Leave the libraries alone. You don’t understand their value.
Philip Pullman’s call to defend libraries.
Algorithms are Thoughts, Chainsaws are Tools
Towards an æsthetics of Live Coding.
“Code should be seen as well as heard, underlying algorithms viewed as well as their visual outcome.”
Johann Sebastian Joust is a no-graphics, music-based, physical jousting game for two to six players, designed for motion controllers and smart phones.
The goal is to keep your game controller sufficiently still and be the last player remaining. Try to jostle your opponents’ controllers while protecting your own! The tempo of the music controls the “jostling sensitivity.”
A Tale of Two Hemispheres
Brains, Consciousness, and Thinking Machines
I am enjoying Patrick Grim’s lectures on the Philosophy of Mind.
Grim starts the series with a historical look at the mind-body problem. He then introduces the major themes in the study of artificial intelligence, while exploring human intelligence, perception, behaviour and finally the hard problem of consciousness. Throughout this complex web of ideas Grim remains eloquent and engaging. Highly recommended.
For me, these theories of mind and human-ness are mingling nicely with Philip Pullman concepts of daemons and zombies in his Dark Materials novels. Also recommended. I finished the Subtle Knife yesterday.
Kevin Slavin: How Algorithms Shape our World
via booooost
BOOK (after Gertrude Stein)
Also: Lo-Res Book Covers
Strangers in Transit montréal, québec. STM 165, direction nord.
Manitoba Election dot Ca
On October 4th of this year the people of Manitoba go to the polls to elect their next Legislative Assembly and Premier.
Making an informed choice for your vote requires that you know the candidates, their platforms and the issues they discuss.
This is why we built ManitobaElection.ca, a citizen created website for the upcoming Manitoba provincial election.
Currently you can view all the constituencies, candidate nominees and the incumbents. We have plenty more in the works including interactive maps, historical election results, candidate news feeds, an events calendar, candidate questionnaires, and educational resources.
Your feedback is much appreciated. Send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or @MbElection on Twitter.
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ManitobaElection.ca was created in the spirit of openness, community, accountability and communication. In 2010 we created a similar website for the Winnipeg election which helped over 40,000 Winnipeggers research their mayoral, city council and school trustee candidates. After the election we released an open data collection including the website source, ward map polygons, and historical election results.
Disassembled Radio. Found on Reddit.
Ask MeFi: Movies to Grow by?
What movies should I show my daughter to introduce her to art-house/world/indie cinema?
This is Water - David Foster Wallace
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.
You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.”
The Eternal Shame of Your First Online Handle
“The other day I made a comment on someone’s blog and I noticed I was the only one that put my online pseudonym into the name field”
My handles:
90s BBS: Remus McGrath
90s IRC & USENET: Way-K or way_k
00s Web: Wally Glutton aka stungeye