Wired people should know something about wires

Een prachtig persoonlijk verhaal van Andrew Blum over de lichtdraden die de hele wereld over gaan.

Zelf in mijn begin jaren van het internet in de hosting gezeten omdat dat de beste manier was om je internetplannen te realiseren. Heb dus veel datacenters van binnen mogen bekijken en gezien dat internet buitengewoon fysiek, kwetsbaar en complex is.
Heel menselijk eigenlijk :) En daar moeten we ons, zoals Andrew terecht bepleit, bewust van zijn.

Link: Andrew Blum: What is the Internet, really?

De aarde op 24 november 2011 van 824 kilometer hoogte

From its vantage 824 kilometers (512 miles) above Earth, the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite gets a complete view of our planet every day. This image from November 24, 2011, is the first complete global image from VIIRS. Lees hier meer.

Homo evolutionaris

We zijn nu in staat het brein te lezen!Een aantal freaks in het Gallant Lab op UC Berkeley hebben mensen in een fMRI scanner gelegd en aan de hand van de brein activiteit proberen te reconstrueren wat die mensen zagen. Aan de linkerkant van de video zie je wat mensen aan het kijken waren. Aan de rechterkant

Hoe verander je de wereld

Technologie veranderd de wereld. We staan slechts aan het begin. We zijn net aan het uitvogelen hoe organiseren, produceren, distributie, leren, delen, verbinden, converseren, informeren, etc. anders en beter kan. Dat doen we samen De visionairs die de horizon schetsen, de innovatoren die krabben waar het jeukt, het durf kapitaal die ziet dat er behoeftes

Leuk gesprek met Merijn Bolink gehad over internet en de maatschappelijke veranderingen die technologie brengt

Op weg naar een mondiale empathische gemeenschap

Jeremy Rifkin onderzoekt in een speech bij RSA Animate de evolutie van empathie en hoe het onze gemeenschap heeft gevormd en hoe het zal bepalen of wij als mensheid nog een toekomst hebben. Hieronder de 10 minuten compilatie van RSA Animate, voorzien van weer een prachtige visualisatie. Rifkin geeft aan dat er in de laatste

Solid State Drive

Achter elke website sluilt een behoorlijk stukje hardware. En deze hardware was op 1 gebied altijd hetzelfde. De hardeschijven. Maar daar komt nu langzamerhand verandering in. De SSD wordt steeds volwassener en levert ook een betere prestatie ook voor opslag op servergebied. Iets wat we serieus zouden moeten overwegen bij het inrichten van een nieuw

shift happens .nl

Altijd goed om weer eens op een rijtje te hebben. Dit is een Nederlandse vertaling van de youtube film van Scott McLeod die op zijn beurt weer de Did You Know? presentatie over globalisering en het informatietijdperk van Karl Fisch aangepast heeft en op video gezet. Mix en remix. Goede content reist ver. (via: upstream)

Shadow Garden

This spontaneous beauty is in the front of my house on the Tweede Atjehstraat 26hs in Amsterdam. It just grew in this 5cm small space that isn’t covered by concrete tiles. It’s the shadow side of the house, with some luck it gets sun at the end of the day. Beauty is everywhere.

This is my first photo with my new phone. The Nokia 6230i. Reminds me of my polaroid (although those I can scan and blow up to enormous proportions).

Limitations = quality. It’s how you use it that matters, this time I was a little to close to the subject.

Looking forward to using it’s video, would it remind me of super 8?

Long gone

My son (5) wants the world to stay the same.

Information density

Jonathan Spanier, a team member from Drexel University, estimates that the nanowires could theoretically be used to make computer memory drives with a density of 10,000 terabits (1016 bits) of data per cubic centimetre. By contrast, current flash memory drives store about five gigabits (5 x 109) of data per cubic centimetre. But before such

Fusion

Tomorrow’s electricity-producing fusion power plants

New Scientist – March 12th 2006 – link

Fusion research is considered worth pursuing because it promises to be a widely available energy source with essentially unlimited supply and manageable environmental impact.

I totally forgot about fusion.

Kids Build Soybean-Fueled Car

CBS – February 17th 2006 – link

Five kids, along with a handful of schoolmates, built the soybean-fueled car as an after-school project. And it can go from zero to 60 in four seconds and get more than 50 miles to the gallon.

Makes you wonder… why wasn’t this world news?

Troubleshooting Macos X (10.4)

Problems with sound and iMovie. A bit technical and not that interesting, but maybe it helps someone with the same problems. And the solution will surprise you. I had problems with Macos X 10.4. Suddenly there wasn’t any sound when I played realplayer files, flash movies or WMP (Windows Media Player) and iMovie was acting

Trying to get to terms …

I’m afraid I’m going to rant about something new and something newer at Apple. Steve Jobs just held his keynote at MacWorld San Fransisco. And introduced the MacBook Pro based on the intel chip. Looks like a great machine with great software. And that 4 months before shedule (I bet they knew beforehand and didn’t

The physically moving the virtual

Welcome to my world. The server that runs my site and some 10 other art websites.

Kaput

Need I say more? Third time, it has spent more time at the repair-shop then it has been enjoyed in a productive process.

Modern day archaeology?

This is going to happen more and more.

Cyberspace Salvations

A lecture about technology and spirituality in the Waag by Lee Felsenstein that took me great effort to grasp. Still waiting for the online video at connect.waag.org to listen to it again (and again). For the meantime… A recent podcast with Lee: The RU Sirius Show: NeoFiles #6: Lee Felsenstein (Jul 28, 2005).A relevant document

The pay per view internet

Storing a big chunk of the article for safekeeping. It’s one of the prophecies and I hate to see it disapear into the void of software updates and database failures. For the record I think heis right on many accounts. Lets see what the future holds for the internet. Access denied Rafael Behr – 11

LED innovation

Again from Wired News (inspirational day). With engineer E. Fred Schubert, talking about a new era of “smart” light sources.

Scaling down

Is killing my enthusiasm. Started working with video again from the 24th of april till now and it is quit intense. Making long hours and almost nothing to show for it. And people around me telling to stop trying and scale down to unacceptable levels. The technical setbacks are demotivating and these loved ones aren’t

Les Blogs ’05 (4)

Caputering, rendering, capturing, rendering, capuring, rendering…..Les blogs 2005.

Les Blogs ’05 (3)

Working on the video presentation of Les Blogs for 6 days non stop. The new option to use Flash to stream video looked great and the ideal way to show the presentation and video at the same time. And bring about a new way to unlock information. But while working with the actual footage (I

UWB is coming

Bandwidth Advance Hints at Future Beyond Wi-Fi John Markoff – 4 mei 2005 – link …, UWB uses inexpensive computing power to send short radio pulses across much of the radio spectrum. Because it does not use a single frequency, UWB offers several advantages, including the capacity to send high volumes of information quickly and

Liquid lenses

There is a lot of innovation going on. A camera will be more and more part of phones and other devices. So making it small but good is quite the challenge and not to forget lucrative. Smile, You’re on Liquid Camera Sunny Bains – 13 april 2005 – link Why do good cellular telephones fall

The space elevator

Riding on the wind of the X-prize, NASA started it own competition elevator2010.org. The prize-money isn’t that much. The most appealing is they consider the elevator to space within their reach. With a little luck I will live to see the day. It opens a lot of options if humanity pulls this of.