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Archive for December, 2008

18 Dec, 2008

Auto-install of Plugins in WP2.7

Posted by: Brian In: wordpress

Idea for fixing the blank wordpress 2.7 admin page after autoinstalling an incompatible plugin.

11 Dec, 2008

Energy Music References

Posted by: sctv In: art|conference

Acoustic Ecology Dunn, D, Cruchfield, JP Insects, Trees and Climate: the bioacoustic Ecology og Deforestation and Entomogenic Climate Change http://acousticecology.org/dunn/solitsounds.html Sonification Katie Patterson : Vatnajökull (the sound of ) http://www.katiepaterson.org/vatnajokull/vatnajokull.html Earth–Moon–Earth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected from the Surface of the Moon) http://www.katiepaterson.org/E.M.E/eme.html Human movement as signal ipoi http://www.jennifersheridan.com/projects/ipoi/ipoi.html Times Up! Sensory Circus http://timesup.org/sc/index.html Mapping milk project [...]


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Brian Degger is a technologist/artist, he writes, thinks and makes around themes of interactivity, biomimicracy, and collaboration

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PDF import and editing in openoffice
One function I have found useful in openoffice is the ability to import pdfs. This is possible by downloading and installing the pdfimport plugin. This means that you can import a pdf, edit it then output it at a lower resolution for screen. (0)

miniFM

miniFM
In the foreground is a Tetsuo Kogawa version (built during RadioCraftLab, during AVFest08) and in the back the remix by sonodrome (built last week at Sonodrome Central). Both assembled by me.
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Bioplastic
Jay Cousins and friends had a hackday around bioplastics and laser cutting. Making the bioplastic from starch and glycerin (see this link for more details) and then laser cutting them. Cool stuff, they were even making different color ones. This is important as people move from using commercially sourced plastic in their makerbots to something else. Plastic is expensive to buy for these machines, but it is all around. SO be it bio-plastic or post waste plastic, ways of reusing these provide a compelling reason to throw away less waste. It is amazing that these materials are coming out of the factories, to be used in domestic situations. Together with polymorph and sugru, there are a variety of materials to play around for wearables, for prototypes and one offs. Bring on the future, with peer production.

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augmented foraging - cool use of layar -

augmented foraging Originally uploaded by _foam A mobile phone guide to edible urban wild-food sources.
Amsterdam urban_ edibles is developing Augmented_Foraging, a  mobile phone guide to wild-food sources using Layar. Much better use of this program than finding property in Amsterdam (unless you live there of course)!
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