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Noumenon. Phenomenon.

Some really fantastic work.
The Art of Jim Campbell: Seeing In Pixels - Boing Boing.

Game On

So… this here article touches on something pretty close to my heart:
Coming out as a gamer still turns you into a social n00b | Game theory | Jack Arnott | Technology | The Guardian.
About once a month I have a conversation go on a rant, usually with at my wife as she’ll listen to me [...]

Xanadu

Catching up on my reading after vaca, reading Coding Horror :: The Xanadu Dream reminded me it’s time for my yearly re-reading of:
Wired Mags 1995 article..
Truly this, and the book Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software are two of my favorite non-techie non-fiction reads about [...]

This is the Modern World

A presentation from Webstock via O’Reilly Radar:
The Demon-Haunted World.
Delving into the networked, invisible environment we live in, and increasingly REALLY live in, as in, it isn’t a layer upon the world, but the water in which we swim.
Why am I writing about this?:

Blogjects!
Introduced me to the Archigrams group.
Fascinated with psychogeography, and the Situationist’s in general.
Has [...]

Dirty TED

I’ll admit I have a particularly New England reaction to the TED conference, some kind of self-satisfied but silent disapproval of the idea of a conference of special people all listening and applauding each other.
And I feel I should be invited, because I’m a genius.
But more imporantly, no one told me Mike Rowe was speaking* [...]