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Interesting thread on Strangely repellant attractors: ...Perhaps it's got something to do with how the corporate genome neatly puts creative energy in one unemployed basket here, and machine-tooled groupthink in another, salaried, basket over there, ensuring that companies never encounter the imagination needed to discover that they have no imagination.
Meanwhile MathSoft conducted a survey to discover that, Ability to invent inspires engineers.
The Neuroscience Art Gallery featuring Art by Psychotics one of which is the Cats Painted in the Progression of Psychosis of a Schizophrenic Artist . [gmtplus9]
I've started a new weblog category for chronicling my wine making efforts: Winemaking
(also on right nav bar under projects)
This is kind of cool, The Alphabet Synthesis Machine. I haven't yet figured out how to get my newly created font into OS X yet, but then again I wouldn't be able to read it either. Relax and contemplate the beauty of your quadratic Bezier outlines.
The glyphs themselves are the virtual trajectories of synthetic hand movements, produced by a 3-dimensional physics simulation of a hand-pen-paper system. This model incorporates such forces as the response of hand muscles to neural firing rates; the inertia and intrisic viscosity of the arm; gravity; and the friction of the stylus against the virtual writing surface.
"As the digital revolution enters a new phase, one based on diminished expectations and dwindling corporate investment, grass-roots intermediaries may have a moment to redefine the public perception of new media and to expand their influence."
Honda's Asimo robot rang the NYSE bell yesterday; the first non-human to do so. Pretty strange. I can't imagine it "wanted" to ring the bell. Now if it walked out on it's own, rang the bell, then leaned over the mic and yelled "Honda Rocks!" that would have been something.
Not to slight the Asimo, if you haven't seen a video of it walking you're missing some cool stuff.