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Versus
"Versus is a structured argument website for 'X vs. Y'-type questions."
versus  yahoo  deliberation  via:deusx 
january 2008 by bkerr
Google Trends: wii, jesus
vielmetti sez: "Here, we note that Allendale is more on the Jesus side of things, and Farmington is more on the Wii side."
google  trends  michigan  wii  versus  jesus 
december 2007 by bkerr
groworld HPI | Speculations on the Evolution of Human Plant Interactions
"As a botanical parallel to the oft misunderstood field of HCI - Human Computer Interaction, HPI - Human Plant Interaction, explores the nature of surfaces and processes required to facilitate mutually beneficial interaction between humans and plants."
hci  hpi  human  plant  interaction  ubifarm  botany  machinic  versus  organic  organization  communication  propagation 
october 2007 by bkerr
Classic Arcade Game Locations: Michigan
Looks like Defender is becoming a road trip? Please nobody mention Ground Kontrol in PDX and everything will work out OK.
games  defender  lack-thereof  stick-around-michigan  arcade  operation-rustbelt  dtw  versus  portland 
august 2007 by bkerr
Times (New) Roman and its part in the Development of Scalable Font Technology
"Charles Bigelow posted this article to the Usenet newsgroup `comp.fonts` in May 1994 in response to the question: What's the difference between Times Roman and Times New Roman?"
times-new-roman  versus  times-roman  usenet  detritus  comp.fonts  linotype  monotype  legal  maneuvering  news-corp  adobe  postscript  width  proportion  detail  truetype  atm  font-scaling  digital  fontologist 
august 2007 by bkerr
roBlog dot org | On Being a User Researcher
"A good user researcher has to like people [...] has to be intrinsically interested in who they are, what work they do, how they feel about life, what they want to achieve, and so on."
ux  versus  notworking  via:schollm 
july 2007 by bkerr
VoidStar | Long form blogging vs short form blogging
"They're both One to Many Monologue Publishing. Inevitably people also want the One to One Conversation and the Few to Few Group Discussion. So we try to bend the systems to make them do that."
weblogs  remediation  micro  twitter  pownce  status  etc  versus  mighty  timeworn  word-lines  essay  metacrap  formal  constraint  fill-the-textbox  intermediatist  immediast 
july 2007 by bkerr
CNN | Man pummels 'vampire' peacock
"A restaurant worker says the man grabbed the bird by the neck, hurled it to the ground and started stomping it. She says when he was asked what he was doing, he responded, 'I'm killing a vampire!'"
vampire  peacock  versus  burger  patron  wtf-mate  via:liana 
july 2007 by bkerr
metromode | Density Vs. Transit
"Misconceptions from local leaders that Southeast Michigan isn't dense enough or wouldn't ride mass transit are either not looking at the numbers or missing the point."
density  versus  transit  transportation  economics  trains  planning  etc  michigan  via:vielmetti 
june 2007 by bkerr
Notional Slurry | Notes on pitching deep innovations
Tozier aflame: "Pitches are not memes. There are no memes. Pitches are engineering projects; the listeners’ minds are the raw material, and the expansion of the author’s vision their goal."
narrative  process  biz  communication  pitch  projects  abstraction  black-holes  versus  revelations 
may 2007 by bkerr
Salon.com | Tinky Winky says bye-bye to Jerry Falwell
"We weren't modeling a gay lifestyle and we weren't trying to corrupt anyone's kids ... Give us a little Tubby toast or custard and a film of some kids washing clothes or something, that's all we needed. We didn't give a shit about modeling a lifestyle."
christian-industrial-complex  versus  kids-entertainment-control-towers 
may 2007 by bkerr
0xDECAFBAD | Damn kids! Get off my web!
"But, really, it’s not addressed to you if there’s a buzz and you’re not groking it. That’s a clue that you’re probably missing something. Granted, people can be insane, but it really is more likely that you’re missing something."
web  hype  journalism  dirty-media  versus  youth-nowadays  via:deusx  via:revgeorge 
may 2007 by bkerr
First Monday | Real Genders Choose Fantasy Characters: Class Choice in World of Warcraft
"This paper is a small exploration into social life in World of Warcraft. We focus on gender, examining the reasons why males and females choose different character types."
games  gender  character  class  identity  half-halfling  versus  double-hobbit 
may 2007 by bkerr
Stateline.org | ‘One-state recession’ hampers Michigan
"The Great Lakes State has lost jobs for six consecutive years, Michigan’s longest run of  workplace shrinkages since the Great Depression."
michigan  state  budget  versus  economy  jobs  lack-thereof  stick-around-annarbor 
april 2007 by bkerr
pasta and vinegar | code/space by Rob Kitchin
"The point of this talk was to show how, over time, the spaces of everyday life have become increasingly reliant on software (space is being virtualized, in the sense of Manuel Castells)."
code  versus  space  for-teh-informon  pervasive  reasoning  everything  computing  s-s-s-spime  via:adamgreenfield 
march 2007 by bkerr
Demand Peace - Battlestar Wiki
"The answer to our suffering lies in negotiating a peace. This is our cause. This is your cause."
bsg  exopolitics  demand-peace  human  versus  cylon  manifesto  end-of-the-war-game  no-heroes-left-in-man 
march 2007 by bkerr
mamamusings | why twitter matters
"There are stories told in between updates ... Narratives that wind around and between the updates and the people, that show connections. Updates that echo each other, or even directly respond to another Twitter post."
twitter  attention  presence  versus  yasn  via:siclops 
march 2007 by bkerr
McSweeney's Internet Tendency | Things I Desperately Wish Women Would Say to Me on First Dates.
"I think Superman represents the federal government, while Batman represents the autonomous local governments."
comics  romance  batman  versus  superman 
february 2007 by bkerr
Slate | It's time to stop killing meat and start growing it
"Meat has made us smart enough to figure out how we can live without it."
food  meat  versus  vegetarian 
may 2006 by bkerr
The Fishbowl | The Perils of Metadata
rentzsch said, "This is exactly why I won't let the Post photograph me."
web  newspapers  journalism  images  metadata  versus  privacy  funny  fuckup 
february 2006 by bkerr

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