links for 2007-09-19
- Systems Art – Now They Are Surrounded: Reconfigured Conference with contributions and art from Art & Language. (tags: art-and-language conference)
- Starship Stormtroopers Michael Moorcock takes Science Fiction’s favourites to task for their paternalism and conservatism. (tags: moorcock scifi critique anarchism)
- Algorithms | Business by numbers | Economist.com “Consumers and companies increasingly depend on a hidden mathematical world” (tags: business-model algorithmic mathematics)
- Timepedia: Knowledge extraction with 2 dimensional regular expressions? Good link to a 2D regex paper. (tags: 2d regular-expressions)
- Ponoko “You design your object (from furniture to jewelry), specify materials and upload the files to the site. Five to ten days later, your laser-cut pieces arrive in the mail and you snap them together like a 3D jigsaw.” (tags: rapid-development laser-cutting sharing fab)
- Wired Geekipedia: It’s Free – The New Economics of Giving It All Away Now why does ‘forget the revenue, build the audience’ remind me so strongly of the dot.com bubble? Could it be because I worked for one of the many companies that were destroyed by it? (tags: web hype free gratis business-model)
- Creative Commons 868 – Creative Commons “Besting Creative Commons 1967 by a mere 1099 years is the Diamond Sutra” (tags: creative-commons historical precedent nc notes-towards-free-culture)
- Crystalpunk: doodle something draw-something gets blogged at the excellent Crystalpunk. See their archives for more drawing software, psychogeography and other cool stuff. (tags: draw-something blog-entry generative art)