Category Archives: happiness

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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DIY for CHI workshop

re-posted from Leah Buechley’s Flickr
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Water Sensor

re-posted from bluematt
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What advances in TECHNOLOGY scare you?

Image via Wikipedia Are you harrassed by electronic devices? Yes/No. Are you often devising plans for escape? Yes/No. Do you know what you want? Yes/No. Are you satisfied with who you are? Yes/No. What do you need to change most about your personality? ________. A while back, a little survey was pasted onto the Internet. It asked various site visitors certain questions, and then stored the [...]
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Reproducing Chuck Close isoluminant paintings.

The work of Chuck close demonstrates an almost algorithmic perception of the visual image. One wonders if in fact he actually sees the world in this manner. There's a quality to this work that creates a tension with human perception. We are seeing the overall sense of an image but the individual features of that image are in a way unrelated.
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@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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