MIT labs and Aaron Zinman created a digital installation that creates your online genome, a visual representation of how the web sees you. Part art installation, part critique, Personas | Metropath(ologies) exploits the fact that there are likely several people in the world, living or dead, who share your name. A simple search of websites, [...]
Fairway Outdoor Advertising’s attempts at wooing City Council into removing the current ban on new billboards may not be going so well. At least, not for Fairway. The billboard industry suffered a trouncing at the March InterNeighborhood Council meeting, but the City Council vote that will ultimately decide the fate of Durham’s billboards will come [...]
The cycling community has a reputation for creativity — the annual Bike Art exhibits (I, II, III, IV), the Bicycle Film Festival, and the alt-bike phenomenon each attest to the restlessness that two-wheeled travelers often feel. By restlessness I mean an inability to accept the world as ordinary. Perhaps nowhere is that restlessness evident than [...]
Poets are social critics by default. That is, since not very many of us take the same care to craft our daily language that poets do, poets often are (or see themselves as) outsiders. And as outsiders, many poets are well-positioned to see things that not everyone is able to see. Hence the buzz of [...]
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Flying Shepherd Salt Owning the Weather Art & Copy Sons of Cuba The Yes Men Fix the World Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait La Chirola Unit 25 Objectified Oil Blue Sweet Crude Burma VJ All in one weekend… I’ll be bleary-eyed tomorrow.
http://www.eletrocooperativa.org Tomorrow is Digital Humanities Project day On March 18th, 2009, digital humanists from around the world are planning to collectively document their day, and we are looking for interested participants! A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (ADLDH) is a community project that will bring together digital humanists to document what they [...]
Whether they cite the articles that influence their thinking or not, scientists consult the humanities and social sciences. A recent study by Johan Bollen and his colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico used anonymized server log data from 35,000 journals over a two year period. Included in their published findings is [...]
YouTube, remixed. Well done. update: NPR picked up the story (thanks Dad)
Noticed months ago that my right pedal was loose; I probably should have taken care of it before today.