This is the coolest trailer I’ve ever seen.
I have no idea what this is about, I don’t understand any of it. BUT, if anyone out there wants to translate, I’d love to know.
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Author: griffey
Jason Griffey is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, where he works to identify new areas of the information ecosystem where standards expertise is useful and needed. Prior to joining NISO in 2019, Jason ran his own technology consulting company for libraries, has been both an Affiliate at metaLAB and a Fellow and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and was an academic librarian in roles ranging from reference and instruction to Head of IT at the University of TN at Chattanooga.
Jason has written extensively on technology and libraries, including multiple books and a series of full-periodical issues on technology topics, most recently AI & Machine Learning in Libraries and Library Spaces and Smart Buildings: Technology, Metrics, and Iterative Design from 2018. His newest book, co-authored with Jeffery Pomerantz, will be published by MIT Press in 2024.
He has spoken internationally on topics such as artificial intelligence & machine learning, the future of technology and libraries, decentralization and the Blockchain, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property. A full list of his publications and presentations can be found on his CV.
He is one of eight winners of the Knight Foundation News Challenge for Libraries for the Measure the Future project (http://measurethefuture.net), an open hardware project designed to provide actionable use metrics for library spaces. He is also the creator and director of The LibraryBox Project (http://librarybox.us), an open source portable digital file distribution system.
Jason can be stalked obsessively online, and spends his free time with his daughter Eliza, reading, obsessing over gadgets, and preparing for the inevitable zombie uprising.
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More comedy…
A hilarious look at what happens if you decided to eat a variety of all natural products that’s aren’t, technically, foodstuffs.
I’d give it
+1 Informative
+1 Funny (for all the slashgeeks)
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A loss for digital rights…
In a defeat for Fair Use rights, 321 Studios was issued an injunction from a federal judge instructing them to stop producing or selling their software product DVD X-Copy. The software allows you to backup your DVD’s to recordable DVDs, a right that seems perfectly reasonable (especially given that it IS legal to backup CDs).
Hopefully a higher court will hear this, and come to their senses.
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I have no idea how I missed this…
For those of you I infected with my love of the Counting Crows, here’s a statement, and a song from Adam Duritz, from their performance at the Warfield Theater in San Fransisco, 12/12/03. Crows fans have been waiting a long, long time for this one…
“All right, I have never ever played this song before in concert. I have grave grave misgivings about doing it now. But you people have been bitching about it forever so… It’s entirely possible its not even that good of a song, it does however have a really great title..it sort of goes like this.”
Link to lyrics.
“Mongoose Publishing of Swindon, Wilts., UK (www.mongoosepublishing.com) announced today agreement with the creators of the fondly remembered tabletop roleplaying game Paranoia, to develop and publish a new edition of the game, Paranoia XP. ”
Troubleshooter: PDC!
PDC: Yes, Citizen user?
Troubleshooter: Please add citizen Rachel-R-BLT-2 to my address book.
PDC: Accessing. I’m sorry, citizen user. There is no such citizen.
Troubleshooter: But I left her in cubicle ZXY-12 in BLT sector just ten minutes ago!
PDC: Accessing. Cubicle ZXY-12 is currently undergoing cleaning and renovation by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development and Mind Control prior to new occupancy.
Troubleshooter: But…. Please access cloning records for Rachel-R-BLT.
PDC: Accessing. There is no citizen Rachel-R-BLT. There has never been a citizen Rachel-R-BLT.
Troubleshooter: But…
PDC: You are mistaken.
Troubleshooter: But…
PDC: You seem distraught and possibly delusional, citizen. Please be calm, and remain in the area. Assistance is on the way.
Ah, the memories. Me…My Clone…The Commies…The Computer. Such fun. For those of you not familiar with the game, it was one of the best RPG’s ever. Wacky, crazy, and completely insane, but fun as hell. If anyone is interested, I’ve got the original book, along with Send in the Clones and a handful of supplements. I’d love to run a one-night game of this.
Check the Paranoia Blog.
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Buy Cory’s Stuff
Anyone wanna own some of Cory Doctorow’s stuff? Well, you’re in luck. He’s selling off a ton of things before jetting to the UK. Pickup in San Fran only, though (too bad, really…that’s a nice skull.
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Live Pelt
Oh my. Originally seen on Jason Kottke’s blog. This is both brilliant and disturbing…the artist Kelly Heaton skinned 64 Tickle Me Elmos and made a vibrating fur coat from them.
Even more interesting…she’s a local girl. She has ties to the MIT Media Lab but is the current Artist in Residence in the Computer Science Department at Duke.
Does anyone have any idea if she’s done any local exhibitions? I’d love to see some of her stuff.
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Every time a bell rings…
For those of us who have been caught up in the Joss Whedon universe for the last 6 or 7 years, the last of his surviving shows, Angel, is being cancelled at the end of this season. First Buffy (which admittedly had a pretty great run on TV), Firefly (which got NO LOVE while it was on, but is a great show…the DVD’s are amazing), now Angel. Next season the airwaves will be Jossless for the first time in nearly a decade. Guess the DVD’s will have to keep me company.
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Turtles all the way down…
Someone has now written a plugin for the game The Sims called SliceCity which lets the your Sims play something akin to SimCity.
So you’ve now got real people in the real world, directing simulated people in the simulated world, creating simulated worlds with simulated people.
*boggle*
Sitting in said Best Western in Boone, NC, while Betsy gets ready for dinner. Tonight = dinner with the chair of the Spanish Department. Tomorrow = all day grueling marathon o’ interviews and presentations. While she does that, I’m meeting with different people from the library system.
This whole job search thing is about to cause us both to spontaneously combust. But rest assured, dear readers, that as soon as we have an answer, you’ll hear it here first.