geeked.

More about the video:
Creator’s website
Remixes
[Thanks, Dylan!]

Two of my favorite franchises mashed up in this leetspeak WoW-themed adaptation of LoTR:

Major media moguls should be studying the playbooks of game companies, who have a lot to teach them about participatory culture (or, “how to embrace your fans instead of suing them”).

Btw if you haven’t yet read Henry Jenkins‘ book Convergence Culture — run, don’t walk.
* more machinima.

i want one.

This essay by Holly Stevens really resonated with me, so I’m pointing to it here.

Either we will learn to conduct business with sensitivity towards sustainability principles or we will face ever increasing epidemics, terrorism, environmental degradation, pitting of rich against poor, and spiritual malaise.
I have been branded a socialist at times for embracing such a […]

I was asked to post this and am happy to oblige, throwing in my support for the conjugal union of sex and technology as well as the thought and discourse attached to that union… let’s talk about SexTech, baby. Let’s talk about UMD.
Call for Participation: CHI 2006 Workshop: Sexual Interactions
Everyday interactions with technology – occurring […]

What do you think — are we headed inexorably towards being brains in jars? I’ve been thinking about this a bunch lately. I want to be able to plug in, but I want the ability to plug back out into the analog world, too. Maybe someday that will seem really old skool. Who knows?

i want one. this is how easy remix art should be. i want a similar tool to “imprint” audio and “paint” it on a canvas, like Ableton Live with a sensitive audio-recording stylus.

Dang, is there anywhere Google isn’t trying to be? The latest space they’re getting into is, well, space.

What started out as an attempt to simplify Tim O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 meme map turned into this collection of thoughts on Web 2.0.
The irony that there are more categories and tags attached to this post than actual content is not lost on me, btw. Viva, Web 2.0!

It’s a short interview; here’s my favorite bit:

CNN: What will surprise us about the future evolution of the Internet?
BERNERS-LEE: The creativity of our children. In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted. The people who designed the tools that make the […]

Doc Searls has got a truly poignant take on the impact Hurricane Katrina will have on this country:

This event won’t have ripple effects. The consequences will be tidal: on transportation, on agriculture, on lumber and other supplies, on retailing, on churches and on citizens across the country who will need to take on the […]

Whoa… a 3D browser? Yes, please, may I have one?

All of this metadata and my steady diet of RSS and folksonomy makes me really wish I never had to sleep. Truly, it’s awesome. But what I really want now is a tool or suite of tools that has as its main goal to facilitate *conversation tracking.*
Some blog software and a few sites based […]

In case you hadn’t noticed, the race is on to make your next cellphone the uber-convergence, portable media device. SWEET!

I am finding it hard to believe that very few folks are talking about the recent passage of hr418. Why don’t we just slice open our forearms and let the government put rfid chips in, already? Our kids are already being tracked. HR418 is a foot in the door to tracking everyone else, and denying […]

We have decent, usable posting and editing tools. What we need now are refactoring tools to better structure and reorganize our information as things invariably change over time. e.g. on my personal blog I just created a new generic category “technology” because a new post brought to light its glaring omission. But because I just […]

Tom Evslin has a nice post detailing some of the “how could we have lived without this” features of VoIP telephony. It brings to mind the idea that, as our society becomes ever more and more mobile, it ought to matter less and less where we are located - our tools should intuitively grok this […]

I am still hooked on Marc Canter’s concept of the Digital Lifestyle Aggregator. Think of it as a local node that lets us have the best of both worlds: the awesome informative and communicative power of the distributed internet, and the centralization/aggregation of those bits of information created by, or most relevant to, an individual […]

What was I thinking, limiting myself to a desire for one-handed computing? Forgeddaboutit - I want everything speech recognition. I want to be able to call up my home computers from anywhere in the world on my cell(s), give them voice commands (e.g. “Search P2P networks for artist x and set up a download queue” […]

I’m not a TV fan, and haven’t had a cable subscription since 2000. But lately I’ve been thinking about coming back to the fold, largely due to the advent of TiVo. If I could separate the good stuff out (signal) from the vast quantities of cruft (noise), it might make the extra $20 tacked on […]

You know how in The Matrix they can just download knowledge and skill sets into their brains? (picture Keanu Reeves’ deadpan: “I know kung fu.”) I want to be able to do that. Really soon.

drooling, drooling. i want one!!

Is lunar helium 3 going to be the next great replacement for the fossil fuels we’re so diligently killing each other over at the moment? And who is going to ‘own’ the moon (making note of the ‘private enterprise on the moon’ badge on the Artemis Project web site…)??

Helium 3, rare on the earth but […]