Enough New Year’s cheer. This one is serious: Readability (http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/) is just about the coolest web application I’ve encountered since …the invention of web applications. Blissfully simple. Minimalist. Zen-like, in fact. A brilliant solution to all the flashing, the banners, the pop-ups, the ads, all the annoying visual litter that infests so many websites. It [...]
For the latest on digital production software: click here What your Conservator doesn’t know about the underlying structure of the Mona Lisa (If you are in a shared office, it is recommended to turn up your speakers.) Damn. Some people have all the fun.
Okay, people, it’s time to get down to discussing some serious infringement issues here. This secret, highly confidential video footage gets right to the heart of the thing. Recommended for mature audiences only: “Bootlegging Avatar.” Enjoy. Best wishes to all for an open source new year spent frolicking in the commons.
I see that my most recent post was late October 2009. I apologize. There is a good reason for this, or at least I am hoping you will think it is a good reason, or agree to give me the benefit of the doubt. In mid-August my position as Director of New Media Initiatives of [...]
Looking for something else entirely today, I stumbled across this 2007 blog post by Georgia Harper on “a post-copyright era” for digital preservation. It’s provocative: “I’ve begun more and more to believe that for some things libraries need to do for the future, they just need to be done without much concern for what the [...]
“Songs of Imagination and Digitization” is “an illuminated book for the digital age,” published by if:book with support from Arts Council England. “Unlike more conventional books on paper, this one contains sound and moving images, involves walks and talks, even an imaginary brain made of copper plates, plus opportunities to enter your own thoughts and [...]
Ever since I made a Hanukkah lamp for my son out of an old motherboard, I’ve been driving my computer repair guy crazy begging for computer parts. But now I see the challenges before me, and I wonder if I can possibly top this: Probably not.
via @dancohen Google Goggles is a “visual search application” for Android phones. Snap a picture with your phone and Google turns it into a search. The first video here is the “official” video from Google, but the second one should be of interest to museums. Here the Google rep demonstrates how you might search for [...]
You’ll be pleased to know that I’ve finally figured out what is going to happen on December 21st, 2012, when our solar system crosses the galactic ecliptic and you’ll be pleased to know that its not the apocalypse. The answer was revealed to me in a blinding flash after reading Google’s announcement that they have [...]
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