links for 2008-07-04

• Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
  The support site for John Medina’s book: ‘Brain Rules’, in which discusses applied neurology. Presents 12 rules derived from contemporary brain science research that have practical applications in the class (and life in general). Recommended
  (tags: awareness book brain cognition creativity education learning productivity research lifehacks toread)
• Start a Guerrilla Drive-in (aka MobMov)
  a beaut instructable from the mobmov folks on how to set up a car based movie theatre (the original site at at http://mobmov.org/manifesto/ is worth a re-visit too – lots more content since I last visited in 2006)
  (tags: mobmov movies film projection flashmeeting flashmob sidewalkcircus mobilemovie mobile audiovisual)
• Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In: Start Your Own Guerilla Drive-In
  more on the care and feeding of a mobmov operation. Re-creating the drive-in (or walk-in) theatre experience with an open source twist for zest
  (tags: movie urban theatre performance sidewalkcircus howto film)
• Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
  124,243 movies that you might want to project in, oh say, a mobmov
  (tags: video movies archive film free reference media art cartoons mobmov sidewalkcircus)
• Museum of Sound Toys: Online Virtual Instruments, Interactive Music Guides, Digital Media Artworks
  A guide to web-based sound-toys and music applications. The interactive works allow you to create music, explore sound science and music history.
  (tags: sound music visualisation visualization audiovisual)
• Laser Flashlight Hack!! – Instructables – DIY, How To, tech, offbeat
  oh yeah, a laser beam that burns through walls (well, balloon walls anyway). This is the laser we all dreamt about as small children. Now, to mount two in a robots head and my plans for world domination can begin.
  (tags: Laser hacks projects howto electronics dvd)
• machine project
  more stunts and tricks that might be of interest to sidewalk circuseers
  (tags: art humour ideas performance projects sidewalkcircus)
• Tune Toys
  a collection of web-based algorithmic composition toys for processing and producing MIDI music. The source code for most of the tools is viewable from each tool’s page
  (tags: music midi toys tunes)
• KeyKit
  a programming language and graphical user interface for MIDI, useful for both algorithmic and realtime musical experimentation
  (tags: acoustics audio gui language linux midi music programming software tools experimental generative composition algorithmic)