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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
ХудожникБогородицаAt midnight (UTC) this site will go dark for 24 hours in solidarity with the anti-SOPA/PIPA internet blackout. Thank you, Wikipedians, Wordpressians, Redditters and Cheezburgerz for leading the charge.
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
иконографияПравославни икони[caption id="attachment_747" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Visualization of over 16,000 Mechanical Turk workers in the United States. Click on the image for the original (much bigger)."][/caption]I'm always trying to think of silly new buzzwords ("ubitasking"), and I'm also always trying to avoid the hackneyed ones ("crowdsourcing"). Mechanical Turk (ach! 41% of ...
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Thursday, June 16th, 2011
After reading up about the riots last night (and there's so much to read - here, here, here, here, here, and here, for starters...) I went and devoted some in-transit iPhone note-taking to reflection on the 'festivities', specifically in light of issues related to my research into urban life and ...
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Thursday, June 9th, 2011
... or, Streethacking with Ubiquitous Media, if you prefer. This is the thing toward which I'm now turning most of my academic affections and attention. Reading Henri Lefebvre, Matt Hern, Paul Dourish, and many others has led me to this increasingly (and appropriately) crowded (for instance, here, here, here, here, ...
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Heh. In a flourish of dog day afternoon catchup (smack between finishing up grading for one semester and course planning for the next one), and with the help of the 3 year old girl, I have here the long-delayed fourth installment of my audio archiving project. Today the world hears ...
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
I don't usually post about taxation or provincial politics (do I?). But being one of a sizeable community of technology workers (and workers in many other industries) who are required by law to charge 12% tax instead of 5% tax to customers/clients as of today, I felt that it ...
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010
Fortunately there is much going on this weekend to keep my attention away from books and the start of the summer semester next week (& fortunately my prep is all done!). The Stone Soup Festival is happening today, the sun is out, and everyone's in great spirits!
I had hoped to ...
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
So personal stuff came to a head early in 2010. Must be something in the stars, or the numerology of it, but right smack dab in the middle of the 2010 Olympics (and right smack dab in the middle of my exams), I've had to review everything in my life ...
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
5:00 AM - awaken and start reading Stiegler's Technics and Time.
5:20 AM - 20 pages in the 'emergency laundry' thing occurs (potty training the toddler who must have at least 3 pairs of clean ginch for daycare).
5:25 AM - other chores interrupt the 'emergency laundry'. whilst sorting poopy ginch, discover ...
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
completely puzzled why ppl are lining up for the H1N1 vaccine: http://is.gd/4LDWH #
still no internet/email at home. Twitter or SMS will be answered more promptly #
woke startled from a dream wherein cops fine me $900 for a car I abandoned 10 yrs ago, & aliens abduct me for shooting video ...
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