Constructing documentation from multiple points of view; self-describing systems; audience as actors; participant/observer problems. Considering the case of panoptic surveillance, perspectives, and dragonfly eyes. Tangentially a question of authorship when an audience takes documentation so the producers/actors are freed from doing so.
- Heisenberg’s Uncertainty principal
- Panopticon img
- Photosynth / Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth – Notre Dame
- Duchamp’s Nude Descending + Large Glass
- Condiment War
- 9/11 memorial app
- Watchmen (weird spoiler image *)
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
- documentation of flashmobs / Madagascar Institute
- the 10-dimensional snowflake
- Time Cube
- Dark Knight surveillance console thing centralization, (spoiler)
- Harun Farocki’s films
- Edwin Land’s stereoscopic aerial film camera system
* * *
Been thinking about this for five years or more. Never going to write an essay.
- The problem of reducing widows in titles of web pages has been effectively solved and the jquery for doing so is at least four years old.
- Google now makes it much easier to sync multiple calendars with Mac/iOS, without delegates. You don’t even need to know what delegates are. It took just a few minutes to clean up my calendars on gCal, iCal, and Busycal.
- iOS 6 isn’t terrible, especially now that maps, youtube, and other snafus have app fixes. Philip Forget and Andy Mangold—who each have incredible names, if you ask me—did a lot to convince me to upgrade.
- If you’re interested in jailbreaking, it’s remarkably easy right now, though apparently illegal and punishable by up to a half million dollar fine. But if you do, you can get f.lux for free and f.lux is simply the best thing ever.
- Did you know recaptcha proofreads OCR of book text? I might have known, but’d definitely forgotten.
- Something broke in the Pinboard plugin for wordpress or WordPress RSS or a deprecated function, but I haven’t made time to figure it out, so my reading list is temporarily hidden from the right-side of this page. I did not learn what isn’t working
- It’s bad form to keep a lot of binary files in a git repo. I have one private repo of a bunch of ancient sites, but also had tarballs of them in the repo. I moved them out and learned about
git gc and git clean -n -d <path> — That second one via this article which you should read before you remove the -n
- philip showed me how to make python shell scripts.
echo '#!/usr/bin/env python print "Now I can be run"' >> hello3.py && chmod +x hello3.py && ./hello3.py
// The part that got me was that the line break goes after python, not after env. From there, this article from 2008 rocked my world with further examples. I may yet break free of Automator+BBEdit and become leet.
- Not that it’s any of my business but T Cooper transitioned to a man and his “Real Man Adventures” is not the pulp fiction sequel of “Thrilling Tales” I mistakenly thought it was. The book looks and feels and sounds great. I’m glad to have been corrected about that. Especially while the book is new enough to champion. You can read an excerpt.
- I learned that George W. Bush paints. I learned that Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction.
- I learned that typing into a larger textbox leads to longer thoughts. Or maybe a higher quantity of small thoughts. Which one feels obliged to link together somehow.
- Jason Polan drew this machine gun.
- The 9/11 monument uses the Gotham typeface.
- “If not for law Republicans enacted in 2006, the Post Office would have a $1.5 billion surplus.”
- A picture of science is worth a million opinions.
- I learned about the cables that carry the internet under the sea.
- I learned someone’s home address, who will be receiving mail soon.
- I learned how to walk into Dog Eared Books and walk out with empty hands.
- I learned about canonical links
- I learned that answering emails starts with answering emails and ends with answering emails. Though some tools help.
- I learned about EPUB formats and spines and manifests and the doctypes of XML.
- I learned you can open w3c validator in textmate without uploading a page to the web by keying control+shift+V
- I learned that car dealerships don’t do as much with tires as they used to, because of liability.
- I learned to make shorter lists, and to pause when they’re done.
- I learned some new things about web typography
- I learned that shipping costs more and takes longer than you expect.
I’ve run out of remembrances; and just as @natematias seems to have heard my head stop:
“isn’t blogging a beautiful thing, everyone? So many wonderful ways that we can share conversation about ourselves and what we have learned”
Today was a book day.
Craig Mod was interviewed in the Verge, which published a long, raw conversation about books. I like.
Frank Chimero posted a new portfolio site. Back on the saddle. So glad to see it.
Bookish launched.
Readmill for iPhone was released.
I demo’d my first EPUB for a still-under-wraps project. Making it was remarkably fun. I used @javier‘s boilerplate and tested in Readium.
And then I found a (gratis) british paperback at the office of David Byrne’s How Music Works
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Looks like Global Frequency came out in trade paperback yesterday.
