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Last Update: 10:08:32 03/03/2006
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In case anyone else is playing Animal Crossing: Wild World, I am Brian in Eudoxia, and my friend code is 3651-3819-3888. Two players must be mutually whitelisted in order to visit one another in this game, so I’d need to add your code etc. ahead of time, as well.
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| 15:17:38 February 25, 2006, Saturday (PST) |
Source: Brian Kerr |
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From Slashdot commentary on a new Tetris release: “Apart from being a fine game, Tetris is also a perfect mirror of the human condition. For a while the game is entertaining, and we seem to have mastered it and are having fun. Then, something goes wrong — a rash mistake, or an unfulfilled wish, [...]
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| 09:47:49 February 17, 2006, Friday (PST) |
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An early morning conversation: 5:39:07 AM akuender: Speaking of wiki, have you looked at the elemenstor wiki? 5:39:15 AM briankerr48105: Yeah, it’s amazing 5:39:23 AM akuender: I find it an accomplishment on the scale of the pyramids.
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| 02:44:19 February 13, 2006, Monday (PST) |
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I’ll keep updating this URL until I return on Sunday or Monday. Of course, the actual proceedings are on RecentChangesCamp wiki. Photographic evidence Flickr tag: recentchangescamp Others: 1 2 Processes Meta: IssuesAndOpportunities ConsensusPolling EvolutionaryEdgeOfSoftwareDevelopment PatternLanguageForWikiAdoption SisterSites2006 Tools …being used, built, planned, or discussed at the event: del.icio.us/tag/recentchangescamp CommunityProgrammableWiki CommunityWiki Glass Plate Game Inkscape LocalNames svn OverMediumSecurityToolkit SynchroEdit WikiSym 2005 Proceedings Wikiwyg HumanBeings …met and colluded with, for future reference: BartMassey, BayleShanks, BrandonCsSanders, EmmaKuo, JohnAbbe, LionKimbro, RaymondKing, TedErnst, WardCunningham
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| 13:16:42 February 4, 2006, Saturday (PST) |
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I’ll be in Portland for RecentChangesCamp (”building communities worth having”) Thursday afternoon through Sunday. Conference proceedings will be out on the wiki as the weekend progresses, so check there if you’re interested. Since I’m attending as a member of the Community Information Corps, one way to learn about what happened (if you happen to be at [...]
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| 14:35:06 February 1, 2006, Wednesday (PST) |
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As a followup to the card catalog graffiti post, I noticed tonight that District Library patrons can now choose to assemble and share their own personal card catalogs — take a look at mine. If you click through the thumbnail-sized cards, you can see the full record and any graffiti. This beats the pants off of making [...]
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| 00:49:38 January 23, 2006, Monday (PST) |
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This is an item from the Ann Arbor District Library’s online catalog: You can look up results in a cool card catalog view, and then add your own witty commentary to the cards. I remember annotating the card catalog in my high school library — War NOR Peace kind of stuff — making this a welcome [...]
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| 00:21:41 January 20, 2006, Friday (PST) |
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Over the weekend, I’ve been working on a jabber instant messaging chat room. unicorn.collective [at] gmail.com If you connect to it, you can talk to any other people who’ve connected. But you can also run (Ann Arbor-centric) commands to pull photos from Flickr, links from del.icio.us, events from upcoming.org, your fortune, the weather, etc. The results of [...]
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| 21:02:58 January 16, 2006, Monday (PST) |
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Tonight, MovieLens greeted me with: Welcome to Movielens! We have added a new feature to MovieLens called tagging. What is a tag? A tag is a word or phrase you add to a movie. Why are tags useful? [...]
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| 19:47:39 January 12, 2006, Thursday (PST) |
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When can I go into the supermarket and buy MacBook Pro with my good looks? Apple after all it is you and I who are perfect not the next world. Your machinery is too much for me.
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| 19:38:00 January 10, 2006, Tuesday (PST) |
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Small Things Loosely Connected is a group I’m starting at the School of Information for students who are working on the web. There is an organizational meeting for interested students this Wednesday at noon.
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| 00:24:03 January 10, 2006, Tuesday (PST) |
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Apartment extremely hoseled: wet, but in all the wrong places (ceiling carpet padding). I think that as a consequence we are moving soon. Also: del.icio.us is back up, after a terrible four-day outage. Also: I finished my first term at SI, with mixed results. Next term I will ignore SI curriculum in favor of other [...]
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| 23:48:23 December 20, 2005, Tuesday (PST) |
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| 08:28:50 December 3, 2005, Saturday (PST) |
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I hereby catch George’s creaturely e-mail meme. After reading his post, I decided to see what I could do from my e-mail client, Microsoft Entourage. (Can somebody explain why Mac e-mail clients are pretty much all terrible? Entourage isn’t very good, but it beats the competition — Mail, Thunderbird, and numerous other commercial clients which [...]
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| 21:01:57 November 22, 2005, Tuesday (PST) |
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Book and Volume is a new interactive fiction by Nick Montfort (author of dead tree book Twisty Little Passages, co-editor of New Media Reader, and culprit of ultra clever interactive fiction Ad Verbum). Dan and I played through “Book and Volume” tonight. Which is to say: we each played through it, but passed HINTs and lists [...]
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| 00:42:19 November 20, 2005, Sunday (PST) |
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Remember this? I changed my mind again — no more del.icio.us links on the index page. After two weeks or so of having it on, I decided against it. In the unlikely event that you are now crushed, you can always get to ‘em from the sidebar or at del.icio.us/bkerr.
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| 08:01:08 November 16, 2005, Wednesday (PST) |
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After a few months at the School of Information, I have a notebook page with the following open compound nouns incorporating the word “information.” While some of these may be familiar and several are quite handy, if many seem like hand-waving to you, you’d be right. If I had a dollar for every paper I’ve read [...]
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| 22:47:23 November 13, 2005, Sunday (PST) |
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This is my del.icio.us tagroll:
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| 08:07:52 November 13, 2005, Sunday (PST) |
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Tonight, I’m playing with a new free-form web discussion tool called Say-So. It is an elegant way to ask a question and collect responses. Say-So takes a minimal approach to content and user management, but does offer some access control. (The designers explain it all at their blog.) It also pushes offline calls-to-action in a [...]
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| 21:35:03 November 4, 2005, Friday (PST) |
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An observation. The panopticon is passé, having been replaced by the always-on synopticon.
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| 20:40:17 November 1, 2005, Tuesday (PST) |
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I set up del.icio.us blog posting so that, once daily, things I post to del.icio.us/bkerr will show up here. Although I started using del.icio.us in March 2004, recently I have relied on the tool quite heavily; hence this change. If you are reading from an RSS feed I set up my blogging software such that it will [...]
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| 17:44:14 October 30, 2005, Sunday (PST) |
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Someone recently asked me to recommend some interactive fiction (henceforth “IF”) games to play. IF is great because most games are freely available, and because it is in several ways the last bastion of the truly independent, individual game developer. I don’t think the subject gets nearly enough attention. The easiest way to get started is [...]
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| 22:24:48 October 29, 2005, Saturday (PDT) |
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I had the good fortune to catch up with MarkDilley tonight. He just got back from WikiSym — an ACM conference on wiki in San Diego — and it sounds like he got some good ideas and personal connections from the trip. Lately, my own interest in wiki stuff has been in watching wiki rhetoric [...]
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| 20:53:16 October 29, 2005, Saturday (PDT) |
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→ New York Times ¦ Good Smell Perplexes New Yorkers Noted without comment, except to say that the phrases “unseen, sweet-smelling cloud” and “syrupy cloud” fit tidily into the scheme presented in chapter 21 of DeLillo’s White Noise: “The radio calls it a feathery plume,” he said. “But it’s not a plume.” [...]
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| 20:08:15 October 28, 2005, Friday (PDT) |
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So Michigan Radio superstar Todd Mundt is signing up for all the services popular amongst the youth these days: → del.icio.us/toddmundt → upcoming.org/user/27631/ → flickr.com/people/toddmundt This makes up a little bit for how badly we all miss the Todd Show. I wonder how long until he starts a ToddCast?
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| 22:07:13 October 23, 2005, Sunday (PDT) |
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Local user experience superstar Peter Morville’s new book — Ambient Findability — has just been released. Since it’s an O’Reilly publication, there is a funky lemur on the cover. Peter has celebrated the release of this lemur-literature into the wild (e.g. downtown Ann Arbor Borders) by posting the following photos: → Flickr ¦ Peter [...]
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| 20:38:17 October 19, 2005, Wednesday (PDT) |
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Four months ago, I wrote about how much I was looking forwards to the release of The Complete New Yorker — a DVD set of eighty years’ worth of scanned New Yorker magazines. The collection has now been released, and is getting some really poor reviews out in the bloglands. Apparently, the collection shipped with [...]
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| 13:22:33 October 18, 2005, Tuesday (PDT) |
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Taxonomical superstar Paul Ford has published his first novel — Gary Benchley, Rock Star — which was furtively serialized from September 2003 to May 2005 at The Morning News as → The Letters of Gary Benchley, Rock Star Blogland crimes of literature don’t get much better than this!
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| 22:12:03 October 14, 2005, Friday (PDT) |
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| 23:58:09 October 3, 2005, Monday (PDT) |
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| 23:58:12 October 1, 2005, Saturday (PDT) |
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