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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Here's a small gallery of 4 pictures of an artwork from MassMoCA that I saw on a recent trip there. The artist painted the floor and wall to make it look just as if there were a complex shadow falling on the wall. The pictures evoke it decently, ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Being an old-school kind of guy who remembers when the internets were made of tin cans and string, I still like my usenet binary newsgroups.
So I was a bit bugged when NYS Attorney General Andrew "pre-whore Spitzer" Cuomo made threats about shutting down the newsgroups by threatening to prosecute ISPs ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
If you're seeing this, you're seeing the blog in its new home. Which is still ron.ozrock.net/blog, of course.
So did it move, or didn't it? It's like, a philosophical question, or something.
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Totally awesome video of a big walking "dog" robot with some serious balance and recovery abilities; the Boston Dynamics "Big Dog".
UPDATE: Here's the Big Dog home page.
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Edward Tufte, god of information display, has famously claimed that "PowerPoint makes you stupid" (The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint).
David (Talking Heads) Byrne has disagreed (Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information), with "I ♥ PowerPoint"".
Oz has sided with David Byrne, and has discovered the, um, joy, I guess, of PowerPoint. After doing ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Big Think is kind of interesting -- YouTube with 30 extra IQ points. Lots of bite sized video morsels of intellectual content; from Steven Pinker on Human Nature to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on this and that. Seems like a good place to point an intellectually curious ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
Here's a shocker: On Electoral Compass USA, which plots your views and compares them to the presidential candidates, I'm where the little pencil is pointing.
That's right. The top left corner. Imagine that.
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
This is why I read io9 -- to keep up on cool and cheesy sci-fi-ish stuff like this: A Fully-Functioning Synaesthesia Machine that translates visual stimuli into tactile sensations.
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
I love my mom, but she so totally needs one of these.
Even better if somebody could think up the equivalent for her computer -- three buttons: "Read Email", "Books at Amazon", and "Look up on WikiPedia".
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
OK, new server (same old URL), new plugins, perhaps a slightly new look sometime soon. And a new pattern of posts I'm going to try. I've posted little to the main blog this past year, but much more to the "tidbits" lists -- both the "commented news links" you see ...
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