in art
Lyon-based company Artprice now offers a cool social navigation solution! With 900,000 clients and over a billion internet searches conducted through our site per year, Artprice possesses a unique database which has been gleaned from hundreds of millions of artist search sessions. As of July this y...