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“We aren’t writing, we are speaking in text.”
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“… the kids decided I should have a Webkinz, so I could come over to visit their homes.” — Read that again.
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“A robot developed by roboticists at the University of Pennsylvania is made of modules that can recognise each other.” — Be like the internet!
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‘Are chip makers building electronic trapdoors in key military hardware? The Pentagon is making its biggest effort yet to find out. — The economy is globalized, but defense is not globalized,” says Coleman. “How do you reconcile the two?’ — Hehe
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‘”The idea is that we live in the museum as their guests, and at the same time we are hosting lice on our heads,” said artist Vincent Grunwald, 23.’
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“The MACS project does not attempt to get robots to perceive what something is, but how it can be used…. the cognitive theory of ‘affordances’… focuses on what a thing or environment enables a user to do.”
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“Tiny bands of early humans, forced apart by harsh environmental conditions, coming back from the brink to reunite and populate the world. Truly an epic drama, written in our DNA.”
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“A feature length documentary about the Free Kevin movement and the hacker world.”
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“People come to see themselves as the sum of their distributed presence on the windows they open on their screens… cycling through computer windows has become a way to think about the relationships among aspects of the self.”
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“Freefall (7%): Lying on your front with your hands around the pillow, and your head turned to one side. Often gregarious and brash people, but can be nervy and thin-skinned underneath, and don’t like criticism, or extreme situations.” — Kinda
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“Identify your first order objects and make them addressable” — REPEAT for the marketeers out there. Identify your first order objects (Product) and make them addressable (RFID). That includes tubs of margarine!
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“#1) A physical object responds to or visualizes data from the network. #2) Interacting with a physical object allows people to change data stored in the network.
#3) A physical object acts as a sensor that writes to the web of data.”
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“Here’s a list all the revenue models you can find in the media industry, all based around a core of free or almost-free content”
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“When a mommy and a daddy love each other very much, the daddy wants to give mommy a special gift.” — Gotta love Microsoft for trying this.
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“Here’s something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken… four year olds, the people who are soaking most deeply in the current environment.. they just assume that media includes consuming, producing and sharing.”
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“I’m looking to get “g33k” tattoo’ed on my wrist using this, any redundant bits that can be missed will help” — Haha. Cutter!
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“Design thinkers like to wax lyrical about the elegance of their strategic thinking as a form of design in its own right. They can keep it— in 2108, if there are museums then, no one will queue to see a strategy.”
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“Exposure in terms of disclosing information of course, but also exposure in the way that a trader might think of it - a vulnerability, a risk associated with taking a position that could, potentially, result in loss or harm.”
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Give a starving man a fishing rod and he’ll make a social network about it.
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“Digital is about grooming data - sifting, expanding, performing and refining, the relationships between things in abstractions that defy the premise of spoken/written languages. Excitement must be fluid. Mess is Lore.”
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“What ‘will power’ do characters and scenes of movies that, don’t exist, have?” — Transmeddling!
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On the correct usages of the terms Brand Experience, Experience Design, and User Experience.
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Blah on blah thoughtcrime. THIS WARN YOU.
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“The idea of BuddyPress is to take a standard vanilla installation of WordPress MU and turn it into something that represents more of a community building tool, or niche social network.” — <3
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“… yip-yip-yip like chihuahuas when anyone else touches the powerpoint template.”
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“children develop their observation skills by doing many types of activities [including the] use of the five senses, kinetic movement, spatial refinement, small and large motor skill coordination, and concrete knowledge that leads to later abstraction”
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“Gucci, an 18-month-old pomeranian, is a fluffy ball of fun who loves walks in the park. And he can be your dog - for a price - as part of a new service renting out canine companions.” — Pets or Toys?
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Christopher Caldwell: “I also begin to understand for the first time what an addiction is… It’s a desperate need to simplify. An addiction is a gravitation towards anything that plausibly mimics life while being less complicated than life.”
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“Given that MMORPGs are creating environments where complex work is becoming seductively fun, how difficult would it be for MMORPG developers to embed real work into these environments?” — Renting out capitalism at $25 per month. Grim.
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“The Wids(tm) are here to support each other, and to discuss the trials and tribulations of living in Real Life while our loved one is immersed in EverQuest. EQ players recovering from compulsive game play are welcome to the forum.”
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“… technology should sensitive, thus able to give psycho-sensorial feedbacks (a subliminal message) and indirect response (touch and feel). … skin as a wonderful sensor: it’s an electronic network, a protection barrier, a temperature regulator, etc.”
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“…the magnet works by moving very slightly, or with a noticeable oscillation, in response to EM fields. This stimulates the somatosensory receptors in the fingertip, the same nerves that are responsible for perceiving pressure, temperature and pain.”
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“It’s one small step for hand, one giant leap for keyless entry.”
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“Kevin has carried out a series of pioneering experiments involving the neuro-surgical implantation of a device into the median nerves of his left arm in order to link his nervous system directly to a computer…” — Also advocates geo-chipping kids.
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“Adorned in titanium, latex, silicone, and electronic apparatus, isa becomes Psymbiote: the conceptual terrain at the collision of bodies and machines, the mutation of her own identity through transformation of the body.”
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“An intra-uterine device is a birth control device also known as an IUD or a coil. It is a device placed in the uterus and is the world’s most widely used method of reversible birth control.”
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‘”Most mortifying of all was the moment an Armani tailor waved her hand dismissively across my chest, before pronouncing: “These are not Armani!”‘
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“… if you’re in a Twitter-rich city, drilling down to 1- to 5-mile radius around you will let you know all sorts of things going on in your area as they’re happening.”
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Comment: betaBonnie: “Fingers = Eat = Method / Fork(Tool) = Eat (use) = Dogma / Fork (Tool) = Hair comb (use) = (not)Dogma”
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“Will we be a race of mindless drones, only concerned with instant gratification and convenience, looking to the next distraction to ease our pulsing brains?” — Rubbish filling up our streets, rubbish filling up our homes, rubbish filling up our heads…
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“Between the launch of Sputnik on 4 October 1957 and 1 January 2008 approximately 4600 launches have placed some 6000 satellites into orbit, of which about 400 are travelling beyond geostationary orbit or on interplanetary trajectories” — World’s a stage
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“Once you’re Turing’d it is much easier to believe other occupations which we humans used to do uniquely, can be done by computers. You tend to be open to disruptive technology in all parts of your life.” — Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
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“There is an empty seat at the big table. Do you want it?” — Part of the Zeus Jones ‘looking for an Interactive Producer’ Job Posting Set.
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Deleting because 1) It won’t let me edit my services and 2) The account deletion option is hidden (had to Google it to find it FFS!). There are no second chances for shady practices. ‘Don’t be evil’ and all that. Yeah? My data. Your loss.
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