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Author Archives: Bill Humphries
Ada Lovelace Day 2009
March 24, 2009 – 10:37 pm
In the few minutes left before the first Ada Lovelace Day comes to a close, I want to tell you about my friend and coworker Strata Rose Chalup. Strata is a world-class geek and polymath: she’s co-authored one of the go-to books on system administration, teaches project management at USENIX, gardens, dotes on her cats, [...]
The GCU “He Hates It When You Call Him That”
March 23, 2009 – 6:40 pm
Having watched the finale of Battlestar Galactica, I’m going to assume the awful slog that the Colonials and Cylons were put through was the doings of a Culture Mind with a mean streak and a sense of humor.
From Font Design to Industrial Design
March 19, 2009 – 5:35 pm
Gary Hustwit’s (Helvetica) new film considers industrial design, and features interviews with Jonathan Ive and other rock stars of stuff.
Undesigning the Emergency
March 18, 2009 – 11:09 pm
Rough notes from Benjamin Bratton’s talk on design and terrorism at the 2009 ETech conference. In particular, he discusses the role of Twitter during the recent Mumbai terrorist attack. I wasn’t there to see the talk, but several folks were burbling about it on Twitter.
On the Facebook Redesign
March 18, 2009 – 11:00 pm
Kellan Elliott-McCrea, who knows about the difficulties involved in getting large-scale social services to play nice, wrote some of the first insightful things I’ve seen about the recent Facebook redesign. [In contrast to Twitter, Facebook] specifically designed a page that was lossy. They said, “You don’t want to see everything, here is a subset of [...]
Ditching the Stigma of Mortality
March 16, 2009 – 8:23 pm
Nicola Griffith’s response to the SciFi’s channel’s name change: I think I’m going to change my name to God: bigger market pull, and easier to fit on book covers.
On Tracking Cookies and Killing Puppies
March 11, 2009 – 9:46 pm
Following a post by Nelson Minar, I found the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out of tracking cookies page. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to set all the opt-out cookies from that interface, so I had to go to some of the individual advertising networks’ opt-out interface. On BlueKai’s website, I was rewarded with this bit of passive [...]
Magnatune Streams for Second Life
March 3, 2009 – 12:20 am
[ via AM Radio ] Magnatune provides several royalty-free streams you can use on your Second Life (and I would guess OpenSim) parcels.
Periodic Table of the Operators
February 24, 2009 – 11:14 pm
Mark Lentczner’s updated the Periodic Table of the Operators for Perl 6. At some point, Perl 6 might be done. That will be an apocalypse, alright.
Skewering “Thrift Chic”
February 24, 2009 – 11:08 pm
I enjoyed Judith Levine’s article in Salon where she excoriates the attitude that an economic collapse is good for moral hygiene. Several friends of Cynthia and mine were laid off from Spansion yesterday, and they aren’t singing the Diamond Sutra.
Programming Languages as Literary Genres
February 3, 2009 – 2:36 pm
Python is science fiction, Java is literary fiction, and Ruby on Rails is store-bought steampunk goggles*. Cynthia emailed me about Cat Valente’s funny post about programming languages as literary genres this morning. Liz Henry has a write-up too. * for the record, my steampunk goggles were bought off of Etsy.
Data Visualization in Second Life
February 2, 2009 – 10:58 pm
The above is Hiro’s Molecule Rezzer constructing a ball and stick model of a lactose molecule in Second Life. It’s reading data from the HyperChem database converted into a notecard. You can get one for free from the American Chemical Society’s sim*. This is one of several examples of data visualization tools in Second Life [...]
January 20th, 2009
January 20, 2009 – 12:40 am
Eight years ago, Cynthia and I observed the inauguration of George W. Bush by going to a protest in Oakland. Today is also Cynthia and my fifth anniversary as a couple, so no, we don’t look back completely in anger at the last few years. There’s a lot I can say, however, about the Bush [...]
‘The 21 Steps’
January 20, 2009 – 12:06 am
The 39 Steps, retold using Google Maps and KML to narrate a frantic chase across London and Edinburgh, and designed by Adrian Hon and associates.