Category Archives: Pre-UrHo

Sometime in January, I saw an excellent episode of PBS’s Nova: Science Now. It had a story about Mirror Neurons (which we use to respond to other people’s facial expressions), a profile of an MIT AI guy who obsessively — … Continue reading →

On today’s Daily Source Code, Adam Curry announced a new venture, Podshow.com that he is undertaking with Ron Bloom to “bring together the elements to create a marketplace” for Podcasting. He listed these: making it easier to find Podcasts through … Continue reading →

In a recent post, I mentioned the popular series of Rate-my-X sites that followed the popularity of Hot-or-Not. A fun new one is Art-or-Not? on which you can grade people’s art on a scale from one to ten and submit … Continue reading →

My house and bandmate has a problem. Oftentimes, when I send him interesting links that happen to have long URLs, for some reason his Hotmail account splits up the link, ending the part it sends to the browser at some … Continue reading →

A couple of posts ago, I mentioned an interesting use of Flickr photosets that I’d seen. Having seen how cool that was, I went over to Flickr to try to set up some photosets of my own, only to discover … Continue reading →

It’s both disturbing and heartening to come across someone who’s independently come up with an idea that you thought was your own. There’s reassurance. You’re not crazy; it’s not just you. But there’s also disappointment. This thing that’d come into … Continue reading →

A World of Invisibilia seems to be an ongoing series of drawings/photos by Greg from The Man Who Fell Asleep, a strange site featuring “animations. pictures. words. sentences. banal observations. clumsy satire. fictional interviews. poetic license.” What he does is … Continue reading →

Most likely, you’ve used Hot-or-Not, the strangely hypnotizing site that lets you rate the attractiveness of strangers and, if you choose, be rated in turn. A couple of years back it spawned a whole universe of copycats from Rate-my-Kitten to … Continue reading →

Thomas Demand is a mid-career German artist who re-creates scenes from real-life and from photographs using cut colored construction paper. MoMA is currently putting on a retrospective of his work (NY Times article). Demand’s work, the above picture of a … Continue reading →

As I promised in a previous post, I’ve been listening to a number of podcasts from the Association of Music Podcasting. AMP is an alliance of various music podcasters who are working together to make a library of “pod safe” … Continue reading →