links for 2005-05-19

by jebni on May 19, 2005

Chicago crime database | chicagocrime.org This is some fucking crazy shit that translates crime statistics into graphical representations via Google Maps. (tags: maps mapping google crime surveillance)

links for 2005-05-17

by jebni on May 17, 2005

Games and Intensity Abe’s paper about video games and the univocity of Being! (tags: games deleuze badiou intensity research)

what’s in the box?

by jebni on May 16, 2005

Ooookay, my Blogtalk paper is now online {shudder}. It’s really just a set of fevered notes-to-self and thinkings-aloud — I hadn’t even read it over once when I sent it off, I was that delirious. On rereading, it all sounds (…)

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the sweet smell of pagerank

by jebni on May 13, 2005

I’ve just been informed that I’m the number one result for the Google search “OMG LOL”. Yessssss…[ tags: google, pagerank, omg, lol ]

nephews who are six are funny

by jebni on May 10, 2005

Joshua: Look [gesturing at posters of Man City players on the wall], these guys are human! Me: Really? I thought they were robots. Joshua: Robots? Noooooo, they are really good soccer players. Me: But all the good soccer players are (…)

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links for 2005-05-06

by jebni on May 6, 2005

Backpack Shuffle: 25 random public pages Read the comments — with their random showcase of “public” pages created in their new “Backpack” personal information management software, 37signals discover that “public” is a contested concept… (tags: 37signals backpack software web public (…)

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no darling buds of fucking may

by jebni on May 5, 2005

If you’re really going to use the puny earbuds that come with the iPod, Griffin trumpets that you can “enhance” their sound with their EarJams, which convert the plain-vanilla earbuds into in-ear headphones that boost bass/volume and block ambient noise. (…)

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“this is the story of a man marked by an image from his childhood…”

by jebni on May 2, 2005

Thanks, everyone who told me to calm down about my thesis. The only problem now is that I’ve been given some dispensation to have another stab at my BlogTalk paper, after having previously given up. But meanwhile, Wireless Internet access (…)

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something I’ve wanted to do for a while

by jebni on May 1, 2005

Animals! [ tags: belonging-to-the-Emperor, embalmed, trained, pigs, sirens, fabulous, stray-dogs, included-in-this-classification, trembling-like-crazy, innumerable, drawn-with-a-very-fine-camelhair-brush, et-cetera, just-broke-the-vase, from-a-distance-look-like-flies ]