http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender A digest of blogs at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:48:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So.. I took a break from anything but PHP for a while. Didn’t really focus on learning any new browser based technology for the past 6 months or so. Today, I took a look around.. Am going to be using the the Flash Media Server in ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/09/07/wow-ria%e2%80%99s-are-all-the-rage-and-things-are-definitely-moving-forward/ There are six of us. It is a creative workshop that held by this advertisement/interactive design company called Scholz&Volkmer in Germany Wiesbaden. It's a young company but has great achievements on commercial designs. We were selected to this program, the company paid the plane tickets and housing in Germany for ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/09/06/summer-school-at-scholzvolkmer/ So there I was hanging out at ITP getting ready to eat my salad Lunch. Elizabeth who is a first year at ITP was having trouble logging into the wireless network, so I went over to help her out. As we where debugging the wireless issue, unexpectedly out of nowhere, the ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/09/06/nyu%e2%80%99s-itp-ceiling-collapses/ Dan Hillier artist, some cthulu-esque prints, plus skull dinnerware http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/09/06/links-for-2008-09-05-delicious/ On the Monday morning, I was the first person who arrived the Taiwanese Embassy. After 20 mins waiting, a man who came to open the door, I told him what happened to me, he told me he is from the department of economic, people who should take care of my ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/09/05/this-is-long-but-good-one-final/ http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/09/05/nick-hasty-2008-09-05-171255/ This is my type of woman! Do you know anyone that would rescue over one hundred cats from the freezing cold weather, give them a home and feed them? Meet such a lady and someone’s interpretation of what is happening in this little apartment in Russia. If this was not enough action ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/09/05/cats-and-cowgirls/ http://picasaweb.google.com/ChristianBuhl4 http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/09/05/more-burning-man-pictures/ Ultimate Source for tiled background patterns | Design Shard | Web Design Blog (tags: tutorials inspiration graphics free) http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/09/04/links-for-2008-09-04/ This Klein bottle at the Science Museum contains three interlaced Klein bottles in one. For a very brief explanation of what a Klein bottle and Möbius loops/strips are, check out Clifford Stoll’s talk on TED at the 4:30 minute mark. http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/09/04/three-interlaced-klein-bottles/ http://br.youtube.com/BurnsLosAngeles http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/09/03/burning-man-videos/ I didn't want to do anything, so I went to bed. In my dream, I found out the US president Bush is a fiend of my friend, so I told him what happen to me, asked him if he could get me back to States. He turned to discuss with ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/09/03/this-is-a-long-but-good-one-part-2-what-should-i-do/ The Personal MBA: DIY Business Education & Training for Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners For those of us who didn't get into the Stern classes we wanted to. (tags: toread tools reference productivity marketing management ideas) Diaroogle.com The Premier Toilet Search Engine (tags: web2.0 tools nyc mashup) New York Neighborhood Maps | MondoMap.com (tags: nyc tools web2.0) Evil ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/09/02/links-for-2008-09-02/ Effi Briest performing live at Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, on April 7, 2007. http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/09/02/nancy-garcia-2008-09-02-193951/ Words are not enough to describe it all.The photos are not able to capture the energy.The videos show fragments of the experience.The few basic rules - have fun, share, don't litter, let yourself go, and explore!It is an adult's playground. Spontaneous organization.All tribes, all kinds, all costumes, all ideals - one ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/09/02/burning-man/ Back in NYC? Check. Moved in to new apartment? Check. Started new semester? Check. http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/09/01/first-day-of-class/ Shiffman’s new book Learning Processing: A Beginner’s Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction is now available for purchase. We used a pre-release copy last year in ICM and it’s a great intro to the Processing language. Check it out (and the site when it becomes available). http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/08/30/learning-processing-now-available/ Shiffman’s new book Learning Processing: A Beginner’s Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction is now available for purchase. We used a pre-release copy last year in ICM and it’s a great intro to the Processing language. Check it out (and the site when it becomes available). http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/08/30/learning-processing-now-available/ After one month summer school in Germany, I had a chance to travel to Italy. I went to Venice and Sorrento. I stayed at Sorrento for the most of the time. It is a small town near Napoli by the beach, I went to swimming every mornings, took it easy, ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/08/30/this-is-a-long-but-good-one-%ef%bc%88part-1-where-is-my-bag/ [ timebeat ] An interesting meditation on time. Very pretty. (tags: design cool inspiration) http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/08/29/links-for-2008-08-29/ The INTERACTIVE SHADE project was started with three objectives in mind for the public square space. The first was to enable citizens to use the space more intimately(when sunny and rainnyday). The second was enabling the space to hold hundreds ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/08/29/interactive-shade/ Hey, remember when I used to blog about what I was doing? Man, that was a fun time. A lot has happened since Stern, including finishing my thesis, graduating, and turning Socialbomb into a real company. I’ll be writing about all that relatively soon, so expect updates ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/08/29/socialbomb-level-up/ Back in NYC! After three months in Tokyo, it is time to dig in and get to work... -- Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:13 -0400 http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/08/29/back-in-nyc-4/ Just a quick note to let you know that my book, Learning Processing, is now available for purchase. If you are local to NYC, you can buy the book at the NYU bookstore. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Processing-Beginners-Programming-Interaction/dp/0123736021/ ">Amazon says “out of stock”, but I’m told by the publisher that this is an ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/08/28/learning-processing-available-now/ sonus_sketches http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/08/28/some-sonus/ Vivien Muller came up with a tree design to harvest the sun just like my tree concept, Helios: The Power tree. PhotonSynthese is a small little tree that can charge your gadgets just like the Helios. But thats about all it does. It is built of 52 mini PV solar cells, ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/08/28/solar-tree-concept-is-catching-on/ I have received an Manhattan Community Arts Fund grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council to finish my concept work REDACTED. Check out the beta version here: http://pravinsathe.com/redacted The project will launch in December '08! ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/08/28/mcaf-grant/ The website of ACD/Art Director Mike Anderson has launched. Built with a mySQL backend and with standards compliant CSS, it showcases the video and print work of Mike. Check it out at http://mikesbookandreel.com. ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/08/28/mike-anderson-website-launches/ Cuba to put anti-Castro punk rocker Gorki Aguila on trial Miami Herald, August 27, 2008  By Frances Robles   http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/08/27/gorki-aguila/ Cuba to put anti-Castro punk rocker Gorki Aguila on trial Miami Herald, August 27, 2008  By Frances Robles   http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/08/27/gorki-aguila/ Mobile post sent by swerdloff using Utterz.  Replies.  mp3 http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/08/27/recently-uttered-5/ So I heard from Simplify Media, and their response was informative: A port scan is a ping from a specific location to a range of ports probing for an opening.  The logs you posted actually show the opposite.  These are pings from to range of ports to one specific port:Aug 22 ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/08/27/simplify-media-is-acting-like-a-port-scanning-trojan-part-ii/ Simplify Media, the iTunes library sharing application, has been flooding the loopback ethernet interface and scanning all 65,535 ports of my machine. My Macbook Pro’s networking has been a bit sluggish lately, so I looked in the system.log and found thousands of entries like this:Aug 22 00:07:37 crackbook kernel[0]: Limiting closed ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/08/25/simplify-media-is-acting-like-a-port-scanning-trojan/ The “Blue Dog” Democrats were thrown a lavish party on AT&T’s dime at the DNC: Amazingly, not a single one of the 25-30 people we tried to interview would speak to us about who they were, how they got invited, what the party’s purpose was, why they were attending, etc. One ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/08/25/obamas-change-is-a-double-headed-coin/ I was hanging out in D.U.M.B.O. Brooklyn yesterday. While looking around for a place to seat in the grass, I found a four leaf clover. Now It is believed that this is good luck in many culture, which is fine. But what about a five leaf clover? what is that? ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogblender/2008/08/25/notes-on-the-environment/