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  • Antiwar

    Hundreds of thousands staged antiwar rallies around the world Saturday.  This photo is from Reuters: “About 150 medical practitioners gathered outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta to protest.” Continue to protest the…

  • It’s Our World

    Don’t let this war happen.

  • Nanofestival

    Nanofestival v.01 is a international, no-budget, on-line art festival for extreme short (!max. 10 sec.!) web movies and software art.  The event is organized by ZEROGLAB, an independent digital art-lab in Rotterdam.…

  • Accepted to Rhizome ArtBase

    Great news!  My video, ethereal city, was accepted into the Rhizome ArtBase. “The Rhizome ArtBase includes works of new media art – including net art, software art, computer games, and documentation of…

  • Debugging

    I’ve been looking for a particular set of errors that exists in this open source code for the last couple of hours.  In order to do so, I’ve gone through every config…

  • Oxfam Takes Strong Stand on Iraq

    Concern expressed about human costs of attack. “In a series of meetings with leading members of the State Department, Pentagon, and US Agency for International Development, Oxfam has hammered home its concern…

  • Columbia lost

    News of today’s shuttle tragedy suspended time.

  • Meomi

    Vicky Wong’s latest incarnation.  I admire her level of detail.  Also spend some time playing the games and exploring…there’s more than meets the eye and some very inventive uses of small gestures.…

  • Why Good Content Must Suck

    This would have been an interesting two hours… Why Good Content Must Suck: Designing for the Scent of Information Jared Spool from User Interface Engineering If you have thousands of pages of…

  • Taste of Lemon icons

    These are delicious.  From http://www.pixelcentric.net/icons.html

  • Pixelpalooza

    Accepting entries for Pixelpalooza at Icon Factory from now until midnight March 31st, 2003. Pixelpalooza is an annual forum for all icon artists (iconists, as we like to call them) to strut…

  • Naqoyqatsi, playing at Cornell Cinema

    I’ve been waiting to see this, having missed the NYC premiere. Naqoyqatsi, Hopi for “war as a way of life”, concludes Godfrey Reggio’s meditative trilogy on the plight of nature in a…

  • An Alternative to War

    Statement by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter: An Alternative to War ATLANTA, Jan. 31 (AScribe Newswire)—Despite marshalling powerful armed forces in the Persian Gulf region and a virtual declaration of war in…

  • Gong Xi Fa Cai

    Happy Chinese new year!  Here’s to the year of the ram.  Note:  if you heard reports that the year of the ram is bad luck on the mainstream American news, don’t believe…

  • HTML’s Time is Over. Let’s Move On.

    Ultimately, I don’t see a long term future for HTML as an application development solution. It is a misapplied tool that was never meant to be used for anything other than distributed…

  • SF 02

    A new project called etc. – bits of remembrances from trips, people, places, and other such extraneous stuff. This first set includes paper bits from a San Francisco trip from 2002.

  • Isola Comacina

  • Invention isn’t magic: it’s mess and mistakes

    Celebrated inventor Dean Kamen (best known recently for his creation of the Segway Human Transporter, a personal transportation gyroscopic scooter) says there’s no magic in invention, just mess: “It’s not some fundamental…

  • In the end, it’s all about relationships

    Don Tapscott, business consultant and author of “Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs,” says that it’s a mistake to discount the power of the Internet based on the bursting of…

  • Planet X

    Find the multiple paths through our alter-ego world.

  • New Future

  • Wikipedia

    I just came across the wikipedia and I’m completely hooked. Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate open content encyclopedia. We started on 15 January 2001 and are…

  • red room, blue world

    A view of my desk from sometime in the late 90’s when I was in grad school.  You can see a model of a piece that I was working on – the…

  • The Rashid Brothers

    I discovered today that the work of two “designers” whose work I greatly admire are actually brothers.  Industrial designer, Karim Rashid, and Hani Rashid of Asymptote architecture. “Karim Rashid answers… what are…

  • New e-cards

    Added the e-cards section with an initial selection of images. Go have a look and send a card while you’re there. If you’re a designer or artist and want to contribute some…

  • Self in winter

    dayglo

  • New site sections

    Site update: I’ve been busy developing new site features and redoing the organisation and architecture of several sections. “artcodes collective” will be launched shortly. Stay tuned for calls for submissions to the…

  • Good Things

    Dolce & Gabbana’s light blue perfume, never mined (art book from the netherlands) and Hillman Curtis’ latest book, MTIV.

  • Snow branch

  • One way

    At this time in 1972, I was ten hours away from being born.