Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Alan Key invents the future : interview here ...
2 visions of cyberspace
dichotomy between 2 visions of cyberspace datascape (william gibson's neuromancer) / cybercity (neal steaphenson's snowcrash) the former is continous ( a cold abstraction as well) whereas the latter is divided into places metaphor of our real cities) Neuromancer's matrix (1984) -> continuous space ...
Resources about SPACE
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Smart links about space and mediated communication : Research on place and space Mediated Communication (Daniel Chandler). ...
Nice quotes
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE We shape the things we build. Thereafter, they shape us. - Sir Winston Churchill "We treat space as we treat sex. It is there but we don't talk about it" - Edward T. Hall "The city is still the prime place. It is because of the likelihood of unplanned informal encounte...
Nourritures de l'esprit
I've added a section "books/movies" in the right column. .txt mode rulez ...
Flash Mob
Via smart mobs Flash Mob : spontaneous gathering of people (familair with each other OR NOT) in the same place. Like these inexplicable mobs in NY : "groups of pranksters who use email to agree upon a place and activity, then descend upon an unsuspecting proprietor of a bar or department store, to ...
Chose venue de la mer
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE C'est la devinette de l'été pour les biologistes chiliens. Ce cadavre de 12 mètres, accusant 13 tonnes selon les estimations, s'est échoué le 24 juin sur une plage près de Puerto Montt (Chili). Les premiers témoins ont d'abord cru à une baleine, avant qu'un astucieux obs...
Japanese emoticons versus common smileys
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I do really appreciate the originality of japanese smileys compared to our minimal emoticons !!! ( ^ ^ ) = :) (^o^)/ = vow ! (- _ -)zzz = sleeping so rocket science !!!! ...
Psychogeography in Lyon
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Supermurgeman
Du même niveau que Pierre la Police (c'est à dire très très haut), un volume complet des aventures du surpermurgeman est finalement paru !!!!! Une aventure complète dans l'extended entry ! ...