How Jorn Barger Invented Blogging
Jorn Barger and Where “Blog” Came From Blogs are everywhere. Everybody, every business, everywhere, has a blog these days, some run on free platforms like Blogger and WordPress, but some are popular custom blogs like Mashable and Huffington Post. There are blogs on family, health, writing, music, news, a million other things, and, yes, blogs on blogging. But it had to start somewhere, right?
This, Los Angeles.
FRIENDS SHOW FINALE is next FRIDAY the 26th!!!! Whoa!! its getting really close.. we’ll be posting up some photos and finally get our list of people together..
roosterization*
Quick analysis of a wardrobe that contains not only clothes. design-is-fine: Enzo Mari, Sei Simboli Sinsemantici, 1975. Six silkscreen prints.
How to Start a Blog - The Free Beginner's Guide to Blogging
Chapter 1 Welcome to The Blogger World Summary: This section provides background information to help you understand blogging basics, the how to's, and where to find sources of valuable reference material.
Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities
Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities by Russel Ash and Brian Lake is said to “delight every true fan of trivia and the patently absurd.” That, in a nutshell, is me. I love reading about and learning useless information. Actually, that’s one of the reasons why I run this website — because the web is full of useless information and I just can’t get enough of it. Anyway, the book comes out on October 30, 2007, but you can pre-order it at Amazon.com for just over $10.
''Even A Brick Wants To Be Something'' - Louis Kahn
Louis Kahn, c. 1972© Robert C. Lautman Photography Collection, National Building Museum. When I was thirteen years old, while watching ''Indecent Proposal'' (1993) directed by Adrian Lyne, based on the novel by Jack Engelhard, Woody Harrelson held up a brick and said the phrase ''EVEN A BRICK WANTS TO BE SOMETHING'' whilst giving an architecture lecture. Today, twenty years later, the ''Louis Kahn-The Power of Architecture'' exhibition has just given me the chance to discover more about the complex and nomadic life of the real man who talked to this Brick. ''If you think of Brick, you say to Brick, ‘What do you want, Brick?’
T'HY'LA: I went to the Harry Potter studio tour!
Well I finally went on friday, and it was uh-may-zing. There are honestly no words for it. I took 300 and something photos but I don't want to give it away to anyone who might be going so here are a few that I put on instagram. I think I might still have a few Helena Bonham Carter skin cells on my hand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There were amazing painting things, this was one of my favourites because Harry looks like an old woman
Lost in Budapest, Found in a Ruin Bar
It’s surprising, how many movies were shot in Budapest, or in Hungary. This popularity among filmmakers may be because of the cheap fees and the fact, that this city has a very mixed landscape and architecture, which makes it suitable to ’play the role’ of almost any other European cities. For example, in the 2005 movie München by Steven Spielberg Budapest was transfigured to Rome, Paris, London, and München, but our capital also portrayed Moscow (Die Hard 5), Baltimore, Belgrade (The Raven), and Berlin (Spy Game, The Debt) in other films, and even Argentina in Evita (1996).
prosthetic knowledge
This story is already doing the rounds but is still very interesting - Machine Learning research from Georgia Tech manages to clone game design from a video recording. The top GIF is the reconstructed clone, the bottom gif is from the video recording: Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new approach using an artificial intelligence to learn a complete game engine, the basic software of a game that governs everything from character movement to rendering graphics.Their AI system watches less than two minutes of gameplay video and then builds its own model of how the game operates by studying the frames and making predictions of future events, such as what path a character will choose or how enemies might react.To get their AI agent to create an accurate predictive model that could account for all the physics of a 2D platform-style game, the team trained the AI on a single “speedrunner” video, where a player heads straight for the goal.
BBC Radio 4's Digital Human
For Todd Matthews, it all started with a ghost story shared among teenagers. It was Halloween night 1987. A 17-year-old Matthews listened as friends tried to spook each other with scary tales – but one story told was true.
