Pictures of abandoned bicycles in NYC. New York has a lot of abandoned bicycles. I don't know why. Do people forget the combinations or keys to their locks? Do they forget they had a bike? Most of the bikes pictured here are pretty cheap bikes. Some of the bikes appear to have been abandoned long a...
[Space and Place] Lie about your location
Background sound for cell phones: "SounderCover gives you the ability to add a background sound to any incoming or outgoing call, giving the impression that you really are in the environment where the background sound is normally heard." ...
[Space and Place] A week end in Montpellier
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[Weird] Spam poetry
Yet another spam poetry stuff: map end experience motion south tight ill taste produce feeble whip boat pleasure coat start early milk behavior neck smoke jelly driving make wise living shame framegarden umbrella bit order gun young sun pump water question noise great weight pocket blade front safe...
[MyResearch] Trace Diagrams + Numerical measures of collaboration
After my previous post about the use of trace diagrams to analyse collaboration between human agents, I read Joiner R. & Issroff, K. (2003). Tracing success: graphical methods for analysing successful collaborative problem solving. Computers & Education, 41, 4, 369-378. In this paper, the experimen...
[MyResearch] Common Tasks In Multi Agent Systems
Read in the paper "Communication in Reactive Multiagent Robotic Systems" by TUCKER BALCH AND RONALD C. ARKIN: Our research focuses on three tasks: foraging, consuming, and grazing. Foraging consists of searching the environment for objects (referred to as attractors) and carrying them back to a cen...
(Prospective) Media Online: Be Linkable or Die
I defintely agree with Dan Gillmor and Mary Hodder that news organizations should think many times before they "protect" their content with Digital Restrictions Management technology. "You're nothing online if you're not linkable," she says. Users, if they have trouble opening the article, sending ...
[VideoGames] Buying and selling of virtual currencies
According to Wired News, "The buying and selling of virtual currencies, weapons and other goods from massively multiplayer online games like EverQuest and Ultima Online may be off most people's radar, but it is truly big business.". Internet Gaming Entertainment, or IGE, has more than 100 full-time...
[Tech] Newsreading on your cellphone
Paper about reading news on your cellphone in Japan in the last ON issue (Ericsson magazine). ...
(TheWorld) people doing strange things with software
Runme-Dorkbot City Camp invites people who do strange things with software. Ladies and Gentlemen, You are cordially invited to leave your tents and sleeping bags safely at home and join us in Århus, Denmark for the Runme Dorkbot citycamp 2004. From the 25th-27th August, Århus will be filled with 'p...