Stung Eye link

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.”

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.

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.”

Link: AskMefi: I Need a Hero

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:15:40 +0100

Link: Minimalist Home Cooking Free Ebook

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:32:34 +0100

From the Stone Soup blog.

Link: Discuss the new copyright bill or other Internet issues with Michael Geist, Canadian law ...

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:14:00 +0100

A reddit “I Am A” thread.

The Chef and I have posted questions.

(Hopefully a moderator can verify and “star” the thread soon.)

Link: Emend (verb), to improve by critical editing.

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:55:00 +0100

“Emend is a service for alerting website owners and authors of grammatical and spelling mistakes found on their site.”

Amendments for your site show up in an ATOM feed. Example: Stungeye@Emend

[via: The comments for a blog post on XML extensibility.]

Link: The Canadian Copyright Bill: Flawed But Fixable

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:37:20 +0100

Michael Geist’s initial reaction to the Canadian copyright reform bill (C-32) announced today.

Looks like an improvement over C-61 but DRM is still poised to trump fair dealing.

Link: What is data science?

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:31:08 +0100

“The future belongs to the companies and people that turn data into products.”

Link: The Greatest Hip-Hop Samples

Fri, 14 May 2010 20:44:00 +0100

The 50 greatest Hip-Hop samples according to Kon & Amir. [via]

Link: Pangram

Thu, 13 May 2010 13:35:00 +0100

This Pangram contains four as, one b, two cs, one d, thirty es, six fs, five gs, seven hs, eleven is, one j, one k, two ls, two ms, eighteen ns, fifteen os, two ps, one q, five rs, twenty-seven ss, eighteen ts, two us, seven vs, eight ws, two xs, three ys, & one z.

Link: Nomic, a Game of Self-Amendment

Sat, 01 May 2010 19:03:05 +0100

Nomic is a game in which changing the rules is a move. The Initial Set of rules does little more than regulate the rule-changing process.

Link: Debt: The first five thousand years

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:47:00 +0100

Anthropologist David Graeber explores the 5000 year history of dept on the Long Now blog.

Link: Defining Computationally Minimal Art

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:59:00 +0100

Old-school optimalism, which aims at pushing technological boundaries in order to fit in “as much beauty as possible”, versus new-school reductivism, which idealizes the low complexity itself as a source of beauty.

Link: Twitter Annotations

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:50:00 +0100

Tweets may soon include optional payloads of structured data. The purpose and usage of these annotations?

“Annotations are a blank slate that lend themselves to myriad divergent use cases. We want to provide open-ended utility for all the developers to innovate on top of.”
— Marcel Molina - Early look at Annotations

Possible Useful Annotations:

The full URL of all shortened URLs that appear within a tweet.
Longitude/latitude geo-locations when tweeting from GPS-enabled devices.
Re-tweet history and/or attribution information.
Multimedia URLs. Link a tweet to images, videos, and sound files.
Multimedia data. The system should eventually support 2K payloads containing small images, sound clips, MIDI, etc.
Microformats