Monthly Archives: June 2008

Dry mouth personal epic spike – queue the music…

Posted on June 27, 2008 by

Have you ever had a period where the events and your surroundings conspired to mash together perfectly to take you away from your ordinary, usual, rarified and all too cool reality you live – transporting you to a level that … Continue reading →

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An Interesting Cellular Automata

Posted on June 24, 2008 by
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Corporate Anthropology

Posted on June 20, 2008 by

I found this story on Slashdot.  The dude has a good approach.  It’s a messy world with more questions than answers. “I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It’s called “corporate … Continue reading →

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Walking Talking Technology

Posted on June 19, 2008 by

The ritual: Using speech-to-text software trained to my voice, I get to process the world’s media (including environmental sounds) in a way that usurps the originator’s intent and content. The software is as imperfect as my notes are and misrepresents … Continue reading →

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Come on… put it out there… you know you want to!

Posted on June 18, 2008 by

I have just received for the 12th time this week a virus wannabe email that purports to say that the writer has grave concerns for this country….etc. In response to the person of known evangelical everything [non-religious meaning] to pass on emails, … Continue reading →

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Code Swarm

Posted on June 16, 2008 by

This is a nice post today on visualizing the participation of users in popular open source projects. Good lead in for the study I’m going to do on the upcoming N-Brain competition.

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It is the cosmos, not “Cosmo”

Posted on June 13, 2008 by

  Boy, has that a lot of meanings…. But consider this version of ‘cosmos’…   According to Lawrence Krauss of NEWScientist magazine, David Brook wrote in The New York Times in May that   “…while we moderns see space as … Continue reading →

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Tim Russert Dies of Heart Attack

Posted on June 13, 2008 by

This sucks.  Catch the news here. Tim Russert was pretty much a badass.  I’m actually fairly sad about this.  I rarely miss Meet the Press (it’s a behavior schedule deeply set in).  90% of my election coverage comes via Russert. … Continue reading →

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Dukes of Hazzard Value System

Posted on June 12, 2008 by

Take a deep breath as you’re going to cry or laugh at this next post. “Ben Jones figures he drank 43,000 beers, 2,000 jugs of whiskey, wine, gin and vodka, and smoked pounds of pot in the 20 years he … Continue reading →

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Universal Healthcare – Universal Language

Posted on June 12, 2008 by

Here’s a speech given by my mother.  Aside from any political values, I think it exposes an interesting language (concept) problem we have in our culture – the idea of inherent character flaws.  I don’t always agree with my mom’s … Continue reading →

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