Infovore : tag : location

26
December
2009

Links

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app, geotagging, gps, gpx, iphone, kml, location, tracklogging.

trails – Intuitive GPS tracking on the iPhone

"Trails is the first GPS iPhone app that allows you to record, import and export tracks onto your iPhone." Also, it's not *too* battery intensive, has a really well thought-out UI, and wasn't too expensive. Very nice.

(tags: gps tracklogging gpx kml location geotagging iphone app )

29
July
2009

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beautiful, blog, bookmarks, books, children, collection, culture, dissonace, drawing, ephemera, flash, games, geo, history, iamnear, illustration, kevinslavin, kids, list, location, maps, nostalgia, place, reading, selfcentered, technical, technology, tomtaylor.

100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About | GeekDad | Wired.com

A little bit of nostalgia, a little bit of fact, a few reminders of the past. Especially the old Kit-Kat wrappers.

(tags: history culture technology children kids list nostalgia )
Fig. 8 Trailer

"In the game you are rewarded for keeping your tracks together while navigating through the surreal world of an "architectural" diagram. The camera moves in continuous motion and the object is to finish the course with as many points as possible." Watch the trailer; it's astoundingly pretty. Can't wait for this one!

(tags: games drawing flash technical illustration beautiful )
scraplab — “A world and a life in which you are always the centre of the map”

"On my todo list still is an evil twin of iamnear, designed to be difficult and disorientating in use, but rewarding in unexpected ways should you persevere with it. As Kevin Slavin recently said in his talk at the BLDGBLOG book launch: “a world and a life in which you are always the centre of the map… fuck that”."

(tags: geo place location selfcentered dissonace kevinslavin maps tomtaylor iamnear )
Forgotten Bookmarks

"I work at a used and rare bookstore, and I buy books from people everyday. These are the personal, funny, heartbreaking and weird things I find in those books." Bookmarks, dedications, receipts, adverts. Lovely.

(tags: books bookmarks reading collection blog ephemera )

20
May
2009

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application, blogs, buses, criticism, design, dos, dosbox, editors, emulation, emulator, epic, fireeagle, future, games, infrastructure, internet, leaks, location, london, londonbus, mac, magazines, marketing, media, modification, mods, online, osx, pr, print, programming, retro, senseofhumour, serendipity, teamfortress2, transport, valve, wired, zzt.

scraplab : clarke – an os x fire eagle updater

"…to prove I could, I made a small desktop application. It’s called Clarke. It’s really not very exciting — don’t get your hopes up. It’s just a toolbar thing that sits there, quietly, using Skyhook’s API to triangulate your location from nearby wifi points, pushing it to Fire Eagle. Yes, it’s YAFEU (Yet Another Fire Eagle Updater)." Tom makes Proper Software. He is smart.

(tags: osx application fireeagle location )
Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: a little bit of future goes a long way

"Cracking the bus network is really the key to most cities, and we’re nearly at the point of directed bus serendipity. In London, at least."

(tags: londonbus london buses transport infrastructure internet serendipity future )
Welcome, <em>Wired</em>. We call this land "Internet" | Boing Boing Gadgets

Joel Johnson rounds on Wired for the gulf between their online and printed formats; the comments thread turns into a much more rational, and reasonable, discussion from many Wired staff, past and present.

(tags: magazines wired blogs online media print criticism )
Boxer: The DOS game emulator that’s fit for your Mac.

"Boxer plays MS-DOS games on your Mac. It’s based on the robust DOSBox emulator, with a lot of magic sprinkled on top. Run DOS programs from Finder. Wrap your games into tidy packages that launch like Mac apps. Painlessly install games from CD—then bundle the CD with your game so you don't even need it in the drive."

(tags: mac dos emulation emulator dosbox games retro )
Everyone At Valve Has Been Fired « Double Buffered

"The lesson to be learned here is that when something screws with your careful plans, you take control of that thing, warp it to your every demand, and channel it into a concentrated stream of Awesome. That is how you do PR." Pretty much. Valve have handled this brilliantly – the achievement they awarded themselves being the icing on the cake – and not only have they been on-brand for a savvy, internet-enabled company, they've also been spot on-brand for TF2.

(tags: games marketing leaks valve teamfortress2 senseofhumour pr )
auntie pixelante › zzt recommended reading list

"…this is a good time to consider zzt’s library – not because it’s changing, but because it’s probably complete. the long-running game archive z2 just declared zzt dead, and why not – it’s served its purpose: allowing people who aren’t programmers or digital artists an avenue to game creation before game maker or construct existed. now they do." ZZT must have been one of the first games I played, and I poked around its level editor. This retrospective both fascinates and arouses nostalgia in equal measures.

(tags: zzt games epic design editors programming modification mods )

05
May
2009

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application, behaviour, biology, blog, canned, chicken, cities, clockwork, design, dj, editing, flickr, food, games, howwework, illustration, lifestyle, location, mac, maps, mechanics, metrics, movies, music, osx, photographs, physics, play, projection, revolting, scale, science, shanghai, simcity, tin, tracking, upload, video, vimeo, watchclock, writing.

Mike Darga's Game Design Blog

Mike Darga's blog is a smart, insightful, data-driven look at game design, especially for MMOs. It's very good, and goes straight into my subscriptions.

(tags: games blog writing design play )
Riverfold Software – Clipstart

"Clipstart complements your photo application to give you a place that is designed for home movies. Import your movies, tag, search, and upload with one click to Flickr and Vimeo. You can even quickly upload a trimmed portion of a movie without needing to save a new copy." Looks like an interesting alternative to iMovie for most of the uses I make of video.

(tags: video osx mac application flickr vimeo editing upload )
DJ's and their living rooms – Rhythmism.com

Scans from a German magazine: messy, full of records, sometimes computers.

(tags: photographs howwework lifestyle music dj )
The Biology of B-Movie Monsters

"Size has been one of the most popular themes in monster movies, especially those from my favorite era, the 1950s. The premise is invariably to take something out of its usual context–make people small or something else (gorillas, grasshoppers, amoebae, etc.) large–and then play with the consequences. However, Hollywood's approach to the concept has been, from a biologist's perspective, hopelessly naïve." Fantastic: transcripts of a series of lectures about the biology of B-Movie monsters; funny, accurate, informative.

(tags: science biology movies physics scale )
上海市地图|三维地图|电子地图|公交查询

Map of Shanghai, as Sim-City style rendered projection; is this useful? Or is this just a style of imagery computer users are used to?

(tags: maps illustration projection simcity shanghai cities )
graphpaper.com – Who Watches the Watchman?

"I find the watchclock fascinating not simply because it’s a kind of steampunk GPS, a wind-up mechanical location-awareness technology. I’m further fascinated at how this holistic system of watchclocks, keys, guards, and supervisors succeeded so completely in creating a method of behavioral control such that a human being’s movements can be precisely planned and executed, hour after hour and night after night, with such a high degree of reliability that almost a century goes by before anyone thinks of ways of improving the system as originally conceived." Fantastic.

(tags: design watchclock location tracking behaviour metrics mechanics clockwork )
Good Eats: A Whole Chicken In A Can – Geekologie

"Sweet Sue's Canned Whole Chicken (without giblets) is an entire cooked chicken in a can (a big one)." For reference: I am not whole chicken-in-a-can hungry.

(tags: food canned tin chicken revolting )

23
April
2009

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apple, application, casual, charts, customersatisfaction, development, feedback, foursquare, games, graphs, humour, infographics, iphone, location, locative, pc, place, play, process, social, socialsoftware.

tiara.org » Blog Archive » Foursquare, Locative Media, and Prescriptive Social Software – Part One

"Locative social media is especially interesting because it directly affects how people move through the city. It can be terrifically fun and useful for people who fit its prescribed social model." This kind of proscription (or encouragement) of behaviour is interesting, and I think there are a variety of ways to do it "sensibly". And: how did you expand the group of "people who fit its prescribed social model"? Small changes of behaviour, amongst larger groups, are much, much more interesting.

(tags: social play games location place casual foursquare locative socialsoftware )
Maniacal Rage: Reading post

"Apple is creating an ecosystem of the kind of customers I don’t want. With the ridiculous approval process leaving bugfixes to take over a week to show up, with prices being driven down to nothing by farting apps… it just feels hostile to me. While I have plenty of great customers who have been raving about the app, all it takes is one little issue and it all comes crashing down." Sad, really.

(tags: iphone application development feedback customersatisfaction process apple )
First-Person Shouter » Chartcore Gamer

It's the hip-hop-songs-as-charts meme, but about being a PC gamer. Moderate chuckles abound.

(tags: games graphs infographics charts pc humour )

19
February
2009

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artefacting, awful, codeigniter, compression, datamoshing, effects, games, greasemonkey, hardcasual, humour, infrastructure, javascript, kanyewest, location, marketing, mattjones, metalgearsolid, mlm, music, navigation, packaging, phpunit, place, proximity, resolution, socalledfriends, socialsoftware, space, spam, testing, thoughts, time, twitter, unittesting, videos, web, wikipedia.

Intro to CIUnit (part of fooStack) for CodeIgniter

Requires a chunk of configuration, but this is not half bad: allows you to use PHPUnit from the command line to actually, properly test CI models. Even lets you use YAML configuration files. Not bad.

(tags: testing codeigniter phpunit unittesting )
TweeterGetter .::. Get 15,625 New Twitter Followers In 30 Days!

There are not expletives strong enough. In a nutshell: it's a pyramid scheme for following people you don't know on Twitter. It asks for your username and password. Terrifying.

(tags: marketing twitter awful spam mlm socalledfriends )
Exporting the past into the future, or, “The Possibility Jelly lives on the hypersurface of the present” « Magical Nihilism

"Warning – this is a collection of half-formed thoughts, perhaps even more than usual." They seem pretty well-formed to me, even if the blogpost is a dense infoburst. Lots of solid gold in here, worth reading twice, slowly, and thinking on. And then working out what the conclusions are.

(tags: socialsoftware space place mattjones location time thoughts proximity resolution )
WikipathS: The Great Web Race | Play This Thing!

"…you go to any page on Wikipedia; a "start" button appears on the page. You click it, and it sends you to a random Wikipedia page, and then displays your "target" page in a box at the bottom of the browser window (as shown in the illo above). Your goal is to navigate from the start page to the target page, using only links in the main body of each article; the game is timed, so presumably you're attempting to do it in the minimum amount of time." A Greasemonkey/js entrant to the Global Game Jam – unusual, to say the least, and an interesting move.

(tags: games web javascript greasemonkey wikipedia navigation )
KANYE WEST "Welcome To Heartbreak" Directed by Nabil on Vimeo

And Kanye's datamoshing too. This is a bit more subtle and polished than the Chairlift video, but ideally suits the song.

(tags: music compression videos effects kanyewest artefacting datamoshing )
Solid Snake Must Be Somewhere in This Warehouse « Hardcasual

"Solid Snake, the special operations agent who frequently amuses himself by hiding in cardboard boxes, has been taped up and shipped to a warehouse in Oslo, Norway. Details are scarce at this point, but it appears Mr. Snake, famous for single-handedly dismantling Outer Heaven and destroying countless Metal Gears, made an error while shipping classified documents overseas and was picked up by a Fedex truck. The rescue operation has proved fruitless as of the time of this writing."

(tags: humour hardcasual packaging infrastructure metalgearsolid )

07
February
2009

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arduino, autocomplete, bash, browser, css, design, development, electronics, embedded, error, flash, frontend, games, geo, git, hardware, hereish, html, iphone, javascript, location, markup, middleware, place, platform, prototyping, script, shell, tinkerit, tinkerkit, tomtaylor, ui, unity, vague.

scraplab : hereish, nowish

"Red dot fever enforces a precision into your design that the rest must meet to feel coherent. There’s no room for the hereish, nowish, thenish and soonish. The ‘good enough’." Dingdingding. +5 points to Taylor, as usual. Place, not location.

(tags: tomtaylor geo error location place vague hereish )
Tinkerkit: a physical computing toolkit for designers: Main/Home Page

"TinkerKit is an Arduino-compatible physical computing prototyping toolkit aimed at design professionals. The interest in physical computing as an area in development within the creative industries has been increasing rapidly. In response to this Tinker.it! is developing the TinkerKit to introduce fast iterative physical computing methodologies to newcomers, and particularly design professionals." Standardised modules, standardised connectors, Arduino-compatible. I remember Massimo showing me his keyboard-emulating board ages ago. Nice to see Tinker productising the platform, too.

(tags: design prototyping hardware electronics arduino tinkerit tinkerkit )
Recreating the button | stopdesign

"The buttons are designed to look very similar to basic HTML input buttons. But they can handle multiple interactions with one basic design. The buttons we’re using are imageless, and they’re created entirely using HTML and CSS, plus some JavaScript to manage the behavior." Dark, dark voodoo, but very impressive – and excellently explained by Doug Bowman. It's nice to see Doug blogging again.

(tags: design ui javascript markup css frontend html )
the-inbetween.com: [ Unity and the Future of Browser-Based Games ]

"If 2009 is going to see the emergence of high-quality browser-based games, then 2009 is going to be the year of Unity. It has: lots of powerful features; iPhone support; Wii publishing; a developing community; quality developers using it; and an upcoming upcoming PC version. In short, it is about to make a major splash. I feel compelled to jump in with it — the indie license is cheaper than the Flash IDE."

(tags: flash games platform iphone development middleware browser embedded unity )
gist: 58383 – GitHub

"bash completion support for core Git." Ooh. This looks really, really nice.

(tags: git script shell bash autocomplete )

30
January
2009

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anthonyburgess, casual, clockworkorange, computer, computing, criticism, culture, danahboyd, development, dialogue, dissertation, engine, engineering, gamer, games, historiography, history, ianbogost, journalism, langauge, lego, leningrad, life, literature, location, logic, lua, magazine, merged, opengl, opensource, paper, pervasive, photography, photoshop, programming, publics, research, roundtable, russia, sdl, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, technology, teens, war, whatif, youth.

LÖVE – Free 2D Game Engine

"LÖVE is an unquestionably awesome 2D game engine, which allows rapid game development and prototyping in Lua." And it all looks rather pretty, too. Must investigate further!

(tags: programming games development opensource opengl engine lua sdl )
apophenia: Taken Out of Context — my PhD dissertation

danah's PhD dissertation. I need to bookmark this, and have not read it yet, but am sure, at some point, I am going to plough through it, for work, recreation, or (most likely) a bit of both. Until then: just a bookmark.

(tags: teens socialsoftware paper research socialnetworking publics dissertation danahboyd youth )
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1543/persuasive_games_how_i_stopped_.php?print=1

"I still have nothing but respect for my more traditional industry colleagues, but I’ve stopped worrying about impressing the games industry and its pundits. Or at least, I’ve stopped worrying about impressing them first. Instead, I’ve started focusing more on the people who might be interested in different kinds of game experiences. People who fly for business more than three times a month, or people who read all of the Sunday newspaper, or people who have kids with food allergies, for example. I am sure these people read magazines and watch television and listen to the radio. But it would be short-sighted to label them ziners or tubers or airwavers. They are just people, with interests, who sometimes consume different kinds of media." Bogost is right, and I'm concerned I'm always going to be ashamed I chose to use that word.

(tags: games culture casual ianbogost pervasive gamer langauge )
How the Computer gets the answer

"It is a commonplace that if it weren’t for computers we couldn’t fly to the moon, or even keep an accurate record of the national debt. On the question of how it does what it does, however, the computer has always remained essentially mysterious—unfathomable to all but a small handful of initiates. An officer of one major computer concern guessed recently that not more than 2% of his employees really know how it works." 2% seems awfully high these days. Detailed, technical article from Life in 1967.

(tags: technology engineering journalism life computing magazine computer logic )
A LEGO Orange : Man Bytes Blog

"This is not intended to be a fun game. It has all the trappings of a LEGO game. It has the forgiving game mechanics. The ease of control. But it uses these elements to create a cognitive dissonance between the ease of the actions and the terrible nature of their real world counterparts." Corvus hypothesises what A Lego Clockwork Orange might look like. Thoughtful stuff.

(tags: games literature lego anthonyburgess clockworkorange roundtable whatif )
white on white – By Lorenzo Wang

"So why not embrace it? That's why You Have To Burn The Rope is fantastic… for games to become art there must be an awareness and a conversation with its own history. Film, music, and literary critic call this allusion, but for the creators, this isn't just a word, it's a dialogue. Which means it should invite participants. For me, I'm far more intrigued by stop-motion artist Patrick Boivin's attempt at turning a linked sequence of videos into Youtube Street Fighter." I'm not sure I agree with Wang on YHTBTR, specifically, but this paragraph is reasonably sensible.

(tags: games criticism culture historiography dialogue )
Докторрр ин дер ролле Fima_Psuchopadt (с) – 65 лет назад была снята блокада Ленинграда

65 years since the end of the siege of Leningrad, this LJ post shows photographs from the late 1940s merged with images of the location in the present. All are striking; some are very sad. Great contextualisation, though.

(tags: photography russia history location photoshop war leningrad merged )

18
November
2008

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acme, alanmoore, animalcrossing, article, awesome, badidea, bounadries, cartoons, clivethompson, comics, crazy, flash, flickr, games, geo, geography, geolocative, huge, insane, journalism, licensing, littlebigplanet, location, makeitstop, manufacturing, maps, mirrorsedge, motionsickness, movies, nintendo, onebutton, parody, places, products, proprioception, psychogeography, reference, simonparkin, squid, swissarmyknife, tiein, tv, watchmen, wii, wired, woe, writing.

Amazon.co.uk: Wenger Swiss Army Giant Knife: Sports & Leisure

"For even if all it does is sit ceremonially on your mantelpiece next to a bar of Toblerone and a signed photo of Swiss Toni as a tribute to all things Swiss, you will have achieved greatness, my son." Best. Product. Description. Ever. (This feels like an April fool, but apparently no).

(tags: swissarmyknife crazy insane huge awesome )
Tiscali Games – Watchmen galerie obrazků

Oh jesus it's a Watchmen videogame and it's been converted… into a free-roaming beat-em-up. Rorschach in Streets of Rage 3D. Shoot me now.

(tags: badidea games watchmen alanmoore comics tiein licensing movies makeitstop )
The Adventures of Lil’ Gardner & Robot Jesus » Archive » Keep Squid Alive

Yes.

(tags: comics watchmen squid )
The ORIGINAL Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products

"ACME is a worldwide leader of many manufactured goods. From its humble beginnings providing corks and flypaper to bug collectors ("Buddy's Bug Hunt/1935") to its heyday in the American Southwest supplying a certain coyote, from Ultimatum Dispatchers to Batman outfits, ACME has set the standard for excellence. For the first time ever, information and pictures of all ACME products, specialty divisions, and services featured in Warner Bros. cartoons (made by the original studio from 1935 to 1964) are gathered here, in one convenient catalog."

(tags: acme manufacturing cartoons reference products tv )
chewing pixels » Animal Crossing – Wii review

"…while almost all of the game’s residents are free to go as they please, heading off to new towns and lives on a whim, once you step off the bus and choose a house in which to settle, you’re here for good…. you are the local constant, the hick who’s never left its borders and there is some comfort in the knowledge that the places the other animals leave for can never be known by you." Simon's original version of his Wii Animal Crossing review; some lovely analysis of the series to date.

(tags: simonparkin games writing journalism wii animalcrossing nintendo )
http://boundaries.tomtaylor.co.uk/

"Uses the Flickr shapefiles to show you where the world thinks its neighbours are." Damnit I wish Tom would stop magicking up awesomeness all the time.

(tags: geo location geolocative flickr bounadries woe places geography psychogeography maps )
Little Shit Planet – My World is Small and Crap

…and bloody frustrating too.

(tags: onebutton games flash littlebigplanet parody )
Games Without Frontiers: Victory in Vomit

Clive Thompson on how Mirror's Edge "hacks" your proprioception: "it explains, I think, why Mirror's Edge is so curiously likely to produce motion sickness. The game is not merely graphically realistic; it's neurologically realistic."

(tags: wired clivethompson article writing games mirrorsedge motionsickness proprioception )

12
October
2008

Links

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art, capacity, communication, criticism, design, designengaged, entertainment, escapism, filtering, flow, games, geo, geolocative, informatics, iroquoispliskin, location, media, messaging, metrics, michalmigurski, narrative, noise, planning, play, story, ubicomp.

dunbar's dungeon (tecznotes)

"As the population of the system grows, everyone's personal horizons begin to shrink. With enough people, eventually you're talking to the people right in your neighborhood. To get a message to someone across the country, you might lie about your location, or ask that it be passed on, Milgram-style." Filtering by proximity in a restrictive – but potentially more useful – manner. Interesting.

(tags: michalmigurski geo location geolocative messaging communication filtering )
Versus CluClu Land: The Limits of Escapism

"This is the challenge, it seems to me: it's to do with the tools of design– rules and states– what other media do with images and sound: reveal the world as seen through different eyes, with lapidary clarity and moral courage. And this means moving beyond merely empowering and entertaining the player."

(tags: iroquoispliskin escapism play games media art criticism entertainment story narrative )
[this is aaronland] Tree planting and tree hugging in the age of personal informatics

"Everything breaks, so what happens when we wire the world on the sort of massive scale being proposed and every day is more irritating than the next? Probably what will happen is that people will just walk away from the entire project damning it first with market insignificance and if that doesn't work then rendering it meaningless with government regulation. It's worth at least talking about." Aaron is awesome.

(tags: design designengaged metrics planning capacity informatics ubicomp noise flow )

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