Category Archives: Ideas

HousingMaps save location

I’m looking for an apartment again, which means that I am spending a lot of time on housingmaps.com. It’s a great site. Much easier then my Earthify. The one problem is that it doesn’t remember the location and zoom level of the Google Map when you bookmark a search. This is annoying because part [...]
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SXSW Panels

Voting just opened for 2 panels that I submitted for this years South by Southwest – one in the Film category and one in the Interactive category.  If you have a minute, pretty please create an account (it takes 1 minute) on the PanelPicker site, and then give my submissions the thumbs up.  They will [...]
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Church Music

For Praying@Home, we needed some ambience in the prayer booth, so I grabbed a bunch of MIDI organ music, imported it into GarageBand, and brought that clunky old music into the FUTURE AGE.  Now you can have the album, SWITCHED ON JESUS, by the Institute for Faith-Based Technology, for your own prayer-time listening. All Hail Jesus’ [...]
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Crowded Rhizome Proposal

Project Description Crowded is an montage audio program similar to radio shows like This American Life, The Moth, or the productions of Joe Frank.  What makes it unique is that all of the material is is made up of segments of audio requested from and submitted by workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk site in return for [...]
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This Crowdsourced Life

This Crowdsourced Life is a radio program made entirely by Mechanical Turk workers.  Go to the HIT page to find out more.
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low-res jeff

For Halloween this year, I was in a pinch.  I was going to the Apes & Androids concert (which was amazing), and costumes were required.  So the night before Halloween, I decided that I was going to use the large-format printer that we have at Eyebeam from Invisible Threads to make a “low-res me” costume.  [...]
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inbox victory

Commencement Speaking Invite, Fanmail, Honorary Degrees, and TV award nominations VICTORY!!!
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Hacking the Art World

This is a talk that Dave and I wanted to give at Defcon this past year.  It was rejected, but I’d still like to do it some time. Link to full proposal
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MMORSR – Massively Multiplayer Online Roller Skating Rink

Someone should make one.
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P3tz0rZ

Recently, I found out that Google has discontinued their support for their SOAP API in favor of an AJAX interface. In non-Acronymian, this means that the Google Search API is now useless for anything except very boring, browser-based, Google-branded web search applications. This is grave news, my friends. With the SOAP API, [...]
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