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M.Sayyid "Outside the box"

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Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE M.Sayyid (former AntiPop Consortium singer) will release his solo EP"Outside the box" on Sound Ink.

Tracklisting: 01. The ills (prod. M.Sayyid) 02. Countless amounts of heat (prod. cx Kidtronik) 03. All the lights ft. High Priest (prod. Heat Sensor) 04. Trust me (prod. M.Sayyid) 05. Drip that (prod. M.Sayyid) 06. Bend it dent it (prod. M.Sayyid) 07. Catch 22s. (prod. M.Sayyid)

A Role Playing Game at Telecom 03

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Next saturday, at the Telecom2003 event, there may be a new kind of "real" Role Playing Game ! Something in-between role playing games and a flash mob happening ! The idea is that participants plays the role of multinational high-tech agents, infiltrated in a cutting-edge technology event where they have to obtain new markets. Each player will have a specific technology that can be exchanged with others... Each participant will have to fulfill specific objectives...

The likelihood of this game depends on the number of participants...

j'aime bien les bf15

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Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I really like the science fiction terminology : all those bhgf435 and low-powered solar supported infrared supra-positrnic ionizer.... so impressive and impossible to understand... that's aprt of the dream :)

j'adore la terminologie employee dans les films de sf . tous ces bhf456 et detourneur positronique a ionisation destabilisante infraviolette, c'est fantastique, de même que les lumieres et les ordinateurs qui clignotent à fond....

pommes de terre = bf15

Voronoi and Delauney

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Via socialfiction :i really like these mathematical constructions that can be generated by this applet. Especially the Voronoi diagram, also called the Thiessen diagram : a set of polygons, each one containing exactly one of the given points, and all other points in the plane which are closer to that point than to any of the other given points. It is also known as the Thiessen diagram or the Dirichlet Tessellation.

The voronoi reminds me vegetals cells !!!! : CONNECTION TO MY RESEARCH here : http://www.snibbe.com/scott/bf/. According to them : "The regions [personal space] which surrounds each person are mathematically referred to as Voronoi diagrams or Dirichlet tessellations"

The Delauney is good as well : This option draws the Delauney Triangulation of the points. If you draw the Convex Hull (see below) of the points, there are many ways to divide the convex hull into triangles, that is, to triangulate it. The Delauney triangulation is the triangulation with the smallest total edge length. It is related to the Voronoi diagram by duality, that is, the vertices, edges and faces of the one correspond exactly to the faces, edges and vertices (in that order) of the other :

idea for the fanzine

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You sense that fab [macrofocus] is looking for you in fab's underground lair. [17:14:52]He pages, "pour ton fanzine faudrait mettre des femmes a poils sur des SpeedBrooms. Cool non?" 'fab dans le genre ouais, ca le fait, vu que c toi qui a l'idee tu va participer...

Doing art with Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism

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eTOY proposes interesting biotech art allowing to paint thanks to DNA... : etoy.DNA-REGISTRATION. When I graduated in biology I was so impressed by the name of all those enzymes !!!! Genetics rulez :)

Future is : _ surveillance (location-based awareness) _ biotech (modiification, cloning, traceability...) --> think about Deleuze and read his post-scriptum on the society of control. Now we have to merge Foucault/Deleuze and biotech !!!!! Who wants to go on ? Let's have fun with concepts...

Leguman

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Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Via planet hip hop : PHH : Pourquoi "Leguman" et pas "le Gluon du Trou" ?

Tekilatex : les gluons, on les voyait tout le temps, ils essaient là dans chaque émission, rien de spécial, voila quoi, encore aujourd'hui tu peux trouver des photos de gluons en cherchant un peu sur le net.

Par contre amuse-toi pour trouver des extraits vidéos ou même des photos de leguman en 2001. Leguman c'était la séquence de téléchat qui n'apparaissait presque jamais. C'est à dire que tu pouvais toujours attendre léguman, il venait une fois tous les 2 mois, et le truc durait même pas dix secondes, mais était traumatisant et intriguant. Les effets spéciaux étaient horriblement mal faits, et les histoires de léguman n'avaient aucun sens, était absurde et totalement inadapté a un public d'enfants. Roland Topor, créateur de téléchat, était un grand homme, un génie, c'est notamment lui qui est a l'origine du film d'animation "la planète sauvage". La bande originale de ce film est un classique, tous les producteurs de hip hop qui sont dans le crate digging se l'arrachent et elle est souvent rééditée, c'est une mine de samples incroyable. Madlib a repris toute l'imagerie de ce film pour les pochettes des disques de Quasimoto par exemple. Roland Topor EST le hip hop Dans ma version de l'histoire de Leguman, celui ci est un putain de maquereau qui prend de la drogue, qui frappe les gens, qui engraine les enfants, qui porte des dents en or, dont toutes les gamines s'arrachent les stickers pannini, qui a un crew avec uniquement des végétaux dedans, était une manière de personnaliser ce qu'est devenu le hip hop aujourd'hui, sans donner d'avis tranché genre c'est bien/c'est pas bien... et en donnant une dimension absurde et irréelle a la chose.

Je suis absolument d'accord, j'étais fan de léguman et donc frustré... on le voyait si peu !

drug drug drug

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Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE j'ai encore vu des tox se faire leur fix d'hero à la gare de genève cornavin, ca faisait longtemps que j'avais pas vu ca la (mmmh a part a zurich y a un mois)... c'est curieux parce que c'est vraiment un lieu central. A part au Danemark, je n'avais jamais vu ca, un cote de la suisse inexplore.

Ca me fait penser à ce que me disait ma mère quand j'étais ado, genre "tu verras, des gens fument ou se piquent et te proposent de la drogue", à l'époque j'y croyais pas, mais c'est bel et bien le cas.

nice world !

Stats : WAP versus SMS still

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According to Mobile Data Association, "The total number of page impressions viewed in the UK during August stands at 884 million. The figure, from GSM Network operators O2, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone, takes the daily average to 28.5 million, compared to 9 million per day in August 2002. " They explain this significant growth with two factors : - more services : the ringtone/downloads market - more sophisticated phones : polyphonic sounds, colour screen -> "an improved WAP experience" - more demand : ?

In addition, SMS sent across the four UK GSM networks reached 55 million per day during August 2003.

28.5 million WAP page downloaded per day versus 55 million sent SMS per day in the UK

About MITRE

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The MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit organization chartered to work in the public interest. "As a national resource, we apply our expertise in systems engineering, information technology, operational concepts, and enterprise modernization to address our sponsors’ critical needs." They work on several things. One of them is information warfare and wireless technologies with different projects like giving palm pda to soldiers in order to access to the joint battlespace infosphere ("Information Management to Support the Warrior" = a system of systems that integrates, aggregates, and distributes information to users at all echelons, from the command center to the battlefield). Still the same issue : "One of the goals of the JBI is to deliver the right information to the right user at the right time in the right format.".