What is this?
It’s a Nomic – a game which starts with no particular aim or content, and whose rules are changed by the players as the game progresses. Players submit proposed changes to this weblog, suggesting whatever they like; if enough people vote in favour of a change, we update the rules and carry on playing.
http://web.okaygo.co.uk/apps/letters/flashcom
Check the bottom left corner of the screen to see how many people you are competing for letters with. Hilarious!
– Via Erin @ the VancouverFreaks list.
Erin and I managed to get the words “Vancouver Freaks” listed across the top of the screen. It took about 15 minutes to do, but we managed to pull it off, and get a screenshot of the event (I’m stupidly proud that we managed to do this while competing with 38 other letter rearranging folks, who were often having a hard time getting four-letter words going.
I should be writing, but I was doing that instead.
Ripley was playing with some (washable) pens after dinner (“Bunny Noonles“), and I got him some paper. A few minutes later, as I was stirring the cold water into the Cranberry Jello, he came running up to me claiming that he’d drawn a picture of himself. This is normal stuff for a little kid, and we’ve all had seen the blob of scribble that’s allegedly the people/cat/Gramma/house, but this time, it’s actually got a face.
See? Look at that face in the top-right. I’m not kidding.
The thing on the bottom left is a “big rock, with some scribble spilled on it for the fishies to eat.”
Maps.Google.Com is in Beta.
Wow… Wow… Wow…
Grab the map with your mouse, drag it around. Point at stuff and zoom in. Find your ‘hood, and then ask for Wifi in the area. Donuts. Computer stores. Goldfish. Pop-up ballons showing addresses that cast shadows on the map
It’s like the Sims2, only with Live Data (and less time to figure out what colour hair you want).
Crazy.
Go Google it now
and you can Click Here to see where I work.
The day they beta an Office suite that includes connectivity to MSExchange, I’m uninstalling MSOffice at home.
(No, not really.)
Via Boing-Boing
Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and founder of MIT’s Media Labs, says he is developing a laptop PC that will go on sale for less than $100. He told the BBC World Service programme Go Digital he hoped it would become an education tool in developing countries. He said one laptop per child could be ” very important to the development of not just that child but now the whole family, village and neighbourhood”. He said the child could use the laptop like a text book. He described the device as a stripped down laptop, which would run a Linux-based operating system,
{and then Negroponte requested “Please start a sentence with something other than he.”
Check out the story Here
Some very strange art & cards.
Not safe for work (strong language).
Not safe for sending to friends, either. :)
Don’t know what this is, but it’s vaguely creepy
I’d suggest highspeed, and maybe turning down the speakers.
That poor painting.
That poor sad lame painting.
Know what you did? You made it better.
Way better.
Click on the image below to see the before & after (or to buy it for only $250!)
I may not agree with his politics, but damn dude is funny.
Once again, he’s gone after culture of old books, and this time, he’s doing Little Big Books
Awesome, alarming.
