This is a burger chain, so I’m not really sure if they franchise out of the city, but if you’re in SF, I highly recommend trying their garlic fries.

There’s this huge snow storm warning for Toronto on TV (as in the warning seems huge, but so far, nothing has fallen from the sky yet). But inside it doesn’t feel like anything. I can’t hear the wind blowing outside, but all the channels are saying “snow, fleet, and ice…” etc. etc.
Continuing on [...]

Mangarosa
Italian and Brazilian Fusion Cuisine
1548 Stockton Street
San Francisco, CA 94133

I recommend the pumpkin, shrimp and rice dish. Don’t eat dessert there because there’s a fabulous gelato place right across the street called Probuzione Propria.

On a plane, see you all later! #

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I just returned from a trip to Savannah, GA to for technology and art week. Mary Flanagan gave a great talk on the nature of video games as an expressive medium and Andrew Schneider demoed his wacky and incredible Experimental Devices for Performance.

Voronoi from shiffman on Vimeo.
Download QT version (better quality)
I [...]

Review of the Nike Amp+ iPod Control Watch

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Check it out. This is an amazing tool for runners to be able to record and display the experience of a race (or maybe just a normal run, why not?) I wish that I had been able to do something like this for the marathon I ran in 2006 (maybe taking all th…

The case (aka switch in other languages) control structure in Ruby is great. The first when clause that evaluates true is the only one executed.
Compare to PHP’s switch, which lets execution fall-through to every passing case until it finds a break. That’s just wrong. It’s so counter-intuitive. Sure, a veteran PHP [...]

Garmin set to enter the mobile phone market?
These specs sound too good to be true.
Optimizing performance for WordPress
What the F***? Stephen Pinker on why we curse.
A Three-Dimensional Approach to Organizing Your Feeds Using Google Reader
A good system for handling feed overload.

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Here’s the basic presentation we provide these days, courtesy of a great service slideshare.net. | VIEW |

 (Note: It is supposed to show in this window. If anyone knows how to adjust, please fix it or email me about the solution - toml@communisphere.com.)
 

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A little press from the Guardian’s art blog, here. Mark Hooper runs a bit cool on SL and its economy, but speaks positively about the gallery itself, and my and the other artists’ work. Snips:
 Three artists are showcasing their art in a new virtual gallery. But is this really the best place to see their [...]

Dear Wordpress,
I really didn’t think it was going to work out between us. Things were becomming confusing. All these mixed messages. But then I figured out where the issue was. I immediately deleted the problem files from my server (which, incidentally, I had previously installed in order to clear up the recent breakdown in communication- [...]

A while back I participated in Dan Winckler’s video improv workshop. It was fun day and I got introduced to his work. I was happy he when sent out an email announcement that he will be performing with {Rake} at Monkeytown. It was a fun show and my first time going to MT [...]

I’ve recently been inspired by some text visualization methods. Of specific interest to me are Edward Tufte’s Sparklines, simple word sized graphics, which allow their users to get the gist of what’s happening with the data without needing to fully read it all. The graphic below is a 13th century manuscript bible with these amazing [...]

And it works beautifully.
Reasons why this is a great application:
1. 1 step registration process
2. 1 feature - a bookmarklet you drag to your toolbar and click to save links you want to read later
3. 1 page that aggregates all those saved links for you to check out when you have the time
That’s it.
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Objectives in User Interface Design"Below are the major objectives in constructing a UI: consistency, usability, navigation, visual appeal, interoperability, performance, and accessibility."

Wordpress launches PrologueInteresting Twitter-esque Wordpress theme for small, collaborative groups. It isn’t immediately clear how this would be useful to me right now, but I think its worth keeping an eye on.

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I must confess that I find it hard to get excited about laundry detergent. I find it harder still to get excited about the marketing of laundry detergent. But there’s little question that smart marketers ignore Proctor & Gamble at…

Once Apple added the ability to send text messages to multiple recipients I thought I’d finally be able to have my dodgeball checkins be reflected as my status in Twitter, and in turn, Facebook (via the Facebook Twitter app). I’ve always appreciated the location information inherent to dodgeball messages and longed for that utility in [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Using my iPhone to get my dodgeball checkins into Twitter and Facebook”, url: “http://www.teamkanestreet.com/blog/2008/01/30/using-my-iphone-to-get-my-dodgeball-checkins-into-twitter-and-facebook/” });

The World Clock Project is collecting images of public clock faces showing each minute of the day. My submission is 9:33, shown above second in on the second row.

Because it’s great fun to look at pictures of clocks from around [...]

Simulate Editions
unique and authenticated virtual art objects
Premiering at:
Crossing the Void II
Ten Cubed Gallery, Second Life
opening receptions 31 January 7pm EST (1pm SLT) and 1 February 7pm GMT (8am SLT)
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/depo%20park%201/200/55/22

Artists Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern have each been exploring performance and performativity in their archival prints. Kildall restages then remediates iconic performance artworks in [...]

No computer for two whole weeks. Kris, I know you and Dad bet money on this. Look, I survived! Now, who won the bet?

• PlaceShout
  Twitter + Yelp = also very close to some stuff I’ve been cooking up in my spare time (ssssh!) You can see my profile here: http://placeshout.com/users/533

seatomato factory will be closing for a short term.

At secacus station the muzak is playing ELO Livin thing. Gasp- does this make ELO into muzak? Say it isn’t so. #

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On Sunday, February 24th, come see the Muttering Hat & Talk to Yourself at the Threads wearable fashion show presented by the _gaia art collective at the Jersey City Museum. Included are projects by several ITP alum, including my fabulous officemate Jenny Chowdhury. More information can be found here.
PS- Even dream of being a model? [...]

check it out >This one is my favorite, a little girl reciting all the presidents…

CandyFab (sounds fab to me!)is made by Evil Mad Scientist Labs. Read more >I saw them at Maker Faire last year — of course I asked the question, and “No, you can’t eat it” was the answer, unfortunately. more photos:

At the recommendation of a friend, who questioned the very idea that someone would plug their headphones in to a sign, I did just that. The experience was, as you might guess, pretty stupid. This particular sign was in the 42nd street A/C/E Station, where I stood about a foot away from the ad to [...]

As per the Boston Globe (via Dennis’ mom). Sniffle indeed.

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The artist, famous for his Andre the Giant “Obey” posters, is offering these 24″ x 36″ silkscreens for $50 dollars each. I really love the propaganda-style aesthetic of his work.
Cool Hunting: Shepard Fairey: Obama Posters
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http://www.thing-a-day.com/about/
Found this from ITP alum list.
Have to think what I’ll do everyday in February.
Yay.
Feel so boosted already. Haha.

The Ovü will be making yet another appearance in Brazil, this time at the Bienal de São Paulo. (I am becoming a little envious.) There will be a video conference taking place in February, as part of it. Hopefully, the footage will be available via podcast shortly afterwards.
A big OBRIGADO (thank you) to Paulo Hartmann [...]

With the recent rash of infrastructure collapse around the nation including a steam pipe explosion, subway flooding, and bridge collapse there is little doubt that our countries infrastructure is old and ailing. Yesterday morning I heard (and felt) two…

Jive Talks: XMPP (a.k.a. Jabber) is the future for cloud services

My project, PleaseSpam.Us will be on display at the Transmediale 2008 media arts festival in Berlin, Germany from January 30th to February 3rd. The theme for the festival this year is “Conspire” which actually fits pretty nicely with the theme of my project. Unfortunately I won’t be able to attend the festival this year, so [...]