WTF is on first?

Aaron Straup Cope
March 10, 2007

A Cornell box with nothing inside

History and geography are what's being thrown away. ... What is geography to Harmony or Pony or Davidson, who speak to people all over the planet every day all at once on their computer nets and modems? Or what is history to Mei-Lin or Gaia, who receive seventy-five channels on their families' dish-TV systems? . . . my friends are better prepared mentally for the future that is actually going to arrive.

Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet (1992)

Who cares where the nearest Starbucks is?

Units of Ambiance

[G]oing on 50 years now we've had the art weenies trying to make a better world by doing performance art in the subway and the urban planners trying to make a better world by herding people in to housing projects and painting the bricks pink.

Me

Ambient Intimacy

Short-term : Cry

ALL UR EXPERIENZ R BELONGS 2 UZ!!!!

Medium-term : *nix will rule mobile

  • OLPC

  • OS X

  • Maemo

  • OpenMoko

  • Symbia... whatever

[this is good]

Inter Process Scribble-ability

Medium-term : Learn Python

  1. void public class Not(void Java java)
  2. GIS
  3. DBUS
  4. HTTP

We are all watching each other.

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	00:13:70:6c:27:ce;00:16:db:da:0e:ca
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	00:13:70:6a:f7:b2;00:16:db:da:0e:ca
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	00:13:70:6c:27:ce
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	00:13:70:6c:27:ce;00:13:70:6d:24:55;00:07:e0:07:9a:a7; \
	00:16:20:84:17:5b

and so on...

Long-term : Learn JavaScript (Again)

To verify and demonstrate our concepts we developed a Phonebook mash-up application for S60 devices: The research prototype provides the following functionality: Access to the native S60 Contacts database, integration with Yahoo! People Search, and with Google Maps.

Mobile phonebook mashup application developed using Web technologies, Nokia Research Center

Long-term : Learn JavaScript (Now)

I created a basic web-based example using the canvas element, and then attempted to ship a simple Cocoa app that wrapped the same WebKit+canvas code. ... This wasn't exactly a revolutionary application, but what was interesting was that all of the diagramming features were implemented using JavaScript, canvas and contentEditable.

Todd Ditchendorf

DIY

dive! dive! dive!