links for the week
Shared bookmarks from here back 7 days. ( you? )
- PediaPress - Individual books based on Wikipedia articles —
PediaPress is a service that enables you to compile and order a book with contents you pick from over a million Wikipedia articles. You will then receive a unique, bound book with high quality, selected articles! Well built site, fast, and cheap (200+ pa
- Simulateur d’influence / Canut Ki-in, club de go de Lyon —
Two sweet in-browser engines for visually displaying Go positions with influence and tension displayed color gradients. Must see to understand — wonderful even if you don’t play go! ‘Start the simulator’ or ‘GoBlob influence simulator’
- Sensei’s Library —
Sensei’s Library is a wiki about and around the game of Go (also called Igo, Weiqi, and Baduk). Tons of free instructional material and community participation.
- BugBrand —
circuit bending, classy looking sound boxes, contact mics, sound installations, etc. Tom Bugs.
- MIT scientists create fiber webs that see —
capable of measuring the direction, intensity and phase of light (a property used to describe a light wave) without the lenses, filters or detector arrays that are the classic elements of optical systems such as eyes or cameras. (via wmmna)
- Animal controlled computer games: playing pac-man with real crickets —
It explores the possibilities of replacing behaviour-generating code in computer games by real-time behaviour of live animals, and the question of whether one can play computer games against animals. (watch the video!) (via wmmna)
- Zero One/ISEA San Jose SRL Show August 2006 —
Fri.Aug11 SRL (SURVIVAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES) presents its first full-bore, no-holds-barred, give ‘em all you’ve got, Bay Area performance in over ten years! Special Notes: Very Big, Very Loud, Very Exciting.
- Alt-Zoom Studios - Second Life Machinima —
Alt-Zoom is a group of Second Life residents who are making machinima (machine cinema / animation). Following their ‘Ed Wood Fest’, now monthly ‘take5′ contest participation is doubling (23 in July) with impressive quality.
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