| THE UMBRELLA ARBITRACT | [exercises in planned obsolescence] |
Some preliminary fiddling with JavaScript, in collaboration with Laewoo Kang. Clearly not what the internet was made for.
Check the source if you wish to examine the bloody aborted remnants of an attempt to include algorithmic coloration into this picture.
One of these days we’ll get it. WE CAN HAVE A NORMAL LIFE.
The ubiquity of sensor devices makes it easy to take them for granted. A little attention goes a long way in revealing the extent of their saturation, and to document sensors non-intrusively with a camera is, literally, to only scratch the surface.
(or, “How to Make a Simple Analog Switch Complicated by Sticking a Computer in the Middle of It.”)
Tonight I met and chatted with Signor Arduino for the first time. Nice enough guy. I think i made a good impression.
What I brought to the table:
The focus of Ong’s text – that the modes of thought of which we are capable are conditioned by the methods whereby our thoughts are able to be expressed and rehearsed socially, and thus by the material constraints of their expression and reception – sheds quite a broad light on the history of culture and immediately suggests itself to a range of further research programs (and is all the more striking in light of its commnonsensicality in hindsight). In addition to furnishing explanations for some of the structural and thematic differences between modern and traditional language use and culture, it serves as a handy starting point for the investigation of a number of more delimited metacultural trends concerning the pace and character of culture’s evolution.
[UPDATED 090929]
In this preliminary foray into amateurish HTML- and CSS-based web design, I have attempted to follow in the footsteps of the venerable TIME CUBE in terms of style, readability, good taste, and overall groundedness in reality.
I present to you:
WHAT I DID FOR MY SUMMER VACATION. [now with fancy javascript navigation]
[for the original version of the site, click here]