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Chloë Bass is an artist, curator and community organizer based in Brooklyn. She is the co-lead organizer for Arts in Bushwick (artsinbushwick.org), which produces the ever-sprawling Bushwick Open Studios, BETA Spaces, and performance festival SITE Fest, which she founded. Recent artistic work has been seen at SCOPE Art Fair, CultureFix, the Bushwick Starr Theater, Figment, and The Last Supper Art Festival, as well as in and around the public spaces of New York City. She has guest lectured at Parsons, the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, and Brooklyn College. Other moments have found her co-cheffing Umami: People + Food, a 90 person private supper club; growing plants with Boswyck Farms (boswyckfarms.org); and curating with architecture gallery SUPERFRONT (superfront.org). Chloë holds a BA in Theater Studies from Yale University, and an MFA in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) from Brooklyn College.
Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space - Book Launch | eyebeam.org
Paola Antonelli and Hadas Steiner in conversation with Mark Shepard
Friday, February 11, 2011, 7:00 p.m.
McNally Jackson Books.
52 Prince Street, New York, NY.
To mark the publication of Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space (The Architectural League/MIT Press), a book of case studies and essays based on the League's fall 2009 exhibition, Toward the Sentient City curated by Mark Shepard and organized by the Architectural League of New York. (I was honored to have been part of the selection committee for the commissions for the project.)
Paola Antonelli and Hadas Steiner join the book's editor and exhibition curator Mark Shepard for a conversation on the history and future of architecture and design exhibitions.
City Of Paris Opens Up Its Data
Jan. 27, 2011, 6:49 AM
The Open Data movement tries to get governments and other organizations to put up online as much raw data as they can so that scientists, developers and entrepreneurs can use it for research and to build innovative services.
As of today, the City of Paris got on the bandwagon, with ParisData, releasing its data under the Open Knowledge Foundation's ODbL (Open Database License).
Unfortunately, the site is only in French right now -- there's no reason why only French speakers should do good stuff with this data.
The themes of the data released so far are: citizens, urban policy, transportation, public services, environment and culture.
We really like the Open Data movement. It can get too hyped as a way to radically transform government. But if it only manages to give birth to innovative services and startups, good research, and to make government more accountable, that's already a big plus.
Utopian and radical architects in the 1960s predicted that cities in the future would not only be made of brick and mortar, but also defined by bits and flows of information. The urban dweller would become a nomad who inhabits a space in constant flux, mutating in real time. Their vision has taken on new meaning in an age when information networks rule over many of the city's functions, and define our experiences as much as the physical infrastructures, while mobile technologies transform our sense of time and of space.
This new urban landscape is no longer predicated solely on architecture and urbanism. These disciplines now embrace emerging methodologies that bend the physical with new measures, representations and maps of urban dynamics such as traffic or mobile phone flows. Representations of usage patterns and mapping the life of the city amplify our collective awareness of the urban environment as a living organism. These soft and invisible architectures fashion sentient and reactive environments.
Habitar is a walk through new emerging scenarios in the city. It is a catalogue of ideas and images from artists, design and architecture studios, and hybrid research centres. Together they come up with a series of potential tools, solutions and languages to negotiate everyday life in the new urban situation.
Nothing To See Here : DIY Anti Surveillance Kit
Nothing To See Here is a quick and easy to follow DIY anti surveillance guide that allows anyone to free themselves from big brother using simple to obtain items. Project can be completed with under $1 of materials and carried out in about 1 minute. Get in, get out, go about your life.
The city is a playground.
Picture This: An Open-Source Alternative To Google Street View
January 27, 2011
John Robb, author, entrepreneur and open-source thinker, wants you to join him in building an ambitious new project named "Picture This," which looks to map every postal address in the world online. Think Wikipedia meets Google Street View.
The project differs from Google Street View in a couple of key ways:
- It relies on crowdsourcing to upload pictures via an as yet undeveloped smartphone application
- It looks to map areas that Google Street View has not — most places outside the US and Europe
- Contributors will own the new mapping service and the revenue from its accompanying ad service
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This is a project I have been working on during my time at Eyebeam.
Tetrometroes utilizes the strict road system that makes up Manhattan and uses it as a stage for play, creating the world's largest Tetris board.
It is a comment on the mundane uniformity that makes up Manhattan. Unlike older cities New York's main island lacks the intricacy that allows one to get lost and really experience a city. This makes it seem cold and predictable to many.
The name Tetrometroes derives from tetrominoes, the geometric shapes composed of four squares connected orthogonally that make up Tetris pieces.
Drawing extends 720 city blocks and covers 38.18 miles. It was conceived using Google Earth and carried out using a mobile phone GPS.
The city is a playground.
Cytoscape - Networking
The concept of network visualisation is rather simple, there are two elements, nodes and they have a relationship, called edge. From here both nodes and edges between them are added and complicated systems can be represented in terms of how the identified elements are connected, simple.
Nicholas Christakis talks in his TED talk at the top of his voice about the basics of social networks and outlines the dreams, implicating the power of network.
However this is on the visualisation level, where it looks simple. The real task lies before and after this. How are the nodes and edges actually defined and identified in the run up to the funky visualisation of clusters and groups? This question in both a practical definition sense as well as in a technical sense of how is the input file generated is the real task.
This is to some extend reflected in the file standards of these network visualisation softwares, there aren't any. The whole area might be to young and the big player is missing, like ESRI in GIS or Autodesk in CAD. This might be part of the explanation, but the other part is that the simplicity of node and edge hasn't put pressure on the file formats.
Since last year the Gephi platform is setting standards for this group of open source network visualisation softwares. It offers great functions and juicy looking visuals with a easily manageable interface.
Developed by a consortium of universities and research companies, including the University of California San Francisco and the University of Toronto, comes a second very powerfull and flexible network software called Cytoscape. The software is not new as new, development reaches back to 2002 where version v0.8 was released. Currently version 2.8 is available for download and work on version 3.0 in underway although there is no release date as of now.
Image taken from cytoscape / Visualization of Gene Ontology Term Tree (DAG). More images can be fond in this flickr group
Cytoscape initially was developed for biology and molecular research, has however developed into a multipurpose network visualisation platform. The software is JAVA based and therefore rund across platforms with a lot of plugIns freely available. Basicaly everyone can contribute their own plugIns.
Cytoscape suport variety of standarts, see above, but for quick and dirty the text or table import is extremely useful. If you have a table or CSV with three columns, defining the start node end node and the type of relationship you are good to go. This addresses some of the issues discussed above.
Running the visualisation algorithms can be processing intensive especially once the network goes above 10'000 nodes. Here Cytoscape performs very good also from a interface perspective. The progress is clearly indicated and each process can be stopped at anytime. Usually it is very stable and would not crash on you all of a sudden, even with large network calculations.
The package comes with a lot of preset layout algorithms. These sets hold the definitions of how the graph is going to evolve and the nodes and edges are laid out. The selection ranges from force directed, weighted to circular or grid layouts. Each preset layout can be fully adjusted.
Regarding the visualisations graphically, here Cytoscape is extremely flexible and every single aspect of the graph can be manually set. This is great and makes for a dramatic flexibility, but on the other hand it is painstakingly difficult and time consuming. Especially if working on a dataset early on and results are not yet clear it is not were you put your effort and ugly visuals can be depressing.
Anyway the great examples on the website should be consulted for motivation.
Some of the other great features include Cytoscape works as a Web Service Client, great search functionality for nodes and edges as well as extensive filter functions, useful not only to hide or show, but to highlight. Furthermore it allows for custom node representation. This means Cytoscape can display images and icons individually for each node. Cytoscape also supports networks within networks, quite a tricky thing.
Image by urbanTick / Visualisation of two text snippets as a network.
Two things are crucial now that the data is compiled and graphed, the analysis and the output. In both cases Cytoscape is very powerful. Extensive analysis function very detailed spits out numbers and even puts them on graphs. All these tables and calculations can be exported too to further analysis in external packages. Regarding the output of the graph a palett of formats are offered, covering both image formats as well as graphic formats such a s PDF, EPS and SVG.
If you are into network visualisation and keen on a good alternative to established packeges such a Pajek this might be one for you. More recources on Cytoscape can be found on pubMed or GenomeResearch.
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Ralph Gentles and five other people spend each summer creating a map of every crack, every depression, every protrusion, every pothole in the sidewalks of New York City. We hear why, and we hear all the things their map does not include. Map making means ignoring everything in the world but the one thing being mapped, whether it's cracks in sidewalks or the homes of Hollywood stars. And, according to cartographer Denis Wood, we live in the Age of Maps: more than 99.9 percent of all the maps that have ever existed have been made in the last 100 years. (2 minutes)
Act One. Sight.
Denis Wood talks with host Ira Glass about the maps he's made of his own neighborhood, Boylan Heights in Raleigh, North Carolina. They include a traditional street locator map, a map of all the sewer and power lines under the earth's surface, a map of how light falls on the ground through the leaves of trees, a map of where all the Halloween pumpkins are each year, and a map of all the graffiti in the neighborhood. In short, he's creating maps that are more like novels, trying to describe everyday life. In 2010, Denis compiled these maps into the book Everything Sings (with a forward by Ira Glass). (4 minutes)
Act Two. Hearing.
Jack Hitt visits Toby Lester, who has mapped all the ambient sounds in his world: the hum of the heater, the fan on the computer. (5 minutes)
Song: "Way over Yonder in the Minor Key", Billy Bragg and Wilco
Act Three. Smell.
A story about a device that charts the world through smell — and only smell. TAL producer Nancy Updike visits Cyrano Sciences in Pasadena, California, where researchers are creating an electronic nose. (5 minutes)
Act Four. Touch.
Deb Monroe reports on how she has been mapping her own body through her sense of touch. (6 minutes)
Act Five. Taste.
LA Weekly food critic Jonathan Gold goes to the places on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles that he visited back in the early 1980s. He tells the story of how he decided to map an entire street using his sense of taste, and how doing this changed his life. (35 minutes)
Top 10: Robots doing stuff that scares the &$#! out of me
In truth, I regard the "robot uprising" meme with about the same level of seriousness as the "zombie apocalypse" meme. I suppose robots becoming sentient, independent, organized, and uncontrollably violent is at least plausible, but on the scale of plausible apocalypses, "robot revolution" is nowhere near the top of the list. More likely, in 100 years, robots will be tending to us like primates in a zoo.
So, in the spirit of fun, here's a collection of videos showing the mad, mad foolishness that roboticists have been up to equipping our future overlords with their tools of power. Or, in a more realistic vein: Look at all the amazing stuff robots can do these days!
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DJ Kool Herc and Grand Wizard Theodore
Interview by Angus Batey, New Musical Express, May 1997
DJS KOOL HERC and Grand Wizard Theodore, who recently played in London as support to the Chemical Brothers, may not be up there with yer ...
Adventures on the Wheels of Steel: DJ Kool Herc and the Birth of Hip Hop
Book Excerpt by Frank Broughton, Bill Brewster, Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, 1999
Take a BreakFace your partner, holding hands. Tap one foot behind the other and bring your feet together again. Repeat with your other foot. (Your ...
D.J. Kool Herc: The Holy House of Hip-hop
Report and Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, New York Magazine, September 2008
On August 11, 1973, D.J. Kool Herc didn't know he was revolutionizing pop music he was just trying to keep people dancing. The rec ...
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Miami Law supports you with staff dedicated to making your law school experience run as smoothly as possible. The Dean of Students Office can connect you with specific needs. Or, visit these links for more information on some of the resources and services Miami Law provides to current students:
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A.D. Cola Lighting opened in 1989 and quickly established itself as one of the premier lighting showrooms in the Boston area. Located in the Metro West town of Natick , A.D. Cola Lighting was designed and built by Nino Colasacco, also the founder of Newton Electrical Supply.
A.D. Cola Lighting has many wonderful attributes – a recessed lighting lab, lampshade room, and a crystal room to name a few – but our biggest asset is our people. All of our salespeople have many years experience in the lighting industry and many have been with us for 10 years or more. It is this experience and continuity that allow us to provide you with the best possible service available, from picking out a simple hall light to laying out all of the decorative, recessed, and landscape lighting for your new home. We are always ready to help.
Our address is 86 Worcester Street in Natick. Please call our showroom if you are unsure of our location or would like directions.


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This gifset was combined using Cheezburger's new iOS app (Android version coming soon)! With the builder tools you can create collages, draw, use stickers, and even resize gifs to show off that awesome move you just made or to zoom in on a creep in the background of a selfie. Click on the gif below to build you own creations!
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Atlassian SourceTree is a free Git and Mercurial client for Windows.
Atlassian SourceTree is a free Git and Mercurial client for Mac.
pluginbuilder - Create standalone Mac OS X plugins with Python
pluginbuilder is a Python package which will allow you to make standalone plugins from Python scripts. This plugin can then be used by an Objective-C application (through NSBundle). pluginbuilder is a fork of py2app, but without the distutils based command or the ability to create application bundles.
For installation information, refer to the documentation in the "doc" folder (you need Sphinx to build it). The documentation is also available online at http://www.hardcoded.net/docs/pluginbuilder .


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Interesting Things
- before_save and after_save may not perform as you expect!
Previously, returning false from before or after
filters callbacks would halt the chain entirely. This is no longer the case, except with before_save and after_save — returning false in a before_save will stop the filter callback chain and prevent a save, returning false in an after_save will stop the filter chain silently, and NOT rollback the save. This can be troublesome if you have after_save filters callbacks you expect to execute, especially if you have conditional clauses in an after_save, as they can easily return a false value where you did not intend it.
Please see Brandon Keepers' clarification regarding filters vs. callbacks below — thanks Brandon!
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- Bootstrapping data into an existing system?
Using migrations for one-time data inserts can be problematic (for example, when changing seed data; additionally, it's advisable to create a database from the schema.rb rather than migrations) , it can be useful to create a class that is responsible for inserting the seed data into the database. This class can be wrapped in a capistrano or rake task. The db-populate plugin is designed to aid in this task.
- Multiple Routes/One controller
It is possible to point multiple routes at a single controller, however, this situation may suggest a need for multiple controllers, possibly inheriting from a single base controller containing any shared logic. This prevents a excessive switching logic in controllers, which can help minimize the possibility of argument-related bugs.


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Secretary of Defense William Perry will speak at the Netherlands Carillon V-E
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As a rule of thumb, I take anything T.J. Simers writes with a grain of salt, as at times he openly uses his section of the paper to troll players, management, fans, and whoever else he wants. However, his recently published story on Andre Ethier's knee injury is the first I had heard of it, and the comments from both ... Read More »
Matt Kemp Joins 30/30 Club & Vin Scully Returns In 2012
Matt Kemp, one of the few bright spots in this dreary season, impressively boomed into the 30/30 club today. In doing so, he became the second Dodger in the club, with the other of course being Raul Mondesi, who accomplished the feat in 1997 and 1999. The difference being that Kemp has done it far earlier than Mondesi, and far ... Read More »


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Katie Long is a contributing digital producer for Marketplace Morning Report and Marketplace Tech. Her work has appeared in New York Magazine, on WNYC, and WNET/Channel Thirteen New York.
Features by Katie Long
10 things Apple could buy with its cash stockpile
The numbers for July 23, 2013: Surprising discoveries
The ages when we, humans, are at our happiest, in general, according to a new survey from the London School of Economics. (Time)
The estimated annual cost of cyber crime to the U.S. economy. Sounds big, but the figure is actually one-tenth of previous estimates (Marketplace)
Luanda, Angola, ranks as the most expensive city in the world for ex-patriots. The country is Africa's second largest oil exporter these days and that cash is driving up prices. (Telegraph)
Tuition snapshot: Parents, high-income families paying less for college
The numbers for July 22, 2013: Heat breaks
The current temperature outside Marketplace's New York bureau. After a week of sweltering 90 degree weather, the low 80's are good news by us. (Weather.com)
The proportion of Americans who plan to work during their summer vacation. That's up sharply from 52 percent last year. (LAT)
The number of people who have drunk another person's distilled sweat using a new machine made by developers in Sweden. Yes, that's right, the machine takes sweat from soggy clothes and turns it into drinkable water -- which is allegedly cleaner that Sweden's local tap water. (BBC)
And now to a different kind of heat. 19 million households in the UK will reportedly have to opt in or out of online pornography access. It's part of a new effort by Prime Minister David Cameron to clean up, or cool off, the Internet. (The Sun)
The numbers for July 19, 2013: Dates and times
FIFA announced today that soccer fans will have to pay $90 to see World Cup games in Brazil in 2010. The price -- which has been the subject of protests in Brazil -- is $10 more than in 2010 in South Africa. (FIFA)
Wall Streeters are making deals at workout classes rather than white table cloth power lunches. "John Abularrage, head of Tullett Prebon Plc's Americas unit, takes clients to 5 a.m. sessions at Barry's Bootcamp in Tribeca, where they run on treadmills and lift weights to thumping dance music," reports Bloomberg. (Bloomberg)
The U.S. Air Force spent a total of $9 billion on fuel in 2012. Now they are turning to our feathered friends to lower their costs: The agency has commissioned a multi-year program to study geese that fly in V-formation. "Vortex surfing" like a goose could cut in-flight fuel consumption by 20 percent in military aircraft. (Foreign Policy)
The numbers for July 18, 2013: Battle by numbers
Dubai is trying to battle obesity. The country is offering people one gram of gold (about $45) for each kilogram (about 2.2 pounds) lost in a 30-day challenge. (Huff Po)
Don't got the votes? Delay the battle. Dell computer is postponing the shareholder vote on founder Michael Dell's buyout proposal. It is rescheduled for July 24. (USA Today)
Battle.com, or Battle.kosher? An Internet organizing body is meeting this week to determine who can control the web suffix "dot-kosher." The decision is pitting Jewish groups against each other in a dispute that could determine the future of the $17 billion kosher market. (Bloomberg)
The numbers for July 17, 2013: Shape up
The number of refund checks being mailed to purchasers of Skechers Shape-up shoes. Earlier this year, Skechers agreed to pay a $40 million settlement for advertising unfounded claims that the shoes toned thighs, butts and abs. (CNN Money)
Bank industry profits are on the up and up, while tech companies ... not so much. Bank of America reported profits up 63 percent for the period April-June. Yesterday, Yahoo's earnings missed the mark slightly. Intel and Ebay are expected to post muted earnings as well today. (NYT)
ESPN is looking to clean up the discourse on its website. After permitting anonymous comments for over five years, the site is requiring posters to sign in via Facebook. (Marketplace)
The numbers for July 16, 2013: ... The last word
Coca-Cola said its profits were down 4 percent in the April-June period. The company blamed economic malaise and lousy weather that didn't drive people to drink ... soft drinks. (Bloomberg)
New data from the Pew Research Center says digital tools -- smartphones, social media, Google -- may be helping students. 78 percent of teachers say they "encourage student creativity and personal expression." Maybe now parents can stop worrying so much about the competing trend towards informal writing ... YOLO. (Pew)
A conservative think tank in Britain has offered a big cash prize for the most compelling argument for why Britain would be better off if it abandoned the European Union. The so-called Brexit Prize is 100,000 ... euros. (The Independent)
McDonald's tries to help employees budget
The numbers for July 15, 2013: Numbers on the 1's
China's GDP growth slowed in the second quarter of 2013 -- to 7.5 percent, China's weakest rate since 1991. (Marketplace)
The mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania's capital city, has installed a giant video screen to display the happiness level of residents on a scale of 1-10, a "Happiness Barometer". Just one concern: recent polling of happiness in 58 countries shows Lithuania practically dead last. (Reuters)
Just after it was discovered that Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling used a pseudonym to publish "The Cuckoo's Calling", the book shot up to the number one spot on Amazon and is now back ordered for 10-14 days. (Publisher's Weekly)


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Under an hour from the airport and less than 15 minutes from clubs, water sports, and the marina
Located along the Transpeninsular Highway in Cabo San Lucas, Secrets Marquis Los Cabos is just under an hour from Los Cabos International Airport, and half an hour to neighboring San Jose del Cabo. A 15-minute drive will take guests downtown to the city's infamous party scene; nightclubs like Cabo Wabo and El Squid Roe can be found just outside the marina.
Cabo San Lucas, located right on the southernmost tip of Baja, is known for its incredible beaches and wild nightlife. It was once known for its big-game fishing, but is now recognized as Mexico's most prominent destination for luxury, golf, and parties.
Secrets Marquis Los Cabos is a sleek and modern all-suite, adults-only property located on a narrow stretch of sandy beach. The expansive all-white lobby features huge archways that look out onto the ocean and mountains. Hacienda-style rooms have colorful artwork with traditional Mexican images, gorgeous bathrooms with giant soaking tubs, and a wet bar that is refilled daily, but older amenities include tube TVs. All suites are ocean-facing and have balconies with generous seating. Amenities were designed for adults looking to relax, including the stunning infinity pool, huge spa, spacious fitness center, six gourmet restaurants, and three bars.
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