WIGAL

http://www.barnz2k.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/09/194/

Hi

- applies defibrillator to blog which springs back into life!

Just read the excellent Making Up the Mind - how the Brain Creates our Mental World -
by Chris Frith

very concise, readable and interesting!

great new scientist review here -
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19426002.800.html

for mind games check out

http://www.lottolab.org/ - research into vision and complex systems

http://www.lottolab.org/Brightness%20illusions%20page.html# - cool!

http://www.biomotionlab.ca/demos.php

http://www.biomotionlab.ca/Demos/BMLgender.html

enjoy!

Hello again!

Magpie-like I have been gathering a host of sparkly things –

Send a message to the future!

http://www.keo.org/uk/pages/default.html

and are you a morning person or a night person?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/crt/

I am a HUGE fan of All Things Considered on NPR

one story today was an interview with Rufus Young who is paid to net and salvage debris from Katrina – fans of the Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson may recall the people salvaging the London drowned by the melting of Antarctica – and the accents are AMAZING! Think Forrest Gump

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5727241

also there is a very interesting review of Black Watch and interview with the playwright – recent hit at Edinburgh and on its way to oz – the play deals with the Black Watch regiment and Iraq –

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5732408

Background briefing on ABC radio last Sunday was

Loot: real money in virtual worlds

Virtual worlds are flourishing as millions of online players move in to set up their virtual lives. There are fortunes to be made, and there are real world consequences. Reporter: Cath Dwyer

Very topical at the moment – reminds me of the fervour during the dot com boom before the bust …

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/bbg_20060827.mp3

Community land trusts – interesting – a return to a philosophy of land trusteeship rather than ownership – much more in keeping with native peoples attitudes to land – driven by high real estate prices

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5598859

http://www.plannersweb.com/articles/pet112.html

FUNNY STUFF

Real life Simpsons!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=49IDp76kjPw

Subservient Chicken – an oldie but a goodie!

http://www.subservientchicken.com/

Maya and 3D useful stuff

Cheaper to do it in 3d than film it live – interesting article

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/21/XMEN.TMP

Very cool!

http://www.1st-ave-machine.com/

Elephants Dream – done with Blender (open source 3d software) and a very interesting project

http://orange.blender.org/

Maya scripts

http://www.koshigaya.de/?content=overview&PHPSESSID=4b1552c262956a4ef0f1f460c2289d5a

Ever wanted small Thumbnails of your Images in the Explorer and Open/Save Dialogs for non-standard Files??

http://www.koshigaya.de/?content=viewtool&file=KoshigayaThumbnailSupport.txt&PHPSESSID=4b1552c262956a4ef0f1f460c2289d5a

and finally transferring music is legal!

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/music-to-the-ears/2006/05/13/1146940775897.html

Enjoy!

Hello and Welcome to my blog. I intend to post irregularly an ecclectic jumble of ephemera. Enjoy!

As part of my phd research I have been reading about the psychology of cyberspace

www.rider.edu/suler/psycyber

and found this
www.rider.edu/suler/psycyber/humor.html

I particularly enjoyed this haiku

———————————
A crash reduces
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.
—————————-

Book-wise I have just read The Secret River by Kate Grenville and it is excellent

Film-wise I’ve got 10 canoes at the top of the list, Tristram Shandy not far behind - but I have to admit I’m hanging out for Snakes on A Plane!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_on_a_plane

I might have to organise a dlf outing

http://www.dlf.org.au/

War-wise check out the Beruit Blogger mazenkerblog.blogspot.com

who plays Starry Night on his trumpet while the bombs fall

(life goes on)

http://www.odeo.com/audio/1525826/view

POETRY-wise check out Kay Ryan

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/entertainment/poetry/poet_ryan.html

l8er

kit