It is now definitely time to upgrade my cellphone:
http://mobile.processing.org/

It’s nice to visit boingboing and read that MIT researchers had a project going in your hometown of twohundredsomething thousand inhabitants:
Digital Derive harnesses the potential of mobile phones as an affordable, ready-made and ubiquitous medium that allows the city to be sensed and displayed in real-time as a complex, pulsating entity. Because it is possible […]

I stumbled over a Wikipedia entry named “Internet phenomenon” by chance. If you’ve ever had to try to explain phenomena like 1337-speak to people who don’t use the web for anything but e-mail, you’ve probably wondered where to start in order to describe the unique manner of propagation of memes on the internet.
What I like […]

As someone who must probably have around a kilometer of various cables and wires lying around the appartment, I am astonished that I haven’t seen (or wished for) something like this before. Now, if someone could make the same for network cables, power cords and USB extension cords…
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via boingboing

Paul of dataisnature has found a piece of unintentional generative poetry that made it through his spam filter. This is a nice example for how spam can get so elaborately nonsensical, that it’s hard to believe people who’d fall for “online pharmacy” scams would be able to decipher it.

Slashdot and other places inform us that two classical software synth programs are now available for free: Propellerhead have retired their famous ReBirth software and have given it a home at the ReBirth Museum, where not only the software can be downloaded free of charge, but a whole bunch of mods are available as […]