August 2008
1 post
FuckFlickr: narc-free image gallery | F.A.T. →
lightweight gallery software from F.A.T. only problem is you need your own server. but freedom isn’t free (yet).
May 2008
2 posts
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Burmese blog the cyclone →
More information about the communications disruption in Burma as a result of the cyclone…
Confrontation in Lebanon Appears to Escalate - New... →
This is a reason why Fluid Nexus is needed…
April 2008
19 posts
Babies seized by Robert Mugabe's forces as... →
This is simply atrocious and must stop. I worry for the people working on Dialup Radio and hope that they are okay…
Columbia Protester, Now a Judge, Returns to Campus... →
Read to the end of this article…and see how militarized our campuses remain.
Is constant, sustained intensity still intensity? Does it need a trough?
Gay pride fliers removed last week →
This is really sad. Caltech was never a place that was welcoming to the LGBTQ community when I was there, and it’s upsetting to see that mentality still exists six years later.
Greatest word that I’ve read today: onagrocracy (literally “government by braying asses”), coined by Bernedetto Croce.
BBC NEWS | Americas | Capitalism harms planet -... →
Go Morales!
Ex-Cleric Wins Paraguay Presidency, Ending a... →
This is a great thing…here’s to hoping that the socialist trend starts moving northward…
Top Bush aides pushed for Guantánamo torture |... →
This is big…and I’m afraid that it’s unlikely to hit the mass media in the US.
Loyalty Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
This is wrong on so many levels.
No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir... →
See what day this was published on, and then read the last page. Chilling.
The type of job posting that is sent to the CS/IS PhD students mailing list:
“Please pass my contact information along, as well as the job description
below, to any students you feel are highly motivated and may be
interested in Jr. C++ Development at a growing Derivatives Trading Firm
/ Hedge Fund ($500 Million under management). FYI - I do have mid and
senior level C++ positions as...
Publishers Sue Georgia State on Digital Reading... →
The actions of the publishers here upsets me so much. This is why I want to never publish work in a venue that won’t allow me also post it on my personal website or other storage facility. I find it abhorent that works created in academic are locked behind all of these artificial digital walls. There was a time that I dreamed of writing a book for MIT Press, but these days I’m much...
What’s for Dinner? The Pollster Wants to Know -... →
As we continue to increase our ability to better understand our individual differences (a good thing), this tends to get caught up int the world of essentialism and hierachical categorizations (an incredibly bad thing). It’s as if we’re not learning a damn thing.
“Lawyers for the prisoners contended that the barbiturate-only method is widely...”
– Oh really? Then why are we doing academic research on animals then? (Not that I think there should be a complete moratorium on this type of research, it’s just that this is an interesting and troubling argument for the Supreme Court to make.) Supreme Court Allows Lethal Injection for...
The sad state of academic publishing today. This was posted on an internal mailing list: “Does anyone have an IEEE login I can borrow for a few minutes today? I’d like to avoid paying $200 for one of their documents…”
Feds Tout New Domestic Intelligence Centers |... →
I predict these “fusion centers” will make the news in the future…and in a bad way. This sort of stuff creeps me out like you wouldn’t believe.
JSTOR has changed for the worse. I now have to create an account and login in order to export citations. This is complete BS.
MIT Media Lab and Bank of America announce Center... →
This makes me feel so sad.
March 2008
4 posts
I find it very annoying that a data loss bug in OpenOffice Impress (their presentation program) has not been fixed for over three years. It makes it very difficult for me to suggest to people that they switch from PowerPoint if this bug exists. It seems like it should be an easy fix, but the OpenOffice codebase is so huge that I don’t even want to go down that rabbit-hole…
Rice Shortages Creating Fears of Asia Unrest - New... →
“ Several factors are contributing to the steep rice in prices. Rising affluence in India and China has increased demand. At the same time, drought and other bad weather have reduced output in Australia and elsewhere. Many rice farmers are turning to more lucrative cash crops, reducing the amount of land devoted to the grain. And urbanization and industrialization have cut into the land...
I’m loosing the intensity from the workshop, and I’m not liking that…
“Most troublesome to some experts was the way the No Child law’s mandate to bring...”
– Read that last sentence. And weep. How could anyone think NCLB was a good program?!? States’ Data Obscure How Few Finish High School - New York Times
February 2008
12 posts
It’s amazing how varied the weather can be in different parts of Ithaca. Down in the flat area, where I live, it was thick, wet snow. Up here on the hill of Cornell, the snow is lighter, but the fog is heavy, making it difficult to see across the arts quad. Makes you remember just how tall this hill is.
Amazon.com: Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a... →
Interesting-looking book by the author of “Anatomies of a Virtual Self”, a book that I picked up at a bookstore sale. This book appears to be about how to make poetry relevant beyond the academy and poetics, to make it engaged with social realities. Topic reminds me of Kenneth Goldsmith’s work.
List of selected papers and projects to be... →
I’m getting to attend and present at this workshop in Madrid in March. I’m so excited about it!
Open Journal Systems | Public Knowledge Project →
An open system for running academic journals…finally! What I wish arXiv had turned into :-)
Cornelius Cardew lives | openDemocracy →
Good overview of Cardew’s work, with mentions of a number of his pieces.
http://www.openframeworks.cc/ →
Interesting framework to keep an eye on for its release.
January 2008
17 posts
perthDAC 2007 : The Future of Digital Media →
The “Digital Arts and Culture” conference that took place in Perth last fall. The programme is available as well. Should be worth my time to look at later!
The Indie Singer-Harpist Who Met the Orchestra -... →
If I were in NYC I would certainly be going to this show…
I’m watching the state of the union address online via CNN. All of the smooth camera movements makes it feel hyperreal and something out of hollywood. I know this isn’t a new idea (it comes from Baudrilliard) but watching it right now in this way really makes it, well, real for me.
A Shelter Is Built Green, to Heal Inside and Out -... →
I love the connection between sustainability, health, the built environment, and social justice. I wish something like this could be applied to the Gun Hill site, or other places in Ithaca…
I’ve figured out my citation woes…at least for the moment. Don’t use the “url” type in bibdesk. Use “electronic” instead, which is supported by biblatex. Then, tell bibdesk to include a “date” field by default. “date” is the date that is on the url, “urldate” is the date you visit the url. Then everything works as...
I’m wondering how to cite wiki articles…this is a place where traditional academic citation practice really breaks down!
I wish my favorite bibliography tools (bibtex, biblatex, and Bibdesk) would have realized that it’s the twenty-first century and that citing works online is entirely commonplace and should be supported. And don’t get me started on the academy’s complete contempt for this type of discourse…
Say The Music | echolog →
Interesting mobile phone participatory composition.
Welcome to MonkeyTown →
Need to look more at these performers who are doing interesting things with the voice.
Helena Gough Sound Artist →
Sound artist who, among other things, creates workshops for teenagers in the collection and manipulation of found sound.
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Very cool female sound artist/laptop musician/noise maker.