User:Ikip/Craniac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The Craniacs are a sinister race of robots living in the ChalkZone, from the Nickelodeon animated television series ChalkZone.
The Craniacs' hobby is collecting futuristic devices that were drawn in chalk but erased because they didn't work (no one ever erases good ideas). They take the devices to their laboratory hideout in the Dome of the Future, which resembles a giant cereal bowl. The entrance to the laboratory is a giant thermometer powered by a super-hot flame, which makes any non-robots inside the Dome break out in a sweat."
Monday, August 30
Guitars - Gatton article
Guitars - Gatton article: "'he was so talented you'd think his whole life would revolve around guitar, but it
didnt,' says Dave Elliot. 'he was more of a person than a musician. danny's whole
approach didnt have anything to do with being a star--he played for his soul and his
guitar. i guess being a regular guy and a musician just doesnt work.'"
didnt,' says Dave Elliot. 'he was more of a person than a musician. danny's whole
approach didnt have anything to do with being a star--he played for his soul and his
guitar. i guess being a regular guy and a musician just doesnt work.'"
Sunday, August 29
Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com
Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com: "Eventually, Whorf’s theory crash-landed on hard facts and solid common sense, when it transpired that there had never actually been any evidence to support his fantastic claims. The reaction was so severe that for decades, any attempts to explore the influence of the mother tongue on our thoughts were relegated to the loony fringes of disrepute. But 70 years on, it is surely time to put the trauma of Whorf behind us. And in the last few years, new research has revealed that when we learn our mother tongue, we do after all acquire certain habits of thought that shape our experience in significant and often surprising ways."
Saturday, August 28
Principles for Organizing Print Material [Organizing Content #21] | I'd Rather Be Writing
Principles for Organizing Print Material [Organizing Content #21] | I'd Rather Be Writing: "Long printed manuals are becoming museum relics. If you’re delivering a 200 page printed manual for your software, expecting that users will read it cover to cover to learn the application, you’re kidding yourself. Reproducing �the entire online help in printed form for those one or two users who request a whole handbook does a disservice to the majority of users who prefer just a light print reading experience to get started. If your experience has been different from what I described above, please share your perspective with me."
7 Essential iPad Productivity Apps
7 Essential iPad Productivity Apps: "When I got my iPad, I gave myself a mandate: Don’t lug a 5-pound�MacBook around; instead, try to make do with the iPad.�For the most part, I’ve been successful. My MacBook hasn’t left the house since April 3, and for what I do (writing, reading, video watching), I don’t really need the horsepower all that much. I wouldn’t want to do a day’s work on it, but it’s great for getting work done on the train, on my lunch break, etc."
Thursday, August 26
Gmail Phone Calls Are All About Facebook, Not Skype | Epicenter�| Wired.com
Gmail Phone Calls Are All About Facebook, Not Skype | Epicenter�| Wired.com: "the new service is intended to play to Google’s current successes, namely Android phones — which integrate closely with Gmail and Google Voice — as well as set the stage for Google’s rumored fall launch of a social networking service to compete with Facebook."
An Un-'Common' Take On Copyright Law : NPR
An Un-'Common' Take On Copyright Law : NPR: "Hyde advocates for a return to a 'cultural commons' and quotes, approvingly, Thomas Jefferson, who believed that 'ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man.'"
Wednesday, August 25
The iPad and the Future of Computer Innovation | What Digital Revolution?
The iPad and the Future of Computer Innovation | What Digital Revolution?: "Google’s services have virtually eliminated the need for money, education, and technical capacity, the traditional barriers to accessing and manipulating information, as effectively as Apple’s products have made training, aptitude, and prowess irrelevant when using a computer.�"
Inside the secret world of Trader Joe's - Aug. 23, 2010
Inside the secret world of Trader Joe's - Aug. 23, 2010: "strip-mall operators and consumers alike aggressively lobby the chain, based in Monrovia, Calif., to come to their towns. A Trader Joe's brings with it good jobs, and its presence in your community is like an affirmation that you and your neighbors are worldly and smart."
Steve Jobs Is Watching You: Apple Seeking to Patent Spyware | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Steve Jobs Is Watching You: Apple Seeking to Patent Spyware | Electronic Frontier Foundation: "Essentially, Apple's patent provides for a device to investigate a user's identity, ostensibly to determine if and when that user is 'unauthorized,' or, in other words, stolen. More specifically, the technology would allow Apple to record the voice of the device's user, take a photo of the device's user's current location or even detect and record the heartbeat of the device's user. Once an unauthorized user is identified, Apple could wipe the device and remotely store the user's 'sensitive data.' Apple's patent application suggests it may use the technology not just to limit 'unauthorized' uses of its phones but also shut down the phone if and when it has been stolen."
Books - ‘Deliverance,’ by James Dickey, Turns 40 - NYTimes.com
Books - ‘Deliverance,’ by James Dickey, Turns 40 - NYTimes.com: "These days our culture takes these kinds of narratives, about masculine midlife longing and regret, and de-fangs them, turning them into films like “Wild Hogs,” the benign John Travolta motorcycle trip movie. The novelists who take us into the woods and wilds, Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane invaluably among them, bring along slapstick and irony as critical mosquito repellent. (Was it Robert Bly, in his “Iron John” phase, who made it impossible for American men to walk purposefully into a forest without feeling as if drums and self-awareness needed to be involved?)"
Tuesday, August 24
120 days in the hole | MetaFilter
120 days in the hole | MetaFilter: "These guys are in for a rough few months, but they have a good shot. They've got water and oxygen, which are the critical things. They have access to the outside world, which means they can get food and stay sane. They have enough space to move around and stay fit, and to keep their waste away from where they eat. It's a dark and scary place down there, but you get used to it. These guys are as used to being underground as you are to being in your office. Also, there's quite a strong fraternity among miners - they can be rough as guts, but they take care of each other. I'm heading underground as soon as I finish writing this, and I know that if this were to happen here, people would stick together."
Your Brain on Computers - Overuse of Digital Devices May Lead to Brain Fatigue - NYTimes.com
Your Brain on Computers - Overuse of Digital Devices May Lead to Brain Fatigue - NYTimes.com: "“Almost certainly, downtime lets the brain go over experiences it’s had, solidify them and turn them into permanent long-term memories,” said Loren Frank, assistant professor in the department of physiology at the university, where he specializes in learning and memory. He said he believed that when the brain was constantly stimulated, “you prevent this learning process.”"
Who the *** is Eminem, anyway? | Ask MetaFilter
Who the *** is Eminem, anyway? | Ask MetaFilter: "Yeah, Public Enemy is a great starter. Some rock critic a documentary about them summed it up by saying that when he first heard them, he was like, 'This...isn't...supposed...to...be...possible!' It helps if you've ever had a taste for jazz, industrial, or both.
posted by Beardman at 7:46 AM on August 20 [ ] [!]"
posted by Beardman at 7:46 AM on August 20 [ ] [!]"
Board games and boring food out as Chilean miners await rescue - The Globe and Mail
Board games and boring food out as Chilean miners await rescue - The Globe and Mail: "Both psychologists say it’s critical that emergency workers provide the trapped miners with something to keep them “meaningfully engaged” while they wait, including music, reading material and journals to write in.
Board games, however, don’t qualify.
“That exacerbates the potential hostility,” Dr. Suedfeld said. “You don’t want to give them anything that raises antagonism.”
What the miners should be given, both doctors said, is good food."
Board games, however, don’t qualify.
“That exacerbates the potential hostility,” Dr. Suedfeld said. “You don’t want to give them anything that raises antagonism.”
What the miners should be given, both doctors said, is good food."
College Dropout Factories by Ben Miller and Phuong Ly | Washington Monthly
College Dropout Factories by Ben Miller and Phuong Ly | Washington Monthly: "As it happens, Nestor’s impressions are supported by hard numbers. Chicago State has the worst graduation rate of any public four-year university in Illinois and one of the worst in the nation, with just 13 percent of students finishing in six years. For stronger students like Nestor, the statistics are only somewhat better than that. According to a study from the Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR), which looked at twenty different colleges in the Chicago area, kids who graduate from a Chicago public high school with a grade point average of 3.5 have a 37 percent chance of graduating from Chicago State. Those with the same grades who attend UIC have a much better chance of graduating—56 percent. And for those with a 3.5 GPA who attend Northwestern, just north in Evanston, the completion rate is 89 percent. Even schools all around the country with student profiles as challenging as that of Chicago State—that is, schools with mostly African American and Latino students from low-income backgrounds—have overall graduation rates that are many times higher."
Grading on the curves - The Boston Globe
Grading on the curves - The Boston Globe: "When my sons applied to college, I begged them to choose a school according to the most important criterion imaginable: ample free parking. Grinnell, Carleton, and Kenyon were at the top of my list. Not atop theirs, alas. One of my sons went to Columbia. If Columbia grad Paul Auster hasn’t written a bleak, soul-harrowing short story about trying to move furniture in and out of Morningside Heights, with its filthy sidewalks and malfunctioning dormitory elevators, he should have."
Your Mind at Middle Age: A Review of The Grown-Up Brain - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Your Mind at Middle Age: A Review of The Grown-Up Brain - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education: "Developmentally, it turns out that, while we might not be growing tons of new neurons as we age, our brains do gain more myelin, the fatty substance that facilitates connections between neurons, for many decades. Also, it turns out that the brain compensates for aging by getting its hemispheres to work together. This 'bilateralization' allows the brain to work more efficiently than it does at earlier times of life. Education helps facilitate this process."
Monday, August 23
Avoid Foot Injuries at Runner's World
Avoid Foot Injuries at Runner's World: "The Warning: Plantar Fasciitis
Plantar fasciitis, which causes pain in the heel or arch, occurs when the connective fibers that run along the bottom of the foot become inflamed at the spot where they attach to the heel bone. The pain most often occurs in one foot, not both, says Dr. Pribut, because of a leg–length discrepancy or strength imbalance.
Runners who suffer from plantar fasciitis often have weak muscles in their feet. So try this exercise to strengthen your toes and feet: Keeping your heel on the floor, curl your toes down against a towel and try to drag it closer to you. Plantar fasciitis can also signal tight calf muscles, so Pribut recommends gentle stretching of those muscles to ease the pain and to prevent a recurrence."
Plantar fasciitis, which causes pain in the heel or arch, occurs when the connective fibers that run along the bottom of the foot become inflamed at the spot where they attach to the heel bone. The pain most often occurs in one foot, not both, says Dr. Pribut, because of a leg–length discrepancy or strength imbalance.
Runners who suffer from plantar fasciitis often have weak muscles in their feet. So try this exercise to strengthen your toes and feet: Keeping your heel on the floor, curl your toes down against a towel and try to drag it closer to you. Plantar fasciitis can also signal tight calf muscles, so Pribut recommends gentle stretching of those muscles to ease the pain and to prevent a recurrence."
The billionaire Koch brothers’ war against Obama : The New Yorker
The billionaire Koch brothers’ war against Obama : The New Yorker: "The anti-government fervor infusing the 2010 elections represents a political triumph for the Kochs. By giving money to “educate,” fund, and organize Tea Party protesters, they have helped turn their private agenda into a mass movement. Bruce Bartlett, a conservative economist and a historian, who once worked at the National Center for Policy Analysis, a Dallas-based think tank that the Kochs fund, said, “The problem with the whole libertarian movement is that it’s been all chiefs and no Indians. There haven’t been any actual people, like voters, who give a crap about it. So the problem for the Kochs has been trying to create a movement.” With the emergence of the Tea Party, he said, “everyone suddenly sees that for the first time there are Indians out there—people who can provide real ideological power.” The Kochs, he said, are “trying to shape and control and channel the populist uprising into their own policies.”"
Benchmade Mini Pika II Knife from Backcountry.com
Benchmade Mini Pika II Knife from Backcountry.com
Tiny knives are incredibly useful, if only for manually sharpening pencils and opening packages.
Tiny knives are incredibly useful, if only for manually sharpening pencils and opening packages.
James Patterson Inc. - NYTimes.com
James Patterson Inc. - NYTimes.com: "Patterson considers himself as an entertainer, not a man of letters. Still, he bristles when he hears one of his books described as a guilty pleasure: “Why should anyone feel guilty about reading a book?” Patterson said that what he does — coming up with stories that will resonate with a lot of people and rendering them in a readable style — is no different from what King, Grisham and other popular authors do. “I have a saying,” Patterson told me. “If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for a few friends, get a blog. But if you want to write for a lot of people, think about them a little bit. What do they like? What are their needs? A lot of people in this country go through their days numb. They need to be entertained. They need to feel something.”"
James Patterson Inc. - NYTimes.com
James Patterson Inc. - NYTimes.com: "At first, Patterson’s literary taste ran toward the highbrow — Jerzy Kosinski, Jean Genet, Evan S. Connell. “I was a snob,” he says. After graduating from Manhattan College in 1969, Patterson was given a free ride to Vanderbilt University’s graduate program in English literature but dropped out after just one year. “I had found two things that I loved, reading and writing,” he told me. “If I became a college professor, I knew I was going to wind up killing them both off.”"
Sunday, August 22
What Is It About 20-Somethings? - NYTimes.com
What Is It About 20-Somethings? - NYTimes.com: "The 20s are a black box, and there is a lot of churning in there. One-third of people in their 20s move to a new residence every year. Forty percent move back home with their parents at least once. They go through an average of seven jobs in their 20s, more job changes than in any other stretch. Two-thirds spend at least some time living with a romantic partner without being married. And marriage occurs later than ever. The median age at first marriage in the early 1970s, when the baby boomers were young, was 21 for women and 23 for men; by 2009 it had climbed to 26 for women and 28 for men, five years in a little more than a generation."
What Is It About 20-Somethings? - NYTimes.com
What Is It About 20-Somethings? - NYTimes.com: "A cover of The New Yorker last spring picked up on the zeitgeist: a young man hangs up his new Ph.D. in his boyhood bedroom, the cardboard box at his feet signaling his plans to move back home now that he’s officially overqualified for a job. In the doorway stand his parents, their expressions a mix of resignation, worry, annoyance and perplexity: how exactly did this happen?"
Experiencing Teen Drama Overload? Blame Biology : NPR
Experiencing Teen Drama Overload? Blame Biology : NPR: "It's All In The Brain
Over the past decade, researchers have found it's not just a case of raging hormones. Teens may actually not be able to help their reactions due to dramatic changes in their rapidly developing brains.
James Chattra — a pediatrician practicing in Redmond, Wash. — says that at about age 12, the brain begins a massive shift in the prefrontal cortex, or the 'thinking' part of the brain.
'It's going through this amazing pruning and rewiring and shift. But because of that, sometimes the prefrontal cortex that allows us to take a break, stop and think, is not working as well,' Chattra says.
About half of the 'thinking' neurons in certain regions of the brain, Chattra says, are literally 'wiped out.'"
This explains so much.
Over the past decade, researchers have found it's not just a case of raging hormones. Teens may actually not be able to help their reactions due to dramatic changes in their rapidly developing brains.
James Chattra — a pediatrician practicing in Redmond, Wash. — says that at about age 12, the brain begins a massive shift in the prefrontal cortex, or the 'thinking' part of the brain.
'It's going through this amazing pruning and rewiring and shift. But because of that, sometimes the prefrontal cortex that allows us to take a break, stop and think, is not working as well,' Chattra says.
About half of the 'thinking' neurons in certain regions of the brain, Chattra says, are literally 'wiped out.'"
This explains so much.
Saturday, August 21
Maturity for Modern Kids - The Barnes & Noble Review
Maturity for Modern Kids - The Barnes & Noble Review: "When Win Butler calls the Arcade Fire's music 'art-rock,' first you chuckle at his candor. Then you wonder whether he has anything artier than Electric Light Orchestra in mind.
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The Littlest Schoolhouse - Magazine - The Atlantic
The Littlest Schoolhouse - Magazine - The Atlantic: "Here’s how it works: first, the student and his parents and teachers are surveyed about his classroom habits. Then the student takes a diagnostic test to see how well he understands basic math. Those data are then sent to the New York Department of Education’s headquarters in Lower Manhattan, where School of One’s algorithm produces a tentative lesson plan. That lesson plan is then e-mailed to the student’s teachers, who revise it as they see fit. At the end of every day, the student takes another short diagnostic, which is used to create another tentative lesson plan that appears in the teachers’ inboxes by eight o’clock that evening.
The result is that one student might learn to add fractions at a dry-erase board with a small group, while another student uses the Internet to practice calculating the area of a circle with a tutor in Kentucky, while still another student learns about factoring through a game on his laptop."
The result is that one student might learn to add fractions at a dry-erase board with a small group, while another student uses the Internet to practice calculating the area of a circle with a tutor in Kentucky, while still another student learns about factoring through a game on his laptop."
Done w/ Sam's Club fish oil - Mind and Muscle Forums
Done w/ Sam's Club fish oil - Mind and Muscle Forums: "My wife and I both noticed a difference switching from the Walmart brand, pretty much balanced EPA/DHA, to Jarrow's EPActive which is 400mg EPA and 24mg DHA per two, tiny softgels. I wanted to try EPA Brite, but *** that stuff ain't cheap, and EPActive isn't too bad at BulkNutrition."
Friday, August 20
Charlie's Diary: How long does it take to produce a novel?
Charlie's Diary: How long does it take to produce a novel?: "How long does it take to produce a novel?"
Career U. - Making College ‘Relevant’ - NYTimes.com
Career U. - Making College ‘Relevant’ - NYTimes.com The death of philosophy departments.
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Does the Past Exist Yet? Evidence Suggests Your Past Isn't Set in Stone
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Does the Past Exist Yet? Evidence Suggests Your Past Isn't Set in Stone: "In 2002, scientists carried out an amazing experiment, which showed that particles of light 'photons' knew -- in advance −- what their distant twins would do in the future. They tested the communication between pairs of photons -- whether to be either a wave or a particle. Researchers stretched the distance one of the photons had to take to reach its detector, so that the other photon would hit its own detector first. The photons taking this path already finished their journeys -− they either collapse into a particle or don't before their twin encounters a scrambling device. Somehow, the particles acted on this information before it happened, and across distances instantaneously as if there was no space or time between them."
"Anyway, Hyde talks about irony after a
while becoming the sound of prisoners who enjoy their confinement.
The song of a bird who enjoys being in the cage. For instance, if
I'm uncomfortable with how commercial the culture is and how
everybody seems to be out for a buck, I decide so I'll do it too,
but I'll kind of make fun of myself and say, 'I'm a whore, just
like you're a whore,' and now we all get an uneasy laugh out of
it."
while becoming the sound of prisoners who enjoy their confinement.
The song of a bird who enjoys being in the cage. For instance, if
I'm uncomfortable with how commercial the culture is and how
everybody seems to be out for a buck, I decide so I'll do it too,
but I'll kind of make fun of myself and say, 'I'm a whore, just
like you're a whore,' and now we all get an uneasy laugh out of
it."
"The damaged-infant trope is perfect because it captures the mix of repulsion and love the fiction-writer feels for something he's working on. The fiction always comes out so horrifically defective, so hideous a betrayal of all your hopes for it -- a cruel and repellent caricature of the perfection of its conception -- yes, understand: grotesque because imperfect. And yet it's yours, the infant is, it's you, and you love it and dandle it and wipe the cerebro-spinal fluid off its slack chin with the cuff of the only clean shirt you have left"
Thursday, August 19
Sharpie Liquid Pencil, the aftermath: it's 'permanent,' not permanent -- Engadget
Sharpie Liquid Pencil, the aftermath: it's 'permanent,' not permanent -- Engadget: "Yes, we are being told that while the Sharpie Liquid Pencil meets the international standard for 'permanency,' it may still almost completely erase -- and of course, a clarification containing many caveats will issue. Looking back on the entire affair, it's hard to see how it could have ended any differently: a fresh-faced newcomer grasping tightly at the Dream, only to fall apart amid broken promises, appeals to international law, and the dull sense that one day each of us will in turn be erased. Good-bye, Sharpie Liquid Pencil -- and good-bye, innocence."
Monday, August 16
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Friday, August 13
3rd Global Conference Digital Memories
Monday 14th March – Wednesday 16th March 2011
Prague, Czech Republic
Call for Papers
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims
to examine, explore and critically engage with the
issues and implications created by the
massive exploitation of digital technologies for
inter-human communication and examine how on-line
users form, archive and de-/code their memories in
cybermedia environments, and how the systems used
for production influence the way the users
perceive and work with the memory. In particular
the conference will encourage equally theoretical
and practical debates which surround the cultural
contexts of memory co-/production, re-/mediation,
en-/decoding, dissemination, personal/mass
interpretation and preservation.
Papers, presentations, workshops and reports are
invited on any of the following themes:
1. Digital Personal and Community Memory
Theories and Concepts of Memory. The Digitisation
of Individual and Community Memory. Identifying
Key Features and Issues.
2. Externalization and Mediation of Memories
Memory Metaphors in the Digital Age. Web 2.0
Services as a Medium for Production/Dissemination
of Memory. Representational Principles for
Memory Recording.
3. Memory in Cybercultures and Arts
Social Networking and Fan Cultures. New Media Arts
and Memory. The Spatialization of memories in New
Media and Virtual Worlds. Digital
Media Archeology and Cyber-Arts history. Music,
History and Cultural memory.
4. Memory and Technology
The Memory of Digital Media and Systems. The
Recording Device and the User Response. Mobile
Systems. Prototyping Tools. Archeology of
Interfaces. Cloud Intelligence. Information
Architecture.
5. Archiving and Dissemination of memory Data
Digital Data Recording. Memory Restoring and
Preservation Strategies. Digital Libraries and
Archives. Database Design, Data Retrieval and
Usage. User Response and Modelling. Political,
Judicial and Social Problems with Data Ownership.
6. Uses of new media for Production of Historical
Knowledge National Identity and memory in the
Digital Age. Political uses of cybermedia for
Historical revisionism.
7. Specific Research on Community Memory
Social Issues Research. Online Ethnographic
Research. Privacy and Legal Issues in Community
Informatics. Folksonomies as Anthropological
Archives. Digital Life and Digital Death.
The Steering Group particularly welcomes the
submission of pre-formed panel proposals. 300 word
abstracts should be submitted by Friday 1st
October 2010. All submissions are minimally double
blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an
abstract is accepted for the conference, a full
draft paper should be submitted by Friday 4th
February 2011. Abstracts should be submitted
simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts
may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with
the following information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold,
italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and
answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do
not receive a reply from us in a week you
should assume we did not receive your proposal; it
might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to
look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Daniel Riha
Cyber Hub Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net and
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
E-mail: rihad@inter-disciplinary.net
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire, UK
E-mail: digmem3@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the 'At the Interface'
programme of research projects. It aims to bring
together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and exciting.
All papers accepted for and presented at this
conference will be eligible for publication in an
ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited
for development for publication in a themed hard
copy volume(s) or for inclusion in a new Cyber
journal (launching 2011).
For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/digital-memories/
For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/digital-memories/call-for-papers/
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Monday 14th March – Wednesday 16th March 2011
Prague, Czech Republic
Call for Papers
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims
to examine, explore and critically engage with the
issues and implications created by the
massive exploitation of digital technologies for
inter-human communication and examine how on-line
users form, archive and de-/code their memories in
cybermedia environments, and how the systems used
for production influence the way the users
perceive and work with the memory. In particular
the conference will encourage equally theoretical
and practical debates which surround the cultural
contexts of memory co-/production, re-/mediation,
en-/decoding, dissemination, personal/mass
interpretation and preservation.
Papers, presentations, workshops and reports are
invited on any of the following themes:
1. Digital Personal and Community Memory
Theories and Concepts of Memory. The Digitisation
of Individual and Community Memory. Identifying
Key Features and Issues.
2. Externalization and Mediation of Memories
Memory Metaphors in the Digital Age. Web 2.0
Services as a Medium for Production/Dissemination
of Memory. Representational Principles for
Memory Recording.
3. Memory in Cybercultures and Arts
Social Networking and Fan Cultures. New Media Arts
and Memory. The Spatialization of memories in New
Media and Virtual Worlds. Digital
Media Archeology and Cyber-Arts history. Music,
History and Cultural memory.
4. Memory and Technology
The Memory of Digital Media and Systems. The
Recording Device and the User Response. Mobile
Systems. Prototyping Tools. Archeology of
Interfaces. Cloud Intelligence. Information
Architecture.
5. Archiving and Dissemination of memory Data
Digital Data Recording. Memory Restoring and
Preservation Strategies. Digital Libraries and
Archives. Database Design, Data Retrieval and
Usage. User Response and Modelling. Political,
Judicial and Social Problems with Data Ownership.
6. Uses of new media for Production of Historical
Knowledge National Identity and memory in the
Digital Age. Political uses of cybermedia for
Historical revisionism.
7. Specific Research on Community Memory
Social Issues Research. Online Ethnographic
Research. Privacy and Legal Issues in Community
Informatics. Folksonomies as Anthropological
Archives. Digital Life and Digital Death.
The Steering Group particularly welcomes the
submission of pre-formed panel proposals. 300 word
abstracts should be submitted by Friday 1st
October 2010. All submissions are minimally double
blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an
abstract is accepted for the conference, a full
draft paper should be submitted by Friday 4th
February 2011. Abstracts should be submitted
simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts
may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with
the following information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold,
italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and
answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do
not receive a reply from us in a week you
should assume we did not receive your proposal; it
might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to
look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Daniel Riha
Cyber Hub Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net and
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
E-mail: rihad@inter-disciplinary.net
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire, UK
E-mail: digmem3@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the 'At the Interface'
programme of research projects. It aims to bring
together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and exciting.
All papers accepted for and presented at this
conference will be eligible for publication in an
ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited
for development for publication in a themed hard
copy volume(s) or for inclusion in a new Cyber
journal (launching 2011).
For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.
For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.
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Tuesday, August 10
The glorious, ludicrous feud between Pel�and Diego Maradona. - By Brian Phillips - Slate Magazine
The glorious, ludicrous feud between Pel�and Diego Maradona. - By Brian Phillips - Slate Magazine: "Pel�, always the classier of the two, restricted himself to taunting Maradona from the stage while comparing himself to Beethoven."
Fed-Up Flight Attendant for Jet Blue Lets Curses Fly, Then Makes Sliding Exit - NYTimes.com
Fed-Up Flight Attendant for Jet Blue Lets Curses Fly, Then Makes Sliding Exit - NYTimes.com: "One passenger stood up to retrieve belongings from the overhead compartment before the crew had given permission. Mr. Slater instructed the person to remain seated. The passenger defied him. Mr. Slater reached the passenger just as the person was pulling down the luggage, which struck Mr. Slater in the head.
Mr. Slater asked for an apology. The passenger instead cursed at him. Mr. Slater got on the plane’s public-address system and cursed out the passenger for all to hear. Then, after declaring that 20 years in the airline industry was enough, he blurted out, “It’s been great!” He activated the inflatable evacuation slide at a service exit and left the world of flight attending behind."
Mr. Slater asked for an apology. The passenger instead cursed at him. Mr. Slater got on the plane’s public-address system and cursed out the passenger for all to hear. Then, after declaring that 20 years in the airline industry was enough, he blurted out, “It’s been great!” He activated the inflatable evacuation slide at a service exit and left the world of flight attending behind."
Fed-Up Flight Attendant for Jet Blue Lets Curses Fly, Then Makes Sliding Exit - NYTimes.com
Fed-Up Flight Attendant for Jet Blue Lets Curses Fly, Then Makes Sliding Exit - NYTimes.com: "Then, the authorities said, he pulled the lever that activates the emergency-evacuation chute and slid down, making a dramatic exit not only from the plane but, one imagines, also from his airline career."
Saturday, August 7
Rockstar, Blizzard and Quantic Dream Lead the Pack - NYTimes.com
Rockstar, Blizzard and Quantic Dream Lead the Pack - NYTimes.com: "PLAYER EMPATHY This is almost impossible to isolate, but when you play a Blizzard or Rockstar game, or most titles from other elite developers like Bungie, Epic, Valve, Id or Popcap, you are immersed in a feeling that they were made by people who actually like to play games. To them, it seems, the overall entertainment experience comes first, and the path to making a lot of money is paved by smiles, which is as it should be.
In the end, what these games convey is their creators’ unmistakable culture of excellence: a clear, rational, stubborn refusal to be anything less than the best at what they do. It is an incredibly powerful sensation when you get to experience it."
In the end, what these games convey is their creators’ unmistakable culture of excellence: a clear, rational, stubborn refusal to be anything less than the best at what they do. It is an incredibly powerful sensation when you get to experience it."
Consumers Find Ways to Spend Less and Find Happiness - NYTimes.com
Consumers Find Ways to Spend Less and Find Happiness - NYTimes.com: "Inspired by books and blog entries about living simply, Ms. Strobel and her husband, Logan Smith, both 31, began donating some of their belongings to charity. As the months passed, out went stacks of sweaters, shoes, books, pots and pans, even the television after a trial separation during which it was relegated to a closet. Eventually, they got rid of their cars, too. Emboldened by a Web site that challenges consumers to live with just 100 personal items, Ms. Strobel winnowed down her wardrobe and toiletries to precisely that number."
A Man With Muffin Secrets, but No Way to Cash Them In - NYTimes.com
A Man With Muffin Secrets, but No Way to Cash Them In - NYTimes.com: "According to Bimbo’s filings, the secret of the nooks and crannies was split into several pieces to make it more secure, and to protect the approximately $500 million in yearly muffin sales. They included the basic recipe, the moisture level of the muffin mixture, the equipment used and the way the product was baked. While many Bimbo employees may have known one or more pieces of the puzzle, only seven knew every step."
Massive Right-Wing Censorship Of Digg Uncovered | MetaFilter
Massive Right-Wing Censorship Of Digg Uncovered | MetaFilter: "You can't parody them any more. They're so far gone that you if you try to make fun of a Tea Partier, you turn around and they're saying something so crazy that it outstrips your parody by factors. It's like you show up to a party with a couple of buckets of crazy saying 'Look at me! I'm a Tea Partier! Nobama! Nobama!' and then you realize that there's a guy at the party that has brought a whole kiddy pool of crazy and he's splashing around in it in the middle of the room, just flailing around in his gallons and gallons of batshit-insane, totally serious about the whole thing, not at all aware of the shocked silence and embarassment of everyone else in the room, and you realize that no matter how hard you try, you can never compete."
Plutonomy | MetaFilter
Plutonomy | MetaFilter: "I thought of that Amway distributor analysis results screen -- the 'starry field' -- when I read the article. Because that's the way it is. That's the way it always is. There's always a few guys at the top driving the motorhomes, and they get everyone else to support them by pushing down a steady diet of fear or hope."
Another casualty of war | The Salt Lake Tribune
Another casualty of war | The Salt Lake Tribune: "But the count is incomplete. The Department of Veterans Affairs believes that more than 6,000 veterans — including many who have served in the nation’s ongoing conflicts — will commit suicide this year. VA officials say many of these deaths are as much a consequence of combat as those resulting immediately from bombs or bullets.
In the long run, the National Institute of Mental Health has estimated, suicide will eclipse roadside bombings as the leading cause of death among those who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan."
In the long run, the National Institute of Mental Health has estimated, suicide will eclipse roadside bombings as the leading cause of death among those who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Provo police officer fired after sex-abuse allegations | The Salt Lake Tribune
Provo police officer fired after sex-abuse allegations | The Salt Lake Tribune: "Detectives reviewed surveillance footage from the scene that was consistent with the victim’s report, Brower said. Westerman later made false statements to investigators in the case, Brower said."
Horrible that this guy did what he did. Scary that we are being observed constantly.
Friday, August 6
Israeli Ruger 10/22 Suppressed Sniper Rifle
Israeli Ruger 10/22 Suppressed Sniper Rifle: "In 1987, the Intifada - the Palestinian uprising against the Israeli regime in the Occupied Territories - broke out, and involved mass violent clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians protestors. As a result, the Israeli security forces needed a weapon with a more potent firepower then the standard riot control metal covered rubber round, but at the same time less lethal then the standard issue 5.56 mm round of the M16/Galil assault rifles. So the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) searched for a 0.22 caliber accurate rifle that will be used to take out the key protest leaders by shooting them in the legs.
The Ruger 10/22, fitted with a X4 day optic, a full length suppressor and a Harris bipod was selected for this role and was due to be issued to all infantry oriented units, including both special and conventional forces. However, as often happens in the shoestring budget IDF, financial problems prevented the weapon's mass distribution, and it was mainly issued to Special Forces (SF) units. Moreover, instead of using the rifle as a riot control weapon, as originally intended, the Israeli SF deployed the Ruger 10/22 more as a 'Hush Puppy' weapon used to silently and effectively eliminate disturbing dogs prior to operations."
The Ruger 10/22, fitted with a X4 day optic, a full length suppressor and a Harris bipod was selected for this role and was due to be issued to all infantry oriented units, including both special and conventional forces. However, as often happens in the shoestring budget IDF, financial problems prevented the weapon's mass distribution, and it was mainly issued to Special Forces (SF) units. Moreover, instead of using the rifle as a riot control weapon, as originally intended, the Israeli SF deployed the Ruger 10/22 more as a 'Hush Puppy' weapon used to silently and effectively eliminate disturbing dogs prior to operations."
Thursday, August 5
KUER: 8/3/10: The Genius in All of Us (2010-08-03)
KUER: 8/3/10: The Genius in All of Us (2010-08-03): "Journalist David Shenk says that everything we believe about intelligence and 'giftedness' comes from early-20th century guesswork and that it's all wrong. He's written a new book that looks at talent from a variety of scientific fields and it turns out that DNA isn't the blueprint of who we will become. Shenk joins Doug to talk about the interplay between genes and environment and about 'The Genius in All of Us.'"
Solid grips and pump handle on 1377c
Solid grips and pump handle on 1377c: "On Airgunartisan Websight, I copied these picture links.� The author says he used 'Krylon Stone Look Paint'.
� I went out and purchased 'Plasti-Kote' brand 'projekt paint' 'Stone Touch' P/N #11444 (Manhattan Mist) which is thick spray, highly textured Mostly Grey with Black and White Specs.�"
� I went out and purchased 'Plasti-Kote' brand 'projekt paint' 'Stone Touch' P/N #11444 (Manhattan Mist) which is thick spray, highly textured Mostly Grey with Black and White Specs.�"
Tuesday, August 3
NYT: $200 Textbook vs. Free. You Do the Math.
Two founders of Sun Microsystems have created two nonprofits to bring open-source textbooks to kindergarten through high school classes.
http://nyti.ms/bmYKfl
I'm trying to figure out what the advantage is of creating a large foundation to produce and distribute free textbooks when there are already so many out there. I suppose there's the possibility of editorial shaping of the text, or of perhaps meeting standards set by California or Texas, and thereby ensuring widespread adoption. Still, the top down model (and help me find a better name for this) reminds me of Mitch Kapor's attempt at a free version of Lotus Agenda [wait--there's actually a downloadable version!], or even Ted Nelson's "failed" attempts to instantiate Xanadu.
I have an anti-authoritarian streak and am always drawn to these hopeless attempts to blow up various deathstars, while Nick keeps patiently reminding me that we have a ways to go yet. Does that make Nick Obiwan Kenobi or Grand Moff Tarkin?
From the article:
“We are spending $8 billion to $15 billion per year on textbooks” in the United States, Mr. McNealy says. “It seems to me we could put that all online for free.”
The nonprofit Curriki fits into an ever-expanding list of organizations that seek to bring the blunt force of Internet economics to bear on the education market. Even the traditional textbook publishers agree that the days of tweaking a few pages in a book just to sell a new edition are coming to an end.
I suppose there's some advantage to a central clearinghouse of free textbooks. It might make books like Steve Krause's or Charlie Lowe's Writing Spaces project more visible. Anyway, I'm rehashing old arguments. Move along.
Chandler project: http://chandlerproject.org/
Krause: http://stevendkrause.com/tprw/
Charles Lowe textbook project: http://bit.ly/ciJVEF
Two founders of Sun Microsystems have created two nonprofits to bring open-source textbooks to kindergarten through high school classes.
http://nyti.ms/bmYKfl
I'm trying to figure out what the advantage is of creating a large foundation to produce and distribute free textbooks when there are already so many out there. I suppose there's the possibility of editorial shaping of the text, or of perhaps meeting standards set by California or Texas, and thereby ensuring widespread adoption. Still, the top down model (and help me find a better name for this) reminds me of Mitch Kapor's attempt at a free version of Lotus Agenda [wait--there's actually a downloadable version!], or even Ted Nelson's "failed" attempts to instantiate Xanadu.
I have an anti-authoritarian streak and am always drawn to these hopeless attempts to blow up various deathstars, while Nick keeps patiently reminding me that we have a ways to go yet. Does that make Nick Obiwan Kenobi or Grand Moff Tarkin?
From the article:
“We are spending $8 billion to $15 billion per year on textbooks” in the United States, Mr. McNealy says. “It seems to me we could put that all online for free.”
The nonprofit Curriki fits into an ever-expanding list of organizations that seek to bring the blunt force of Internet economics to bear on the education market. Even the traditional textbook publishers agree that the days of tweaking a few pages in a book just to sell a new edition are coming to an end.
I suppose there's some advantage to a central clearinghouse of free textbooks. It might make books like Steve Krause's or Charlie Lowe's Writing Spaces project more visible. Anyway, I'm rehashing old arguments. Move along.
Chandler project: http://chandlerproject.org/
Krause: http://stevendkrause.com/tprw/
Charles Lowe textbook project: http://bit.ly/ciJVEF
Monday, August 2
Adventure Playgrounds - Issue 012 - GOOD
Adventure Playgrounds - Issue 012 - GOOD: "Berkeley’s Adventure Playground is one of a handful of playgrounds in the United States based on a concept that grew in popularity after World War II. During the Nazi occupation of Denmark, the landscape architect C. Th. S�rensen created a new playground with whatever junk was available. It turned out, that’s exactly what kids like. “The simplicity of the concept is still startling,” writes Susan Solomon. “This idea—that kids are more interested in playing with what they find lying around than with what we think they should be playing—is the bedrock idea of all new play areas. Kids, whose lives are becoming increasingly structured by school, sports, music lessons, need time to do anything they want, and if it’s not given to them, they will just take it.”"
The SF Site: A Conversation With Ted Chiang
The SF Site: A Conversation With Ted Chiang: "In the recent book The Botany of Desire, author Michael Pollan describes how the advent of cheap sugar changed what we mean by 'sweet.' Before sugar was widely available, 'sweetness' described an unalloyed good, even a noble quality. Nowadays, it has far more mixed connotations, having been cheapened, almost debased, by sugar's ubiquity. It occurs to me that the same thing that happened to taste may be happening to appearance."
The Postmodern Condition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Postmodern Condition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The Postmodern Condition was written as a report on the influence of technology on the notion of knowledge in exact sciences, commissioned by the Qu�bec government. Lyotard later admitted that he had a 'less than limited' knowledge of the science he was to write about, and to compensate for this knowledge, he 'made stories up' and referred to a number of books that he hadn't actually read. In retrospect, he called it 'a parody' and 'simply the worst of all my books'.[3] Despite this, and much to Lyotard's regret, it came to be seen as his most important piece of writing."
All Creative Work Is Derivative (Minute Meme #2) | QuestionCopyright.org
All Creative Work Is Derivative (Minute Meme #2) | QuestionCopyright.org: "I was very affected by a South Asian sculpture exhibit I saw at the Met years ago (I was early in producing 'Sita' and still seeking Ramayana art) which made it very clear how ancient Greece and India were cross-pollinating each other. There was one period in which Greek and Indian sculpture were almost indistinguishable. This is especially striking since we're taught 'Western' and 'Eastern' history are separate; when the British colonized India centuries later, it was like a lost exotic land to them."
Sunday, August 1
Goings On: Shouts & Murmurs: Christopher Nolan’s “Implementation” : The New Yorker
Goings On: Shouts & Murmurs: Christopher Nolan’s “Implementation” : The New Yorker: "Cobb believes her. The project milestone is hit, the tangibles are delivered, and DiCaprio and Watanabe are back on a helipad in Manhattan. DiCaprio takes the subway to Park Slope and walks into his old tapenade shop, where he can finally read the list of local, organic ingredients on the label. He takes out his corporate badge and spins it on the table. Cut to black."
AFP: Palin to reporter-next-door: 'Get a life'
AFP: Palin to reporter-next-door: 'Get a life': "The Palins also put up a 14-foot fence between the homes."
Bill Murray on Ghostbusters 3, Get Low, Ron Howard, and Kung Fu Hustle: Celebrities: GQ
Bill Murray on Ghostbusters 3, Get Low, Ron Howard, and Kung Fu Hustle: Celebrities: GQ: "I'm always interested in how you pick your projects, because that's one damned random filmography. For Get Low, I dimly suspect that it came down to the line 'One thing about Chicago, people know how to die.'
[laughs] Well, that was appealing. No, [producer] Dean Zanuck and I had the nicest phone conversation, and I thought, Hmm… And then I saw the making-of DVD of his last movie. This really should be kept secret, but you can learn a lot by watching the making-of DVDs. Every actor should do it. You figure out what you're dealing with. And I thought, You know, this guy is all right. And it turned out beautifully. Where the hell did we take it? That's right. Poland. There's kind of a famous cinematography festival, in a place called Lodz, and God, they went nuts for it. These cinematographers were all, [deadpan Eastern European accent] 'Oh yeah, dis good.'"
[laughs] Well, that was appealing. No, [producer] Dean Zanuck and I had the nicest phone conversation, and I thought, Hmm… And then I saw the making-of DVD of his last movie. This really should be kept secret, but you can learn a lot by watching the making-of DVDs. Every actor should do it. You figure out what you're dealing with. And I thought, You know, this guy is all right. And it turned out beautifully. Where the hell did we take it? That's right. Poland. There's kind of a famous cinematography festival, in a place called Lodz, and God, they went nuts for it. These cinematographers were all, [deadpan Eastern European accent] 'Oh yeah, dis good.'"
Get Low | Rolling Stone Movies | News and Reviews
Get Low | Rolling Stone Movies | News and Reviews: "All you need to know is that Get Low puts Duvall and Murray in the same movie. Only a fool would want to miss that."
Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything | Magazine
Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything | Magazine: "Brooks: You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you’re forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality."
2009 June � Game Design Concepts
2009 June � Game Design Concepts: "What is a game?
Those of you who have read a little into the Challenges text may think this is obvious. My preferred definition is a play activity with rules that involves conflict. But the question “what is a game?” is actually more complicated than that:"
Those of you who have read a little into the Challenges text may think this is obvious. My preferred definition is a play activity with rules that involves conflict. But the question “what is a game?” is actually more complicated than that:"
Sovereign Citizen Movement -- Extremism in America
Sovereign Citizen Movement -- Extremism in America: "beginning in the late 1960s, a number of right-wing fringe groups formed that questioned the authority and nature of the federal government. Most grew out of a recently emergent right-wing tax-protest movement: arguments about the illegitimacy of income tax laws were easily expanded or altered to challenge the legitimacy of the government itself. The most important of these groups was the Posse Comitatus,1 which originated in Oregon and California around 1970."
Exposed: The Last Roll Of Kodachrome : NPR
Exposed: The Last Roll Of Kodachrome : NPR: "The film, known for its rich saturation and archival durability of its slides, was discontinued last year to the dismay of photographers worldwide. But Kodak gave the last roll ever produced to McCurry. He has just processed that coveted roll at Dwayne's Photo Service in Parsons, Kan. — the last remaining location that processes the once-popular slide film."
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