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Category Archives: Work-Blog

Want to buy a Computer for £22 (or $35)?

28-Feb-12

Well you can 6am tomorrow morning (U.K. time). Behold the Raspberry Pi. HERE. Comes in two versions - Model A has 128Mb of RAM, one USB port and no Ethernet (network connection). Model B has 256Mb RAM, 2 USB port and an Ethernet port. They’ll fly off the site fast, so best get in quick.   [...]

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A good commentary video on the work at Transmediale

03-Feb-12

I’ll write a longer response to Harman’s keynote last night – but to give you flavour of the festival here’s a neat video of what’s going on this year. The first guy is Morten Riis from Aarhus, by the way. Fantastic project.

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In/compatible Streaming

01-Feb-12

HERE. Although it appears to work fine. (need high bandwidth). Madga, Andy and myself will be jointly closing the day at about 15.13 Europe time.

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Brandversations

03-Jan-12

HERE. Quite a astonishing project – and it somehow manages to encapsulate the history and conflict between Superbrand logos.

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Hi-Def version of the DSC0001.jpg project

28-Dec-11

Click HERE to view a large hi-def version. (Warning – fairly large file)

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Weird fact about the Three Gorges Dam

15-Dec-11

Upon completion, the three gorges dam in China fundamentally changed the entire Earth’s speed of rotation. Really you think – thats a myth isn’t it?  Nope, it really isn’t. Consider a figure skater spinning around in one spot; to move slower, or slow down the skater simply extends his/her arms in from them to slow [...]

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On OOO and hacking

04-Dec-11

A good debate has surfaced between Nathan Gale and Graham Harman on OOO and hacking. Gale’s post is HERE and Graham’s reply is HERE. The summary is this; Gale suggests that hacking sort of refutes Graham’s ideas on ‘allure’, as hacking is; “… a better way of understanding the relationship between the real object and [...]

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Who said this?

20-Nov-11

“The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very [...]

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Chopin + Collateral Damage Interlude

30-Oct-11
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More Badiou Anti-Constructivist Bias

25-Oct-11

Here he is in Number and Numbers again, clearly having a laugh at Peano’s expense for not being Platonic enough. “He thus participates forcefully in that movement of thought, victorious today, that wrests mathematics from its antique philosophical pedestal and represents it to us as a grammar of signs where all that matters is the [...]

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