www.smh.com.au - Really, why do we care?

"Kylie offers words of wisdom for Britney"?
"Party boy Corey in possible brawl"?
"Hoax caller poses as Ledger's dad"?
"Sly set for Rambo V"?

I think I'm close to giving up on mainstream media.

Live coding at V2_

Found this very interesting. Have been following live coding stuff for a while, and have heaps of ideas myself :D (Personal project material!). Alex McLean's blog is definitely worth subscribing too.

This post discusses some live coding sessions at V2_ (Institute for Unstable Media) last month. Absolutely sexy cool ideas in this stuff. Here is the direct link to the video talk.

The mathematical nature of music is obviously well known and utterly fascinating. But on the practical side I think the distributed approach to music as a shared experience - listener becomes composer becomes listener becomes composer becomes.. - is very exciting.

Enjoy!

Deconstructing Finnegans Wake

This is brilliant.



Thank you Marshall McLuhan. Hehe!

James Joyce reads from "Finnegans Wake"

I challenge anyone to understand all of this.

Salman Rushdie Reads from "The Satanic Verses"

The Presets

Minority voting power

At the risk of sounding glib, surely the effect of "minority voting power" will have a minor effect?

Let's drum it up then! Minority voting power takes center stage (crappy journalism).

I signed the condolences book for Sir Edmund Hillary at Parliament House in Wellington today.

Beijing 2008

versus http://en.beijing2008.cn