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

Some fool is attempting to read a book a week in 2008. Silly!

Joyce on Jesus

"Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it."

Pynchonianism-ness

Great yarn about a guy's take on Pynchon.

Writing programs to solve a problem is something akin to developing a language in the context of the problem to be solved and creating a sufficiently flexible and powerful vocabulary to describe and solve issues related to that problem.

The expressiveness of a language is the effectiveness with which this can be done. Programming paradigms, such as procedural definitions, object oriented modeling, functional languages, logic programming and other paradigms are philosophical ideas for providing tools for solving these problems. Lisp is supposedly so powerful because it makes the process of creating these higher language abstractions easier. How about something like Parrot then? How easy is it to write a language on top of Parrot to solve problems? Surely not as convenient or a simple as Lisp, but easier than writing an language without any help whatsoever...

Would it make sense say, to create a language to model sounds and provide a convenient grammar for defining musical performances (to ease live performing for example) and use Parrot as the language target? If so how would you model this? What constructs would you need? What would the grammar look like?

These are just ideas. Shows how little I really understand :D

I still cry over you.

Old drafts in blogger don't often make sense

I'm continually trying to understand what all the signs mean. I watch everyone pointing, their mouths agape, some people sweat, and their eyes quiver deep in their socket seats. I follow the path splayed out before me, but it's really just a miscommunication and a series of poorly judged at signals.

It's official.. I'm educated.

Completion Term :: Semester 2 2007
Degree :: BSc - Bachelor of Science
Degree Status :: Awarded
Specialisation :: COMPA13978 Computer Science, PHYSB23978 Physics
Date of Completion :: 07/12/2007
Name on Testamur :: SNARKY CHARLES BOOJUM

Beauty and truth in physics

Another TED video! Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics. Enjoy!