Centripetal Notion: archive

Andy Wilson demoing “video conferencing for the desk” at this year’s Microsoft Research TechFest. Video cameras track identical items on two table surfaces and facilitate virtual collaboration.

Sage of Fire at Burning Man 2002.

29 year old Dr. Atsuko Chiba is an attractive but modest Japanese research psychotherapist whose work is on the cutting edge of her field. Her alter-ego is a stunning and fearless 18 year old “dream detective,” code named PAPRIKA, who can enter into people’s dreams and synchronize with their unconscious to help uncover the source of their anxiety or neurosis.

(BoaSaS comic)

Some hot new footage of Jeff Han’s multi-touch interfaces from TED 2007 which came and went a little over a week ago. I’m sure there will be more of the same surfacing soon.

To take my place among the ranks of the no-doubt trillions of similar posts online this weekend, today was the last day of The Show with Ze Frank. I found Ze’s video podcast a few weeks after it started last year, caught up in a day, and have seen every episode since. A few of my friends online made appearances, most notably Duncan and his brother upon completing the Earth Sandwich.

Our conventional alphabet contains 19 letters having dissimilar upper and lower case symbols (such as ‘A’ and ‘a’) and 7 letters (c-o-s-v-w-x-z) having symbols that are identical.

It is misleading for a letter, or for any graphic symbol, to have two different designs. Confusion might set in when school children are taught to recognize words even before they have learned to recognize different symbols for the same letter.

To remedy this, Alphabet 26, a plan based upon the logic of consistency, proposed that of the 19 letters that have dissimilar symbols 15 letters should use the uppercase designs [black letters below] and 4 letters should use the lowercase designs [green letters]. The other 7 letters already have identical symbols [blue letters].

LINK [aLPHaBeT 26] (via SvN)

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John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. A sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, a dominatrix who is unable to connect, a gay couple who are deciding whether to open up their relationship, and the people who weave in and out of their lives, all converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus: a mad nexus of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality.

This site has officially reached a new low/high.

Freaking delicious. This TV spot was created with Processing for the launch of the Audi TT in Australia; direction/concept by Matt Pyke, programming/sound by Karsten Schmidt.