Pomplamoose VideoSongs have two rules:
Some nice songs:
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This weekend I’ll be exploring:
Step one: Install Eclipse, PhoneGap and the Android SDK along with JQTouch, iProcessing and MobiOne.
Step two: Play around. Create a few sample apps.
Step Three: Tomorrow Andrew and I will deploy these apps to his Android phone.
The Hypemachine, Groveshark and SoundCloud understand that the future will be streamed.
You can listen to (in their entirety) every album of the Hypem top 50 of 2009. The top 50 was crowd-sourced from the top 10 lists of over 500 bloggers. The albums are hosted by Groveshark.
Yes, the Hypem leaderboard gets gamed now and then, and it sometimes get clogged with meme-ooze, but the web’s messy like that.
SoundCloud is a mix-hunters paradise. I’m listening to Dj Czech’s “Bucket Of Grease” mix right now.
The goal of this challenge was to write a computer-program capable of playing the game Tron.
The rankings for my Ruby bot:
The rankings were determined using tournament play along with the Elo rating system.
Early non-minmax versions of my bots are available on github. The winning C++ bot source is also available; as is a brief explanation by the author.
I enjoyed this challenge immensely. My Ruby programming skills also benefited from this Code Kata.
Update: A detailed examination of the winning bot. And if you’re brave, a Haskell bot explained. ;)
Also: The tron battle continues on dhartmei’s server.
The future of games, a talk by Jesse Schell. [28 minutes]
Even if you’re not a gamer this is a must-watch video, especially the second half on the implications of “games that break through the reality barrier” and the attention economy. I’m not sure I welcome the “gameification” of life, but it does feel like the inevitable progression of the capitalist spectacle. “A world where points are distributed for paying attention — to ads, activities, or other people.”
Adding to the conversation:
Amsterdam is now home to the world’s first open source restaurant. Everything you see, use and eat is downloaded from Instructables.com.
It’s an experiment in combining free culture with food concepts.
iProcessing is an open programming framework for native iPhone applications using the Processing language. It is an integration of the Processing.js library and a Javascript application framework for the iPhone.
This video shows two AI players battling it out for Tron supremacy as part of the Google AI Challenge.
If you’ve ever wanted to learn about game-AI programming you might want to look into this challenge. Bots can be written in C++, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Haskell, C#, Javascript, Go, Scheme, Lua and Clojure.
If you don’t know where to begin, you can try your hand at learning game-AI by playing Ruby Warrior, a roguelike that you play by implementing a Ruby class containing your player’s control logic.
The first of a series of columns by Steven Strogatz on mathematics “from pre-school to grad school”.
“The goal is to give you a better feeling for what math is all about and why it’s so enthralling to those who get it.”
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Media: Photoshop / Custom Processing sketch.
I cannot remember the source of the ladybug. It was part of a free sprite library created by an indie-game developer.
The Evolution of Remix Culture - How Remix is becoming a platform for collective expression by, and conversations between, social groups.
Although I essentially agree with the ideas presented in this video, there is something about expressing ourselves in terms of pop culture that brings to mind Baudrillard’s Simulacrum. But really, I should learn to stop worrying and the love spectacle. :P
Oh, and bonus points for the Glass Bead Game analogy.
Quick! My first animated gif remix. :P
Learn to use the Scientific Method to deduce specific program behavior and to target, analyze, extract and modify specific operations of a program (mainly for purposes of interoperability).
File under: Information that could one day be illegal to posses (given the current direction of copyright reform).
Why we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide.
Here are the slides from my presentation today at the RRC Directions business conference.
Click the “full” button to view in full-screen mode.
A container game within an essay on metagames and containers.
“All the ways in which we build around and on top of our creations greatly impact the way they’re used.
Boundaries may not be physical anymore, but they remain powerful.”
I’ll be giving a talk tomorrow at the RRC Business and Applied Arts Conference entitled “Launching Your First Web Start-up”.
I’ll post the slides for the talk here tomorrow afternoon.
An API for LCBO store, product, and inventory information. Created by Carsten Nielsen but not affiliated with the Liquor Control Board of Ontario.
John Nunemaker on Talent vs Practice via Giles Bowkett
“We are born into a world that presents us with many millenia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly.” —Erik Naggum
Capitalism as communal risk management.
(Articles like this are best read using the Readability bookmarklet.)
“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. [W]hen it is squandered through luxury and indifference, and spent for no good end, we realize it has gone, under the pressure of the ultimate necessity, before we were aware it was going.
So it is: the life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.” — Seneca the Younger
Release your source-code free and unencumbered into the public domain.
“The author or authors of this software dedicate any and all copyright interest in the software to the public domain. We make this dedication for the benefit of the public at large and to the detriment of our heirs and successors. We intend this dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this software under copyright law.”
It’s time for me to move away from CC Licenses and Unlicense all my publicly released code. I’ve been using the Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license but I no longer feel the need to force attribution and place non-commercial-use restrictions on my work.
I should probably do something similar for all my creative output (prose, poetry, photos, art, etc).
Five (naïve) assumptions we make about creative individuals:
Some of my favourites from Ebert’s list:
I would have added:
Surely I’m forgetting some…
