I think I’m a bit of a synaesthete, or at least I’ve recently become increasingly aware that when I see things, I feel the textures in my mind. It’s very strong when looking at photographs. Photographs of skin, wallpaper, peeling paint and so on really work for me. It’s because I can feel those textures [...]
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Many Eyes
I saw, in the comments on a friend’s blog1, a reference to this fine IBM application, Many Eyes, designed to allow you to share data and visualizations of that data with people on the net. I wanted to remember where it was, so I’m blogging quickly about it. technorati tags:statistics, visualization Gareth’s a really keen [...]
Web 2.0
This video is just fun to watch. But I think it doesn’t quite go far enough: we’re actually teaching some artificial intelligence that exists in the links between Google’s computers everything about humanity so that when it finally gains its freedom, it will know exactly how to kill us. Web 2.0 Video technorati tags:web2.0, video
Friends missing Friends
And then I can’t help but picture Neal navigating his way through the streets and shops of Paris. Picking his way through crowds and chaos, all the whhile unfailingly polite… smiling, making way, opening doors for ladies, putting stray trash in it’s proper receptacle… reorganizing untidy displays and finding just the right spot for that [...]
How to totally fake being a geek…
Yes, it’s come to this. The same people you raked on in high school now run the world and control every gizmo you own or want to own. And, as you hold your “normal” identity throughout your life, there are times when it may be advantageous to pose as a geek. Maybe to convince your [...]
