We Can Explore an Endlessly Generated World Freely

John Crowley: “To live at once in a time recoverable by a particular sacred calendar and also by a time without qualities, counted as it passes, involves a sort of mental doubling that is perhaps comparable, in the richness it grants to thought and feeling, to growing up bilingual: two systems, each complete, funny when they collide, each supplying something the other lacks, bearing no command to choose between them.

How Peter Rukavina disputed a car rental charge with his geolocation archive
None of this would likely hold up in a law court, but it was enough for me to be able to report to AVIS with confidence that the charge was spurious.

Vancouver Design Week Bike Tour

As part of Vancouver Design Week 2014, a senior urban designer from the City of Vancouver took us on a 3 hour bike tour of Vancouver's architecture. We started in Olympic Village, made our way north on the seawall to Chinatown, then rode through Gastown to the convention centre, after which we biked to Stanley Park and then to Third Beach, ending at Mole Hill.

A counterpoint to the anti-stuff crowd
The computer lords want to control everything, and central to controlling all things is controlling perception. Perception of the way things are, the way things work, and what’s happened in history so that they can frame their version of events and control the narrative; mind-controlling the masses to make them into better, more compliant consumers.
Mauricio Giraldo Arteaga on how he generates book covers for NYPL ebooks based on the titles
Images from Project Gutenberg are used if available, otherwise an algorithm makes up a cover using symbols.
David G. Temple muses about what wearable computing could have in store for sports fans
He likes his Pebble Smart Watch and wonders what an Apple wearable might enable.

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