April 2012
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March 2012
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February 2012
16 posts
BKME →
bkme.org
BKME is an app for defending bike lanes in NYC.
“The conflation of these different kinds of innovations seems to be leading us toward a belief that small groups of profit-seeking entrepreneurs turning out innovative consumer products are as effective as our innovative forebears. History does not support this belief. The teams at Bell Labs that invented the laser, transistor and solar cell were not seeking profits. They were seeking understanding. Yet in the process they created not only new products but entirely new — and lucrative — industries.”
—Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle - NYTimes.com
“The difference between generative art and a visualization based on real data is that with the latter, the viewer can visually decode the piece. Order, shape, size, direction, and color all have meaning. The dots originating from the globe in the “Curing” piece, for instance, represent the locations where the scans took place.”
—Two interactive installations for GE | Latest
Marius Watz - Thoughts on Code and Art: The Algorithm Thought Police →
mwatz.tumblr.com
Earlier today I made an off-hand quip on Twitter in response to Jer Thorp tweeting a link to 3D Voronoi code (incidentally written by the excellent Frederik Vanhoutte.) The following snowball chain went as follows:
- @blprnt We talked about this. Voronoi is off limits until 2015, it got used…
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January 2012
34 posts
“Uhhhhhhhhh…. Does Disney know that the singer of this band hung himself?! Do they know where the name “Joy Division” comes from?! Do they know how stupid this guy looks wearing this T-shirt?:”
—Disney Is Selling a Joy Division Mickey Mouse Shirt | News | Pitchfork
“Literature, to a degree unique among the arts, has the ability both to frame the question and to affect the answer”
—‘Why Write Novels at All?’ - NYTimes.com
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The Fermi Paradox, Self-Replicating Probes, and the Interstellar Transportation Bandwidth →
arxiv.org
The best title for a paper I’ve read in a while.
