November 30, 2006
Retired
sLop (the blog you are reading) is retiring..
The archives should stay up indefinitely though so feel free to continue linking in if you like..
In the coming weeks, I should have something new up. Please stay tuned.
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September 17, 2005
Buckminster Fuller Institute - in Brooklyn
The Buckminster Fuller Institute
I have to check this place out..
Thanks Dad..
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April 08, 2004
Bruce Sterling gives us a bit of doom and gloom on the future of the Earth
Wired 12.04: VIEW
We need to wake up..
He concludes with:
In a brief 50 years, Mother Earth will be disrupting human enterprises faster than we can rebuild them. Earth will be bankrupt and no longer a viable commercial concern. What will life be like then? Well, nobody knows.
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Not just any old eyeball anymore
MSNBC - Eyeball jewelry a new Dutch fashion trend
From the article:
Body piercing and tattoos make way. The latest fashion trend to hit the Netherlands is eyeball jewelry.
Dutch eye surgeons have implanted tiny pieces of jewelry called "JewelEye" in the mucous membrane of the eyes of six women and one man in cosmetic surgery pioneered by an ophthalmic surgery research and development institute in Rotterdam.
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March 20, 2004
Power Pilgrims - Strange tech/performance art..?
Power Pilgrims
From the site:
The Amber Order is a cult that pays reverence to, and expresses their trust in, the Great Technological Systems through sartorial submission and silent praise. Four Amber brothers made their first pilgrimage to Den Gr Hal for the 1/2 machine event in August 2003.
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March 11, 2004
Art and Science, go together like a horse and carriage..
Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) - Art, Science & Technology - mission
From the site:
Founded in 1988, Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) is one of the few art & technology *members* organizations in the USA. Established primarily as a network for artists who either use or are inspired by science and technology, ASCI has become a magnet for some of the best examples of this type of contemporary art and for technologists wishing to collaborate. ASCI programs and services provide members with opportunities for proffessional growth, increased public visibility, and a supportive community. Since 1998, with its first ArtSci international symposium, ASCI has reached-out to the broad scientific community (from astro-physics to bio-chemistry) to involve its members in this and other ASCI events and programs.
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March 10, 2004
Dream a little dream
Dream Workshop by Takara
From the site:
Takara Co., Ltd (President and CEO, Keita Satoh) is pleased to announce the current development of a device which helps users to attain the dreams of, well, their dreams. Called Yumemi Koubou (Japanese for "Dream Viewing Workshop" ), this product is designed to help people shape their dreams in sleep, combining multi-sensory stimulus and sophisticated sleep-dream research to create an environment conducive to having a specific dream desired by the user.
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NASA's site for all things Hubble
HubbleSite
The space telescope has made a come back in recent years and this site has it all, from computer wallpaper to hard science.
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March 06, 2004
Glowing bunnies and other craziness
KAC WEB
The website of Eduardo Kac, the artist who brought us Alba, the GFP Bunny. Alba was injected with a genetically modified protein from a jellyfish while still developing.
Here is text from the website:
GFP Bunny -- With GFP Bunny Kac welcomes Alba, the green fluorescent rabbit, and explains that transgenic art must be created "with great care, with acknowledgment of the complex issues at the core of the work and, above all, with a commitment to respect, nurture, and love the life thus created." The first phase of the GFP Bunny project was completed in February 2000 with the birth of "Alba" in Jouy-en-Josas, France. The second phase is the ongoing debate, which started with the first public announcement of Alba's birth, made by Kac in the context of the Planet Work conference, in San Francisco, on May 14, 2000. The third phase will take place when the bunny comes home to Chicago, becoming part of Kac's family and living with him from that point on.
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March 04, 2004
Sony's interaction research lab
Interaction Lab
From the site:
The Interaction Laboratory was established in 1999 to investigate the future of human computer interactions and digital lifestyles. Expanding the previous real-world user interface research within the Sony Computer Science Laboratories, we are currently working on fundamental technologies, including software architectures, hardware architectures, and sensor architectures, that will be needed to realize natural and intuitive interactions between the human, as a physical entity, and the information environment, as a digital entity. In addition to technology-oriented activities, we are also seeking a deeper understanding of human life itself, through cognitive research, and design and lifestyle studies. The Interaction Laboratorys fundamental goal is to establish symbiotic relationships between humans and technology.
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February 25, 2004
Materials materials materials
Material ConneXionÆ. Where
professionalsóarchitects, engineers, industrial and interior designers, manufacturersóaccess specifications
and manufacturersí contacts for the latest, most innovative materials and processes from around the world. How? Through our on-line database or physical library.
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February 12, 2004
Make those walls transparent at the flip of a switch or programming matter
Programmable Matter FAQ
From the FAQ
Programmable matter is any bulk substance whose physical properties can be adjusted in real time through the application of light, voltage, electric or magnetic fields, etc.  Primitive forms may allow only limited adjustment of one or two traits (e.g., the "photodarkening" or "photochromic" materials found in light-sensitive sunglasses), but there are theoretical forms which, using known principles of electronics, should be capable of emulating a broad range of naturally occurring materials, or of exhibiting unnatural properties which cannot be produced by other means.
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February 11, 2004
About Jaron's concept of phenotropics
4. In Praise of Diversity - Ideas 2003: Jaron Lanier On Software Design - CIO Magazine Jan 1,2003
"The thing I'm interested in now is a high-risk, speculative, fundamental new approach to computer science. I call it phenotropics," says the 42-year-old Lanier. By pheno, he means the physical appearance of something, and by tropics, he means interaction. Lanier's idea is to create a new way to tie two pieces of software together. He theorizes that two software objects should contact each other "like two objects in nature," instead of through specific modules or predetermined points of contact. With this type of protocol, there would be no previous agreement or expectation regarding the character of the exchange. Each software object would be responsible for "learning" how to interact with the other.
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See the citations
CiteSeer: The NEC Research Institute Scientific Literature Digital Library
From the site:
CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness.
Rather than creating just another digital library, CiteSeer provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. CiteSeer indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web, and provides the following features.
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February 04, 2004
Tickleing nueral networks
STLtoday - News - Science & Medicine
Thaler, the president and chief executive of Imagination Engines Inc. in Maryland Heights, gets credit for all those things, but he's really just "the man behind the curtain," he says. The real inventor is a computer program called a Creativity Machine.
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January 24, 2004
Rover videos...
Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Multimedia
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January 21, 2004
Light, light, light
SPIE is a not-for-profit society that has become the largest international force for the exchange, collection and dissemination of knowledge in optics, photonics and imaging. Founded in 1955, SPIE is the growing legacy of those who seek to learn, discover and innovate by building a better world with light.
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January 13, 2004
Strange Science News
atomcc science nature technology genetics weird news
SCIENCE NEWS NOT FIT TO PRINT BUT WORTH THE READ
Conspiracies, Cool Science, Mad Science, Biotechnology, Military and Nuclear News, Our Environment, and a little Pseudoscience
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January 11, 2004
NPR's Science Friday from Talk of the Nation
Science Friday: Making Science Radioactive
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January 07, 2004
Dangerous Experiments
Welcome to Dangerous Laboratories!
Not sure where to categorize this.. These guys go a bit far with some of these things (particularly the lazers and jet powered bicycles) but it sounds like fun....
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December 18, 2003
I might have to get cable for this..
CSN: Cable Science Network
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October 15, 2003
Wired News
News and articles concerning just about everything I care about.. Hard to imagine the world without Wired.
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October 10, 2003
The wonders of induction
Wired News: AAA Battery Gets a Mini-Me
"A new battery -- lauded as the smallest implantable battery in the world -- may soon be powering tiny bionic neurons, devices that emit electrical micropulses to stimulate damaged nerves and muscles."
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October 04, 2003
Home of the Ig Noble's
HotAIR - Rare and well-done tidbits from the Annals of Improbable Research
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October 03, 2003
Not sure about this..
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Vegetable Oil and BioDiesel
Grassroots Biodiesel and Vegetable Oil Fuel Homepage
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September 14, 2003
Learn about Electricity and Magnetism
Molecular Expressions: Electricity and Magnetism
Nice presentation of capacitance, inductance, resistance, batteries, generators and other such things. The interactive java tutorials are especially nice.
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