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Augmentia
Augmented Reality isn't just an academic or even safe exercise. It connects in a very primal and critical way to who we are as humans.
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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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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.
Iraq Deaths TwitterBot
We’ve posted an update to our Iraq Deaths agent at http://twitter.com/iraqdeaths . Here I’m going to journal and document the work involved in making this actually work.
At a high level this agent makes a daily post to twitter to broadcast any deaths reported by the Iraq War Bodycount database. I should mention that without their efforts [...]
Augmentia Redux