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Google D.C. Talk Oct. 9: LOLcats, Cheezburgers, and FAILs
Posted by Adam Kovacevich, Senior Manager, Public Policy Communications Our next Google D.C. Talk is coming up on October 9, and it should be a fun one. Two years ago, the blog I Can Has Cheezburger introduced Internet surfers to LOLcats — cute kitten photos with misspelled captions — and a user-generated phenomenon was born. […]
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Computing History at Bell Labs
In 1997, on his retirement from Bell Labs, Doug McIlroy gave a fascinating talk about the “History of Computing at Bell Labs.” That page contains audio for the talk in Real Audio format (it was 1997). Almost ten years ago I transcribed the audio but never did anything with it. The transcript is below. My […]
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10 Provocations
I gave a guest lecture at the University of Westminster yesterday, for the Innovation & Technology Management module in their MA Music Management. And it occurred to me that this was a bunch of people who were going to have a parade of music industry experts in front of them over the next few months. […]
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Generating MIDI with Ruby
[Giles Bowkett] has been working on a music library for Ruby called Archaeopteryx. He describes it as a “Ruby MIDI DJing/live-coding thing“. In the video above, He’s using it to generate and then morph rhythms. The Ruby code is directly controlling the step sequencer in Reason. It’s an interesting approach to music development. The video […]
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Live Streams of TED Conference for Associate Members
Can’t make it to the TED conference or don’t want to cough up the $6,000 conference membership fee? Well, we have good news for you. Starting 2009, TED will offer a live webcast as part of its associate membership program. Experiencing the conference, which has always been by invitation only, will be much easier too […]
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Cartofictions slides posted
Last night I gave my lecture Cartofictions: Maps, The Imaginary and Geo-Social Engineering to a surprisingly well-attended room here at Mama, Zagreb. The talk went better than the 1.2h talk at Inclusiva-net 7 months ago (video documentation here), largely because I hadn’t run amok the night before. After the talk several people asked to see […]
