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Software is Hard

October 2nd, 2007 · No Comments · This Digital Life

A post that’s worth a read.

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My Social Network Made me Fat

July 27th, 2007 · No Comments · This Digital Life

An cool video tracking obesity and social networks over time. Surprise surprise, there is a tendency for obese people to be linked socially to obese people, and for non-obese people to be linked socially to non-obese people. The study takes place over a 30 year people.
Thanks to David Weinberger for bringing it to [...]

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Light Green Google (but Darker)

July 27th, 2007 · No Comments · Environment, This Digital Life

Introducing Blackle! It’s Google, but with a black background instead of a white one. The idea is that producing the color white on a computer screen uses more power than producing black (the lack of color). On the main search page there is a “Watt hours saved” counter that, at the time [...]

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The Ad Generator

January 21st, 2007 · No Comments · This Digital Life

Check out The Ad Generator.
The ad generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. Words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans. These slogans are then paired with related images from Flickr, thereby generating fake advertisements on the fly. By remixing corporate [...]

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The Spread of Baron

November 30th, 2006 · No Comments · This Digital Life

I first posted a video of Baron attempting to get some pasta some weeks ago. The video is on YouTube, has been viewed 52,540 at the time of this posting, and has be

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Taiming the Edgy Eft

October 27th, 2006 · No Comments · This Digital Life

The latest release of the popular Ubuntu distribution of Linux is 6.10, a.k.a. Edgy Eft, a decedent of Dapper Drake and, before that, Breezy Badger. The next release will be Feisty Fawn. Badger, drake, fawn…what the crap is an eft? A young newt, it turns out.
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FOAF Me

October 5th, 2006 · No Comments · Semantic Web, This Digital Life

I decided to spend 5 minutes yesterday putting together a FOAF document for myself. I have seen a variety of personal URIs out there, but ended up going with Elias‘ pattern: http://fancygonzo.net/who#rob. I also went over to the FOAF Project and added my new FOAF document to their Bullitin Board so that FOAF-aware [...]

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Michelle Meets Ben Stein

September 22nd, 2006 · No Comments · Humorous, Politics, The Fam, This Digital Life

From the first post in Michelle’s shiny new blog.

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High Brow Video Games

August 10th, 2006 · No Comments · Politics, This Digital Life

This article calls for the video game industry to product “high brow” video games, claiming that video games as an industry/artistic genre will never be taken seriously until that happens. The author compares video games to music, movies, television, dance, and literature, which, though saturated with poppy crap, all have legitimizing forms. The [...]

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Digital Gorilla Warfare

August 7th, 2006 · No Comments · Politics, This Digital Life

Recently, South Korean gamers hare teamed up to kill Chinese gamers in a large virtual world.
Meanwhile, the real world seems to be hurling itself into an unstable state, and the internet is still harolded as a potentially great democratizing and equalizing force that will somehow help to solve this mess. Indeed, the net is [...]

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