MASSIVELY PARALLEL

Sounds about right.

This is pretty cool.

Reminds me of Luke Dubois’ Play.

Four-minute animation of the American Civil War. Interesting that in lieu of the traditional Blue and Grey, the Union is represented in Blue and the Confederacy in Red. Think there’s anything to say here about the state of politics today?
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Watching the Union land a beach-head in New Orleans, drive south through Mississippi, [...]

if Hitch were to get his own talk show?
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I’m not crazy about the guy, but he’s always fun to watch.  He pwns Hannity pretty nicely in this clip.  And ad hominem-ing Ralph Reed with cries of “Abramoff!  Abramoff!” isn’t the classiest move in the world, but it certainly feels good.

There’s a new medium afoot: dynamic text. A few months ago a short history of the web called The Machine is Us/ing Us spread virally. It was narrated entirely with dynamic text.
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Now E.O.Wilson’s TED grant “wish”, called the Encyclopedia of Life, has an introductory video using the same technique:
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This mode of presentation is [...]

Bicyclists are a boon to any city, reducing congestion and pollution and pushing back the anonymity of automobile culture. Its enraging to see this kind of motorist-on-cyclist violence (which tends to be common) and gratifying to see it publicized and punished.

Students Accidentally Catch Cyclist Assault On Tape
Tuesday May 8, 2007
A group of students on a [...]

The Parsons CDT Advanced MasMsp/Jitter class has their midterm show at Monkeytown & its like old home week. Dave and Todd are collaborating on an MSP/OpenGL piece,Walid is wrestling in a welding mask, and a guy I don’t know named Yosuke Toyoda is shredding some OpenGL using a live guitar. Good times.
If you can read [...]

In 1995 my father interviewed his mother about her experiences in the Holocaust. The Hi-8 tape had been lost for a few years, and then stuck on Hi-8 for a few more years, but now its here, ripped and on the internet. One problem: it’s in Yiddish. I’m hoping the [...]

Oh wow.
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Pame said “I’ll start painting again if you start writing” so here we go. I’m not sure what this blog is going to be or where its going to live, but I do know that starting now is better than not starting. So here it is.
Booklist:
On my nighttable
- Send Our Regards to The [...]