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	<title mode="escaped">tecznotes links</title>
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	<modified>2008-07-04T12:26:39-07:00</modified>
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		<name>Michal Migurski</name>
		<url>http://mike.teczno.com/snippets.html</url>
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            <title mode="escaped">Slit scan</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.flong.com/texts/lists/slit_scan/" />
            <id>http://www.flong.com/texts/lists/slit_scan/</id>
            <issued>2008-07-04T11:38:41-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2008-07-04T11:38:41-07:00</modified>
            <created>2008-07-04T11:38:41-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An Informal Catalogue of Slit-Scan Video Artworks and Research.]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">Notes on Watching the Sky</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teemingvoid.blogspot.com/2008/07/image-data-and-environment-notes-on.html" />
            <id>http://teemingvoid.blogspot.com/2008/07/image-data-and-environment-notes-on.html</id>
            <issued>2008-07-04T11:32:00-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2008-07-04T11:32:00-07:00</modified>
            <created>2008-07-04T11:32:00-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA["The data sublime is aesthetically expedient, as well as culturally resonant. Sheer scale generates visual richness as well as revealing patterns within datasets; yet the data points we see here are meagre and unmysterious in themselves."]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">Steven Heller Angries Up The Blood</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.peterme.com/?p=673" />
            <id>http://www.peterme.com/?p=673</id>
            <issued>2008-07-03T18:42:32-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2008-07-03T18:42:32-07:00</modified>
            <created>2008-07-03T18:42:32-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA["Anyone familiar with the history of web design, could tell you that his commentary is reminiscent of what was spouted in 1996-1997 when graphic designers realized they were going to lose their battle to gussy up the web with 'aesthetics' and that, god forbid, people just wanted to get shit done online.
...
It's just appalling that after 12 or so years of web design practice, we're still having to address these inane views."]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">William Tecumseh Sherman to Atlanta</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/sherman/sherman-to-burn-atlanta.html" />
            <id>http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/sherman/sherman-to-burn-atlanta.html</id>
            <issued>2008-07-03T16:38:41-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2008-07-03T16:38:41-07:00</modified>
            <created>2008-07-03T16:38:41-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA["Gentleman: I have your letter of the 11th, in the nature of a petition to revoke my orders removing all the inhabitants from Atlanta. I have read it carefully, and give full credit to your statements of distress that will be occasioned, and yet shall not revoke my orders, because they were not designed to meet the humanities of the cause
...
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out."]]> </content>
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            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">whatever</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2008/07/whatever.html" />
            <id>http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2008/07/whatever.html</id>
            <issued>2008-07-03T16:29:03-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2008-07-03T16:29:03-07:00</modified>
            <created>2008-07-03T16:29:03-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA["She's performing all the youth-speak very gamely but just can't get the intonation right on the 'whatevers'.

That's your generation gap right there."]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">Water, Oil and the Life and Death of Cities</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2008/07/02/water_oil_and_t.html" />
            <id>http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2008/07/02/water_oil_and_t.html</id>
            <issued>2008-07-03T00:24:28-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2008-07-03T00:24:28-07:00</modified>
            <created>2008-07-03T00:24:28-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Paul Kedrosky uses Trulia Hindsight to make a point about gas prices.]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">Programming: The New Literacy</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.edutopia.org/programming-the-new-literacy" />
            <id>http://www.edutopia.org/programming-the-new-literacy</id>
            <issued>2008-07-02T00:03:44-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2008-07-02T00:03:44-07:00</modified>
            <created>2008-07-02T00:03:44-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA["I believe the single skill that will, above all others, distinguish a literate person is programming literacy, the ability to make digital technology do whatever, within the possible one wants it to do -- to bend digital technology to one's needs, purposes, and will, just as in the present we bend words and images."]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">Will the Real Steve Coast Please Stand Up?</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.fortiusone.com/2008/06/30/will-the-real-steve-coast-please-stand-up/" />
            <id>http://blog.fortiusone.com/2008/06/30/will-the-real-steve-coast-please-stand-up/</id>
            <issued>2008-07-01T01:30:25-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2008-07-01T01:30:25-07:00</modified>
            <created>2008-07-01T01:30:25-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA["CloudMade is like the Navy Seals of collaborative mapping. We hire the supermen of OSM and pay them to work on the really hard stuff, e.g. installing Mapnik. They’ve been at it for 9 weeks now and we reckon we might have the test script running in about a month’s time.
...
We started OSM in 2004 because though Ordnance Survey had a complete map of Britain, it wasn’t open. In 2012 Google might have a complete map of the world but it won’t be open either. The world still needs OSM."]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">This Word, &quot;Scaling&quot;</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2008/06/this-word-scaling.html" />
            <id>http://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2008/06/this-word-scaling.html</id>
            <issued>2008-06-30T10:18:06-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2008-06-30T10:18:06-07:00</modified>
            <created>2008-06-30T10:18:06-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA["These technical details are interesting, but they all point to the same thing.  The key difference between Rails and GAE is the small matter of writing code.
...
The key feature of 'scalability' that most people care about is actually the ability of a system to efficiently convert money to increased capacity."]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">What's In Season?</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.kqed.org/topics/home/cooking/whats-in-season.jsp" />
            <id>http://www.kqed.org/topics/home/cooking/whats-in-season.jsp</id>
            <issued>2008-06-29T18:02:45-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2008-06-29T18:02:45-07:00</modified>
            <created>2008-06-29T18:02:45-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Simple guide to what fruits and vegetables are in season throughout the year, local to San Francisco. Could use a visual timeline.]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">Caspio's Lessons</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.thescoop.org/archives/2008/06/29/caspios-lessons/" />
            <id>http://blog.thescoop.org/archives/2008/06/29/caspios-lessons/</id>
            <issued>2008-06-29T14:57:54-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2008-06-29T14:57:54-07:00</modified>
            <created>2008-06-29T14:57:54-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA["...if you want to go beyond Ye Olde Data Ghettoe, you'll have to learn some programming anyway. So why learn something that can only be used on a closed system that you have to rent?
...
So if learning more is a part of your plan, why not spend the time learning a system that doesn't charge you for that time?"]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">Bending or Breaking News</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scratchpad.roaringshrimp.com/?p=100" />
            <id>http://scratchpad.roaringshrimp.com/?p=100</id>
            <issued>2008-06-29T11:45:24-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2008-06-29T11:45:24-07:00</modified>
            <created>2008-06-29T11:45:24-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA["But is what The Economist publishes, journalism?  Perhaps not entirely, some might say.  But what is news?  As written in this previous post, the distinction between 'bending news' and 'breaking news' might be useful for here as well.  Breaking news is the stuff of classic journalism - array the facts, label your sources, etc.  Bending news is analysis, perspective, and viewpoint."]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">A113</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A113" />
            <id>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A113</id>
            <issued>2008-06-28T23:51:46-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2008-06-28T23:51:46-07:00</modified>
            <created>2008-06-28T23:51:46-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A113 (Sometimes A-113 or A1-13) is an inside joke present as an Easter egg in animated films created by alumni of CalArts, referring to the classroom number used by Character animation students at the school. Brad Bird first used it for a license plate number in the Amazing Stories episode 'Family Dog.' It has since appeared in other Disney and Pixar movies.]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">Delighting With Data</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.tomtaylor.co.uk/talks/delighting-with-data" />
            <id>http://www.tomtaylor.co.uk/talks/delighting-with-data</id>
            <issued>2008-06-28T12:17:04-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2008-06-28T12:17:04-07:00</modified>
            <created>2008-06-28T12:17:04-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Tom Taylor talk notes...
"So, I'm talking about building beautiful things out of (sometimes) boring data sources. I'll be talking less about design and visualisation, and more about projects and 'things'.
...
I guess the only real thread is that most of these projects are really small and really simple. Less than a day for most, some less than an hour."
]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">Exaggeration with Maps</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.xefer.com/2008/04/maps" />
            <id>http://www.xefer.com/2008/04/maps</id>
            <issued>2008-06-25T18:49:23-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2008-06-25T18:49:23-07:00</modified>
            <created>2008-06-25T18:49:23-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[How big would a pixel be in the real world?]]> </content>
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