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Travel time to major cities: A global map of Accessibility - European Commission
Posted January 6th, 2009 at 1:45 pm. There are 0 comments.
It is amazing that we can get to nearly anywhere on earth in a matter of hours or a few days. Remoteness is is slipping away.
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Harrahs Casino is tuning your experience
Posted January 4th, 2009 at 7:24 pm. There is 1 comment.
In a recent Radio Lab podcast on the subject of Choice , there was a segment on Harrahs Casino’s method of tracking and customizing the experience of it’s customers. Using a frequent players card, which players put into the slot machine while playing, they can track all the attributes of the players betting patterns and especially what your pain point is. With your losses at the slots mounting the casino knows when you are likely to get up and walk out of the casino. It is at this time that a casino employee drops by and gives you some comps (free show tickets etc) which makes you feel like you are winning and you are more likely to stay put, pulling the lever.
How much will you go down before you call it quits?
logical or emotional
Posted December 30th, 2008 at 7:59 pm. There is 1 comment.Craig Oldham recently published 12 IN 12, an accompaniment to a talk where he gave a listing of 12 things he learned in his first 12 months as a graphic designer. In the talk he touched upon hte different cultures of designers, emotional design and logical design, and lists members of each.
The Mobile City on The Situationists
Posted December 23rd, 2008 at 10:11 am. There are 2 comments.What struck me was that locative media practitioners often refer back to the situationists as some kind of ancestors, as if they’re working in the same vein. The situationist love for traipsing about town is shared by locative artists who similarly enjoy taking computing ‘outside’, into ‘everyday life’. Just like the situationists we must reclaim the street, and this time we’ll use computers to do it!
But that, to me, seems to be where the similarities end. As alive-and-kicking situationist muse Jacqueline de Jong pointed out during the evening, the situationists wanted one thing above all else: to destroy and disrupt our cushy society. They were sick of it, vowing never to work a day in their lives. They probably would have laughed if they had seen that their ideas had been cherry-picked for ripe concepts. The derive, the detournement. All simple concepts that they purposefully packaged in complex and artistc jargon. And we fell for it.
So, we have two options. Either we stop pretending the situationists are our forefathers, or we actually do see them as our forefathers, and start using computing to disrupt instead of streamline society.
Locative Media and The Situationists - The Mobile City
User Name Check
Posted December 22nd, 2008 at 2:36 pm. There are 0 comments.
A brief survey view of my usual identity, seanaes, across several sites. Please don’t be a username-squatter. kThx.
You can check your username at usernamecheck.com/
time lapse in antarctica
Posted December 12th, 2008 at 12:31 pm. There are 0 comments.
Antarctica from Jordan Manley on Vimeo.
30 Ways to Shock Yourself
Posted December 11th, 2008 at 3:48 pm. There are 0 comments.
From the book Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern, uploaded to flickr by Bre Pettis
See the whole set here.
street view coverage maps
Posted December 9th, 2008 at 6:07 pm. There are 0 comments.Google updated Street View in the US today and have expanded the coverage quite a bit. What used to be a series of small puffy blue clouds covering mostly metropolitan areas has now become are sea of blue covering much of the nation.
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interesting signup form at huffduffer.com
Posted December 9th, 2008 at 11:33 am. There are 0 comments.
The idea is great, feeling a bit of mad-libs and a little like - hey I am writing a personal note to this beta website that doesn’t yet have a public signup.
your phone keypad could have looked like this
Posted December 8th, 2008 at 12:46 pm. There are 0 comments.
While 3X3 + 1 wasn’t the most popular in the focus groups, that would be IV-B, it eventually won out. Some of the other designs make sense in as much as they have strong similarity to the dial used on phones previously. I do wonder though, if the prevalent use of the number keypad, in similar forms to the telephone keypad now found on ATMs, safes and my desktop keyboard would look different. Was the 3X3+1 configuration in use in other situations before the telephone company made the switch?