May 2010
WatchMeet the sloths (by Amphibian Avenger)
Love and machines
Pillow Talk, by Dundee design student Joanna Montgomery, seems to draw a thread between a series of different projects that I’ve seen over the past couple of years.
Pillow Talk is a project aiming to connect long distance lovers. Each person has a pillow for their bed and a chest sensor which they wear to sleep at night. The chest sensor wirelessly communicates with the other person’s...
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Weeks 5 and 6
The last couple of weeks have been a fug borne of a rather debilitating cold - probably the sickest I’ve been for several years - punctuated by three really fun events: Anna’s birthday, a friends’ wedding and the annual Bay to Breakers 12K race.
(The photo above is from my birthday gift to Anna, a seaplane flight around San Francisco Bay, which I’d recommend to...
Tumblr emailed me today
Apparently my tumbl log is three years old. It’s now merged with my main blog, so that’s three years out of about nine and a half.
My Twitter account is heading for four years old. My Flickr account, on the other hand, is now officially six.
People pretend the internet is ephemeral, but these are among the most permanent things in my life.
“The good news for newsweeklies is that there are more people who care about...”
– by Derek Powazek
April 2010
Week 4
I skipped week 3 for some unknown reason. Really, I can’t remember.
But it’s week 4 now, and I’ve been in Knoxville, Tennessee most of the week waiting for the verdict in the trial of David Kernell, the student who changed Sarah Palin’s email password and exposed it - temporarily - on 4chan (it’s for something I’m working on).
Proof that court cases involve...
