…quick, then, before they hit the lights, a run-down on Atom Syndication. Update circa, 2008: And hit the lights on Webmonkey they did. For sentimentality’s sake, I’ve reproduced the text of…
This blog now seems to be officially shuttered for the summer. ‘Cause it’s sunny out. Elsewhere, though, there’s this: Metadata, Mark II, an overview of some nifty metadata technologies. Update, 2008:…
ProgressQuest blithely offers the users the transcendental visuals of a DOS disk defrag utility, combined with the clichéd narrative of fantasy RPGs. It’s most definitely freeware. So why waste CPU cycles…
Rob Swigart’s ’Portal: A Dataspace Retrieval’, originally published as an ‘interactive novel’ back in ’86, has been migrated to the web, complete with Commodore-era graphics. I’m also fond of the (subsequent)…
Word of the day is ‘quincunx’, the pattern of five on a six-sided die. A quincunx can also refer to a crude probability-modeling device (animated here), a simple rolling ball that…
“I dreamt music” : Yamaha CS80’s and late ‘70’s analog / voltage-controlled synths, to be precise… While Vangelis’ textured soundscape to Blade Runner has long been recognized as a groundbreaking electronic…
Meet Audrey: a conglomeration of the command line and the curvaceous, the ubercute and the Unix-y. And while ’Audrey Hacking’ may sound like ‘her’ full name, it’s actually the definitive guide…