How to write a good textfile. It is old but some stuff are funny. - YOU NEED TO THE ABILITY TO MIX DIFFERENT CHARACTERS IN AN APPEALLING WAY TO MAKE A BORDER FOR THE TITLE. - YOU HAVE TO HAVE A LOT OF PATIENCE YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO TYPE FOR HOURS AT A TIME. IF YOU TYPE FAST ENOUGH, YOU DON'T HAVE ...
[Research] CatchBob! now has its own logo
CatchBob! now has its own logo, a poor google ranking of 24 and is in its final beta development. This game is intended to be used a testbed for my phd thesis experiments (modelling coordination, and how space is used as a resource for collaboration). I work on it with Fab and vogi CatchBob! i...
[Research] Map for soldiers
A SuperMap for Soldiers — Or Business Travelers: Decades worth of detailed, accumulated geographical information is now available to front-line special operations troops in a concentrated, portable, easy-to-use laptop package created by the University of Southern California. HeraclesMaps can insta...
[Weird] Odd pictures of the week end
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[Space and Place] Annotating Tool for Untapped People
From the economist, about cybertracker, a tracking system for parks that can be used by rangers, park guards and even well-informed tourists could use it to record handy data as they work or play. WHAT really goes on in Africa's remote national parks? Though satellite imaging and aerial surveys giv...
[Misc] About cognitive ergonomics
From ergoweb: Ergonomics is sometimes described as "fitting the system to the human," meaning that through informed decisions; equipment, tools, environments and tasks can be selected and designed to fit unique human abilities and limitations. Typical examples in the "physical ergonomics" arena inc...
[Prospective] Seminars about Long-Term Thinking
Seminars about Long-Term Thinking now have an open directory full of mp3, vorbis, pdf... of speakers' talks. Today Bruce Sterling presents something there.Past speakers: Brian Eno, Peter Schwartz, George Dyson, James Dewar, Rusty Schweickart, Daniel Janzen, David Rumsey. ...
[Research] Powerpoint Cooking Secrets
Beyond Bullets presents a good powerpoint cooking recipe: Reduce visual overload by moving text off-screen, and shift processing to the auditory channel by narrating the content instead. A practical solution in PowerPoint is to approach each slide from the Notes Page view first, placing written exp...
[Research] Vodafone's receiver new release
Receiver no. 10. Two cool papers from Ben Russel and Anne Galloway. Ben discusses the social qualities of locative communicatio and Anne asks herself what the design of mobile and ubiquitous technologies can teach us about emerging relations in urban space and culture.Quotes from Anne's paper: The...
[Research] Cool Workshop Topic
RAM 5 is an open source media architecture meeting in Latvia. Several workshops are interesting like this one: SEMANTIC DATABASE CARTOGRAPHY [w003] workshop facilitated by Jo Walsh locative packets This workshop will explore applications of 'locative packets', a metadata description dreamt up at th...