I just unearthed a digest from the Internet Oracle while digging through some old text files. Turns out, the oracle still exists. Who knew?
From the digest:
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 97 16:59:10 -0500 From: Internet Oracle <oracle-vote@cs.indiana.edu> Subject: Internet Oracularity #881-09
Selected-By: Scott Forbes <trans@lucent.com>
The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question [...]
Quote: Richard W. Pew, 10/05/2005, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.
“Design is the successive application of constraints until only a unique product is left.”
From The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman.
I’m pulling my notebook out of storage, so that I can store it in a way that’s easier to access.
Without access to large walls [...]
A palimpsest for a place: TheIncidental at Salone Di Mobile 2009:
One thing that’s very interesting to me is using this rapidly-produced thing then becomes a ’social object’: creating conversations, collecting scribbles, instigating adventures – which then get collected and redistributed. A feedback loop made out of paper, in a place.
(Via Warren Ellis.)
The little green dot says…, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.
Looking forward to the first thunderstorm of the year.
Twitter says it’s a relatively heavy one. Let’s see.
Development sketching, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.
I just dug some of my Copic markers out of the (air-tight) box they’ve been living in. Poor neglected markers. Time to use you for some sketching.
(This has nothing to do with wanting something to use my new general-purpose band of rubber with. Nothing at all.)
Field Notes, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.
Final test on post from Flickr.
Noted for future reference:
Trackmate is an open source initiative to create an inexpensive, do-it-yourself tangible tracking system. The Trackmate Tracker allows any computer to recognize tagged objects and their corresponding position, rotation, and color information when placed on a surface.
Trackmate uses a small, specially designed circular barcode that [...]
Chris Heathcote has found a source for the paper strips used by air traffic controllers, and has turned them into a kind of to-do list.
Follow the link for explanation and more photos.
The following is what I get when I drop a Flickr photo into my blogging software, paste HTML in, or try to post from Flickr:
a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/51035715190@N01/3264441491″ title=”View ‘IMG_2448.JPG’ on Flickr.com”img src=”http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1156/3264441491_7e5481fb04.jpg” alt=”IMG_2448.JPG” border=”0″ width=”500″ height=”375″ //a
All the angle brackets [...]