As stated by the guardian, every street cleaner knows that it is a pain to get chewing gums off pavements. They link a very interesting website that proposes a gum collection. It is indeed something that attracted my attention while walking down the streets as shown on this picture: ...
[TheWorld] Virtual Church too noisy
Via CNN.com: LONDON, England (AP) -- Britain's first three-dimensional cyber church has been forced to tighten security after a slew of abusive visitors ranted from the pulpit and swore in the aisles. The Church of Fools said Wednesday it has withdrawn the "shout" button, which allows visitors to a...
(Research) Cognition in MMOG
Via boingboing, a nice but huge pdf file about MMOG, game guilds and distributed cognition written by Constance A. Steinkuehler (University of Wisconsin–Madison). I like her statement about why video game are interesting with regard to cognition. Despite frequent public dismissals and indictments f...
(MyResearch) Edwin Hutchins: cognition in the wild reading notes
Here are my reading notes about Edwin Hutchins's book 'Cognition in the wild' reading notes. "cognition in the wild": study of naturally situated cognition, concept dreived from "outdoor cognition" (Clifford Geertz, 1983) and cognitive anthropology. It is about locating cognitive activity in contex...
(Video Games) Games are too complexe
Via, the registerA Nintendo executive claims that video-games are becoming too complex Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has warned that games are becoming too complex and the industry risks alienating consumers. (...) Nintendo's stance is that the industry has become obsessed with faster processors ...
[Lyon] Week End Pics
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[Prospective] Journee DocForum 25042004
Compte rendu de la journée DocForum du 25/04/2004. Les slides de ma présentation sont la. C'était une bonne journée, j'ai pu rencontrer notamment Charles Nepote et Christophe Deschamps. ...
(Weird) http://metanurb.dk/msn.asp
http://metanurb.dk/msn.asp: Okay, I will start out, we are a bunch of msn users (not proud, but we do use it), which HATES ugly and insanely long msn nicks, it shouldnt even be called a nick, as its some qoute or whatever it is. Its almost a whole book some people are writing there, its unacceptab...
(Prospective) Bruce Sterling Talk at MS
Transcript of Bruce Sterling's talk at Microsoft. This talk is about his last book: The Zenith Angle it is a book about computer security among other things. It's basically about a...it's a Mr. Smith goes to Washington story about a techie that decides to join federal service after 9/11 because his...
(Lyon) Festival Nuits Sonores
I am actually attending the Nuits Sonores Music Festival (Electro :) in Lyon.Yesterday, there was nice concert, especially in the swimming pool close to the river ;) ...