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FCC's Vote against Net Nuetrality is a disservice to museums
Yesterday, the FCC voted to repeal the 2015 Open Internet Order and dismantle the order’s strong net neutrality rules (New York Times summary of what happened). You have probably read about how this might impact broadband quality for things like streaming television or even basic websites via tiered access
Rebooting my Blog for 2015
I have had moments where I’ve made sweeping, public declarations of reboots and fresh starts. These pronouncements have ranged from triumphant to cringe-inducing. This is one of those posts. Existential crises keep me up at night, and If I’m to be honest, have probably haunted me for at
Week Notes 1836 - Crit Day & Thanksgiving Lull
Last Monday, the second year masters students at the media lab all gave short presentations about their thesis projects. It’s an opportunity for them to formally propose their research ideas to the entire lab community – faculty, fellow students, etc – to generate critique and feedback. I tweeted: crit day @medialab
Spam and Email System
I think I have finally nailed down a reasonable email handling / spam fighting strategy after about a year of tweaking. I’m going to slowly describe my system over a series of posts. It’s pretty good, if I do say so myself. Here are a couple of ranty things
justin.tv and art. lebedev
* Justin.tv jostles for attention as the new ze frank. Justin and 3 of his friends have started a company to make online, live video easy. He wears a head-cam 24-7 and their shared apartment / office space has house cams as well. What will keep my attention is that I
Nothing like the last minute
With the everlooming sxsw-interactive rapidly crashing in on me, I tried to do something cute with my web server and email. Everything broke and now I’ve got a duct-tape solution that at least will maybe let me get email again. The 11th hour is too late to try to
Readymade Meat Cart Bed
I built the meat cart bed from Readymade Issue 1. I altered the dimensions to better fit a full-sized mattress for a smaller space. Flickr photo set Technorati Tags: bed, cart, meat, readymade
Wired News: The Age of Cheap, Plastic Robots
As a robot enthusiast and, dare I say, practitioner, there are three trends in consumer/entertainment robotics that I’m tracking and which have opportunities for much deeper exploration. * gladiator machines – BattleBots. Where are the ballet robots? Machines with sensitivity? When will it become about the performance art and not
Iguana Food
Iguanas really like collard greens and mustard greens. It makes them grow big and plump and green. They’ll happily eat lettuce and carrots, but those are like Whataburger – delicious, but nutritionally bankrupt. I’m sorry, Iggy. You and I will eat better from now on.
Stretching Daily
Creativity is a skill that needs nourishment, practice, and brutal honesty. You can’t call yourself a “creative person” unless you are actually living/observing, wondering, learning, tinkering, AND building every single day. You can’t do any of those things successfully, much less expect anyone to notice unless you