“While we have systems in place for literary citation, image attribution, and scientific reference, we don’t yet have a system that codifies the attribution of discovery in curation as a currency of the information economy, a system that treats discovery as the creative labor that it is. This is what The Curator’s Code is – a system for honoring the creative and intellectual labor of information discovery by making attribution consistent and codified, the celebrated norm.”
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“Starring the Computer is a website dedicated to the use of computers in film and television. Each appearance is catalogued and rated on its importance (ie. how important it is to the plot), realism (how close its appearance and capabilities are to the real thing) and visibility (how good a look does one get of it). Fictional computers don’t count (unless they are built out of bits of real computer), so no HAL9000 – sorry.”
Best Tumblr site of the year, hands down. “Falling Down the Internet Hole is a website database selected on the below criteria: old-school design, bad taste, kitschy and/or weird.”
James Bridle created Rorschmap, which kaleidoscopes the satellite views of your favorite spots…
(Via Boing Boing.)
‘People Staring at Computers’ is a photographic intervention by Kyle McDonald:
“I wrote a simple application that took one picture every minute. If it found a face, it uploaded the photo to my server. I installed the app around NYC over three days, collecting more than a thousand photos.Before sharing the photos online, I decided to exhibit them in the same places they were originally captured. So I wrote another app that could be remotely triggered after ...
Last Expo is a collection of photographs taken of orphaned art in its final resting place. It’s a commemorative album of forgotten human imagination.
A website that celebrates the centenary of Marshall McLuhan’s birth. There are lots of great videos inside, beginning, of course, with this….
[via boing boing]
Let’s take a little hypnotizing break with Memory, a website by Tabor Robak (some other awesome projects on his website)…
“Because, girls are pretty. Also, art”
The site everyone always wanted to browse, but never dare to put online…
Now here it is: Hot Chick at Art Openings…
“Imagine this: You have to deliver a PowerPoint presentation about an unfamiliar topic, with slides you’ve never seen, to an audience eager to heckle and laugh at you. If you’re in your underwear, you’re having a nightmare. If you’re clothed, it’s called PowerPoint Karaoke…”
A collection of awesome Google-related projects from people around the world…
[via swissmiss]
