Tag Archives: Creativity

Outsourced graffiti

Don’t have time to tag your own walls? Outsource it! Send a Message is an interesting site that allows you to dictate a message to be spray-painted on the Palestinian wall. Full employment for Palestinian graffiti artists. Besides, remember back when the Berlin Wall came down and Bloomingdale’s was selling chunks? Maybe in a few [...]
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Man v. Shark

OK, this is just too cool. Sharkrunners is a game set up by the Discovery Channel for people to learn more about sharks. Human players take on the role of captains of virtual research ships, tooling around coastal waters looking to collect data on sharks. The sharks are controlled by–sharks! Yeah, the wii controller is [...]
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Upgrading Humans

Kevin Warwick is giving a talk entitled “Upgrading Humans: Why Not?” this Monday at 7 PST in the main auditorium on Uvvy Island in Second Life. I’ve always been a fan of many of the transhumanists. I tend to be too much an adherent of the appropriate use of technology to fit in well with [...]
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Democratization and the Networked Public Sphere

Hey, speaking of things happening in the city I want to go to, Trebor just let me know about a panel at New School next Friday that looks really promising. The three panelists are each interesting and original thinkers in their own right, with enough convergence/divergence to provide for an interesting discussion, I think. Hope [...]
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Thought bombs

Am I the only one who sees the arrest of two artists as a scary thing. Boston had a citywide “bombscare” because of the “Mooninite” magnetic LED signs that had been posted near roadways in the city. The two men responsible for building the devices have been arrested for making “bomblike” devices. The CNN story [...]
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PSA: Dove BEauty

It’s PSA time again… If you like that, you should also check out this sped up Photoshop makeover.
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Dark and stormy

The winner of the Bulwer-Lytton prize has been announced: Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you\’ve had your last burrito for a while, whose face said angels did exist, [...]
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    • @JosephGalbo Really hard to categorize tweets based on keywords, just because there are so few of them in a tweet... 14 hrs ago
    • Though it is categorizing any tweet with the word "fan" as "sports" (wrong!), but not my only tweet ever with the word "sport"‽ 14 hrs ago
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    • @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 3 days ago
    • @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 3 days ago
    • @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 3 days ago
    • @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 3 days ago
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