It was easy to spot the most popular kid at last week’s “Open Source Meets Business” conference in Nuremberg. Between presentations, in the halls, even at the lavish evening banquets, there he’d be, flitting around in a cherry fedora, showing off the coolest toy in town, if not the world. Jan Wildeboer is a Solution […]
LULU
lu lu movie script Characters (to be played by one person, preferably female) Victor1 (writer, 34 years old, depressed and isolated as he can not write something valuable) Victor2 (writer, 34 years old, happy and socially integrated) Victor3 (17 years old, hippie teenager, poet wannabe) […]
ART OPENINGS: Nancy Staub Laughlin & Udomsak Krisanamis
NANCY STAUB LAUGHLIN @ NOHO GALLERY January 9-February 17, 2007 Nancy Staub’s work is technically impressive and uses a unique process for layering imagery. I found her process to be more interesting than the work itself because I had a difficult time relating to her subject matter and color palette. While I am generally fascinated […]
New Blackberry Pearl
Did you know that there’s a new Blackberry Pearl out? It’s sort of like the older version, except that its in white – the color of course. Since only 10 percent of cell phone users in the U.S. use the smart phone, it makes sense to appeal to the ordinary mobile user. That’s why Blackberry […]
Daylife is Epic: An Interview with Jeff Jarvis
The launch of news site Daylife almost two weeks ago was met by a flurry of feedback from thoughtful types across the web. So what happened? Bloggers alternately fawned over Daylife’s “engagingly pretty” interface and decried its lack of interactivity. TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, a Daylife investor, was disappointed at the absence of commenting and RSS […]
Networked Nature at Foxy Production
At a bit before seven this evening I found myself standing beneath the pulsating lights and gently inflating and deflating tentacles of a mechanical septopod, while watching slime mold – in extravagant magentas and greens – creep across a television screen. A woman leisurely wandered past the mold toward the hydroponics to my left, and […]