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05 November 2009

Wolfram|Alpha

by rmaltete & 13 others (via)
Making the World's Knowledge Computable Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer. Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing. essayer avec "london paris" ou "mortar cement", "07/03/1963", "x2+x", etc.

02 November 2009

31 October 2009

Op Losse Schroeven - situaties en cryptostructuren

by karlcow

This exhibition which caused a great deal of commentary was one of the first manifestations of arte povera, conceptual art and land art in Europe and as such marked an artistic breakthrough for many of the participants. Among the artists are Carl Andre, Giovanni Anselmo, Ben d'Armagnac, Joseph Beuys, Walter de Maria, Jan Dibbets, Barry Flanagan, Jannis Kounellis, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Bob Morris, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Panamarenko, Rob Ryman, Lawrence Weiner, & Gilberto Zorio.

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28 October 2009

John Resig - Google Groups is Dead

by night.kame & 1 other

When you create a public group everything will go well for a couple days, at most. Without fail an onslaught of spam will start to come through your group - I've even seen it happen within the first day. It happens to every group and doesn't matter how well you advertise it (or try to hide it). After having watched Google Groups for as long as I have I can only assume that there exists no spam filtering whatsoever. Or, if there is any, it's the most grossly incompetent spam filter I've ever seen.

Le plus gros problème aussi, et que (au moins à une certaine époque), la liste de tous les inscrits avec leur adresses mails était publique... (et une boîte mail de perdue, une). Google, premier récepteur de SPAM, mais aussi premier fournisseur de chair à SPAM.

27 October 2009

20 October 2009

Charles Apple » Blog Archive » First look: Redesign of the Washington Post

by sbrothier
Long the epitome of understated class, the Post became just a little bit more classy overnight. It’s not a major redesign, but then again, we didn’t expect one. When this thing was announced back in February, it was referred to as a “tweak.” And a tweak is that the Post got. And it’s a good thing, too — the Post didn’t need a major overhaul.

18 October 2009

Toward urban systems design « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird

by karlcow

you said: “Especially given the by-now-clichéd recognition that we’ve decisively become an urban species”

It is indeed very interesting to think about urban systems design given there was a major move toward cities. That said I have the feeling that this move comes with, at least, three issues:

1. access to the “thought” urban environment,

2. the space left where 50% of the population is still living,

3. the space of this growth

There are many areas in the world where the growth of the cities is made by people without access or a limited access to the thought urban environment. Poor people living in slums or just in a space which is not part of the work of urban planner per say. In a recent exhibition about slums I went, it was very interesting to see that the organic structure of the slums was making possible for the individuals to create a rich and meaningful space, driving sometimes to less criminality than more traditional areas of the city. The slum is a forced collective creative space for survival.

The rest of the population, the 50% living in deserted areas are the forgotten of this story. It’s indeed more “fun”, interesting for researchers, sociologists to observe and think about the density in urban space (richness of interactions) more than the low level of activities in the “countryside”. Though there are equal challenges there in terms of design and space organization, access to services, etc.

Finally, is it really cities which are growing? What we call urban space often relates to the city center, but I have the feeling that the growth is happening in the in-between space (suburbs), which is again a complete disaster in terms of design, even more so in rich countries. The private space is becoming a space of non-creativity, dead areas of non activities. Someone, who wants to start a small business in between two buildings on the grass of a random suburb of a rich city, will not last for very long. Complete different dynamic than the slum where unregulated areas give the opportunity of creative solutions for surviving or living.

16 October 2009

La Distribution : la solution contre le Minitel 2.0 ? - Sunfox

by srcmax & 2 others , 1 comment

Facebook, Flickr, Delicious, Twitter, … nos données et nos identités ne nous appartiennent plus, . Chacun devrait pouvoir héberger soi-même ses données et ses applications et être maître de sa propre identité. Le Web tel qu’il a été imaginé.

Le plus court chemin vers la liberté passe par son propre domaine. Mais le gros frein à la décentralisation reste d’avoir un hébergement à soi puis d’installer et de mettre à jour chaque application. C’est long, c’est compliqué et les configurations sont toutes différentes.

La Distribution est la solution pour reprendre le contrôle.

15 October 2009

Scroll Magazine

by Spone
Founded by long time web industry figures Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp in 2008, Scroll is a print, PDF and online magazine for web professionals.

50 Tools for Web Based Collaboration - Popwuping

by karlcow

The following is a highlight of a competitive analysis I did earlier this year when I was involved in designing software that would allow remote research teams to work together. While software is still a long way from replacing all in-person collaboration it's becoming easier for remote or mobile workers to stay productive and communicative with their team. Certainly the tools we have available today are a vast improvement over what I used when I first tried telecommuting 12 years ago!

12 October 2009

ivarch.com: Pipe Viewer

by Xavier Lacot (via)
pv - Pipe Viewer - is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.

Portable Contacts

by Spone
The vision for Portable Contacts has been around for a long time. Sites large and small share the goal of providing users a secure way to access their address books and friends lists without having to take their credentials or scrape their data. But only in recent weeks has it begun to feel that now is the right time to rally the community and the industry to work together to make this vision real by developing an open spec for exchange of contact info that everyone can embrace.

11 October 2009

Visualize Your SSH & FTP Behaviour on Datavisualization.ch

by karlcow

Every time that you login into your local Unix-like machine or a remote hosting server through a FTP client to upload a file or use SSH to get your stuff done, you’re leaving behind a trail of evidence showing your online behaviour: where and when you log in, how often and how long your online sessions are, in short: your modus operandi. This visualization tool unveils this hidden data, which is gathered by running a few builtin UNIX commands and is analyzed onsite.

10 October 2009

A S#arp Project Case Study

by ms_michel
Un ensemble de billets qui relatent les problèmes rencontrés, les solutions et les leçons apprises tout au long de la réalisation du site de e-commerce Francy Dress Outfitters (http://www.fancydressoutfitters.co.uk/) avec le framework S#arp Architecture

05 October 2009

Un site web pour Carla Bruni-Sarkozy et une page Twitter pour l'Elysée - Actualités - ZDNet.fr

by srcmax

De son côté l'Elysée surfe sur la vague du microblogging en annonçant qu'une page Twitter sera inaugurée à l'occasion du sommet de Copenhague consacré au climat qui doit se tenir du 7 au 18 décembre. Franck Louvrier, le responsable de la communication de l'Elysée a indiqué que « le Président n'utilisera pas lui-même Twitter, mais on détaillera sa démarche tout au long du sommet et l'évolution des négociations ». L'AFP précise en outre qu'un site web 2.0 de la présidence de la République devrait être mis en ligne d'ici la fin de l'année.

04 October 2009

Make a gift bow from a magazine page

by blackgoldfish
Cut a magazine page into 9 strips, 3/4" wide. Leave 3 of the strips full length. Cut one inch off 3 of the strips. Cut two inches off 2 of the strips. Cut the last strip down to 3 1/2" long.

01 October 2009

Google Earth pourra traquer les voitures et les gens en temps réel - Gizmodo -

by Spone
C’est l’une des technologies les plus bluffantes et les plus effrayantes qu’il nous a été donné de voir depuis un long moment: des étudiants du Georgia Institute of Technology utilisent des vidéos en provenance de caméras en circuit fermé pour positionner des véhicules et des personnes sur Google Earth.

Slow Photoshop? A solution. | Hoefler & Frere-Jones

by sbrothier
Intermittently, Photoshop will start taking EXTRAORDINARY amounts of time to open files, regardless of their size. This problem has persisted from CS2 to CS3, and from a PowerPC to an Intel Mac. The problem is intermittent, seeming to go in long cycles (a few months at a clip), but when it strikes, a 2k file -- or a 100mb one, curiously -- will take upwards of two minutes to open. Also curiously, an open file can be saved and saved again without any performance hit. But saving a new file creates the lag as well, especially loathsome if you're using "Save for Web" a lot.

29 September 2009

Digital Photographers, Welcome Back to 1999 | PixSylated | Digital Photography, Canon Flash, Shooting Tethered

by mozkart
Why the value of still images is collapsing It’s that old supply-and-demand thing. The supply of digital images is way, way up. At the same time, advertising in magazines and newspapers is sinking. If you want to continue earning a living at something you already do, it’s helpful if your trade is difficult to do and expensive to get started. Photography during the film-era was this way. Every time I pushed the shutter-button a couple of bucks flew out the window. Now the cost of getting into the pro photography game is virtually nothing (aside from the cost of the camera, the computer, the software, the training… still a relatively low investment for what you’re able to accomplish). I’m grateful that HDSLR cinematography is expensive and problematic right now. The Trib Is Dead. Long Live The Trib. For several generations, ads in magazines and newspapers were the leading consumer of commercial stills. Sorry Charlie, those days are gone. Today advertisers are increasingly moving their efforts over to web-based campaigns. It’s not personal. It’s demographics. OK. So that means that it is personal. The web, with it’s ability to provide instantaneous feedback to advertisers enables those spending the ad bucks to target their message exactly where it needs to be within minutes. For an ad placed in the wrong magazine, the response time is measured in weeks or months. Print advertising is plummeting (stats here). It’s not the economy, stupid. It’s the medium. Check out MagazineDeathPool if you’re not already a regular reader. Now is not be the time to launch a career as a magazine shooter.

27 September 2009

Xparameter - Faire un scan des tous vos fichiers vidéos - TUTO - Module films : Xlobby et Ant Movie Catalog (AMC)

by decembre
Utiliser Xparameter qui est un module qui permet de faire un scan des tous vos fichiers vidéos, afin de les importer correctement dans antmoviecatalog. Celà vous évitera de rentrer les noms des films un à un, ce qui serait franchement long avec une grosse collection.Ce module permet de scanner les films sur un ou plusieurs répertoires (aussi bien les réseaux) afin de créer une base de donnée (sous format Xml, codé en iso-8859-1) compatible pour AMC. de quoi ai-je besoin pour faire marcher tout çà? De rien! Vous devez juste avoir installé le dernier pack Xlobby. Pour plus de transparence, voici ce qu'il contient pour les films: -Xlobby bien entendu avec un skin FR compatible (Xmedia2+games) -Ant movie Catalog et son fichier movies.amc contenant votre base de donnée. Ce dernier se trouve dans C:\Program Files\Ant Movie Catalog\Catalogs\movies.amc -Xparameter pour l'import massif de films dans amc

25 September 2009

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Using named anchors to identify sections on your pages

by srcmax

We generate these deep links completely algorithmically, based on page structure, so they could be displayed for any site (and of course money isn't involved in any way, so you can't pay to get these links). There are a few things you can do to increase the chances that they might appear on your pages. First, ensure that long, multi-topic pages on your site are well-structured and broken into distinct logical sections. Second, ensure that each section has an associated anchor with a descriptive name (i.e., not just "Section 2.1"), and that your page includes a "table of contents" which links to the individual anchors. The new in-snippet links only appear for relevant queries, so you won't see it on the results all the time — only when we think that a link to a section would be highly useful for a particular query.

19 September 2009

Habitable Polyhedron / Manuel Villa | ArchDaily

by karlcow

The project, meant for a family house back yard in the suburbs, aimed at designing a small park or opened area where the young parents and their newborn child would enjoy a independent space from day to day house activities, a space for reading, playing, etc. Having in mind this objective, and considering the usages of the space in the long term, it was proposed the project incorporated a small building to complement and support outside activities. That way he building would serve as a shelter for the child to share with his parents and, later on, as his own personal activities and hobbies setting.

17 September 2009

15 September 2009

The Big Screen in Big D: Observatory: Design Observer

by karlcow

Even more likely, they were gawking at a very, very large scoreboard — the 160-foot-long, 1.2 million pound, Mitsubishi Diamond Vision true HD display, that is the centerpiece of Cowboys Stadium. This is a spectacular object, this scoreboard. It cost, by itself, twice as much to build as the previous Cowboys Stadium. It is maintained via a ten-level internal scaffolding system and its use requires the services of a full-time, highly trained operations team. Its display capacity is equal to 4,920 52-inch flat panel televisions, and it is illuminated by 30 million pulsing light bulbs. In short, it makes your typical Jumbotron look like a 13-inch TV/VCR.

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