I am currently raising power adapters in a odd farm... ...
[Research] Swarm wiki: multi agent simulations community
Swarm wiki is the place to be for information about the multi agent simulations community. The Swarm Development Group (SDG) was founded in September 1999 as a private, not-for-profit[1] organization to support the development of the Swarm Simulation System (Swarm) and the interests of the group me...
[Weird] Dirty Apartment Vol. 3
Animal hoarding is also tremendously interesting. Lots of stories there, not os many pictures... The title are impressive: More Than 100 Cats & Dogs Found In Home / 36 Cats Rescued From Filthy Apartment / The Flat Of 150 Cats /130 Cats Removed From Milwaukee House / 244 Dogs In One House (UK) ...
[Research] Nokia's design philosophy
Panu Korhonen, Nokias Research & Development Manager (a nokia visonnaire guy) in design for all: Some models are very small and not easily operated by disabled persons. Also, we do not make special solutions for disabled people, but we try to enlarge our target groups for new products by means of...
[Ludism] Game Design Wiki
This is a wiki intended to gather stuff about game design (board games, rpg...). The question we have, then, is "Do you know the difference between a good game and a bad game, and can you explain it?" If you answered no to the first question, play more games. Take a look around the material on thi...
[Prospective] Google for mobile? Will it be Moogle?
Via the feature: Google's search engine, it's Froogle shopping service, and the new Google Local would all be boon to mobile users, but only if Google is able to create an equally simple interface and present the results in a mobile friendly manner. It has a chance to become equally as famous on th...
[Space and Place] Virtual World/Real World Relationships
Cory Ondrejka on why digital worlds and the real world need to be tightly: Ondrejka, Cory R, "Escaping the Gilded Cage: User Created Content and Building the Metaverse" . New York Law School Law Review. Ever since science fiction awoke imaginations to the promise of real, shared virtual spaces, tec...
[Research] Location based services ideas
I missed this very smart post!: There is much talk of Location Based Services and geographical annotation these days. We either see scary LBS (network tracks you all the time, sends you Latte coupon when you walk near Starbucks) or query based services -- "based on where I am, where's the nearest g...
[MyResearch] Mobile Social Software Applications
A cool list of Mobile Social Software Applications (MoSoSo as stated earlier): Encounter bubbles / WiFi Bedouin / Tuna / Mamjam / Dodgeball / Fluidtime /Hocman / Socialight / Socializer / Aware / Modus / Traces of fire / Ashphalt games / Crowd surfer / Pocket rendezvous /Wavemarket ...
[Research] Transcultural mapping Locative Media Workshop in Lofoten
"Mobile outskirts: cultural mapping of northern geographical outposts?" 15th-26th of June 2004 The workshop will start with a bus-travel of about 800 km to map part of the distance between south and north of Norway before we get to the Lofoten islands . The ten-day workshop is open to 10-12 Norweg...