January 2008
39 posts
Surface tension - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Wondering how surface tension can perhaps help explain the fluid dynamics of information around photos on Flickr. The more info you have, the less likely the photo is to sink.
World War I - a photoset on Flickr →
“A few years ago, in Valparaiso, Chile, I bought a German soldier’s album of his WWI.” Seems like a wonderful candidate for Creative Commons…
blyberg.net » Library 2.0 Debased →
Yes! “If we can start incorporating Web 2.0 at a âlower levelâ, I think we can build more natural, fluid transitions between these disparate pieces. At the same time, weâd be building more in-roads through an implicit âoutreachâ as you call it (
Library of Congress Taps Web 2.0 for User Photo... →
Yay! Plus, the reporter thought I was male. I emailed OpEd (whoops), and now it’s fixed.
bacon, Bon Appétit Recipes at Epicurious.com →
I need to push past the bacon standards for the next Bacon Camp.
Video Digest: January 18, 2008 - The Morning News →
A response to Hillary Clinton being pinched on the cheek by a fuckwit interviewer…
What We Ate: February 13, 2003 - Gratin dauphinois →
“By the second bite, you realize just how rich it is: you’re eating the equivalent of a tablespoon of heavy cream with every mouthful.”
Alexandrian Scholarship →
“And concerning the number of books, the establishment of libraries, and the collection in the Hall of the the Muses, why need I even speak, since they are all in men’s memories?” - Athanaeus
Collection Mania and Chelsea - Don Saltero's... →
The display included “Pontius Pilate’s Wife’s Chambermaid’s Sister’s hat.”
Social Terminology Enhancement through Vernacular... →
September 2005.
In Praise of Melancholy - ChronicleReview.com →
“My fears grow out of my suspicion that the predominant form of American happiness breeds blandness.”
Archives & Museum Informatics: Research: steve:... →
Jennifer’s PDFs, podcasts and presentations… Am I stalking?!?!?
jtrant's blog | conference.archimuse.com →
Jennifer Trant’s blog.
Alla Land » WWW07 Tagging and Metadata for Social... →
A little research on how librarians are feeling about tags.
LOC + Flickr equals Crowdsourced Tagging -... →
Great summary of The Commons project.
Photographs (of boxers) →
Apparently boxing was hugely popular around the turn into the 20th century…
Flickr brings tagging to vintage images | CNET... →
Talked to CNET! Yay!
kewlchops: Have to watch this later. →
And that’s how stupid the toread tag is. Haven’t seen this since I posted it.
YouTube - Jim Gaffigan-Bacon →
“A tasty vortex.” [via fraying]
JSTOR: Journal of Vegetation Science: Vol. 8, No.... →
Why mainstream is bad for community: “The more frequent the species is, the less is its expected neighbour diversity.”
The Photomoma Virtual Museum →
“a pastiche of images that will force the viewer to critique their own relationship to the [MoMA collection] in the photographs”
HBO Store - Deadwood: DVD / Video / Music:... →
My birthday’s coming up.
Dept. of Technology: Remember This?: The New... →
More on Gordon Bell and MyLifeBits - “Occasionally, he feels encumbered by the project. âThereâs a number here,â he says. âIâd like to say that Iâm living ninety-five per cent of the time, keeping this system five per cent. I want to live a li
LifeLog | MetaFilter →
Nothing like MeFi to bring things back to Earth… “There’s just one problem (luckily): people are irrational, illogical, and from time to time go nuts, have mid-life crises, and do the unexpected.”
A Head For Detail →
Gordon Bell - “We’ve come to a time when machine memory creates ideas we’ve never considered.”
collision detection: How a photoblog kept Hasan... →
[in Wired] Elahi: “I’ve discovered that the best way to protect your privacy is to give it away…”
collision detection: "Solastalgia": The... →
“combines solacium — solace — with nostos , which means to ‘return home’, and algos , or ‘pain’.”
D.I.R.T. Website →
“We feel obligated, better yet, inspired to remake fallow Brownfields and derelict terrain into renewed landscapes of ecological and cultural production.” Sounds awesome.
101 Things Every Cook Should Cook →
Veal and ham pie, anyone?
Fakultät Digitale Medien — Bachelor... →
Adoption of Pre-defined Terms in Collaborative Indexing Systems - a thesis
more steve ... tagger prototype preliminary... →
“…thinking about the assumptions we come to museum documentation with, and the challenges in re-purposing information across platforms.”
IxDA | Interaction 08 →
I’d like to go to this.
Scrabble Word Lists 2 Letter Words - Parker... →
(Thanks Tom.)
What makes a great photo? (Conscientious) →
“Pictures are small, fragmentary things. Hors devours. Pop songs. What makes anything of these things great? It is swirl of sensation, a feeling, and is otherwise impossible to define.”
summer cabin in denmark, christensen & co.... →
Falling in love with summer houses.
Perrinepod →
Australian pre-fab houses made of aerated, polished, concrete.
Below The Clouds » Sommarhus i Hardanger →
A beautiful house for a beautiful place.
Flickr: Pretentious Comments group →
“wouldnât it be nice for people to recognise that your macro of a flower with a bug on it was, in fact, a profound - universal, even - confirmation of the symbiotic nature of existence, and not just an opportunity to say ânice DoFâ?”
songseed.com →
“Most of the world’s great music is out of copyright. Our business is to make it easy for you to download it.”