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Best Screensaver Ever
About a year ago I bought a huge monster flat screen TV. It’s nice for watching movies on and a heck of a lot less trouble than setting up the projector. It sucks a lot of power so I try to leave it turned off most of the time, but I’ve got a great reason to leave it on. That reason is Slickr. It downloads the most interesting pictures from Flickr and gracefully fades them in and out and about on your screen.
If you are staring at it and a really good picture comes up, you can hit “d” on your keyboard to make it your wallpaper. Hit the spacebar to launch the picture behind the scenes in your browser.
GWEI – Google Will Eat Itself
GWEI – Google Will Eat Itself
They subscribe to Google’s AdSense program and serve ads.
As the ads earn money, the money is automatically used to buy shares of stock in Google (GOOG).
Anyone who visits the site can become a shareholder in their corporation (GTTP Ltd – Google To The People Company). Therefore we all become shareholders, in effect, of Google.
They calculate that they we will fully own Google in 202 years.
Sweeeeeeet.
This feels distinctly like art to me.
Writing With Water
As promised by the Wooster Collective, this video made my brain go wild.
What if you used a sheet of water with detergent – you could excite just portions of the water to luminesce, creating a non-scrolling display.
alright which of you did this?
first http://matthewkatzisajerk.com, now this. I get the message. In cassidy’s bathroom between 5&6 on 56th.
I, for one, welcome our death-dealing barking robot overlords
http://feeds.we-make-money-not-art.com/wmmna?m=895
I know quake is free now, but couldn’t they have trained it on a copy of the sims instead?
update: I can’t find the article anywhere now. Found it in my feed reader, it was about scientists who were growing a neural net using cultured dog brain slices. They were supposedly training it by using a grid of electrodes somehow connected to a game of quake. The more I think about it, the fishier it sounds. Having read recently about how neural nets actually work when used by scientists, it is hard to believe bunging some electrodes in -> playing a rendered 3d game. I will try to be more careful in the future. This article was something I found and wrote about while on the subway, so I couldn’t read further about it first.
Wooster Collective: Seen In The French Alps
Net Art: We Feel Fine / by Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar
We Feel Fine / by Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar
It’s not just pretty. This applet polls various rss feeds and collects posts where people describe how they feel. Then it uses various relationships and attributes to present that data in innovative ways.
These various graphs are playful and informative. Found this via MonkeyBites, which has a great writeup. Also of note is an API so that other artists can use this search without having to do the backend coding.
Cleverest graffiti i’ve seen in a while
Bad news, beautifully presented
It almost doesn’t hurt to look at Seed Magazine’s series of State of the Planet graphs. Oh, if only all information was so well presented, wouldn’t that be nice?