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GOSH (Grounding Open Source Hardware) in Banff
A global meetup, across all disciplines- creative, strategic, user experience based and business-minded.
The Grounding Open Source Hardware (GOSH!) Summit at The Banff Centre serves to bring together the many and disparate makers, producers, theorizers, and promoters of physical objects that come to life under open and distributed models.
(From the website) This Banff New [...]
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Paige’s MFA Exhibit is up
Hey everyone I am going to try hard and pick back up with my life now that school is done!
I wanted to post some links to images from the final exhibit since I just got them.
I did my final thesis work on interaction design, the cyborgian state of our existence and socio-techno interaction in daily [...]
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Olson code timezones geekery
The backstory is that the OpenBSD folks wanted help to automate configuration of timezones for installs. What we did was take the geolocation of their IP and use it to look up a timezone code.
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Thomas Dolby’s Airwaves
Strange how the scale forms
in tiny patterns
on my antenna
and the Five O’clock Show, hello hello…
Brooklyn is crawling with famous people
I turn my vehicle beneath the river, West from South
Through the airwaves -
people never read the airwaves
do we only feed the airwaves
or stamp them out of street level?
Airwaves – the dampness of the wind
the airwaves – [...]
@kissmehere and there! and there! and there! Kissing Booths FTW!
Last night at makerlab we were talking about dating sites a bit - commenting on how strange it was that they didn't leverage social networks.
For fun today I threw a fun idea together as a test of how to make dating more social. It isn't terribly serious but perhaps amusing. I like to combine talk with praxis. Here it is:
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Biomimetic signaling in Twitter
Anselm: Have you noticed how it is that the beasts in nature can in some circumstances appear to move as one?
Socrates: Indeed. One has to look no further than to witness the swifts descend upon the Chapman chimney tower in Portland.
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Augmentia