Via kottke.org, a nice repository of village maps made completely in ASCII that I intended for an in-game atlas. Achaea is a fascinating place whose participants have an incredible degree of influence over their collective experience. Unlike many other MMORPGs, players in Achaea can genuinely stee...
[Space and Place] Guy Debord on Cars
Situationist Theses on Traffic by Guy-Ernest Debord written several years ago: A mistake made by all the city planners is to consider the private automobile (and its by-products, such as the motorcycle) as essentially a means of transportation. In reality, it is the most notable material symbol of ...
[MyResearch] Use of Trace Diagrams for Collaborative Tasks Analysis
Richard Joiner, Kim Issroff and John Demiris advocated for using a visual representation of where teammates among a group went during a collaborative foraging task. They claimed that this could provide a visual way to represent a collaborative search strategy; e.g for instance a clear division of l...
[Weird] Mobile Phones and ghost decline
Via Farshores: A Wirral paranormal investigator has rubbished claims that mobile phones are chasing away ghosts. Tony Cornell, of the Society for Psychical Research, says the number of spooky sightings started to decline with the introduction of mobiles 15 years ago. (...) He reckons it's all down ...
[Weird] Research on precognition
I miss the lecture on precognition here at epfl. April 1st: "Precognition, a memory of the future?" by Mario Varvogli, a lecture on parapsychology within the framework of the SVS programme. More stuff there. ...
(Weird) European Constitution written in french SMS language
Some politics in french ironically translated the new European Constitution in french SMS language.To be found here. Examples: Pro G 2 TRE-T 1STITUAN 1 KONSTITU6ON POOR L'€P PREANBUL Notr konstitu6on ... é apelé Dmokra6 paske le poovwar é antr lé m1 non d1 minoriT, mé du + gran nonbr. Tu6did 2...
[Space and Place] Collaborative mapping of haunted places
one step beyond proposes a collaborative mapping of haunted places all around the world: ...
[Research] C3: location based service for kids learning
C3 (Children in Choros and Chronos) is greek project about location based service for kids learning: focuses on the spatio-temporal cognition of small children. The project aimed to design and implement - in real school environments - educational activities that raise the spatial awareness and thin...
[MyResearch] Empirical findings about team coordination
Empirical findings about team coordination taken from W-P. Wang, D.L. Kleinman, P.B. Luh, Modeling Team Coordination and Decisions in a Distributed Dynamic Environment(COORDINATION THEORY AND COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGY, Gary M. Olson (ed.), Thomas W. Malone (ed.), and John B. Smith (ed.), 2001) - tea...
[TheWorld] Social ghost, lots of noise and multiphrenia
Interesting take from Kenneth Gergen of Swarthmore about the "saturated self," that we are so bombarded by images (TV, Advertising, popups, etc.) that we have little "self" left to define for ourselves. Gergen states that a century ago, most social relationships were confined to the distance of a s...