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mycrocosm | bkerr's datasets > white noise
relative lengths of chapters in _White Noise_ — "Waves and Radiation:" 1-20; "The Airborne Toxic Event:" 21; "Dylarama:" 22-40.
white  noise  humans/delillo  cybernetics  detritus  warning:selflink 
august 2008 by bkerr
mycrocosm
"a web service that allows you to share snippets of information from the minutiae of daily life in the form of simple statistical graphs"
cybernetics  detritus  data  visualization  clever  via:mark.larios 
august 2008 by bkerr
Joystiq | Rez HD arriving this month for 800 MSP
So you know how some of you have xboxes? If you do, get this. Feel it, don't think.
rez  music  games  environment  visual  feedback  entertainment  cybernetics  games-nano-bio-info-cogno-enviro 
january 2008 by bkerr
Download Squad | Facebook News Feed Fatigue
"Like Star Magazine, only the people in it aren't rich, they aren't beautiful, they certainly aren't popular, and the most interesting thing they've done in the last 48 hours is add the True or False application."
facebook  news  feeds  cybernetics 
november 2007 by bkerr
Mark Bernstein: WikiSym
"An interesting, disturbing talk at WikiSym from Andrea Forte and Amy Bruckman described an exciting instructional project using Wikis in a US high school."
wiki  learning  education  evaluation  millenial  cataclysmic  cybernetics  wikisym  paper 
october 2007 by bkerr
Plug
Instrumented electrical outlet: "First, someone walks by and hits the machine (see vibration graph). Second, two people in conversation buy a snack using a dollar bill. Third, the change from the dollar bill is used to buy the same snack."
a2b3  ubicomp  micro  cybernetics  electricity  microphone  vibration  compound  sensor 
march 2007 by bkerr
the simExchange | Spore (PC)
Check out the article/image/video/discussion community_indicators for a prominent long-term simExchange stock. Useful aggregation of information and options above and beyond the stock's valuation.
prediction  markets  predictionmarkets  games  commerce  spore  cybernetics 
march 2007 by bkerr
"The Mayan Caper" routine from The Soft Machine by WS Burroughs
Time-traveling proto-hacker cuts up the Mayan control calendar, smashes control images, kills priests, etc. "Famine weakening control lines, I cut radio static into the control music and festival recordings together with sound and image track rebellion."
burroughs  guerilla  feedback  protohistorical  cybernetics  smash-control-lines  smash-word-lines  machine  language  revolution  end-of-the-war-game 
march 2007 by bkerr
The New Yorker | The New Disorder, by David Denby
Film column from 2007-03-05 magazine. Hypertext / cut-up / synchronic movies, as directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.
hypertext  movies  cut-up  film  smash-word-lines  smash-control-lines  cyclical  cybernetics  psycho  narrative  lit 
february 2007 by bkerr
The Electronic Revolution I: Feedback from Watergate to the Garden of Eden, by William Burroughs
"In the Electronic Revolution I advance the theory that a virus is a very small unit of word and image. I have suggested now such units can be biologically activated to act as communicable virus strains."
burroughs  immediast  control-towers  control-machines  word-falling  photo-falling  break-through-in-the-grey-room  cybernetics  feedback  media  social-media  metacrap  information  writing  lit  communication  process  language  language-is-a-virus-from-outer-space  end-of-the-war-game 
february 2007 by bkerr

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