iPhone/Touch Roundup: Control, Art, Snow Patrol, Visualizers, Recording, One for India (10)
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Create Digital Music (79)
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What could a pocket-sized computer be? It could be a new kind of album extra (yawn), a new kind of generative musical format that samples and responds to the world around it (whoo). It could be a more effective controller (fun), or an Indian drone (really). The Apple iPod touch / iPhone, as always, brings both wonder (potential as an art platform or recording device) and trouble (respectively, restrictions on who can see your art ...
Many versions of "Morning Dew" (2)
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Bedazzled has links to several versions of Lee Hazelwood's Bonnie Dobson's post-apocalyptic folk-rock ditty, "Morning Dew." They're all terrific. (No link to the Grateful Dead version, which appeared on their first album in 1967.) MP3s: "Morning Dew" by Lee Hazlewood, The Move, Tim Rose, Tony Hatch And Jackie Trent & Vince Martin & Fred Neil
Second Life’s user economy shows strong growth (4)
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SECOND LIFE, August 26 (Reuters) - The real-world economy may be slipping into recession, but the global slowdown isn’t impacting Second Life. According to recently released company statistics, Linden Lab’s in-world economy is larger than ever. Over 61,000 avatars earned more Linden dollars (Second Life’s in-world currency) in July than they spent. That’s a 5.7 percent month-to-month gain in the number of profitable in-world businesses and the most on record. User hours grew for the ...
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dani said:
"Over 61,000 avatars earned more Linden dollars (Second Life’s in-world currency) in July than they spent." - if only there would be a designed I know amongst those ontop of food chain... (mimi i'm looking at you) but sadly, i don't. oh well. real life goes on :)
Guardian's Top 50 Arts Videos (2)
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The Guardian has compiled a list of their top fifty arts videos, the majority being from either rare or obscure sources and uploaded onto YouTube.
William Gibson's playlist (11)
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From William Gibson, a playlist of ten musical tracks to get you in a Spook Country mood (sez Bill, "I have always regarded music with lyrics as a species of fiction.") 1) Country Blues, Dock Boggs. On finally learning to hear this music, you literally become some different, more primal manner of flesh. There is simply nothing else like it. It is an Ur-thing, sere and terrible, yet capable of profound and paradoxical rescue in ...
Mad Magazine's War on Bush collection (14)
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Mad Magazine's "The Mad War on Bush" gathers a truly superlative collection of parodical and satirical material from eight years' worth of Mad lampoons between a single set of covers. As Jimmy Kimmel notes in his introduction to the book, there are many things to hate about the Bush regime, but it has been very, very kind to political satirists of all description. Mad Magazine has had a glorious eight years with this presidency -- ...
42 Essential Flickr Abandonments Groups Dedicated to Abandoned Places, Properties and Buildings (51)
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There is something about photographs of deserted places and abandoned buildings that is mysterious and intriguing to those of us who crave a combination of mystery and history, danger and thrill. If you are one such person, chances are there is a Flickr group that will make you drool - or a number of them. Organized into helpful and easy-to-navigate categories including types of abandoned buildings, objects and vehicles as well as disallowed locations, here ...
Barangaroo Tomason (超芸術トマソン) (3)
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Greg Allen posted about the concept of 'tomason' a while ago, inspired by the fabulous Tokyo-based architectural practice Atelier Bow Wow and their relentless documentation of the the city and its quotidian architectural foibles, in books like Made in Tokyo and Pet Architecture. He described the thomason (超芸術トマソン) thus:"Made in Toyko was about ridiculous hybrids: a department store with a driving school on the roof; a cement factory integrated with the workers' dorms. They called ...
Create a Tour of Web Pages with Agglom (19)
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Sharing web pages in a conversation shouldn't be as tricky as it is. Sometimes you're on the phone, or speaking to a group of people and there isn't a handy way to bring people along with you from page to page and then let them have easy access to those pages after the conversation is through. Enter Agglom, a simple little service built by Italian developer Enrico Foschi. It's a Firefox plug-in that will make ...
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Jamie said:
I have needed this for classes more times than I can count. This is awesome!
The Future of the Desktop (141)
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Everything is moving to the cloud. As we enter the third decade of the Web we are seeing an increasing shift from native desktop applications towards Web-hosted clones that run in browsers. For example, a range of products such as Microsoft Office Live, Google Docs, Zoho, ThinkFree, DabbleDB, Basecamp, and many others now provide Web-based alternatives to the full range of familiar desktop office productivity apps. The same is true for an increasing range of ...
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Andy J said:
I like Nova
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Dedalus said:
A good and insightful read on future trends.
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David said:
The best description of the future of personal computing that I've read so far.
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Matt said:
A decent, albeit long, article about shifting the desktop into the cloud. Have to say that I found the librarian analogy off-base, but not surprising.
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neal said:
Great article about the possible future of desktop computing. Kinda long, though.
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Joshua said:
Too many underdeveloped metaphors. Take out the words that don't mean much, and you're not left with nearly as much...though still something very interesting.
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Felix Banuchi said:
food for thought...nova has some compelling ideas on the future of personal computing...
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Devlin D said:
Long post but well worth the read.
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MiramarMike said:
A lot to digest but well worth it
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Moah said:
Needs to read this in detail
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jezarnold said:
I already find that search on my desktop is my most powerful tool. This will be linked to a more "me" concentration on the web, especially linked to two seperate "me's" - Work & personal.. I find with work, that the use of the corporate intranet, an internal Wikipedia and also team sharepoints is becoming more prevalent amongst my colleagues..
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griflet said:
An ode to my late 2005 vision as I would discover in awe Google Earth ... The WebTop!!!
“The suburbs have three destinies, none of them exclusive: as materials salvage, as slums, and as ruins.” (2)
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[My childhood home and personal corner of Suburbia] That bit of wisdom from James Kunstler. Yes, the James Kunslter who seems to take so much joy from coming up with innovative ways to describe just how much he hates something. His vitriolic response, which continued to describe the suburbs as “the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world,” was evoked by a question from the New York Times Freakonomics Blog: What is ...
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kliger said:
in Europe, the suburbs have long been the "new" slums
Could there be a future without big grids? (2)
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So, it’s late on a Friday in the UK and I’m in the mood to write another blog post. But I’ve just finished grinding out another day in my (soon to be ex) non-OpenSim related day job, so instead of writing something detailed, technical and real, I’m going to indulge in a bit of speculation as to what a future internet wide virtual worlds architecture might look like. This is going to be heavily influenced ...
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L said:
Great blog post showing parallels between websites and virtual worlds from a technical perspective.
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