Via Headlined news. MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE (HLN) - A Memphis woman was arrested and charged with first-degree murder after she bludgeoned her boyfriend to death with an iPod. ...
[Space and Place] Back to the Future Maps
Some crazy fan of Back to the Future did maps of Hill Valley in 1955 and 2015 ...
[Technology] RSS enabled php calendar
I also saw an interesting php module that build a calendar RSS-enabled. Does agenda aggregators already exist ? ...
[Technology] Tribe.net Offering RSS Feeds
Via therssweblog: Tribe.net is now offering RSS feeds of their discussion threads, with plans to next offer feeds of their classified ads. Right now our service is free. But we anticipate turning on pay-per-listings. We will allow users to pay for notice if youd like your ad to be at the top o...
[Research] pMatch: location awareness tool
pMatch video (Windows Media, 7 MB) demonstrates the pMatch application developed by Stephen Sorkin (with Josh Tyler and Bernardo Huberman) for the Nokia 3650. pMatch allows 3650 owners to learn of others with similar interests or information, without revealing their own personal, private data. This...
[Research] Rheingold about Mobile Social Presence
New piece of work by Howard Reingold on the feature on the very topic of geolocation, mobility and social presence. "presence" means knowing where your buddies are by looking at your phone an act that is complicated behind the scenes by the necessity of integrating user-controlled social network ...
[Weird] Awfull stuff about religion
If you like strange stuff, this holybible.com/resources/doctrine2/images/ provides odd resources like religion models, conversion crap...The website provides a wide load of ugly pictures as well as awckward information like the following. You can use it as whytheluckystiff do ! ...
[Space and Place] Languages and spatial relations
Concepts read in "The Grammar of Space" (Soteria Svorou). Location expressions carries a different degree of explicitness in the encoding of referents in the world. Explicitness incorporates the weighed relevance of various conceived elements of the situation with respect to the communicative inten...
(Prospective) Gifted Economy/Economie du don
Fondation Babyrule proposes a new concept: le "don à l'étalage". That means putting free artifacts (fanzines, cds, videos) in shops without any authorization :) Le Don A l'Etalage est une pratique consistant à déposer des objets gratuits, disques, fanzines, vidéos dans des rayons de commerçants s...
(Prospective) the world started in 1996
Nice take on google (appeared circa 1996) and libraries in Star Telegram: "For a lot of kids today, the world started in 1996," says librarian and author Gary Price. Library circulation dropped about 20 percent at major universities in the first five years after Internet search engines became popul...