Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE According to Dave Winer, XML RPC "is a spec and a set of implementations that allow software running on disparate operating systems, running in different environments to make procedure calls over the Internet. It's remote procedure calling using HTTP as the transport and...
resto roots
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Last week end, in a very nice restaurant, the menu was pretty simple : ...
still about madness
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE The book of madness by snake mountain is about bullshit concerning : animal magic, strange food, margaret thatcher and lots of other things. The website propose awfull pictures, very interesting. ...
skateboarding as a reading technology
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE skateboarding as it foster urban drift could be seen as a "urban reading technology" in the sense that skaters often have a different perception of the city. I, as a skateboarder, am very accustomed to look at specific details : stairs, handrails and stuff like that. Ska...
informative art
Daniel launched the 'tecfaseed informative art' competition ! The idea is to come up with the best artistic visualization of some TecfaSEED portal activity. ...
area 51
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I am not into the ET and martian crap but I found this map interesting : "This map has been compiled from the latest satellite images of the Groom Lake Base, combined with the input of very reliable sources that prefer to remain anonymous." Who on Earth could care about ...
Video Games Research framework
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE The book J. Goldstein & J. Raessens (Eds.): Handbook of Computer Game Studies. (Boston: MIT Press) provides game researchers with an interesting framework. According to the authors, there are six approaches (description taken from th level up conference introduction : -...
gated communities !
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Via Renaud LE GOIX Gated communities : a place that represents a form of urbanism where public space is privatized. They include public infrastructures and spaces behind the gates, which can otherwise be used by everyone, such as streets, parks, sidewalks and beaches. Th...
ipod jacking!
stuff-jacking is very trendy nowadays : I talked about bluejacking several days ago. Now, there is another concept : ipodjacking : "a few iPod owners have developed a little ritual in which they recognize each other from the headphones, stop, plug into each other's iPods, and share their music for ...
lyon trip
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