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"The Joking Computer, a kiosk-based installation running software made by artificial intelligence researchers at the University of Aberdeen. The software uses phonetic information about English words and semantic information from WordNet to generate pun-based riddles"
"The Chans show us the chaos at the edge of human perception, where the mind has consumed so much information through artificially enhanced sensory inputs that it begins to break down and cannibalize itself"
"this sellout manual serves only the lazy and small. Those who bestow sellouthood upon their former heroes are driven to do so by, first and foremost, the unshakable need to reduce. The average one of us - a taker-in of various and constant media, is absolutely overwhelmed - as he or she should be - with the sheer volume of artistic output in every conceivable medium given to the world every day - it is simply too much to begin to process or comprehend - and so we are forced to try to sort, to reduce. We designate, we label, we diminish, we create hierarchies and categories."
Firefox consumes a lot of CPU resources
more on the Murdoch/Microsoft thing, because it's just crazy
"NUPLAY IS A BRAND NEW OPEN-SOURCE APPLICATION FOR CREATING LIVE 3D AUDIO/VIDEO PERFORMANCES AND INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS." (IDTECH4 based)
"Microsoft is ready to pay Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to remove its news content from Google" Oh wow :o !
on 00s rock and indie music
"3D scanning with a plain webcam"
lulz
"Why hasn't anyone harnessed the power of pretending to make work a bit more fun. For the same reason so many games are just a bit, you know, much. It's that inability to be subtle, that desire, shared by games companies and brand-marketing people alike to go too far, to do too much."
The Gate is a dual installation that connects Second Life and First Life in real time.
Choose Your Own Adventure books visualisations !