Just to let you all know that I'll be joining Nokia Research Palo Alto as a Member of Research Staff starting November 17th. Woooo!

Now back to your regularly scheduled finishing-writing-my-dissertation.

Some brilliant stuff at Central St. Martin's Degree show this year. My friend Tim has a great summary post here which is worth a flip through ( Read more... )

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This is a great concept video by Pam Briggs & Patrick Olivier about 'Biometric Demons', which I first saw when they presented it at alt.chi. It's an excellent example of concept work specifying function without pinning down form. Lovely ( Read more... )

Does anybody know how I can paste something from Acrobat into Word without it taking every new line as a hard CR? IE, I want to paste this from an Acrobat document ( Read more... )

Did you like The Secret History, and maybe The Rule of Four? I recommend The Geographer's Library.

In January Perlick challenged me to make my New Year's resolution doing something structured, as I'm generally very improvisational by nature. Now, I'm a pretty good musician, but I have a poor sense of rhythm, which I find frustrating, so I figured that would be a good thing to work at ( Read more... )

I'm reading 'Course of empire'. The LoC publication data reads "1. Human-alien encounters - Fiction". It's nice to know someone at the LoC believes, y'know?

Inspired by some graphs dr_tectonic produced which showed graphical representations of individual songs, I got distracted this morning and started thinking about who songs are written about.

As it happens, I have a (gendered) list of names on my computer from previous research, and I also have a dump of OLGA (the OnLine Guitar Archive, now defunct due to ( Read more... )