Computer Currents : Profiling Worse Than Subliminal
"While online profiling is in its infancy, it could become far more insidious than subliminal advertising - a practice that was never really proven to work, [Jason] Catlett said. "If advertisers took a graphic of your newly born daughter and started using it to sell you baby clothes," that would be far worse than inserting hidden ad messages between movie frames, Catlett contended."
Zai, etoy agent
"We have a lot of sites of people who are totally pissed off about this. They are about to start electronic riots. They are thinking about starting illegal actions. We are not really happy about it, but what can we do? Now a lot of people turn into terrorists if this goes on. They don't see any chance of our getting our rights. That's when riots start, when people feel powerless and nobody listens to arguments, only money matters."
Kenneth Tibbetts : Writing Friendly Code
"Call it my Millennium Resolution, I'm gonna quit writing crappy code. I don't like writing it, I don't like seeing it on the Web, and most of all I don't like going back and tinkering, endlessly, with code that was too darn specific to start with." Truer last words were never spoken more famously.
NY Times : Shaping Cities: Pixels to Bricks
"Architects typically get fired in the middle of projects," said Joel Orr, an urban simulation consultant, "usually because the owner and architect think they have a shared assumption about how something will look, which is not true." Virtual tools, he added, "permit a far greater opening of communication channels between humans than has ever before been possible."
3D modelling is still the thing that gets me the most excited about the intersection between what we commonly think of as technology and the fine arts. My biggest problem is that I have this ridiculous need to model *every* nook and cranny rather than settling for texture/bump maps.
Tod Maffin : 15 megabytes of fame
Every six months or so, the Internet bestows fame with the spontaneous randomness of a tornado. It's as if a secretive awards ceremony is held underground somewhere –Moose Jaw, I figure– and word is sent throughout the land: '[bleep] is The Chosen One. Tell all.' "
Speaking of 3D modelling
some lucky soul gets to make
fish with monster-sized eyeballs. see also :
Introduction to the Ichthyosauria