Listening to: BBC Radio 1

I wonder if it’s possible to render customer data using Massive?
What would it tell you?

Listening to: Bobby Friction and Nihal

Work in progress

Originally uploaded by Richard Sweeney.

Listening to: BBC Radio 1

Three new ads from Apple:

• Out
  of the Box
• Touche
• Work
  vs. Home

Listening to: Paninaro ‘95 - Pet Shop Boys

Ratatouille… 2007
from Pixar and Disney.

Listening to: Smiley Faces - Gnarls Barkley

There are few things more satisfying than getting a recursive algorithm to do your
will.

Listening to: The Boys of Summer - The Ataris

shiny swirly tess

Originally uploaded by origami joel.

Listening to: Lifetime Piling Up - Talking Heads

Good bye you bad,
bad, ba$tard!

Listening to: Can I Have It Like That - Pharrell featuring Gwen Stefani

From Salon:

Former President George H.W. Bush waged a secret campaign over several
months early this year to remove Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The elder Bush
went so far as to recruit Rumsfeld’s potential replacement, personally asking a retired
four-star general if he would accept the position…

The serious side of me goes ‘if true, wow!’, the other side of me suggests that they
should go man-o-man on the White House lawn… winner gets to pick the Secretary of
Defense.

Listening to: It’s My Life - No Doubt

Tim forwarded this great link to
me. It’s a casting of an ant colony. Just amazing.

Listening to: Running - Evermore

There are a couple of body mod blogs that I track. A few months back one of the writers
described his experimentation with embedding magnets in his finger tips. While the
implants had failed to take in one hand he still a handle full of fingers with magnets
in the tips. The fascinating thing was that he was able to feel the large electromagnetic
fields in his house - for him it was a sixth sense, albeit it a second hand sixth
sense. Yesterday, Wired ran a similar story.

I am finding that a lot of this body mod experimentation, combined with some of the
advances we’re seeing in fertility treatment, is forcing me to readdress some really
fundamental beliefs about the body, what it should do and when it should do it. Once
again it’s an odd feeling to have you biases stripped from you… I know it’s good
for me, but sometimes it feels like some bugger has whipped my duvet from my warm,
sleeping form on a cold winters morning.