Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Read in the International Herald Tribune : "But a close look at French attitudes toward America suggests that repulsion and disenchantment are at least equaled by attraction, curiosity and outright envy." Hopefully !!!! ...
metada crap
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Cory Doctorow explains why metadata (data about data) fails in this article. According to him, there are "insurmountable obstacles between the world as we know it and meta-utopia": - People lie - People are lazy : even though we understand the importance of creating and...
message in lausanne
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Seen at Flon : ...
En 1954, Debord et ses potes écrivaient dans Potlatch :"Un des plus beaux sites spontanément psychogéographiques de Paris est actuellement voie de disparition. La rue Sauvage dans le XIIIème arrondissement, qui présentait la plus bouleversante perspective nocturne de la capitale, placée entre els v...
william gibson and virtual space (2)
I don't know if you ever noticed the very close relationships between the way William Gibson designed/imagined virtual space and gestalts forms !, for instance this kind of forms or relations : He saw cyperspace has "A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in...
william gibson and virtual space
Via jahsonic "In his science fiction novels, William Gibson's hallucinatory account of cyberspace provided the first social and spatial blueprint for the digital frontier. In his 1984 novel Neuromancer a colorful, disturbing account of our emerging information society he added the word "cybersp...
found stuff
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Found magazine : "we collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles- anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's life. anything goes..." ...
beatboxing
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE improve your beatboxing skills !!! ...
nanotech hack (2)
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE AFP | 11.11.03 | 16h13 Les policiers, les vigiles et la directrice du supermarché pensaient prendre des cambrioleurs la main dans le sac, mais le déclencheur de l'alarme s'est révélé n'être qu'une inoffensive araignée, selon un communiqué de la police locale de Grimma (e...
psychogeography in Bern (switerland)
dérive in bern last saturday : ...