Discovered on August 9, 2008
An attempt to give this humble ligature the respect it deserves.
The 100 Most Common English Words
A Quiz
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Kite-Domino Tiling.
In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings.
The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
A story by Cory Doctorow about geek monasteries that house smart people who can’t get along in the world and put them to work as coders.
Fan Out
Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a two-volume theoretical work by the French authors Deleuze and Guattari. Its two volumes, published eight years apart, are Anti-Œdipus and A Thousand Plateaus.
Translators note from A Thousand Plateaus:
“This is a book that speaks of many things, of ticks and quilts and fuzzy sub- sets and noology and political economy. It is difficult to know how to approach it. What do you do with a book that dedicates an entire chapter to music and animal behavior—and then claims that it isn’t a chapter?”
Read them in PDF:
via wood s lot via Continental Philosophy.
A paragraph by paragraph diagrammatic interpretation of the first two chapters of A Thousand Plateaus, by artist Marc Ngui.
Discovered on August 2, 2008
from Cabinet Magazine online. (btw)
The semantic shifts of the Beatles’ chords.
The Large Hadron Collider, a 27 kilometer long particle accelerator straddling the border of Switzerland and France, is nearly set to begin its first particle beam tests.
Discovered on July 30, 2008
George Orwell's Diaries in Blog Form
“Trade and barter are more valuable to me than any coin.”
Butcher ready for Black Pudding Monday
Mmmmmm Blutwurst. Locally you can pick up some fine blutwurst (along with the non-bloody white pudding) from Winnipeg Old Coutry Sausage, 691 Dufferin Avenue.
Discovered on July 29, 2008
Letter/Type Doodles via a comment on for the love of type.
Or try Instant Rimshot for a snappier retort. Note: This is actually a Sting.
Silent Sky Ontario via APOD
Mix Turtle - A Music Search Engine
Those handy with Firebug should be able to figure out how to download the source mp3s. ;)
An Inch of Rope
Stung Eye is born again. This is version 3, a lifestream.
This site is now continually (and automatically) generated as I interact with various web services.
- To share a link I tag it in my del.icio.us linkstream.
- To share a photo I tag it in my flickr photostream.
- To post a blog entry I use Tumblr.
- Comments are handled by Disqus which in turn provides a commentstream.
I feel so… aggregated.
The site runs on a custom platform that uses CodeIgniter and the Tumblr API. The code is based on a pre-release version of SweetCron. Currently the theme is a slightly tweaked version of the default Tumblr theme. This will change with time.
Various flavours of RSS feeds are available:
The version 2 Stung Eye Archives are still available. I have plans to integrate much of the old non-blog content (sounds, design, programs, words).
If you find any bugs, please let me know. Thank you kindly.
Discovered on July 24, 2008
A unique coding style whose main objective is minimal use of various elements of the programming language which may contribute to complexity.
Rhinoceros, 2005, Carsten Höller
Via BibliOdyssey. Also found: Fornicating Frogs, a Unique World-View, and Japanese Crepe Paper Fairy Tales.
The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design
“Paragraphs are punctuation, the punctuation of ideas.”
The Image Fulgurator is a device for manipulating photographs when they are being taken. The photographer will be unaware. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards.
Hyper (2007) Denis Darzacq
“Arabic singing bounced around the world in several directions creating what we call popular music, and […] the British Isles were central to this.” — Brian Eno, part of the Bye bye blackboard exhibit (2005) at the Oxford Museum of the History of Science.
The Development of Intuitionistic Logic
From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Discovered on July 23, 2008
Voronoi diagrams are a special kind of mathematical decomposition of a metric space used in a wide range of fields including satellite navigation, animal habitat mapping, and urban planning. They have also been used to algorithmically generate butterfly models.
A tactile map for sightless navigation in Korsør Station. Flickr-hunted after see another tactile map on lemonodor.
In which a Tree gets "The Talk"
from WonderMark by David Malki
Curved Hall in Toronto
allangeske.ca
My father, Allan Geske, is a master printmaker.
Please explore his new website allangeske.ca:
Previous on Stungeye: Show + Tell - a group exhibition at the University of Winnipeg.
This Little Piggy - Pegcity Farmers' Markets
It's summer, make yourself a friend in a local farmer. Enjoy the tastiness.
Farm Fresh Farmers' Markets in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada:
| Location | Contact | Phone | Day of Week | Time | Start Date | End Date | Directions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exchange District | Lisa Holowchuk | 942-6716 | Saturday | 9 am - 2 pm | July 5 | Sept 27 | Parking lot on corner of Main & McDermott Avenue |
| FortWhyte Alive | Debbie Thiessen | 895-2373 | Tuesday | noon - 6 pm | July 8 | Sept 23 | FortWhyte Alive Centre (Winnipeg) |
| Thursday | noon - 6 pm | July 3 | Sept 25 | ||||
| Lower Fort Garry | Sharon Menheer | 785-8577 | Friday | 3 pm - 8 pm | Sept 5, one day only | n/a | Lower Fort Garry National Historical Site parking lot |
| Osborne Village | Kaeley Wiseman | 290-3349 | Thursday | 4 pm - 8 pm | June 26 | Sept 25 | Gas Station Theatre on River Avenue & Osborne Street |
| Pineridge Hollow | Pat Herman | 444-3280 | Saturday | 9 am - 1 pm | July 5 | Sept 20 | Off Garven Rd on Heatherdale Rd - Bird's Hill |
| Le Marche St. Norbert | Ed Deen | 275-8349 | Saturday | 8 am - 3 pm | June 7 | Oct 11 | 3514 Pembina Hwy - 1 km south of Perimeter on Hwy 75 |
| Wednesday | 1 pm - 7 pm | July 2 | Aug 27 | ||||
| Transcona BIZ | Laura Harke | 222-8566 | Thursday | 11 am - 4 pm | July 24 | Sept 4 | 139 Regent Avenue West |
| West Broadway | Jennifer Neufeld or Tammy Klos | 774-7201 ext 6 | Thursday | 4 pm - 6 pm | June 26 | Sept 25 | Klinic Community Health Centre - 545 Broadway Avenue |
| Winnipeg (Red River) | Darryl Ruston | 888-6990 | Saturday | 9 am - 2 pm | July 26 | Sept 20 | Red River Exhibition Park - 3977 Portage Avenue & Perimeter Hwy |
Cornucopia
Enough links to keep you exploring until next Thursday.
- Jupiter as Van Gogh Painting
- James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher
- The five boxing wizards jump quickly - Give the lazy dog a rest ;)
- How to make seed bombs
- Map of Humanity
- Genealogy of Influence viewer
- FlyGuy [flash]
- Everyday Normal Guy - Ironic HipHop Language Warning :)
- Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide.
- Games for the Brain
- New Album by Girl Talk Pay what you please...
- What Comes After Post Modernism?
- Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey - Video Lectures
- How to sing like a planet - Scientists say the Earth is humming.
- The End of Theory vs. Why the cloud cannot obscure the scientific method
- Tim O'Reilly on Hackers
- Firefox Extension to Replace Ads with Art
- exercise #75 found photos
- Rare Cloud Formations - Winnipeg had some beautiful Mammatus Clouds last summer.
