The game itself is the classic worm game, played in non-euclidean space - that is to say, it is played on the surface of various three-dimensional shapes.
I highly recommend the blind version of the game. Kinda gives you a headache after a while though.
Link.
Update: Links to all the media available here. Read on for the ones I think are best.
Some interesting talks from Idea2006, ranked in order that I imagine my audience will appreciate them. All the media is here.
Dan Hill: The New Media
Drawing from work in both strategic and operational areas at the BBC in London, I’ll explore some of the ways big media companies are approaching the new media landscape. Far from being marginalised by Web 2.0-style operations, I’ll argue that broadcast media can be reinvented to take advantage of both its traditional strengths and the new environment it finds itself in. I’ll highlight the course we’re plotting between between the top-down, fully-articulated, designed, broadcast models and the fully-participative, emergent, vernacular, open-ended, networked models. Essentially believing there is some value in both, and lots in their potential fusion. This will include examples of strategic work defining the design and navigation principles around the next generation BBC website as well as tactical steps towards this, drawn from interactive products and services made at BBC Radio & Music. This will include using hosting music festivals in Second Life, explorations of ‘Lost’ mapped onto graphical scores, spurious relationships between urban planning and designing media systems and tricks for getting design ‘into the boardroom’.
Mike Migurski and Eric Rodenbeck: Information Visualization, Why Now and Where It’s Going
Good talk on Info Viz, audio here, ppt slides with inline movies here (165mb)
pngs of the slides here. Even if you can’t play the ppt I recommend you download the zip with the movies, and extract them and figure out which is which as you flip through the pngs, there is some pretty cool stuff in there.
Fernanda Viegas: Information Visualization, Why Now and Where It’s Going part 2
Audio, slides. At one point she flips to the live NameVoyager, go play, it’s fun.
Paul Gould: Next Generation Libraries
God, what a stuck up prick, but he did have some interesting things to say. Audio, slides.
Linda Stone: Opening Keynote
Designers have a special sensitivity and resonance with mass consciousness. Linda Stone has studied how the way we use our attention impacts and is impacted by mass consciousness. From multi-tasking, to what Stone calls, “continuous partial attention,” to focus and uni-tasking, Stone tracks twenty year social cycles, bringing a sense of context to our current, always-on lifestyle.
And the closing keynote from Bruce Sterling, a little less than I have come to expect from his usually brilliant summations, but still fun: Audio.
I was fairly delirious through the first day due to being awake 48 hours at that point, so if you find anything else good let me know, and I will listen to it, heh.
I suppose my appreciation for this is somewhat related to my current loopyness due to spending the last week doing 15 hour days editing dialogue.
Posted by Clinton McClung to WFMU’s Beware of the Blog.
No matter how hard you try, there is just no way to get cassette editing to sound perfect and crisp, and that again is one of the joys of the process. There is a point where the sound of the editing becomes a part of the edit itself, and making the listener aware of it somehow feels okay. Pesky limitations and happy accidents can sometimes yeild the best results.
Read more at WFMU’s Beware of the Blog.
Posted by Kenny G to WFMU’s Beware of the Blog.
Composer Thomas Dimuzio has taken this classic rock tune, reversed it, cut it up into quarter-notes and then reassembled it in forward order to retain the melody.
Seems like this would be a good headfuck when you are tripping.
There is nothing more to read, but you can go read it at WFMU’s Beware of the Blog.
That’s Reiser of ReiserFS. I could care less, except it prompted Auslander to point out that if the brains of ReiserFS is behind bars, you might get a situation where
a bunch of kernel committers [are] trying to get information about FS design out of hans while he serves his prison term. Something like a dorktabulous “Silence of The Lambs” comes to mind.
I wish the production values had been a little higher, as this could have been amazing, rather than just cool.
Via MAKE: Blog.
Posted by Bruce Sterling to Beyond the Beyond.
Overheard at the “INTELLIGENT PRINTING” conference, Oct 2006
“We’re in the business of putting goo on a substrate.”
“We need a taxonomy for ‘printing-that-is-no-longer-printing.’”
“Your mega-customer, the anchor tenant in the mall of your dreams”
“It’s the business of killing trees and putting chemicals on them.”
“Baseball cards that suck in energy and run e-ink animated displays”
“They’re not hiding, they’re just selective.”
“We help companies put together arguments and stories to win that venture money.”
“Those Austrian farm-boys didn’t know that ink-plants were supposed to be messy, so that was one of the cleanest plants they ever had.”
“Electronic cardboard blurs the line between printed objects and the virtual world.”
“The supply chain is a network of atoms.”
“Six trillion RFID tags is four orders of magnitude bigger than any electronic item ever made.”
“You can’t take on the Silicon Gorilla face to face.”
“Fluidic Self-Assembly Machines aren’t ‘printing’ — they’re the competition.”
Read more at Beyond the Beyond.
I am reading Accelerando by Charles Stross. It is a deeply flawed look at the post singularity world, but I am prepared to forgive it it’s flaws due to the fact that to look beyond the beyond is impossible (the definition of singularity strongly relates to the inability to understand). Anyhow one of the most interesting parts of the book is the poking at what a truly efficient economy would be, and what happens when tech makes that posable.
Now the SEC is going to push the first step into giving AI’s the data to run the stock market :gonk::
Posted by Tim Bray to ongoing.
I spent a couple of fascinating hours Tuesday at a round table hosted by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. The subject was Interactive Data, a term which is hardly self-explanatory but really means “Business Transparency”. This in the same week that Jonathan sent a letter on the same subject to SEC Chairman Christopher Cox, who was also around the table. Mr. Cox and the SEC are definitely on the right track; I expect bumps in the road, but there’s a chance that Accounting As We Know It could be blown up. Which would be a good thing; and not just because Open Source is creeping in.
Read more at ongoing.
(I am kidding about the :gonk: bit, this is pretty cool, and will help us humans “keep the thieves out” as Tim says. Just don’t let the computers take over man, man.)