Today I ran across a cool new feature on the social networking megastar—Facebook. A new feature called “Lexicon” allows users to search through all words on blogs, walls, and tags on the site and graphical visualizations chart usage of this lexicon.
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And people think I want to document everything and archive it all. Well I don’t, but this family sure does. They are attempting to archive their son’s first three years of life by archiving a petabyte video and audio live streams from their home in order to capture the Human Speechome Project—looking for how children learn language.
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What if a piece of technology was designed but never built? Could the archived design plans lead to the construction of two “copies”? How well would it turn out?
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Tom Gallant creates beautiful fragile hand-cut floral prints from old archived porn magazines.
As part of my research for my thesis, I applied to and was lucky enough this past term to participate in a Unicef/mDialog sponsored TDS (trans-disciplinary) studio where the end goal was to develop new tools to support the growing global community of youth media groups and journalists. Read the rest of this entry »
In the video game world these two items are special collections of items of infinite inventory for a character to carry around with them. From Wikipedia, their definitions are:
BAG OF HOLDING
While a bag of holding appears to be a common cloth sack Read the rest of this entry »
