Interrelativity: musings about interrelatedness
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Streetside Words, Wit, Wisdom and Song
DeBraer is a man who makes his home under an overhang of the building formerly occupied by City Greens at the corner of NE 45th Street and 12th Ave NE. One time a month or so ago, he asked if I could help him with lunch as I walked by; I offered to pick up…
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Clonepointer: Finding (or Avoiding) Proximal Kindred Spirits
Catching up on Anne Galloway’s wonderful blog, I discovered Fusedspace, an international open competition that invites participants who are exploring the nature of the relationship between new technologies and public space, particularly “groundbreaking interventions in the public domain.” A quick perusal reveals many interesting entries in this contest; for now, I’ll focus on one: Clonepointer:…
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Trevor Grooving on Stereolab at Ethereal
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Back Cover at the Blue Onion Bistro
I didn’t really look … I only took a photo. Hmmm, I captured & posted that photo earlier (at lunchtime) from my cameraphone. It looks a bit blurry, so here’s a translation: “People Who Look At The Back Of Menus Should Refrain From Drinking Or Operating Heavy Farm equipment. Thank You. Blue Onion Management.” The…
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Ethereal Cafe
This morning, I was on my way to Lighthouse Roasters in Fremont, when I passed Ethereal Cafe & CDs (note: web site is "under construction" but it can be found in the physical world at 254 NE 45th St, Seattle), which had a banner advertising fair trade Kenyan coffee, organic teas and vegetarian & vegan…
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Fremont Coffee
I’m resuming my practice of blogging in place — visiting [third] places and blogging about them while there. I’d actually taken some notes at some earlier places, following my initial foray to Cafe Solstice way back in February, and may post those retroactively (retrospectively?). Today, I’m sitting on the porch at Fremont Cafe (in the…
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Bowling for Columbine: Fear & Loathing in America
While many people went to see Fahrenheit 9/11 this weekend, I finally got around to seeing Bowling for Columbine, the previous, Oscar-winning, documentary produced by Michael Moore. In the movie, Moore explores a number of possible explanations as to why there is so much more gun violence in the USA than in other countries, including…
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Bill Gates: New Kid on the Blog?
The Seattle Times reports that Bill Gates may soon start walking his talk and start blogging, following his promotion of the use of blogging and RSS for business during his keynote at the annual Microsoft CEO Summit last month. If he starts his own blog, he would be joining the ranks of [at least] hundreds…
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Surfing the Net … from a Surfboard
BBC News reports on an Intel innovation: a tablet PC, augmented with solar panels and a video camera, embedded in a surfboard. The surfboard was to be showcased by professional surfer Duncan Scott at the Intel Goldcoast Oceanfest in North Devon, UK, last weekend. Some people bring their laptops to the beach, and there are…
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BEDD: Multidimensional Social Software for Bluetooth Phones
John Sherry sent me a Yahoo News article about BEDD, a Bluetooth mobile phone application launched recently in Singapore that allows users to discover things about and interact with the other BEDD-enabled phone users in their immediate vicinity. The application brings together a number of proximity-based features that have been explored in separate applications (e.g.,…