- #10 - Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
- #12 - If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
Art and Code - Day 1 - Morning
I arrived in Pittsburgh last night. The Cathedral of Learning is just outside my hotel. (Check out the commons room.)
Last week I read Michael Chabon’s The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (thanks Jeff!). I walked by the Cloud Factory on the way to registration this morning.
Next up is Information Visualization with Processing presented with Ben Fry.
This afternoon I’ll attend Make Games with Hackety Hack on Your Laptop Right There on Your Lap with mr. why the lucky stiff.
Right now I’m enjoying a coffee inside Carnegie Mellon’s Baker Hall.
An artist who has 5000 hardcore fans to give him or her $20 each year (for their music, art, etc) stands to make $100K per year.
or: 100,000 fans @ $1 (digital download) or 1,000,000 fans @ 10 cents (micropayment)!
Sure, there might be overhead costs in the production of said music/art, but even if this overhead was an outrageous %50 of the profit, you’d still be making $50K per year.
BabyLolly Featured In Winnipeg Free Press
I’m very excited to announce the launch of our new website, BabyLolly.com. For the past year I’ve been working along with my friend Andrew Burton, my sister Colleen Geske, and her husband Moses Faleafaga, on this online babybook and social network for families.
Today we were featured in the business section Winnipeg Free Press.
BabyLolly.com is an online babybook for parents to capture & share their baby’s precious moments with family and friends.
- Photo/Video Gallery: no more cumbersome emailing of baby photos. Store and organize all your photos and videos and share them with family and friends.
- Baby Journal: keep an online journal of your baby’s experiences and developments.
- Baby Milestones, Firsts & Favourites: never forget an important milestone again! Capture and share all your baby’s important firsts & favourites.
- Connect & Collaborate: give family and friends the opportunity to fully contribute to the babybook by leaving notes, uploading photos & videos, and sharing in each and every precious moment.
- It’s a private site (so only people you invite will see your babypage) and best of all: it’s 100% free!
We’d love for you to sign up if you have a young family. You can also view a demo account for a fictional family.
If you have friends with babies share the link with them and let them share the joy of their baby! We would really appreciate your support!
I look forward to hearing your feedback on BabyLolly.
You Are Beyond the Edge of Forever
…
(sleeping) Enter command: inventory
You are carrying: a theorem. an axiom.
a postulate. a hypothesis.
(sleeping) Enter command: examine postulate.
It's a basic fact.
(sleeping) Enter command: think
You thought of an idea
(sleeping) Enter command: examine idea
The idea is very vague and not fully developed.
(sleeping) Enter command: develop idea
The idea developed into a contradiction.
(sleeping) Enter command: examine contra
It is true and false, but neither is correct,
and both are right.
(sleeping) Enter command: examine supposition
It's an almost proven fact. It is not proven.
(sleeping) Enter command: Prove supp
With what? postulate
Somehow a contradiction keeps coming into the proof.
(sleeping) Enter command: drop contra
OK.
(sleeping) Enter command: prove supp
With what? postulate
The postulate is now a lemma.
(sleeping) Enter command: examine lemma
It's a rather specialised fact.
(sleeping) Enter command: examine hypothesis
It's a complicated statement. It is not proven.
(sleeping) Enter command: prove hypo
With what? lemma
The hypothesis is now a theorem.
Suddenly, a hyper-spatial cliff passes by
and the lemma leaps to its demise.
(sleeping) Enter command: examine theorem
It begins:
“The metaphysical existentialism of reality…”
via: trivium
Oh brother, a surveillance camera project for Winnipeg.
“The Winnipeg Police Association said earlier the $460,000 cost of a proposed year-long camera project might be better spent on improving police response times and increasing the number of officers downtown.” —source
Last week I saw two cops riding down Princess St. on horses. Let’s trade in the camera project for more horse-back popo. :)
“I am looking for writings on Mimesis in regards new, digital, hypertext and hypermedial technologies and cultures.
I am following the redefinition of mimesis. From Plato’s disregard of oral culture, through his mimesis of Socrates’ dialogues in writing. Following Plato, Aristotle’s theory was always a written mimesis, thus the order and processes of representation and mimicry were fundamentally written.
In essence, I am interested in how the artifacts of oral culture differed in their mimesis to written culture, and thus, how our modern move from a written to a digital/hypertextual culture will similarly impact on mimetic embodiment.”
Daceybassyrappyhappy - Glutton Mix
Daceybassyrappyhappy - Choons from 2007/2008 that made me smile and dance around.
Track List
- Marlena Shaw - California Soul (Diplo / Mad Decent mix)
- My Robot Friend - Robot High School
- Mark Ronson feat. Lily Allen - Oh My God (Chris Lake mix)
- The Ting Tings -That’s Not My Name (Tom Neville mix)
- Calvin Harris - Merrymaking At My Place (Kissy Sell Out mix)
- Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor
- Z-Trip - Something Different feat. Charlie Tuna
- GoldieLocks - Learning To Brap
- Ricardo Villalobos - Enfants (Olin Fix)
I’m not a pirate, I just grog a lot.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is required by mandate to make its programming “available throughout Canada by the most appropriate and efficient means.” Using BitTorrent allows the CBC to meet this target. However, when they experimented with this technology last year, many users were blocked by their ISP due to BitTorrent’s association with piracy.
The Glosnost Results show that at least 10 Canadian ISPs block BitTorrent outright. Canadian ISPs are also starting use traffic-shaping techniques to throttle-down the speed of all BitTorrent traffic.
Discrimination ain’t nice in meat-space, and it ain’t nice on the net. If you love the internet, read up on Network Neutrality. Non-discriminatory treatment of network-traffic is essential for an open and participatory internet.
