Stung Eye

Link: The Wilderness Downtown

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:47:53 +0100

“Enter the address of the home where you grew up.”

A Google Maps enhanced music video by Chris Milk for Arcade Fire, complete with beautiful boid swarming on the landing page.

Link: Dropping the Spoon

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:05:00 +0100

Hypnagogia: “You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming?”

DIY Magic. via

Also: The Ganzfeld Technique

Link: The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:55:01 +0100

“A progressive lending library of electronic components. An internet meme in physical form halfway between P2P zip-archive sharing and a flea market.”

Photo: Awareness via bk

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:22:42 +0100

Awareness

via bk

Link: Rain Caddy - Should You Water Your Lawn Today?

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:51:00 +0100

John, a previous student of mine, made this weather-aware application and entered it in the Apps 4 Climate Action contest.

Enter your (Canadian) address to see the average rainfall in your area over the last 7 days. John’s site uses data from Environment Canada’s 1079 weather stations. (See the Rain Caddy About page for a map of all these stations.)

Open Data for the win.

Link: HTML5 Helicopter

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:32:07 +0100

Simple, addictive helicopter game written with HTML5 complete with source code.

Photo: Pennies. Seriously. And Truth. [via]

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:45:00 +0100

Pennies. Seriously. And Truth. [via]

Photo: as told by their hair [via]

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:39:11 +0100

as told by their hair [via]

Photo: TCP/IP Header Diagram in Lego

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:04:00 +0100

TCP/IP Header Diagram in Lego

Blog: Request for Feedback: WinnipegElection.ca

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:36:00 +0100

Hi folks,

On October 27 of this year the citizens of Winnipeg go to the polls to elect their Mayor, their City Councillors and their School Trustees.

Making an informed vote requires that you know the candidates, their platforms and the issues they discuss.

This is why we’ve created WinnipegElection.ca, a citizen driven website for the upcoming Winnipeg general election.

Our public launch is later this month, but we’d love you to take a sneak peak.

Send your comments and suggestions to winnipeg.election@gmail.com. You should vote in our polls too. We’ll use your feedback to determine how to proceed with the site.

Currently you’ll find:

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Photo: Lightning Over Athens. [via] 42 “stacked shots” taken during a lighting storm. ...

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:01:00 +0100

Lightning Over Athens. [via]

42 “stacked shots” taken during a lighting storm. I looked up the term “stacked shots”. It’s like it sounds, a process of superimposing multiple images.

“Stacking was developed for astronomy. The purpose then was to reduce digital noise. When using film, astronomers would sometimes expose for hours at a time (occasionally, exposing the same piece of film several nights in a row, making the exposure equivalent to several days).

Trying to do the same with digital would result in 100% noise, 0% image.

By stacking many images of shorter duration, [digital photographers] can get the equivalent of a very long exposure, each of which has the noise of a shorter exposure. The signals combine in a complementary fashion, while the noise combines in ways that mostly cancels itself out. There are more advanced statistical techniques uszed that can reduce random sensor noise to virtually zero.” —AustinMN @ Panoramio

Photo: Denis Prieur’s Rural Graffiti near Rock Lake, Manitoba.

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:54:00 +0100

Denis Prieur’s Rural Graffiti near Rock Lake, Manitoba.

Photo: Vine Girl from Marc DeGagne’s adventures in Argentina. Also: Chile and Uruguay.

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:50:00 +0100

Vine Girl from Marc DeGagne’s adventures in Argentina. Also: Chile and Uruguay.

Video: Video from SuperMe a multi-player resilience and happiness game from Channel ...

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:18:26 +0100

Video from SuperMe a multi-player resilience and happiness game from Channel 4’s education department.

It’s interesting to see these types of “life-hacking” games trend upwards. Related: EpicWin, RibbonHero, Future of Games, Jane McGonigal.

[via]

Video: Man Enough - Download game from No More Sweden.

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:04:00 +0100

Man Enough - Download game from No More Sweden.

Photo: Photos from our trip to Toronto, Hamilton, Niagara.

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:42:58 +0100

Photos from our trip to Toronto, Hamilton, Niagara.

Video: Super Mario “Speed Run” Augmented Reality. Respect. [via waxy, again]

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:48:38 +0100

Super Mario “Speed Run” Augmented Reality.

Respect. [via waxy, again]

Link: Ask MeFi: You Were Doing it Wrong.

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:37:00 +0100

Members chime in on what they’ve spent large portions of their life doing wrong.

Glad this didn’t get nixed as ChatFilter. [via]

Link: New Developments in AI

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:00:22 +0100

“If we were trying to build a true, general AI, we would first need to create a way for it to get around and interact with the larger world. And we would need a system for rapid knowledge acquisition, so that we wouldn’t have to manually explain every detail of how the world works.”

Near future AI: Autonomous Automobiles and Learning by Reading.

Link: They Don’t Complain and They Die Quietly

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:57:36 +0100

“This is one of the gifts plants give me. They remind me to slow down, to take the long view, to breathe, relax, and just wait for what happens next.”