Meggy Jr RGB - Open-source handheld game platform with 8x8 pixel screen.
Oh brother, a surveillance camera project for Winnipeg.
“The Winnipeg Police Association said earlier the $460,000 cost of a proposed year-long camera project might be better spent on improving police response times and increasing the number of officers downtown.” —source
Last week I saw two cops riding down Princess St. on horses. Let’s trade in the camera project for more horse-back popo. :)
New Theories of Mimesis
“I am looking for writings on Mimesis in regards new, digital, hypertext and hypermedial technologies and cultures.
I am following the redefinition of mimesis. From Plato’s disregard of oral culture, through his mimesis of Socrates’ dialogues in writing. Following Plato, Aristotle’s theory was always a written mimesis, thus the order and processes of representation and mimicry were fundamentally written.
In essence, I am interested in how the artifacts of oral culture differed in their mimesis to written culture, and thus, how our modern move from a written to a digital/hypertextual culture will similarly impact on mimetic embodiment.”
Daceybassyrappyhappy - Glutton Mix
Daceybassyrappyhappy - Choons from 2007/2008 that made me smile and dance around.
Track List
- Marlena Shaw - California Soul (Diplo / Mad Decent mix)
- My Robot Friend - Robot High School
- Mark Ronson feat. Lily Allen - Oh My God (Chris Lake mix)
- The Ting Tings -That’s Not My Name (Tom Neville mix)
- Calvin Harris - Merrymaking At My Place (Kissy Sell Out mix)
- Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor
- Z-Trip - Something Different feat. Charlie Tuna
- GoldieLocks - Learning To Brap
- Ricardo Villalobos - Enfants (Olin Fix)
I’m not a pirate, I just grog a lot.
Glasnost: Test if Your ISP is Manipulating BitTorrent Traffic
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is required by mandate to make its programming “available throughout Canada by the most appropriate and efficient means.” Using BitTorrent allows the CBC to meet this target. However, when they experimented with this technology last year, many users were blocked by their ISP due to BitTorrent’s association with piracy.
The Glosnost Results show that at least 10 Canadian ISPs block BitTorrent outright. Canadian ISPs are also starting use traffic-shaping techniques to throttle-down the speed of all BitTorrent traffic.
Discrimination ain’t nice in meat-space, and it ain’t nice on the net. If you love the internet, read up on Network Neutrality. Non-discriminatory treatment of network-traffic is essential for an open and participatory internet.
Jeff Hawkins (founder of Palm) on Artificial Intelligence. Also: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
NFB - Film Archive
The Canadian National Film Board has released 700+ films, clips and trailers from their archive for free download. Ya for Canadian culture!
Engelbart: Augmenting Human Intellect (1962)
A systematic approach to improving the intellectual effectiveness of the individual human being through hci.
TrackMeNot
“A background process that periodically issues randomized search-queries to popular search engines. It hides users’ actual search trails in a cloud of ‘ghost’ queries, significantly increasing the difficulty of aggregating such data into accurate or identifying user profiles.”
Julia Nunes - All My Loving, The Beatles
“yeah i know, no one can cover the beatles”
Velato
An esoteric programming language that uses MIDI files as source code.
“There is a tendency for Velato programs to have jazz-like harmonies.”