Vine Girl from Marc DeGagne’s adventures in Argentina. Also: Chile and Uruguay.
Video from SuperMe a multi-player resilience and happiness game from Channel 4’s education department.
It’s interesting to see these types of “life-hacking” games trend upwards. Related: EpicWin, RibbonHero, Future of Games, Jane McGonigal.
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Super Mario “Speed Run” Augmented Reality.
Respect. [via waxy, again]
Ask MeFi: You Were Doing it Wrong.
Members chime in on what they’ve spent large portions of their life doing wrong.
Glad this didn’t get nixed as ChatFilter. [via]
New Developments in AI
“If we were trying to build a true, general AI, we would first need to create a way for it to get around and interact with the larger world. And we would need a system for rapid knowledge acquisition, so that we wouldn’t have to manually explain every detail of how the world works.”
Near future AI: Autonomous Automobiles and Learning by Reading.
They Don’t Complain and They Die Quietly
“This is one of the gifts plants give me. They remind me to slow down, to take the long view, to breathe, relax, and just wait for what happens next.”
Minimalist Home Cooking Free Ebook
From the Stone Soup blog.
More from Stone Soup:
Cross The Road - [via]
Vanishing Point - A generative kinetic music video. [via]
Doodle from class today.
Emend (verb), to improve by critical editing.
“Emend is a service for alerting website owners and authors of grammatical and spelling mistakes found on their site.”
Amendments for your site show up in an ATOM feed. Example: Stungeye@Emend
[via: The comments for a blog post on XML extensibility.]
pieces of relationship - mixed media on wood, 10 x 12”
The maps of the Geotaggers’ World Atlas have been enhanced to show tourists in red, locals in blue. (Yellow could be either.)
Object-Oriented Modeling, when discussed separate from computer-programming, becomes very philosophical.
Objects as Platonic forms.