Steve Ersinghaus

Three programs are holding my attention on TV. Heroes, a filmic hyperspace, Avatar, an animated epic whose characters and story are just charmingly wonderful, and the newest rendering of Doctor Who. Burns’ War is also right on. If you listen, all these programs share common features. Time is either a character or a force.
Now, this [...]

Steve Collins writes about Tunxis’ mission statement and makes interesting associations to Harvard
In a word: sort of. Tunxis has created a mission statement that succinctly states the goals of the College but is, I believe, very generalized and somewhat vague. By definition, a community college seeks to provide an affordable education to a broad range [...]

Good to see Carolyn looking forward to writing some scifi. Sorry we missed each other in the summer rushes.
Good luck to you.

Carianne Mack and Mindy Bray have a new collaborative weblog up and running. Currently the surfaces are ironic. Play with change and visibility. The weblog itself is more than just a frame but also part of the surface of display.

First of all I think the iPhone is a necessary device for a lot of reasons, especially as I continue to wrestle with game controllers, preferring keyboard controls to moving things about with the thumb. And it’s a good thing that people like Mark are taken with the device and its possibilities.
And in this post [...]

Spazeboy helps to clear things up. Here.

Gizmodo has a comment on haptic feedback issues related to the iPhone.
I’ve always been critical of small keyboards. Small keyboards and the human hand. Hm.
Apple will be pressing a fairly deep design/use/habit. It will be interesting to watch how the design changes inputs and feedback models on other devises, readers, and architectural embeds.
But iPhone isn’t [...]

Photos of the new computer can be found here. The keyboard is agreeable, with nice Command-C speed.
Now I don’t have to wait for a Windows version of Storyspace or Tinderbox.
In addition a new friend will be added to the group, Carolyn Nims’ Green Flamingoes.

Dan at if:book writes:
I won’t pretend to be the first to see in the Internet parallels to the all-remembering mind of Funes; a book could be written, if it hasn’t already been, on how Borges invented the Internet. It’s interesting, however, to see that the problems of Funes are increasingly everyone’s problems. As humans, we [...]

Spencer Tunick at work:

K and I had a fantastic visit to MIT and came out with some fine photos and burrito-filled stomachs. I’ll have some up soon, featuring Building 32.

It’s good to have Bill Moyers back online at PBS after some pretty crude political shenanigans and yet another example of cultural conservativist hypocrisy about the “marketplace” of ideas. Nice interviews too with Josh Marshall and Jon Stewart. Moyers’ MO has always been to provide space for people to speak, a kind of media space [...]

I caught Ira Glass on television last night. This American Life is an amazing radio program. I was a little leery of the visual version but was pleasantly surprised. TAL is an amazing offering. There’s nothing like it either on the radio or on television. Why, because even the modern pig farmer is trapped.

So, we recently upgraded to a DVR. I figured why go with 5 component cables into the TV when you could just use one. I didn’t know that HDMI would force an analogue signal to 4:3 aspect and so we now have 2 HDMI cables going into the TV, on top of the 5 component, [...]

At the moment, believe it or not, I’m watching Hawaii Five-0. I had forgotten about its stylized panorama. Drama of a different time.
Prior to play, my wife tried to turn the volume up by turning the black on/off circle on our Samsung television. She now lives in the world of the iPod. It was a [...]