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Know Thyself

Jeff — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:00:10 +0000

Know Thyself: Tracking Every Facet of Life, from Sleep to Mood to Pain, 24/7/365.

Data Center Overload

Jeff — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:00:36 +0000

It seemed heretical to think of Karl Marx. But looking at the roomful of computers running automated trading models that themselves scan custom-formatted machine-readable financial…

Lingering | n+1

Jeff — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:00:19 +0000

Naturally everyone wants to believe that by spending time online we are not steadily depriving real art, thought, and journalism of the attention and—since so much…

Berners-Lee: We no longer fully understand the web – opinion – 05 June 2009 – New Scientist

Jeff — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:00:36 +0000

[The Web] connects people as they make and follow hyperlinks to a degree that results in complex properties no one expected. It has something like…

Wolfram Alpha, yet another pretender to Google’s throne.

Jeff — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:39:21 +0000

As it kept coming up empty, Wolfram Alpha came to seem less like HAL 9000 and more like a chatbot. It’s been trained to respond…

Bio Mapping

Jeff — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:51:28 +0000

It’s an art project that doubles as a tourist guide.

via Very Short List and Kurtis Kolt.

The Path and the slow video game movement. – By Chris Suellentrop

Jeff — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:12:20 +0000

[T]he game is pleasingly weird and a good proof of concept that a video game needn’t include any fighting or puzzles in the course of…

Caught in the Net

Jeff — Sat, 23 May 2009 03:20:11 +0000

Whatever prophets of the net say, information for its own sake is not power. Power is power. The relentless gush of electronic information and invitations…

Nine games computers are ruining for humanity

Jeff — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:44:33 +0000

What gets lost for players when computers are trained, expertly, in competing at our games?

The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation — Sam Anderson

Jeff — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:21:19 +0000

Best magazine essay I’ve read in the last year. No jokes about skimming: read it.

Over the last several years, the problem of attention has migrated…