Paul Mison’s random stuff that doesn’t go elsewhere. Is it microblogging, or microactivity? (Previously known as ‘tumblr is my sock drawer’, for reasons that are somewhat unclear.)Tumblr (3.0; @blech)http://notes.husk.org/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6d2c95e1178f9a7147ca4c1c8264ac48/tumblr_meu5j2V0gn1qz4vjro1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>An image of Asteroids, showing the normally invisible vector lines that join lettering and the centres of the asteroids and spaceships themselves, taken from a 2008 <a href="http://www.heise.de/ct/">c’t magazine</a> <a href="http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/creativ-08-291532.html">programming contest</a> to program a player for the game.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/37663261996http://notes.husk.org/post/37663261996Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:09:02 +0000imageasteroidsvectordisplayprogramming<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3647oPH591qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span><a href="http://www.vaxman.de/about_me/about.html">Bernd Ulmann</a>, </span><a href="http://www.vaxman.de/news.html">vaxman.de news</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span>I found a wonderful picture from 1965 showing a TELEFUNKEN </span><a href="http://www.vaxman.de/my_machines/telefunken/rat700/rat700.html">RAT700</a> <span>analog computer simulating the suspension system of a car.</span></p> </blockquote>http://notes.husk.org/post/21952290606http://notes.husk.org/post/21952290606Sat, 28 Apr 2012 03:28:51 +0100imagetelefunken1965advertanalog computercomputerdisplay“At the risk of seeming difficult, he wanted the video to be shown exactly as he’d planned it, down to the IKEA couches. “The Clock” was a twenty-four-hour video with a twenty-four-page instruction manual.”<br/><br/> - <em><p><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/daniel_zalewski/search?contributorName=daniel%20zalewski" rel="author">Daniel Zalewski</a>: <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/12/120312fa_fact_zalewski?currentPage=all">How Christian Marclay created “The Clock”</a> in <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/">The New Yorker</a>.</p> <p>The person who is happy to <a href="http://notes.husk.org/post/20120095152/the-clock-copyright">appropriate the work of other artists</a> himself demands control over how his piece is shown. Hmm.</p></em>http://notes.husk.org/post/20120506812http://notes.husk.org/post/20120506812Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:45:00 +0100quotechristian marclaythe clockartcopyrightdisplaycontrol<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpem6i5jlx1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A map f the world at AT&T’s network center, from the NY Times: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/09/03/technology/20090903-ATT_9.html">AT&T Races to Expand the Network</a>. Photo: Michael Appleton.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/178883370http://notes.husk.org/post/178883370Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:37:30 +0100imagemapwargamescontrol centerdisplayny times