One of director Federico Fellini‘s great works is 8 1/2
Recursive structure
Accountability and Design
I’m not sure Helen Nissenbaum will appreciate this, but in considering her chapter, “Accountability in a Computerized Society”—in Human Values and the Design of Computer Technology, edited by Batya Friedman—I connected her work with malaria. Of course, it takes a bit to explain.
Time to Aggregate
Lost in graduate studies and my hard drive crash was a project to identify local bloggers and to create a site to bubble the recent content up to the surface. Now that I’ve cleared another hurdle in time-resource allocation, I’m ready to get this aggregation project rolling. The catalyst this time is a post in Slugged indicating the H-T added BlogSchmog to it’s blogroll.
Web trends for 2007
Trends 2007 (PDF), a report forecasting the web trends for the coming year, published by the Creative Group. The information was developed by David-Michel Davies, executive director of The Webby Awards and the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, a 550-member organization founded in 1998 to help drive the creative, technical, and professional progress [...]
Mardis Gras Fun
My cousin, Hannah, is in the North Jazz Band. The director of said band is responsible for the care and nurturing of my piccolo from high school. I’ve been working on an appropriate thank-you and have so far not summoned the right words. While you wait for that, here is information about an upcoming concert [...]
Fuzzy Determinism
Back in my days as a physicist, the world in which I lived was firmly deterministic. I believed that, if I knew enough about the mathematical formulas and the precise measurements of the world, the future could be controlled. Perhaps not the entire future, but I could manage the immediate future, as it pertains to [...]
The Roots of Complexity
In his 1972 article for Science, Phillip Anderson makes the claim that while all scientific disciplines are reductionist — meaning, they seek to understand a system by breaking it up into smaller parts — they are not constructivist because the symmetry of one stable state is not always applicable to a higher state. The lessons [...]