Digital follies

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:04:44 +0800

I'm thinking of buying the Nikon D40. The D80 apparently is a step up, but digital technology is just not really worth paying extra for these days. You're better off, when ...

Thoughts on creating a visual language

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:02:52 +0800

I designed a little game a few days ago. It's about network effects and the flow of information through links to nodes, and the infection rate. I thought it would be ...

Environmentally friend tech

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:01:47 +0800

My god. You must have seen the Greg Craven video on YouTube about Global Warming. You can get it here.

It's very noble, but what I don't like ...

Imagination is real

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:01:52 +0800

The new edge annual question for the year has been released. It's "wat have you changed your mind about?". One I really like is Alison Gopnik's "Imagination is Real".

Uploading conciousness

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:12:41 +0800

So someone pointed me to an article in the Guardian about the Blue Brain, which is supposed to be a simulation of the neocortex in mammals. The idea is to ...

Informational exo-skele

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:12:48 +0800

Anyone heard about Aka-aki? It's the social networking site that is something like augmented reality. In this case, the physical environment is loaded with digital information about the people around you. ...

A man's world

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:12:44 +0800

I know a few good women out there who do computer science. Some of them are even hot and all of them are lesbians.�Pretty much. I get vibes which, of course, ...

Why snap decisions work

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:11:07 +0800

This is throughly annoying. I made two blog posts since the last one, and they have been lost, for some unknown reason.

Anyway, I have been thinking a lot about ...

Real intelligences

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:10:11 +0800

I picked up Jeff Hawkins book On Intelligent, again. He writes like an engineer, so you can imagine why it wasn't a book I'd decide to pick up over someone like ...

Surface and porn

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:10:44 +0800

I had a chat with one of the guys working on the UI for Microsoft Surface last weekend. It was cool. He's done all this work on alternative interfaces for visual ...

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