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Már ÖrlygssonIs Client Server Dead?
Client server [principle] is dead! So says Oracle's Larry Ellison. It's a nifty piece of article and may very well be all too true...
Programming Code is Speech
The idea of programming code being speech, and thus subject to laws protecting free speech, is quite facinating. The Accurate Language to Inaccurate Language (and Back) Translator (c2txt2c) translates C code into English (or any human language) and back. This is definately one way to make a point...
Funny Random Text Generators
Dilbert Zone's Mission Statement Generator is hilarious+! Spooky also. Funny how the people who write these sort of sentences usually get much higher pay than I do... ...maybe I should print out few of these for my boss and then demand a raise.
The Postmodernism Generator is just that. It is so funny it hurts. The profound wisdom is generated by a program called The Dada Engine
Random-Art on the Web
Jamie Zawinski's Web Collage is pretty cool. It assembles a big (800x600) clickable imagemap out of a jumble of pictures taken from all over on the web. Clicking a picture leads you to the page where it was taken from. - Interesting.
This Jamie guy also made DadaDodo (Subtitled: Exterminate All Rational Thought). "DadaDodo is a program that analyses texts for word probabilities, and then generates random sentences based on that. Sometimes these sentences are nonsense; but sometimes they cut right through to the heart of the matter, and reveal hidden meanings"
. The page has some interesting links also.
Links: Internet Art
New York Times has a seemingly pretty interesting weekly column called art@large (username = password = cypherpunk) which focuses mostly on internet art and how artists experiment with using (information) technology to make new kind of art.
It has a page with recommended external-links to art-sites.
What pointed me to this column was a link to an article there called No Clicking Allowed in Artists Browser. This is about an artist who's made an alternative type of web content browser which does not abide by the same rules as other browsers, intended to give users a more fluid and less conciously controlled experience of the web.
The article points out how many of today's artists are starting to focus more and more on the underlying technology of the Net rather than on content and pictures. This is somewhat similar to what I have been doing myself. Less and less of my ideas and thoughts revolve around making content. Cool ideas like Crit, however, are something that always make my brain tick faster.
Stína 21 árs!
Stína varđ 21 árs í dag. Ég var upptekinn viđ ađ hanna plakat fyrir ljósmyndasýningu mestallan daginn. Hún bakađi af mikilli list nokkrar afmćliskökur og bauđ međ örstuttum fyrirvara nokkrum vinum okkar ađ droppa inn í kaffi ţegar ţeim hentađi. Afmćliđ var einfalt og ljúft. Í kvöld mistókst okkur svo ađ sjá the Matrix, en viđ fórum í stađinn í ferlega ljúfan göngutúr í góđa veđrinu, og lögđumst og knúsuđumst smá í kvöldsólinni í hljómskálagarđinum.
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