A scrapbook, mainly photos and videos.I blog at Preoccupations.Tumblr (3.0; @preoccupations)http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/ydegyruR1b0305txNTcA1cz9_500.png"/><br/><br/><a target="_blank" title="Mark Weiser: The Computer for the 21st Century (pdf)" href="http://Ubicomp%20research,%20Palo%20Alto,%201991.">Ubicomp research, Palo Alto, 1991.</a>http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/40938711http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/40938711Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:35:47 +0100<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/ydegyruR1auiw3a9Jfuq0CIt_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>Bruce Sterling: “I wish they’d used a better model of the rotary dial — the kind with big lettering [above], or the aiming-dots. A lot of design effort went into rotary dials.” — <a href="http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2008/06/dead-media-be-8.html" target="_blank">Dead Media Beat: Rotary-dial skin for an iPhone | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com</a>http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/40401743http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/40401743Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:14:03 +0100<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/ydegyruR1asf7c8bRIMGwKX1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><a href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_intro#" target="_blank">The Petabyte Age: Because More Isn’t Just More — More Is Different</a>http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/40229798http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/40229798Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:55:17 +0100<object width="400" height="314"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="movie" value="http://video.pitchfork.tv/mediaplayer.swf" /><param name="flashvars" value="file=http://pitchfork.tv/node/1141/embed.xml" /><embed src="http://video.pitchfork.tv/mediaplayer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="file=http://pitchfork.tv/node/1141/embed.xml" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="314"></embed></object><br/><br/>David Byrne gives Pitchfork.tv an exclusive walkthrough of the NYC art installation he’s spent two years creating: turning an abandoned ferry terminal into a giant musical instrument whose creaking pipes and beams are played with an archaic pump organ.<br/>The installation is open through August 10. — <a target="_blank" href="http://pitchfork.tv/special-presentation/david-byrne-playing-the-building/playing-the-building">Pitchfork</a>http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/39937174http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/39937174Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:51:43 +0100<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to99C-0cLGE"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/to99C-0cLGE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>via <a target="_blank" title="russell davies" href="http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2008/06/jim-on-youtube.html">Russell</a>. As seen at <a target="_blank" href="http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2008/06/interesting-run.html">Interesting08</a>. Jim Le Fevre’s Phonographantasmascope — very wonderful.http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/39415524http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/39415524Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:26:27 +0100<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/ydegyruR1agpxznyHcNr1Epf_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>via <a href="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/06/20/scicomp117_big.jpg" target="_blank">blog.wired.com</a>. See, <a target="_blank" title="Daily Telegraph" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/06/17/scicomp117.xml">Photo of great grandfather of modern computers found</a>.http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/39196009http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/39196009Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:23:04 +0100<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/ydegyruR1ag29h4zvQwQQErG_500.png"/><br/><br/><a target="_blank" title="on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix/statuses/839088619">Mars Phoenix</a>. See <a title="NASA: Phoenix Mars Mission" href="http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/06_19_pr.php" target="_blank">Bright Chunks At Phoenix Lander’s Mars Site Must Have Been Ice</a> (19 June).http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/39130208http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/39130208Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:19:00 +0100<embed flashvars="videoId=174083" src="http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/video_player/view/default/swf.jhtml" quality="high" bgcolor="#cccccc" width="332" height="316" name="comedy_central_player" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="external" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed><br/><br/>Jonathan Zittrain, brilliant on The Colbert Reporthttp://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/38922826http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/38922826Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:43:00 +0100<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/ydegyruR1a85ae2fixScDHg5_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>via <a target="_blank" title="Memex 1.1: National identity and the European project" href="http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2008/06/14/5219">John Naughton</a>, who comments,<br/>“This chart (which appears in today’s <i>Irish Times</i>) is … based on the Eurobarometer survey conducted in the Spring of 2007. … Ireland is nearly at the extreme left of the chart. Only the UK has a stronger sense of non-European identity. The founding countries of the EU are all clustered on the extreme right.”http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/38419583http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/38419583Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:22:00 +0100<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/ydegyruR1a7p29o7MhtI3Mwz_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><a target="_blank" title="I'm with the Stupid network" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmarks/2577536706/">Photo by Kevin Marks</a> (Flickr), who comments:<br/>“David Isenberg described The Stupid Network over ten years ago. You may have noticed that he was right and it won.”http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/38381771http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/38381771Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:48:42 +0100<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/ydegyruR1a7h7mx7CRyyx5kr_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>Kevin Kelly’s library — <a href="http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/002879.php" target="_blank">Cool Tool: Books That Changed My Life</a>http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/38364735http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/38364735Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:08:44 +0100<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/ydegyruR1a6ba65ftjsD7oOQ_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>reblogged from <a href="http://blog.longnow.org/2008/06/13/earth-as-seen-from-mars/" target="_blank">The Long Now Blog » Earth, as seen from Mars</a>, which comments,<br/>“New images from the Mars HiRISE orbital camera. Yup that’s us, earth, and our little moon too …”http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/38262048http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/38262048Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:35:00 +0100<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/ydegyruR1a3msh5lHUdGj5f6_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><a href="http://ajaxwidgets.com/Blogs/thomas/the_entire_web_is__best_viewed.bb" target="_blank">[The entire web is] Best viewed with [anything but any] Internet Explorer based browser</a>http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/38015732http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/38015732Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:34:07 +0100<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/ydegyruR19yw4l0cDWOxoX3s_500.png"/><br/><br/>— <a target="_blank" title="here's to the future" href="http://www.fugue.com/pics/goodnews.html">Ted Lemon</a>http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/37589230http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/37589230Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:56:47 +0100<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/ydegyruR19wf781910YIFvcr_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><a href="http://www.ballardian.com/empire-of-the-sun-first-draft" target="_blank">Ballardian: the World of J.G. Ballard » Empire of the Sun: First Draft</a>http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/37402322http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/37402322Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:27:13 +0100<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1109226&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1109226&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1109226&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><br/><br/><a target="_blank" title='Radiohead held an online contest to remix "Nude" from their album …' href="http://www.vimeo.com/1109226?pg=embed&sec=1109226">Big Ideas (Don’t get any)</a>http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/37386068http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/37386068Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:19:46 +0100<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/ydegyruR19vb5p1v5KpStvcZ_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>via <a target="_blank" title="The Mother of All Demos" href="http://tinselman.typepad.com/tinselman/2008/06/the-mother-of-a.html">Tinselman</a>http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/37311577http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/37311577Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:46:34 +0100<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/ydegyruR19tzihtlDPF1fI06_500.png"/><br/><br/>via <a href="http://www.newseum.org/media/dfp/jpg4/lg/IL_CT.jpg" target="_blank">newseum.org</a>, via <a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/06/04/newYorkIsHillaryCountry.html" target="_blank">Dave Winer</a>http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/37193843http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/37193843Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:32:00 +0100<object width="400" height="289"><param value="flvPath=http://www.edutopia.org/media/ken_robinson/ken_robinson.flv&pPath=http://www.edutopia.org/media/ken_robinson/ken_robinson.jpg" name="FlashVars" /><param value="best" name="quality" /><param value="false" name="play" /><param value="http://www.edutopia.org/media/videofalse.swf" name="movie" /><embed id="video" width="400" height="289" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.edutopia.org/media/videofalse.swf" play="false" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" name="video" quality="best" flashvars="flvPath=http://www.edutopia.org/media/ken_robinson/ken_robinson.flv&pPath=http://www.edutopia.org/media/ken_robinson/ken_robinson.jpg"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Creatively Speaking: Sir Ken Robinson on the Power of the Imaginative Mind (from <a href="http://www.edutopia.org/sir-ken-robinson-creativity-video" target="_blank">Edutopia</a>)</p><p>Sir Ken Robinson’s remarks were recorded on April 10, 2008, at the <a href="http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=15300" target="_blank">Apple Education Leadership Summit</a>, a gathering in San Francisco of more than one hundred school superintendents from around the world. Robinson is the author of <a href="http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1841121258.html" target="_blank"><i>Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative</i></a>. — via Tony Hirst (<a href="http://del.icio.us/psychemedia" target="_blank">del.icio.us</a>)</p>http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/36804856http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/36804856Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:57:02 +0100<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/ydegyruR19nrgdl7y1jpHIDv_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The ad is equipped with a camera that gathers details on passers-by.  (Hiroko Masuike for <i>The New York Times</i>) </p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/31/business/media/31billboard.html?ex=1369972800&en=3426ddfada55ea69&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink" target="blank"><i>NYT</i>: Billboards That Look Back</a></p>http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/36679887http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/36679887Sat, 31 May 2008 14:00:46 +0100