Listening to: New York City Boy (Lange Mix) - Pet Shop Boys

Sphere on surface

Originally uploaded by tekuila.

Listening to: Lonesome Day - Bruce Springsteen

Kathy Sierra has been receiving death threats… it blows me away. I have a really hard time understanding how people are able to maintain such brutal hatred and then channel it in the way that they have.

Listening to: Alpha Male - Röyksopp

For my own notes: appletvhacks.net

Listening to: Love Song - Simple Minds

We were out at Craft 2.0 on Saturday… telling the world our story.

The Ponoko Craft 2.0 Team

The reaction was amazing. I have spent years telling software only stories and only exciting software people. It was fantastic to present an idea and see so much excitement from a really wide range of people.

Oh! And the NewDowse is amazing… a phenomenal addition to the Wellington Art scene.

Listening to: Hold Your Colour - Pendulum

Drop

Originally uploaded by tekuila.

Listening to: Corduroy - Pearl Jam

There is a group of Buddhist monks in Malaysia with a bit of an ant problem. So far they haven’t been able to get rid of the painful little buggers. The problem is made more complex by the fact that they can’t kill the ants… but there might be a way around that:

They cannot encourage anyone to harm the ants, but the chief monk says that if someone turns up unbidden and deals with them without the monks’ involvement then that is the will of the universe.

Priceless!

Listening to: Rowla - Underworld

John Sharp is on fire at present… this morning he pointed me at a new collection of photographs on flickr including:

Sliceform pyramid open

Sliceform Crater 1

John has laid a lot of his thinking in the book Surfaces: Explorations With Sliceforms.

Listening to: The Shadowlands - Ryan Adams

I have been working an as advisor to a very exciting company in Christchurch called VortexDNA. A small group of seriously smart people have been able to create an algorithm that allows a system to determine the relevance of data to an individual user. They currently provide a Firefox plugin that is used to increase the relevance, and therefore accuracy, of Google search results. The plugin is the first offering but plans are a foot to provide tools with a greater reach - ones that don’t have the limitations associated with software plugins.

The noise around Web 3.0 technologies is starting to grow, but VortexDNA is the first offering I have seen that is actually starting to deliver on the promise.

Keep an eye on their blog.

They also provide a REST based VortexDNA API for developers.

Listening to: From Yesterday - 30 Seconds to Mars

Mr Kamen and his team have done it again by the looks of things, creating something that is transformational for it’s users:

src: digg

Listening to: From Yesterday - 30 Seconds to Mars

Excellent!

Chia and her buds build their treehouses in corporate ghost sites. That’s the difference. Interstitial. Gotta be interstitial.

Call me when you get it worked out. I’ll be on eBay.