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2014 365

December 2014

  1. A Game of A Game of A Game of Thrones
  2. A Game of A Game of Thrones
  3. A highly collaborative medium
  4. Structural parallels
  5. High tech / low tech
  6. Modernism
  7. How can we be so unhappy, when we have such beautiful dreams?
  8. Rethinking airports
  9. Loving the future
  10. Human-cam
  11. Minimalism, in html5 code, a kind of haiku
  12. The magnificent Andersons
  13. If mood were voluntary
  14. Musical puppetry
  15. Frozen as Buddhist manifesto
  16. I’m trying to imagine
  17. Thereminimal
  18. Face time
  19. 10000
  20. Identity politics
  21. Three is a crowd
  22. Three famous people
  23. Psycho-genetic testing
  24. The Entire History of You
  25. Taking the red pill
  26. Emulation costs
  27. Joss Sherman-Moffat
  28. Mysterious alchemy
  29. Logo programming
  30. It’s lonely out in space
  31. Sheldon, part 30

November 2014

  1. Sheldon, part 29
  2. Sheldon, part 28
  3. Sheldon, part 27
  4. Sheldon, part 26
  5. Sheldon, part 25
  6. Sheldon, part 24
  7. Sheldon, part 23
  8. Sheldon, part 22
  9. Sheldon, part 21
  10. Sheldon, part 20
  11. Sheldon, part 19
  12. Sheldon, part 18
  13. Sheldon, part 17
  14. Sheldon, part 16
  15. Brandon, part 15
  16. Brandon, part 14
  17. Sheldon, part 13
  18. Sheldon, part 12
  19. Sheldon, part 11
  20. Sheldon, part 10
  21. Sheldon, part 9
  22. Sheldon, part 8
  23. Sheldon, part 7
  24. Sheldon, part 6
  25. Sheldon, part 5
  26. Sheldon, part 4
  27. Sheldon, part 3
  28. Sheldon, part 2
  29. Sheldon, part 1
  30. Halloween in New York

October 2014

  1. Camouflage
  2. Soft instruments
  3. The square root of ocean
  4. The proximity of great comedy to tragedy
  5. The thirty year echo
  6. Continuum hypothesis
  7. Historical perspective
  8. Out of the frying pan
  9. Banana
  10. Roman vérité
  11. The acid test
  12. Enchantment
  13. Tone mapping
  14. Unexpected graciousness
  15. The sliding scale of cultural relevance
  16. Out of sync
  17. Not muggles
  18. These days
  19. The death of subtlety
  20. Zetetic
  21. Do you have to be dead to live forever?
  22. At the beach
  23. Lunar eclipse
  24. Food for thought
  25. The (sort of) protean brain
  26. New versus useful
  27. Our superpower
  28. Do not trust airplanes
  29. Prepping
  30. October the first
  31. Human energy over time

September 2014

  1. On the masthead
  2. Signs of the times
  3. Going from 50% to 100%
  4. Virtual realities
  5. Autumn
  6. More specifically
  7. Do people being evil know they are being evil?
  8. Tentpoles
  9. Speeches
  10. The movement of heads
  11. Nico, revisited
  12. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our technologies
  13. Cousin
  14. The University, in two parts
  15. Anti-cool
  16. 4D superhero
  17. Mansions on the Holodeck
  18. Neighbors
  19. Haunted
  20. The Inverse Feynman Algorithm
  21. Exploded view
  22. The man who wasn’t there
  23. Recalculating
  24. The inverse law of technology coolness
  25. Sexism, now
  26. The literate audience
  27. Heroes
  28. The night of the long vegetable knives
  29. Gobo gone

August 2014

  1. A lot more fun than going to a movie
  2. The other one
  3. Hyper-real ghosts
  4. Dinner in Dublin
  5. Jet age haiku
  6. The Newton / iPad axis
  7. Saint and poets, maybe
  8. Human goggles
  9. Robin Williams
  10. Local hero
  11. Cardboard and scissors, scotch tape and coffee stirrers
  12. Two shows
  13. The Peter Jackson version
  14. Future past future
  15. Hello skyscrapers
  16. Farewell mountains
  17. The day after SIGGRAPH
  18. Contrarian Attraction Theory
  19. A majestic mountain
  20. Real-time live!
  21. Through the lens
  22. Fast forward
  23. Success!
  24. Synthesis
  25. [image]
  26. Brainstorming
  27. Building a library
  28. Wearable technologies
  29. Learning curves
  30. Under the watchful gays of the church
  31. Evolution

July 2014

  1. Love letters, part 3
  2. Love letters, part 2
  3. Love letters, part 1
  4. Hummus and Pita, part 4
  5. Hummus and Pita, part 3
  6. Hummus and Pita, part 2
  7. Hummus and Pita, part 1
  8. Vancouver on a summer evening
  9. Riding the sandworm
  10. Disagreements (a sonnet)
  11. Cetacean vacation
  12. A kind of reunion
  13. Rainy day haiku
  14. Kludge bridging
  15. Future evolution of natural language
  16. Another world
  17. Could there be another Shakespeare?
  18. Showing work to experts
  19. I am the tailor’s face and hands
  20. One world, many universes
  21. Fractal video
  22. Architecture and the limits of interactive narrative
  23. Fog
  24. Before and after
  25. Applied evolution in the classroom
  26. Subtext
  27. Epistemology of instruments
  28. Uke hacking
  29. Reality haiku
  30. My blue hawaii
  31. New month
  32. Toaster

June 2014

  1. Return on investment
  2. 100 years ago today
  3. A delicate situation
  4. Up to date photo
  5. Pre-deadline superpower
  6. Two narratives
  7. Well regulated
  8. A slider for composition versus performance
  9. The question of rhetoric
  10. Dinner conversation
  11. Unholy Trinity
  12. Time machine
  13. When Shakespeare was only 28
  14. Seven billion wonders
  15. Not important, but essential
  16. Haiku on my first day in Paris
  17. C.P. Snow would weep
  18. The Political Party at the End of the Universe
  19. A little noise
  20. Ethics toward post-humans
  21. Self and other
  22. Crossover
  23. Puppet show
  24. In another 150 years
  25. Kind of like waterskiing
  26. Amazon and the war of perception
  27. Can a game evolve natural language?
  28. Blog lost and found
  29. Clearer than Glass
  30. Unapocalyptic

May 2014

  1. Writer friend
  2. Shiny new toy
  3. Dance, red balloon
  4. Trash talk
  5. Spring cleaning
  6. Alien perception
  7. Eighth Street time machine
  8. Best album ever
  9. Feminists without voices
  10. A Young Lady’s Illustrated Math Tutor
  11. Glass in class
  12. At night
  13. Maintaining tension
  14. The future of artificial scarcity
  15. Nighttime taxi
  16. Together, but not with each other
  17. Second Second Life
  18. Body image in the virtual world
  19. Blue greenhorn
  20. Rewind / replay
  21. Hikaru meets Hiroshi
  22. Acceptable magic
  23. Generative versus contingent
  24. Insight from errors
  25. Human-compressed algorithms
  26. Turing test for cities
  27. Musings on muses
  28. Androids do not dream of electric sheep
  29. A tin of sardines
  30. After the conference

April 2014

  1. Punk orange
  2. Two words
  3. Big screens and piracy
  4. Progressive tax
  5. Action figures
  6. Building impact
  7. Oculus rifts
  8. The hero myth
  9. The disappearing inventor
  10. Mary Poppins revisited
  11. Trans-cultural courseware
  12. Sol LeWitt
  13. The man behind the curtain
  14. Jay Oliva
  15. Contextual expertise
  16. Debt burden, part 2
  17. Debt burden
  18. Opening lines
  19. That in between state
  20. The value of having less time
  21. Boston Symphony Orchestra haiku
  22. Octopus movement
  23. 4/8/64 @ 4:44
  24. Bad about reading texts
  25. Bad career choices
  26. Rule number one
  27. Shell game
  28. Notes on open source
  29. Open to open source
  30. Sadder but wiser

March 2014

  1. On the usefulness of preparing a talk
  2. Rent-a-cat
  3. Having a Google moment
  4. The Village, where the witches are green
  5. Speakers
  6. Cartoon caption contest
  7. Trending trendiness
  8. Listening to the unconscious
  9. Put on a happy face
  10. The warm furry mammal
  11. Mixed, Dual and Blended deception
  12. Optimal unreality
  13. A pronounced difference
  14. Antipodal
  15. Blessed
  16. Alienated
  17. The two cultures, revisited
  18. Propagation
  19. Something essential
  20. Sweeter Charity
  21. A sensible answer
  22. Improvisation
  23. Standing up for health
  24. The last thing on my mind
  25. Shark eye
  26. Conversations with a brain
  27. Name check
  28. Dreaming of ghosts
  29. Applied exolinguistics
  30. Oscar haiku
  31. NSA — The Musical!
  32. Zen airlines

February 2014

  1. Feedback
  2. Not-paper
  3. Bringing back Bogie
  4. Drawing on history
  5. Esperanto for augmented reality
  6. All star cast
  7. The energy in the room
  8. Future language
  9. Forgetting to keep your car on the road
  10. Time loop karma
  11. Conversations with oneself
  12. Time slows down
  13. Waiting for Waiting for Godot
  14. Give me a break
  15. Dark tomorrows
  16. Virtual whiteboards and the evolution of language
  17. A new kind of literacy
  18. What she’s having
  19. Killer app
  20. Precocious
  21. You can’t go home again
  22. In the right room
  23. Winter wonderland
  24. A talk as research
  25. PSH
  26. Authentically inauthentic
  27. New media
  28. Between game and story

January 2014

  1. Pete Seeger
  2. Attribution
  3. Attention versus impact
  4. Movies 2.0
  5. After movies
  6. The garden of pure ideology
  7. Happy birthday you-know-who
  8. Naming things
  9. The privatization of language
  10. Crush saga
  11. The mysterious drawing
  12. From dust to dust
  13. Flirting with the fourth wall
  14. The twisted paper tape of reality
  15. Never metamer I didn’t like
  16. The supercharged now
  17. The Salieri question
  18. Why we sleep
  19. The powerful obscurity of song lyrics
  20. Kill your darlings
  21. A window into the human soul
  22. Software by the day
  23. Upside down 3D glasses
  24. Conservation of talent
  25. Don’t cross the streams
  26. The tragedy of casting
  27. Uptown on the downtown train
  28. Iambic Pentameter
  29. The snow
  30. (10 + 9 * 8 * 7 – 6 – 5) * 4 + 3 – 2 + 1
  31. Cyborg drama

2013 364

December 2013

  1. Wynwood
  2. Black Santa, Red Fox
  3. Another world
  4. The path to Teflon
  5. Miami haiku
  6. The desolation of slog
  7. Varieties of enchantment
  8. Pride, prejudice and preconceptions
  9. Two step program
  10. The delicate balance of explanations
  11. 1 + 1 + 1
  12. Music
  13. Turks and Indians
  14. Seven of nine
  15. Peter O’Toole
  16. Hunger Games, the reality show
  17. Robotic furniture movers
  18. Robotic furniture
  19. Windsor, Crockett and Joe
  20. The rise and fall of electronic whiteboards
  21. 2 × 2 × 2 × 2, part 4
  22. 2 × 2 × 2 × 2, part 3
  23. 2 × 2 × 2 × 2, part 2
  24. 2 × 2 × 2 × 2
  25. Lies and damned lies
  26. Hollywoodland
  27. Reality bytes, part 3
  28. Reality bytes, part 2
  29. Reality bytes, part 1
  30. Anna, complete
  31. Anna, part 30

November 2013

  1. Anna, part 29
  2. Anna, part 28
  3. Anna, part 27
  4. Anna, part 26
  5. Anna, part 25
  6. Anna, part 24
  7. Anna, part 23
  8. Anna, part 22
  9. Anna, part 21
  10. Anna, part 20
  11. Anna, part 19
  12. Anna, part 18
  13. Anna, part 17
  14. Anna, part 16
  15. Anna, part 15
  16. Anna, part 14
  17. Anna, part 13
  18. Anna, part 12
  19. Anna, part 11
  20. Anna, part 10
  21. Anna, part 9
  22. Anna, part 8
  23. Anna, part 7
  24. Anna, part 6
  25. Anna, part 5
  26. Anna, part 4
  27. Anna, part 3
  28. Anna, part 2
  29. Anna, part 1

October 2013

  1. Happy Halloween
  2. Blurred lines
  3. Clueless
  4. Biking from Brooklyn
  5. Best case scenario
  6. Tying things together
  7. The fallacy of the shiny new toy
  8. Another dimension
  9. Crossroad
  10. Space to dream
  11. Used book shop
  12. A few more interactive diagrams
  13. In the land of the blind
  14. Weapon of choice
  15. The toddler strategy
  16. History
  17. Ruins
  18. Constantine
  19. Future objects
  20. Old Curiosity Shop
  21. Another six hundred years
  22. The simpler problem
  23. Vegan haggis
  24. Research in St Andrews
  25. Old and new
  26. Edinburgh
  27. Bad mouse
  28. Transitional citations
  29. Context is everything
  30. Haiku about today’s weather
  31. The first interactive diagrams of October
  32. Calling card

September 2013

  1. Even more interactive diagrams
  2. Connected components
  3. Bits of inspiration
  4. These beautiful blazing comets
  5. Principles for interactive diagrams
  6. Beyond the bounds of visible light
  7. Pure green
  8. More interactive diagrams
  9. James Turrell and Nellie McKay
  10. Fun with interactive diagrams
  11. Back home haiku
  12. Transparency in augmented conversations
  13. The limits of physical experience
  14. Smart instruments
  15. Propinquity
  16. Fresco
  17. London
  18. Lines of force
  19. Spaghetti theory
  20. A history of computer graphics
  21. Lying in bed this morning
  22. Fun with particles
  23. Magnetic levitation
  24. Fun with rolling magnets
  25. Fall semester haiku
  26. Mutable narratives
  27. Pinched again!
  28. Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
  29. Go and explain
  30. Go book and wire

August 2013

  1. Go further
  2. Go, from the start
  3. We met the 24 cell
  4. The secret life of buildings
  5. New toys
  6. Tourists
  7. Is it I?
  8. The tragedy of sequels
  9. The mysteries of the internet
  10. The vehicle defines the journey
  11. If only
  12. Telephone call
  13. Enchanted Village
  14. Fringe binge
  15. Same as it ever was?
  16. The Dark Roast
  17. Pteraforming
  18. Dragon planet
  19. Being the dragon
  20. Much faster
  21. What’s in a name?
  22. Warm / cold
  23. Six plays
  24. Plato’s caveat
  25. Pun Wars
  26. Security
  27. Naked
  28. Inverse search
  29. Uneponymous
  30. Second Second Life

July 2013

  1. Google Glass is the new Palm Pilot
  2. The eye of Sauron
  3. Tragic ironies
  4. Comfort music
  5. Transformers
  6. Replicas
  7. Virtualization
  8. Name brand
  9. Wondrous and magical things
  10. Cameras at SIGGRAPH
  11. Episode
  12. Impressed
  13. CSS for learning
  14. Sketching
  15. Packet switching
  16. The unintended consequences of technological change
  17. Obscured originals
  18. Ecofashion
  19. Preconditions for widespread literacy
  20. Two talks
  21. Penny dreadfuls
  22. Everyone’s a hero, continued
  23. Everyone’s a hero
  24. Extra time
  25. Crypto-techno-evolution
  26. Beachfront property
  27. Doug Engelbart
  28. Influences
  29. The language of arrows
  30. Vampires and Zombies, revisited

June 2013

  1. Political Action Committee
  2. Gender specific complexity
  3. The limits of artificial intelligence
  4. Utility versus entertainment
  5. Second wave feminism
  6. Nouning
  7. Level design
  8. Loco parentis
  9. Circles 2 — the hand that holds the string
  10. Moon
  11. Circles
  12. Four million
  13. Where one man has gone before
  14. Living forever
  15. Nostalgia for the future
  16. Double period
  17. Writers and linguists
  18. Math and physics
  19. Other courses, other rooms
  20. Plausibility
  21. Remembrance of things past
  22. Cows
  23. Under a new sky
  24. Death and the Mouse III
  25. Death and the Mouse II
  26. Death and the Mouse
  27. Diving even deeper
  28. Diving deeper
  29. Diving deep
  30. Who was that actor?
  31. Tea house

May 2013

  1. Generation gap
  2. Passing the torch
  3. Technotrash
  4. Complex conversations
  5. It’s a small world after all
  6. City states
  7. Concentrating the mind
  8. 143
  9. A little bit of learning
  10. Reboot
  11. Life expectancy, extended
  12. Life expectancy
  13. Count your blessings
  14. A safe place
  15. Artist/scientist
  16. Big foot
  17. Municipal power
  18. A poser
  19. The perfect gift
  20. Traveling by map
  21. Music in Java
  22. Popular vote
  23. Odd rain
  24. House with robot
  25. 4D trackball
  26. Rock and roll hotel
  27. Lines that curve in 4D
  28. Lines that curve
  29. Rotating more stuff
  30. Rotating stuff

April 2013

  1. Paris in the rain, objects on a higher plane
  2. Inside a hypercube
  3. A harder question
  4. Like a cube, only deeper
  5. Tera
  6. Worlds beyond this
  7. A diamond in depth
  8. Like a square, only deeper
  9. Trey
  10. Defending the second dimension
  11. Defending the third dimension
  12. Defending the fourth dimension
  13. Things to do in Improv when you’re chess
  14. Incomprehensible
  15. Tiny people
  16. The problem of shoes
  17. Old fashioned proof
  18. A picture is worth 2 10 equations
  19. Pyramid power proof
  20. Venn diagrams
  21. Pyramid power
  22. Original version
  23. Retro
  24. Easter eggs
  25. Augmented reality and economics
  26. The magic of technology
  27. Cosmic View
  28. Other rooms
  29. Wearable micro-tweets
  30. Games for higher consciousness
  31. 4D

March 2013

  1. iFlew
  2. Game Developer’s Conference
  3. On the bus
  4. Mystery game
  5. Invisible shoes
  6. The new electric pen
  7. Returning home haiku
  8. Crowds
  9. Virtual beer
  10. Hanging on
  11. Inviting the vampire in
  12. A short war
  13. Remix
  14. Punching bag
  15. Happy accidents
  16. Time machine
  17. Confluence
  18. A different deck of cards
  19. Ambiguous art
  20. Asymmetric hybrids
  21. The evolution of movies
  22. Multiple identities
  23. Printout
  24. Two minnows
  25. Old book
  26. A sweet deal
  27. Like silent creatures of the deep
  28. Frozen in time
  29. Nonlinear productivity
  30. Staying above water
  31. Phantom limbs of the soul

February 2013

  1. Intellectual flexibility
  2. A touch of the future
  3. Essentialism
  4. Jumping in
  5. Banana floats
  6. The value of a bad demo
  7. Cultural subtitles
  8. The souls of departed geniuses
  9. Making brains
  10. All that we touch
  11. Maybe this isn’t such a good idea
  12. Race condition
  13. Vision for the future
  14. Coincidence
  15. What happens next
  16. Happy Birthday Charles
  17. Inspiration
  18. Faces in a restaurant
  19. Richard III goes to Washington
  20. The first five seconds, revisited
  21. The first five seconds
  22. The timeline of self
  23. Rules of decorum
  24. Much Ado about Something
  25. “Burlesque”
  26. One great scene
  27. Checkout
  28. Doing research

January 2013

  1. Road test
  2. Stopping at three
  3. Wearing masks on Main Street
  4. Programming Shakespeare
  5. Do less
  6. The socket slayer
  7. Joyful
  8. Applied autophoricology
  9. Pseudoautophorical
  10. Autophorical
  11. Irreducible
  12. Generalized shared worlds
  13. One hand waving free
  14. Differently present
  15. Very charming Karma
  16. Wikipedigree
  17. Flu flew
  18. One, two, three
  19. PowerPoint SunShot
  20. Smart dust
  21. Party favors
  22. Remember to shut the door
  23. Classic Brick
  24. Peace of mind
  25. Clear as glass
  26. An interesting conversation
  27. The spyglass and the jetpack
  28. (-10 + 9 – 8 + 7 * 6) * (5 * 4 * 3 + 2 – 1)
  29. (10 + 98 – 7 × 6 – 5) × (4 × 3 + 21)
  30. 0 + 123 – 45 × 6 × 7 × (8 – 9)
  31. Resolution

2012 365

December 2012

  1. One foot in front of the other
  2. Third wave supernaturalism
  3. Our shadows taller than our souls
  4. Late December haiku
  5. Why Hobbits look like Hobbits
  6. A matter of gravity
  7. Weaving through time
  8. Quintessence
  9. Famous Blue Raincoat
  10. Leonard Cohen as spiritual advisor
  11. A view from the bridge
  12. Why I love television
  13. A Game of Kōans
  14. Stuff
  15. Society of mind walks into a bar…
  16. What is wrong with us?
  17. HisSpace
  18. Beyond the Holodeck
  19. 12.12.12.12.12.12
  20. Crunch time
  21. Seven eighth notes and a rest
  22. Quantitative reasoning
  23. Star crossed blues
  24. Babes in Arms meet the Zombie Apocalypse
  25. Thinking outside of the box
  26. Song at the end of the world
  27. Steer like a bicycle, race like a car
  28. The beauty of mechanisms
  29. All in one place
  30. Elephant parts
  31. A Nose for Danger, part 29

November 2012

  1. A Nose for Danger, part 28
  2. A Nose for Danger, part 27
  3. A Nose for Danger, part 26
  4. A Nose for Danger, part 25
  5. A Nose for Danger, part 24
  6. A Nose for Danger, part 23
  7. A Nose for Danger, part 22
  8. A Nose for Danger, part 21
  9. A Nose for Danger, part 20
  10. A Nose for Danger, part 19
  11. A Nose for Danger, part 18
  12. A Nose for Danger, part 17
  13. A Nose for Danger, part 16
  14. A Nose for Danger, part 15
  15. A Nose for Danger, part 14
  16. A Nose for Danger, part 13
  17. A Nose for Danger, part 12
  18. A Nose for Danger, part 11
  19. A Nose for Danger, part 10
  20. A Nose for Danger, part 9
  21. A Nose for Danger, part 8
  22. A Nose for Danger, part 7
  23. A Nose for Danger, part 6
  24. A Nose for Danger, part 5
  25. A Nose for Danger, part 4
  26. A Nose for Danger, part 3
  27. A Nose for Danger, part 2
  28. A Nose for Danger, part 1
  29. Prelude

October 2012

  1. A memorable Halloween
  2. Aurora
  3. Apocalypse and canned goods
  4. Cash value
  5. Novel ideas
  6. On the map
  7. Under development
  8. Fast forward
  9. Fated friendships
  10. The strange alchemy of songs
  11. Meta-humor
  12. Imagine no possessions
  13. The comfort of zombies
  14. Not a game
  15. Art imitates life
  16. A little experiment
  17. Hunters to the right, gatherers to the left
  18. Crossing the A.I. chasm
  19. In the country
  20. Eulergy
  21. Super power corrupts superly
  22. Sourcing crowdsourcing
  23. Mind-body problem
  24. Three questions
  25. Movie star math
  26. Only last night the moon
  27. A beautiful couple
  28. Contract with the audience
  29. Off the grid
  30. Generative StretchText
  31. Capital investment
  32. Arbitragedy

September 2012

  1. Orgone Box
  2. September haiku
  3. Catching the glass
  4. Make a mess, clean it up
  5. Kinderszenen
  6. Happy birthday Jim!
  7. Springsteen on the Beach
  8. Geometric intuition
  9. Sideways
  10. Generation shock
  11. Trying to understand
  12. Grumpy’s choice
  13. The path taken
  14. Relationship hysteresis
  15. Secular rapture
  16. A Journey through Jabberwocky
  17. Our flag
  18. Sumware Over the Rainbow
  19. 11
  20. Grace notes (annotated)
  21. Watching Jessica Stein
  22. Monsters and food issues
  23. It runs in families
  24. A world without limits
  25. Wave theory
  26. The puppet’s gaze
  27. The master
  28. When the singer’s gone, let the song go on
  29. Black shirts and white shirts

August 2012

  1. The limits of collaboration
  2. Don’t look back
  3. Beyond cool demos
  4. Irony
  5. Cultural intervention
  6. Reflecting on polarized light
  7. Apple invents time machine
  8. Cyclic chirps
  9. Legitimate train wreck
  10. A rossum of robots
  11. As the crow flies
  12. Two haiku
  13. Assembling spheres with magnets
  14. New York in summer
  15. Anecdotal
  16. A way forward
  17. Site-specific exorcism
  18. Sharpening the axe
  19. Anagram
  20. Manufactured cynicism
  21. Rispoli
  22. In shape
  23. Predictive technological obsolescence
  24. The way of the message board
  25. Old friends
  26. Peach
  27. Role reversal
  28. Demo haiku
  29. Scandal
  30. Friggatriskaidekaphobia
  31. Within you and without you
  32. Unhackable

July 2012

  1. Science versus intuition in design
  2. A dance of sorts
  3. Programmer mind, mathematician mind
  4. Real and imaginary
  5. 3025
  6. Complex numbers and imaginary detectives
  7. Computational dramatic social dynamics
  8. Dramatic social dynamics
  9. Social dynamics
  10. In the woods
  11. Codephilia
  12. Codephobia
  13. Musicals
  14. A defining image
  15. Page rank and radiosity
  16. Moonlight and sunlight
  17. Time will tell
  18. Sweet Popcorn Gal, part II.8
  19. Sweet Popcorn Gal, part II.7
  20. Sweet Popcorn Gal, part II.6
  21. Sweet Popcorn Gal, part II.5
  22. Sweet Popcorn Gal, part II.4
  23. Sweet Popcorn Gal, part II.3
  24. Sweet Popcorn Gal, part II.2
  25. Sweet Popcorn Gal, part II.1
  26. Goddamn particle
  27. Sweet Popcorn Gal, part 8
  28. Sweet Popcorn Gal, part 7
  29. Sweet Popcorn Gal, part 6
  30. Sweet Popcorn Gal, part 5

June 2012

  1. Sweet Popcorn Gal, part 4
  2. Sweet Popcorn Gal, part 3
  3. Sweet Popcorn Gal, part 2
  4. Sweet Popcorn Gal, part 1
  5. Shiny new packages
  6. Outsourcing memory
  7. 100.001
  8. Rivers running together
  9. Artificial unlaziness
  10. A curious thing
  11. A kind of collaboration
  12. In between
  13. Neo-runes
  14. An early memory
  15. Competition and kinship
  16. dn
  17. Adaptation
  18. Ambition, Examined
  19. Mining life for art
  20. Songs versus stories
  21. Because it is my heart
  22. Cannibal socks
  23. Smells like song lyrics
  24. Incomprehensible
  25. The Bradbury Chronicles
  26. A touch of Venus
  27. The language of music
  28. Colors
  29. The Shoggoth came over the mountain
  30. Antimedia Lab

May 2012

  1. Code nostalgia
  2. Sleep mode
  3. Those three years
  4. Love insurance
  5. Religious discussions
  6. Unpublishable
  7. Sticky music
  8. True story
  9. The pliable pawn
  10. Generalized fonts: manual design versus machine learning
  11. Generalized fonts
  12. The protean pawn
  13. Chess fonts, continued
  14. Chess fonts
  15. Where everybody knows your name
  16. The New York Times renounces the scientific method
  17. New games
  18. Confession
  19. Rocks in the head
  20. By the light of the moon
  21. Elastic reality
  22. Mind reading in North Carolina
  23. The romance of ancient technologies
  24. Musing
  25. Order and chaos
  26. Situated learning
  27. Questions
  28. Alive on the planet (with applets)
  29. Alien filter
  30. Picking the right day to visit
  31. Spatial versus visual

April 2012

  1. The experiment was a success
  2. Penguins have no elbows!
  3. DIY as constructive criticism
  4. Emoticomputing
  5. Greyhound zen
  6. Current reading
  7. Production mode
  8. Procedural theater
  9. Earth Day
  10. Satisfying day
  11. Others as narratives
  12. A galaxy of friends
  13. Driving by foot
  14. Gathering applets
  15. Poly-path algorithm
  16. Project Glass and self-driving cars
  17. Becoming more sane
  18. Death metal sorority
  19. In the elevator
  20. Ghosts
  21. A deep coincidence
  22. Sketching Abraham Lincoln
  23. iPad as 8-track
  24. A secret chart
  25. Floating displays are the new robot
  26. First impressions
  27. Smashing walls
  28. Upon hearing from a friend in Hawaii
  29. The infinite revolution
  30. Getting your grandmother’s interest

March 2012

  1. Rocket Punk
  2. Self-referential food
  3. Talking about the future
  4. A measure of resistance
  5. Length of novels, plays and movies
  6. Disappointment insurance
  7. Take a moment to consider
  8. A trail of flags
  9. Pride and Prejudice and spinoffs
  10. Portable fish
  11. Mapping novels, continued
  12. 2 × 2 = 4
  13. Clapping hands
  14. The importance of circles
  15. The day between
  16. A simple statement
  17. Piambic
  18. All the Hamlets ever written, and one Hamlet
  19. Asteroid bagel
  20. California haiku
  21. Denial of tea service
  22. Rituals
  23. Floss phone
  24. We are not movies
  25. A spoonful of sugar
  26. Happy birthday Oreo!!!
  27. Conference haiku
  28. Theatre as landscape
  29. Sent but unread
  30. eRestaurant
  31. Virtualization

February 2012

  1. Perception attack
  2. Inside-out cloak
  3. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away
  4. 21 Club
  5. The vampire analogy
  6. Mapping Pride and Prejudice
  7. Novel exploration
  8. A novel view
  9. After pages
  10. The mouse you know
  11. Refrigerator points
  12. Self-deprecating humor fail
  13. It makes me happy
  14. Conservation of joy
  15. Mad wisdom
  16. A Parliament of Fowls
  17. Color barrier
  18. Birthdays
  19. Revisiting Lost in Austen
  20. Eating your own dog food
  21. Large class
  22. Poetry as a second language
  23. Oddity
  24. Future present perfect
  25. Cybermandering
  26. The Artist
  27. Planting a seed
  28. Dive bar
  29. DC Plans Prequels to Moby-Dick
  30. Generalized talkies

January 2012

  1. Talkies
  2. Truth
  3. What’s in a name?
  4. Roller coaster
  5. Protective cocoon
  6. Greeting cards
  7. Cell phone
  8. My evening with Michelle
  9. Double constraint
  10. Fourteen stories
  11. Note
  12. Melvin
  13. Leap
  14. Kangaroo
  15. Jump
  16. In
  17. He
  18. Gently
  19. Friendship
  20. Eternity
  21. Demons
  22. Counting
  23. Below
  24. After
  25. Neanderthal genius
  26. Note to self
  27. Standing on two legs
  28. Vertalic font
  29. Freud versus Jung
  30. Another year

2011 365

December 2011

  1. Tomorrow’s nostalgia
  2. Vertical text
  3. Emails from the present
  4. Visit to the future
  5. Making things move, part 6
  6. Making things move, part 5
  7. Making things move, part 4
  8. Making things move, part 3
  9. Making things move, part 2
  10. Making things move, part 1
  11. Back home
  12. No ryokan
  13. Ryokan
  14. The ducks win
  15. The great Buddha in Kamakura
  16. A sense of ceremony
  17. Culture shock
  18. The New York of Asia
  19. Jet lag dreams
  20. Learning curve
  21. First impressions are so important
  22. The other side of the world
  23. In 3D, only deeper
  24. Faces
  25. The New Girl in Oz
  26. Another world
  27. If you see what I mean
  28. A winter morning
  29. The right way to make it wrong
  30. Post birthday post
  31. Annie Hall revisited

November 2011

  1. Why sad songs?
  2. Beautiful trees
  3. Economy of abundance
  4. Unintended consequences of cloning
  5. Retrospective
  6. Waiting for a train
  7. That middle thing
  8. 谷歌翻译
  9. Innocence
  10. Pandora’s dilemma
  11. 13/4
  12. Three mountains
  13. Bookshelves in science fiction
  14. Local translational control
  15. The wisdom of Groucho
  16. Unbreakable codes, the old-fashioned way
  17. Global irony
  18. Cultural reverse peristalsis
  19. Then I woke up
  20. 11.11.11
  21. Product names
  22. Forgetting pill
  23. Paleomuseums
  24. The museum of Paleo-interactive technology
  25. Reconstructed reality
  26. Techno-wildcard
  27. Algorithmic audience genres
  28. The algorithmic audience
  29. Hanging with the neighbors in Squaresville
  30. Squaresville
  31. On All Hallows Eve

October 2011

  1. Plots to take over the world
  2. Puzzling planets
  3. The portable sphere
  4. Pipe cleaners
  5. Reality versus fantasy
  6. Bernoulli revisited, part 2
  7. Bernoulli revisited
  8. A tale told by an idiot
  9. Anomalous
  10. Scifi fail
  11. Memories
  12. In motion
  13. Preconditions for mindfulness
  14. Focus
  15. “Breaking Bad” as superhero narrative
  16. Dysfunctional superheroes
  17. Dennis Ritchie
  18. Draper Monogatari
  19. Ten superpowers for grownups
  20. Superpowers for grownups
  21. All clean and shiny
  22. Revisited
  23. All that jazz
  24. Obvious
  25. Gracious tribute
  26. Steve Jobs
  27. Animatronic prototyping board
  28. 3D printers and the Protestant Reformation
  29. Uses for a 3D printer
  30. Everyday performance
  31. Mystery art

September 2011

  1. Augmented reality and language
  2. Joke
  3. Authorship
  4. Causes of Neutrino measurement error
  5. Musical bits
  6. Love and telepathy
  7. Just a little too fast
  8. Consensual illusion
  9. The next day
  10. Taken with Taken
  11. Uses of GPS
  12. Snowclones considered harmful
  13. Today’s reading
  14. Something old, something new
  15. Time out
  16. Oops
  17. Contagious
  18. Meta-memorial
  19. Sad
  20. Inventing reality
  21. The Way Things Work
  22. The poetry of projects
  23. The mountain road
  24. A game of games
  25. Ironically named day
  26. Ugly humans
  27. Future hands
  28. Artists create audiences
  29. Family drama

August 2011

  1. We make things with our hands
  2. Today’s visitor
  3. Multiverse movies
  4. The irony of storms
  5. The future of cameras
  6. The day before
  7. Signs
  8. Paws step. Pets swap!
  9. Neologism
  10. Apological
  11. Kwalado
  12. Sketching the future
  13. Science and emotion
  14. Philosophy of noise
  15. Crowds in finite worlds, continued
  16. Crowds in finite worlds
  17. Finite worlds I have loved
  18. Finite worlds
  19. Games that generate stories, continued
  20. Games that generate stories
  21. Temporary technologies
  22. Virtual reality, old-style
  23. Aspiration
  24. Inspiration
  25. Transitions
  26. Hypervolume
  27. 4D Pong, continued
  28. 4D Pong
  29. One year later
  30. The stables are full of bones
  31. August
  32. Performance by programming

July 2011

  1. Drunken master
  2. Computer programming as performance
  3. Compose / rehearse / perform
  4. Nina
  5. The King in Yellow
  6. Technology is easy.
  7. Heartening
  8. A creation of the mind of children
  9. Invested engagement
  10. Monopachydermous
  11. Good news and bad news
  12. Robots
  13. Porous
  14. Inappropriate
  15. Value proposition
  16. Fearlessness versus citizenship
  17. Text and gesture in our future
  18. Impregnable
  19. We don’t need another Heroes
  20. The Multiverse Express
  21. Novel ideas for tiny fonts
  22. Tiny font, revisited
  23. Nurturing a creative community
  24. Brian May
  25. Fish tales
  26. Fish tale
  27. July 4 at 4
  28. A curriculum for visual storytelling
  29. Telling a story
  30. DSK
  31. The Attic, complete

June 2011

  1. Factor Me Elmo
  2. Desktop movie maker, take 2
  3. Desktop movie maker
  4. Useful stupidity
  5. A day to be proud of
  6. Mind control
  7. The Zombie Vampire Continuum Hypothesis
  8. Orcs
  9. Be here now
  10. Grand piano
  11. Making waves
  12. Harmonics
  13. Tissue
  14. Pain perdu
  15. A dream couple
  16. French airport
  17. Pantheon
  18. Ordering in french
  19. Procedural
  20. Midnight in Paris at midnight in Paris
  21. Soup du jour
  22. Such problems
  23. R.I.P. Alan Turing
  24. Making waves
  25. Michael Nesmith
  26. Émile Zola
  27. Desperado
  28. Shampoo
  29. Travel market

May 2011

  1. Ithneon
  2. Death of the laptop
  3. Last night near Le Pont Mirabeau
  4. Mood maps
  5. “School for Lies” – a review
  6. Sand painting
  7. Fast thumb-typing for one or two hands
  8. Optimized non-visual thumb-chording
  9. Braille thumb-chording
  10. Painting with Kinect
  11. The fire this time
  12. Writing in the dark
  13. Those few moments
  14. The gift (three haiku)
  15. Hero’s journey Mad-Libs
  16. Apocalypse now
  17. Rich interfaces
  18. Skynect
  19. Gone pro
  20. It seemed to be a good idea today
  21. Through a glass darkly
  22. Transitional technology
  23. Uh oh
  24. More on suggester shapes
  25. Suggester shapes
  26. Culture-specific
  27. Recreational metritocracy
  28. Metritocracy
  29. Enjambment
  30. More transposed idiocracy
  31. Transposed idiocracy
  32. Beyond consumer culture

April 2011

  1. Apples and oranges
  2. Birthers
  3. Modern haiku
  4. Premise
  5. Automatons
  6. Max
  7. Lighting a fire
  8. Random happy thing
  9. Probability athiests
  10. Children
  11. The Lexiconicom
  12. The dead
  13. Paleolithic
  14. Taking the long view
  15. Time travel in China
  16. Opening a window
  17. Darwin’s games
  18. Spaceman
  19. Superpower mode
  20. Games and the academy
  21. The very first
  22. The Scottish musical
  23. Literature of mathematics
  24. Carnegie Hall
  25. Dancing with penguins
  26. Forensic predictive cultural longevity
  27. Spam filters ate my friends
  28. Only Kinect
  29. Mars attacks
  30. Reality filter

March 2011

  1. Watson
  2. Just weird enough
  3. The last picture show
  4. Clean
  5. Interdisciplinary map
  6. Triangle Shirtwaist fire
  7. Text forward
  8. Arcadia
  9. Yin and yang
  10. Childhood dreams
  11. Opposites
  12. Art for art’s sake
  13. Operatic robots
  14. Apples for Sibelius
  15. News from Japan
  16. Pachelbel’s Cannon in D major, version 2
  17. Pachelbel’s Cannon in D major
  18. Macbeth meets Mary Poppins
  19. Why we have noses
  20. AOG
  21. Steam engine
  22. Subtraction distraction
  23. Hypergeography
  24. Happy ending
  25. Gaze tracking
  26. Improvisation
  27. Digital 3D recording
  28. A boulder on the tracks
  29. Snap together stories
  30. Murphy’s blog
  31. Memorable month

February 2011

  1. Oscars
  2. The courage to be funny
  3. Safety meter
  4. A model of itself
  5. Collaborative music
  6. Anti-laser
  7. Iterating animating
  8. The public sphere
  9. Server side
  10. Collaborative animated painting
  11. The precipice
  12. Electric train set
  13. The tyranny of flexibility
  14. Collaborating with you (part 3)
  15. Collaborating with you (part 2)
  16. How many dimensions?
  17. The dominant seventh chord
  18. Noisy molecules
  19. A journey of a single step
  20. Collaborating with you
  21. Audio virtual reality
  22. Fractals revisited
  23. Distributed orchestra, part 2
  24. Distributed orchestra
  25. Springy molecules
  26. Then another film
  27. Two films
  28. Something beautiful and true

January 2011

  1. Springy skeletons
  2. A dog named Ethyl
  3. Rewind
  4. Springy Thingy
  5. Spring in winter
  6. A tall chocolate cat
  7. All the words
  8. Möbius story font
  9. The land beyond the Möbius strip
  10. The right turn
  11. Kyoto
  12. The story in your eyes
  13. Five percent
  14. Millipedes conquer the world
  15. Doodling movement
  16. Hyperbolic apple slices
  17. Continuing to dry an apple slice
  18. The Passion of Sarah
  19. Drying an apple slice
  20. Mood dialing
  21. A splash of color
  22. Fractals to the people!
  23. Exoaesthetics
  24. Exogeometry
  25. Not exactly chess
  26. Making chess
  27. Face time
  28. Practicing chess
  29. Prime directive
  30. Another year

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