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Revolution, Schmevolution
According to Rebecca Blood, the [weblog] revolution should not be eulogised. Via metal machine music.
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Circular Streetscapes
The project installation Their Circular Life uses digital technologies to present quite ordinary images of urban life in an innovative way. It is similar to panoramic VR presentations, but instead of allowing you to “fly” around viewing the scene from a number of different perspectives (so you feel that you are controlling the spatiality of…
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Networks, Rings and Things
These two paragraphs are completely unrelated. I admit it. Bit 1 I keep forgetting to help spread the word about Phil Agre’s advice piece Networking on the Network, which is specifically aimed at graduate students (it’s almost long enough to be a PhD itself in fact). It isn’t just for academic types, though. It’s full…
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Tinderbox
To call Tinderbox “a personal content management assistant”, as its developer eastgate does, is a bit modest I reckon. From what I gather, it is elegant, powerful, and totally modular – the most exciting thing for me is the ability to make mindmaps (something I do all the time) that are expandable and connectable (something…
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PhD Weblogs
Looky, a directory of PhD weblogs.
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Cinema, Memory, and National Identity
There have been times in years past when my own house made me so bored and restless that I spent whole Saturdays doing the rounds of my friends, dropping in for cups of tea and a chat. My behaviour in the blogosphere lately has been exactly like that – for some reason everybody else’s blog…
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The Rhetoric of Cool
I really like this flash presentation all about the rhetoric of cool – by Jeff Rice
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Grad School Humour
This find at UFO Breakfast Recipients has had me splurting coffee, snorting, and generally falling off my chair with laughter all day. Advisor haiku I read your comments The red ink was a nice touch You can just bite me I have no money You have a lot of money You can just bite me…
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Digital Music Symposium
Video footage of the recent Digital Music Symposium, featuring Fred Von Lohmann of the EFF is now available online.
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Common Content
Common Content is “an open catalog of Creative Commons licensed content”. Handy.