Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE MacGyver was conceived as a nonviolent action-adventure hero. Faced with danger, his first reaction was always to stop for a moment and think. With a little imagination and whatever materials happened to be lying around, he applied common sense and/or basic principles of...
City Data
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE EIU (Economic Intelligence Unit) is an intelligence company that provides lots of databases. I found the City database nice : "The city-by-city guide to product prices and business costs worldwide " ...
Paul Polastron publiera le 15 janvier un livre sur les incendies de bibliothèque depuis 5 000 ans. Entre celles dAlexandrie et Bagdad, lauteur sintéresse longuement à la bibliothèque de luniversité Lyon 2. Déjà auteur du Papier, 2 000 ans dhistoire et de savoir-faire, Polastron défend : Dans ...
Recherche hors structure institutionelle
Je me rappel du numéro d'Actuel édité spécialement pour l'an 2000 (ou quelque chose comme ca) qui mentionnait la recherche underground ou hors structure (et notamment benveniste sur la mémoire de l'eau ou jean pierre petit et les ummits). Je pense à cela maintenant, car je sors de la lecture d'un r...
bottom-up cityplanning
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE As advocated by social fiction, I am totally in favor of bottom-up cityplanning ! And I am doubting current decision-makers agree with this. It sucks because since they are kind of "above" the others they are no longer in touch with the real life of their city. How many ...
Studying mutual modelling
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Mutual Modelling : inferences an individual make abouit his or her partner's intensions, beliefs, knnowledge and strategies. In my master thesis, I studied Mutual Modelling by asking pairs two questions : "What do you think your partner will do ?" and "What are you going...
Vigilantes destroy mobile phone Antennas
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Vow ! Via silicon.com : "The destruction of a mobile phone mast in the West Midlands has led to concern that campaigners against mobile phone base stations are increasingly taking matters into their own hands, and could hamper the rollout of third-generation (3G) mobile ...
cool present
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE My pal JD told me that his ex-gilfriend just sent him a cool package via postmail : a 10 page letter, a bag, 3CDs, an ashtray full of medics, drills and a sponge. what a cool world ! ...
How much time do you waste while you wait for a rebuild?
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Smart paper in gamasutra about wasted time. The author (Jamie Fristrom) deals with turnaround time in video-game, the time between making a change and testing the change. It seems that this time tend to be getting longer every year. With 3D rendering, game prototype it i...
spatial pattern on my office
I just noticed a very smart spatial pattern on my office : the documents are organized in such a way : I work on the closest documents. Here is a picture : 1 : the paper I am currently reading (about formualting availability and location in mobile phone concevrsations) 2 : a proof read paper I need...