links for 2008-03-31
March 31st, 2008
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i want to make a giant one of these and tow it around on a trailer
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a new MIDI to real-world interface designed to simplify the process of creating sensor and robotics based electronic art projects. It is easily user configurable and provides 20 terminals of digital and analog inputs and outputs in any combination.
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all the basics of how the latest recording technologies work, step by step, from simple easy-to-read pages to in- depth articles – the be all end all for people who want to record for themselves at home -tech guides, buying guides, and product reviews
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spells out some solid open-source alternatives to commercial audio software. It highlights some of the challenges involved with using Linux, and at the same time manages to cover many of the areas of basic knowledge needed
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playing with a pocket sized lightning generator – another one for the ‘must try this’ list
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perhaps not the most bizarre, but pretty weird (in a nice sort of way) – a road in Japan with grooves cut to different widths to create a melody as a car drives over them.
links for 2008-03-30
March 30th, 2008
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allows users to upload photos and have them tagged within a few minutes. The technology appears to be “magic,” meaning there’s no explanation of it.
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a page for Wikipedians to list articles that seem a bit unusual. These articles are valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, but are a bit odd, whimsical, or something you wouldn’t expect to find in Encyclopædia Britannica
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on-demand manufacturing service in New Zealand. Designers upload their blueprints to Ponoko’s servers; when a customer places an order, Ponoko’s laser cutters automatically trim wood and plastic to create the product on the spot.
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cost per click, clicks per day and overall spend per day for a few dozen keywords. An interesting page for the web dev class
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stick the camera on the turntable. I especially like the camera up close on the turntable itself (attached to the dj’s wrist?)— something instrumentalists might try, too
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an experimental project in visual programming and composition in Java – build up a composition by creating various types of nodes and joining up their inputs and outputs – designed to be extensible to manipulate text, play sounds or read input devices.
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lost – grey + white pidgeon with black bits. normal size. a bit mangy looking. Does not have a name. call 257 1964
links for 2008-03-29
March 29th, 2008
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turns Google Reader sharing into an action similar to bookmarking a page on Del.icio.us or voting for an article on Digg
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for those of us who just have to see the next big thing before it becomes… well, big
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trying on a meme for size
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vodcasting just became a live event – a system that lets users send live video directly from their Nokia phones to the Web. When the broadcast is over, the clip is auto-saved for repeat (public) viewings.
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reformats Twitter messages into threaded conversations, making it significantly easier to follow actual discussions that are occurring on Twitter.
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a kind of online indie fashion parade – sorted by city look etc
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a free online book on coding scripts for the greasemonkey firefox addon
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all greasmonkey scripts, all the time
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a movement for people who love the idea of impromptu public pranks
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Swf meets Ajax for beautiful uploads. The release of the long awaited MooTools upload widget thats allows queued multiple-file upload including progress bars.
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The Database of Virtual Art documents the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art. This complex, research-oriented overview of immersive, interactive, telematic and genetic art has been developed in cooperation with established media artists, r
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pdf download: visitors to these interactive installations become essential parts of the systems by transferring the individual behaviors, emotions and personalities to the works’ image processing
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Started in 2005, the Process series is a system of instructions used to create software and images. Links from here to selected texts, essays and interviews on and about the Process series
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Generator.x is a conference and exhibition examining the current role of software and generative strategies in art and design
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a collaborative collection of artworks, research and experiments by artists and academics interested in the possibilities of generative art
links for 2008-03-25
March 25th, 2008
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a real-world tech game that explores social circles and ways to measure interpersonal reputation. Each player is awarded points for being near players with higher reputations, and penalized for being near players with lower reputations.
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an eLearning IDE, aiming to be an improvement on Adobe’s Captivate. Creates AJAX and flash based elearning objects. Currently only available as alpha point releases for Linux (GNU) but windows versions are planned (if that’s what you need).
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I don’t know what for, but if for some odd reason I feel the urge to make something that’s 99% air this is going to be my starting point
links for 2008-03-24
March 24th, 2008
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planning and gumption – and good search techniques – and being able to filter the sparkly bits from the www outfall – oh, and being able to combine things in interesting ways… that should do it ^_^
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Free courses are a great way to improve your writing skills. The courses shown here focus on several types of creative writing, including poetry, essay writing and fiction writing.
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a beautiful collection of writer’s tools
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create, administer, and grade quizzes online.
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a big collection of personality tests
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another free online quiz maker
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Create quizzes, surveys, tests, eportfolios and more Discover modify and share assessments Set work for the whole class with a few mouseclicks. Mark automatically Analyse with tools that improve your teaching
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the ranked submissions from 134 learning professionals (from both education and workplace learning) who shared their Top 10 Tools for Learning both for their own personal learning/productivity and for creating learning solutions for others
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George Siemens’ peek into the future of learning – an optimistic view of the inevitable (I personally think there could be a bit more pain and denial from the current incumbent institutions in the mix)
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some beautiful gimp tutorials – if I ever get some spare time I’ll try these out
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some more nice gimpy tutes – for the other half of that spare time
links for 2008-03-23
March 23rd, 2008
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ah, nerdy t-shirts… current fave: video games ruined my life. Good thing I have two extra lives ^_^
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a virtual worlds platform that lets anyone create their own virtual world that they can own and share with others- free to download the tools and designed to make game development intuitive and easy. Goes into public beta in April – worth watching
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some sites, tools, and apps that help you get the most out of twitter.More than 60 Twitter add-ons.
links for 2008-03-22
March 22nd, 2008
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DMX is the midi of the music lighting world – here’s how to make and run a computer to DMX device rack interface (along with linux drivers)
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programming LEDs with AVR microprocessors – with a bunch of related articles below. Another one for the to-do list (sigh)
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at the bottom of this page are 3 tutorials on using Rebirth, the quintessential PC (and mac) based emulator for the Roland TB-303 bass line synth and the TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines
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can’t say much more than title – except to add that this is one powerful program, which of course means that there’s a learning curve, but it’s worth it if you want to get some slick beats down
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a nicely paced introductory tutorial to using the linux Hydrogen drum machine
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three free hydrogen drum kits: the Kawai XD-5, the Roland JD-990 and the Yamaha TG-55. Thank you Zeta Centauri
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a quick tutorial on how to control the Hydrogen drum module via a MIDI source (either MIDI sequencing software or a hardware MIDI controller)
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the complete hydrogen manual. Unusually, it seems written from a user’s perspective ^_^
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some good tutorials on using Audacity, and links to others
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a nice set of quizzes, interesting interface
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During a 3 to 6 month collaboration, students work closely together with key developers from FLOSS software projects to improve the use experience of a FLOSS application.
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You have performed an act of treason against Stin’zorga, King of Bees. Clicking the ‘Bees’ button will call forth the bees in your system to extract their terrible vengeance… ‘Release Bees Now?’
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for those of us who can’t tell one font from another
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it’s important to constantly improve your Web site. However, a massive overhaul is just too much work so tackle these quick fixes over time, and you’ll be able to improve your Web site with minimal pain.
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Collections of web application interface design patterns- including code examples as to how how the different patterns can be implementet.
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a complete description of creating artwork incorporating LED lighting – covers colour mixing, absorption spectra, circuit diagrams, power supplies, reflective pigments and painting techniques
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Over 8.5GB of FREE (CC-by) Samples – Sound Effects, Loops, Grooves, Drums, Voices and Instruments
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763 six word reviews of the music released from this year’s south by southwest music festival – along with a considerably more useful rating between 1 and 5.
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1. First, create Dapps for your site with field names from the supported RDFa namespaces.
2. Implement a custom code in your site PHP for each of the Dapps you created.
3. Every time a search engine robot will visit a page with the code, Dappe -
some excellent tutorials on how to acquire, interpret and process digital photographs using a visually-oriented approach that emphasizes concept over procedure, independent of specific digital camera or lens equipment.
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an analysis of legal issues which apply to street photography in NSW Australia with a focus on what rights shooters have (and don’t have) when it comes to candid photographs of people.
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YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. YSlow gives you: * Performance report card * HTTP/HTML summary *
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an easy introduction to the linux ‘command line’ functions and scripting
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how to set up Windows inside VirtualBox, and then get Windows apps running seamlessly inside your desktop.
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a free ebook providing a critical view on the use of new technologies and learning practices in furthering socially just futures, while at the same time paying critical attention to the constants, or “unmoved movers” of the information society develop
links for 2008-03-21
March 21st, 2008
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one to put up on the web development lab wall
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lets you access multiple sources of structured data that you can display, choosing from a large selection of visualizations. The Google Visualization API also provides a platform that can be used to create, share and reuse visualizations written by the de
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25 slides on e-portfolios at csu – cryptically subtitled ‘exploring the benefits and realities of opensource’
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allows anyone to design, create and share a database of whatever they like.
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at first looks like your standard Web 2.0 application; you upload media, mix it, then share with people. But it’s more than that – more like a website development environment with seamless multimedia integration and NO HTML KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED.
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Watching a cat play with a laser, you realize the cat never learns there is no real “prey” there. People presumably are smarter than cats, and as we become more familiar with the Web and its torrent of information, maybe we’ll do a better job learning wh
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I’d heard of this experiment, but never seen it in action. Worth watching
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a sweet way to play with those ‘degrees of separation’
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George Siemens’ online book about knowledge, learning and the principles of connectivism
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the essays in this volume bear witness to the powerful alchemy of personal cultural
production and communication combined with large-scale networks of digital distribution
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explores the ways in which artists are utilising design objects, performance, and interventionist practices to create spaces for play, ritual, and poetry in the midst of everyday experience
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one for the wall
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covers drum machines, looping, normalisation, effects processing , pitch-correction , beat-matching and beat-slicing
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the second part of the linux looping article – covers using ardour for sequencing, reaper and audacity (again) for editing loops
links for 2008-03-20
March 20th, 2008
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inadvertently captured pieces of the web that don’t exist anywhere else taken from old VHS tapes about the Internet from the early- to mid-1990s
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Passively Multiplayer Online Game – merges your web life with an alternate, hidden reality. The mundane takes on a layer of fantastic achievement.
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a way to monitor when someone has clicked a link you sent them. Have you ever sent someone an email and never heard back? If you send them a LinkBlip URL, you’ll automatically be notified by email when they click on it.
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If you want to sign up for a site, but don’t want to give your real e-mail, then look no further.fakemailgenerator copies a fake e-mail to your clipboard and you can get your site’s activation e-mail in a popup box – tricky smoke and mirrors stuff
links for 2008-03-17
March 17th, 2008
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meow, you can has lolcats. presenting tubbypaws new happy papercraft
of the deity of lolcats, ceiling cat.
