Ned Gulley’s Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 30th, 2003
Here’s a good example of what SOAP-based web services and an open-minded vendor site can bring about. Amazon encourages people to use web services to build customized interfaces to its book offerings. Here is the work of someone at Kokogiak Media who decided to put all of Amazon into a single page:
Amazon Light. The result [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 29th, 2003
I was thinking about this Lorem Ipsum text the other day (see my post here, or a few entries down the page) and it occurred to me that there was something oddly genetic about the whole thing. Here is a message that has lost its intrinsic meaning, but nevertheless continues to get handed down from [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2003
The “semantic web” is supposed to be the next big thing for Tim Berners-Lee’s little invention, but I think geospatial links will be a hit much sooner. “Geospatial link” is a fancy name for hanging URLs in mid-air. If your web browser knows where it is (in the purely spatial sense of latitude and longitude), [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2003
Golan Levin, like Martin Wattenberg, is an artist who can write code. This convergence is rare enough to make it a delightful treat to browse through his work. In contrast to various other “new” art forms enabled by computers, such as hypertext fiction or virtual 3-d worlds, this interactive graphical work seems to have real [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2003
Wanna hook up later on this weekend for a war? We’ll have some drinks, eliminate some weapons of mass destruction, and dance all night. C’mon! It’ll be fun! England will be there for sure and there’s bound to be a few others. See for yourself. Evite courtesy of DefectiveYeti.com.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2003
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Have you ever wondered where this lorem ipsum nonsense came from? Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. It looks like [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2003
I’ve made the big switch from Blogger to MovableType. Blogger, you served me well, and thank you very much.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2003
It’s a good thing that we have weather, that hearty support of flagging conversations across all climates and cultures. A world without weather would be a sad place indeed, devoid of all but the most meaningful conversations. Consequently, high tech gadgets don’t make weather go away. They just make it that much easier to talk [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2003
More on the LazyWeb: Clay Shirky, one of the forces behind the LazyWeb project, writes about it at OpenP2P: LazyWeb and RSS: Given Enough Eyeballs, Are Features Shallow Too? There’s some good stuff in there, including this tasty little pretzel from Stefano Mazzocchi: “Good ideas and bad code build communities. The other three combinations do [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 6th, 2003
Now this is a good idea. Samuel Pepys (remember for the sake of your next cocktail party conversation that his last name is pronounced “peeps”, as in the phrase “Closer than my peeps you are to me“) was an Englishman who kept a detailed diary of his life in London from 1659 to 1669. In [...]
