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Comment on Augmentia by Brain Off » Holidays, in Snow and in Kibera :: Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:06:40 +0000

[...] and how to peacefully live together. Even the design challenges tomorrow’s technologies, augmented reality, have everything to learn from how space is negotiated in off the grid, on the edge places. Kibera [...]

Comment on Augmentia by Mikel Maron

Mikel Maron — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:15:35 +0000

There’s a third pole of experience to compare to the heavily mediated urban/suburban artifice and the raw dirty hiking ecological uncontrolled beingness … the unmediated, out of control, intensely human, constantly directly negotiated urbanization of much of the planet. Kibera or Ramallah or Mumbai are intensely exhilarating, reawakening senses dulled by pre-negotiated spaces of architecture and laws, and frustrating to the extreme that no artifact exists anywhere, and attempts to pull out to a wider perspective are dragged down by the immediate needs of security and any food at all, local and organic or manufactured, it makes no difference. Pressure at the edges and margins indeed.

The experience of these places, my intuition tells me, is going to be extremely informative for the design of augmented reality, and a design challenge in itself.

Comment on Programming, Graph Theory and a Request For Help. by Jillian Ada Burrows

Jillian Ada Burrows — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:26:22 +0000

Have you though about using something like Mongo DB, Cassandra, or Couch DB for the type of storage you want? All of those provide essentially a native AJAXian way of accessing data through a RESTful json interface. I was thinking about creating the drag and drop interface. At first I thought Java 3D has the capability to create clickable 3D objects. Then I thought one could use jQuery to manipulate html entities to create an interactive editor, even adding psudo-3d abilities. What you probably want, is a fully interactive 3d interface. That can be done via Javascript via O3D a la Google. It give one the ability to import 3D models and let the user interact with them. I hope that at least helps.

Comment on The Aleph No-Op by MakerLab Blog » Augmentia Redux

MakerLab Blog » Augmentia Redux — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:30:03 +0000

[...] then you’ll probably also enjoy hating this earlier post on Augmentia and this post on the Aleph No-Op and this one might push you over the edge if those fail Bimimetic Signaling [...]

Comment on Augmentia by MakerLab Blog » Augmentia Redux

MakerLab Blog » Augmentia Redux — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:18:00 +0000

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Comment on Bariloche and Patagonia Hike Planning by anselm

anselm — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:30:16 +0000

Funny that after returning from this trip my gear list was way more optimized than when I left. For example Quinoa – bad idea. Takes too long to cook. Couscous and Hummus turned out to be winners. And I had the improbable happen; my stove fuel cap assembly broke – and my paranoia of carrying an extra one was worth it after all these years…

Comment on Augmentia by links for 2009-11-04 « Blarney Fellow

links for 2009-11-04 « Blarney Fellow — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:32:05 +0000

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Comment on Bariloche and Patagonia Hike Planning by exechobo

exechobo — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:01:58 +0000

Interesting approach…the comment about alcohol stove is right on. We have gone from Optimus 8R to MSR International, to Bleut canister, to SnoPeak Titanium, and now use various alcohol stoves the most. Plus there is a very active community around making your own stoves. Or buy the Trangia brass stove that just won’t break. But alcohol cooking is easy, quiet and kinda slow, qualities we enjoy. Good luck, where are you on executing your plans?

Comment on Fractal Production of Value: Transitioning From Real to Digital Value Structures by Amber Case

Amber Case — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:34:30 +0000

I am under the impression that I will never write anything better than this. A sort of sadness has befallen me. At least my future self can have something to fall back on.

Comment on A turnkey deployment of Ushahidi Swift by Chris Blow

Chris Blow — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:43:24 +0000

borrrrrrrrring!