Justin.TV
Justin TV is this bizarre first-person, self-aware, version of the Truman Show.
More than anything else, it illustrates the fundamental need for privacy in society...and even more portable wireless bandwidth. We're all slaves to Nyquist after all.
In case you're curious about the other side of the camera, Nick Douglas has a nice face-to-camera/face interview up.
At first glance, Justin would seem to be a proto-gargoyle as originally depicted in Snow Crash. My vote would actually be for Steve Mann, since the core concept is about human sensorium augmentation rather than broadcast.
Multi-Touch demo at TED '07
Jeff Han's absolutely amazing multi-touch demo on a wall-screen.
Octopart
Need a 555 Timer for your next electronics project?
Try Octopart.
Now if they only had a filter on low-quantity vs. bulk purchases...hmm....
Twitter is re-inventing the command line
Mark my words, watch Twitter re-invent the command line application for our modern multi-modal, multi-device, mostly mobile world.
I wish there was complete documentation detailing the inline commands such as: D,NUDGE, ADD, FOLLOW etc. rather than the simple Twitter API urls.
Think about Twitter Groups, Twitter Group Multicast, Twitter auto-responses, Twitter bots, Twitter Msg-Mashups, Twitter ⇔ Google pipelines, Twitter ⇔ Blog pipelines, Dynamic updates to your Twitter profile page...
This will be fun.
Glenda's 20x2 video
Props to Glenda for posting her video from this year's SXSW 20x2 event. Proving that yes, she does most certainly RAWK [mp3 of her group panel].
My rBGH mental reflex
Whenever I see an article on the use of rBGH hormones in milk, my mind does a double-take and initially thinks of the sRGB color space.
Wha? They're not even any sort of combination of the same letters. I guess the psuedo-ligature caused by the camel-case and the shared placement of the 'G' glyph are just close enough to trigger the wrong set of recognition heuristics—at least in my whacked-up noggin.
A color space in my milk!? Heh.
No Way! SXSW Hallways FTW!
Nice survey Ms. Slutsky, but I disagree.
It's the interstitial spaces at SXSW where all the interesting interactions take place. Plus, it helps that there's alcohol on the panels, in the hallways, and at the parties. SXSW is this insanely weird combination of an incredibly well-run conference + lots of informality. This dichotomy is a breading breeding ground for productive BarCamps.
Follow-Up: Yeah, yeah, enough already about 'breading'. I originally posted using an older version of Firefox w/o the spell-checker. Plus, I'm presently suffering from bagel withdrawal.
Plasma Pong
So here I am this evening. Minding my own business, having some Chimay and listening to TWiM when I run across Plasma Pong.
A quick 1 minute download and I suddenly lose 20 minutes of my life and break my 10 day fast from digital gaming. If you have any sort of decent computer w/ a 3D graphics card running Windows, don't do it. Please, just don't do it. You have been warned.
TwitterVision
Am I the only one who wants TwitterVision as my screen-saver? What a wonderful social zeitgeist.
Va Tech's new robot
One of the best aspects of the Electrical Engineering department, at least when I was there, was the multi-disciplinary approach to problem-solving. Whether is was mechanics, software, or electronics, the primary goal was to create an efficient solution and one was expected to learn whatever knowledge/skills were necessary to do the job regardless of one's "major".
Go Hokies!
Social Engineering, A Primer
Even if this guy's story isn't true (it seems to be legit). His advice on executing this prank is invaluable to anyone trying to design defenses against such things. Amongst other things, this is why checkpoints always have at least 2 guards.
River on Twitter
The New York Times now has a River on Twitter. Pretty sweet mash-up of content and content delivery platforms. Sorry I'm so late to the party on this one.
O.k. I give. Here's my Twitter
Fine. Fine. I'm bonsai on Twitter.
I must say it's quite the addiction once cool folks are active. Six months ago, it wasn't quite 'da shit.
Don't expect a MySpace or Facebook profile outta' me though. I'm just not that kind of social (oops, I pulled an MS and used social as a noun). Poor, poor Zune.
Perhaps it's just the INTJ or the old-fartness in me, but I much prefer detailed, composed, thoughtful, and richly contextual email conversations rather than the hit-and-run repartee of IM or Chat.
SXSW Chow/Consumating/Webshots (heh) party
Jesus, Mohawk is packed like the Japanese subway. Lots of wet geeks (it's been raining off and on all day in Austin) cramped together. The bar is 5 deep since somebody neglected to put up tents. Still, Mr. Veen, Mr. Rose (dude, fix your blog), Ms. Belmont, and Mr.Çelik promise for good conversation--what little we can hear over the music.
I wish Chow would've sprung for better food (sigh) and no DJs--yet. At least there's plenty of stuff to imbibe.
SXSW Bound
See everyone at SXSW.
I'm especially looking forward to Will Wright's keynote, Tom Merritt's new-media panel, Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse fan trailers, Bruce Sterling's house party, and some good 'ole Austin BBQ.
Podroll
After more than a few weeks of delay, the podcast list is finally up on the sidebar →