November 2008
3 posts
k-Means and Voronoi Tesselation: Built with... →
October 2008
12 posts
Man-Of-War Description
Man-of-War
A web space for exploring enacting labor relations in a realtime gaming environment.
Man-of-War will use PHP and a 2-d Ruby XML-RPC system to allow self-identified laborers and consumers to interact in role-playing scenarios while also potentially paying one another.
Here we see the game from the perspective of the consumer, who can hire peasants and ask them to perform tasks. Any...
WatchAnalog handwritten phone system - prototype for Jess’ project
Utopia or Oblivion (1969) -- Buckminster Fuller
“blue-sky of the inventor’s intellect” … “took only five men to invent these world-transforming developments” p3
“These students have no political motives. They have no formal organization…”
the atom bomb is their birthmark
holocaust reading - one modernity or struggle over the definition of modernity? Single path of science or...
September 2008
3 posts
Wired 14.06: The Rise of Crowdsourcing →
Commercial Crowdsourcing and Anonymized, Monetized...
Amazon Mechanical Turk, launched in November 2005, is part of Amazon’s web services package, (aws.amazon.com), and is essentially a virtualized system of labor distribution — a kind of API for human labor. “Human Intelligence Tasks” - HITs are the unit of exchange, and web application developers can actually connect to Amazon’s HIT brokerage in code, effectively...
