Women in computing
Posted: 7 June 2011 Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: cultural, development, programming Leave a commentThis is a very interesting article on how programming was initially perceived as ‘women’s work’. The quote from Grace Hopper liking it to planning dinner seems a bit condecending to me.
I wonder who said this….
Posted: 11 April 2011 Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: stuff Leave a comment‘every time my phone rings I hope its you, but in my heart I know it never will be, coz even if I need you.. you don’t need me’
SOUR/MIRROR
Posted: 20 February 2011 Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: advertising, html5, music Leave a commentThis is a nice piece of HTML5, fantastic integration of Facebook, Twitter and webcam. It’s interesting that most of the good pieces of HTML5 all seem to be used for music promotions. Anyways, give it a look – http://sour-mirror.jp/
Scroll clock
Posted: 1 December 2010 Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: jquery, mootools Leave a commentNice to see Mootools used in such a creative manner – http://toki-woki.net/p/scroll-clock/
Kinetic drivers created.
Posted: 11 November 2010 Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: gaming, hack, open source Leave a commentAccording to geek.com drivers for the Kinect have been made using Linux and OpenGL. The full article can be read here
The Wilderness Downtown
Posted: 20 October 2010 Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: advertising, css, html5, music Leave a commentThis site asks you to enter the full address of where you grew up and then plays a video which incorporates images of the street. From a technology view point it’s an incredible feat of engineering but from an emotional point of view it’s really quite clever and subtle. As a boy I can remember running home coz I was late for my tea and that immediately jumped into my mind with the imagery. Does that now mean every time I hear the track I will be transported back to my childhood? That’s quite clever, subtle and manipulative if that was the intention……I still love it though 🙂
http://thewildernessdowntown.com/
indaf
Posted: 2 September 2010 Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: exhibition Leave a commentAs part of Roy Ascott’s LPDT 2 for indaf, I provided the AI interface that people could SMS and then their original message and the AI’s response were posted into Second Life. You can read more about the piece here – http://www.indaf.org/e_sub02_02.asp
Craftivism workshop
Posted: 1 December 2009 Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: hack, open source, workshop Leave a commentAs part of the Craftivism project at the Arnolfini, I’m taking part in a workshop with GOTO10 called /mode + v noise. Using Python and Supercollider, we’re gonna be making our own software sound synthesiser and chat bots that will be used to manipulate and turn chat on an IRC channel into a music score.
Random hacks of kindness
Posted: 16 November 2009 Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: hack Leave a commentGoogle, Microsoft and Yahoo put aside their differences to build tools for emergency workers – http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10398073-245.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20. The site for the project is here.
Oh yes!!!!
Posted: 20 October 2009 Filed under: Adaptive Games Systems, Histories & Futures, Invisible Architecture, Masters, Msc Project, Negotiated Practice A, Negotiated Practice B, Ramblings, Synthesis | Tags: Masters Leave a commentFound out today that I passed and am now an MSc. So to celebrate a quick trip to Mr Bun was called for.
