Friday
Imagine a broadcast network in America that was dedicated to education, where the best educators had the opportunity to produce its programming, and where individuals as well as institutions could develop a new genre of wide-ranging educational programs? Educational programming could elevate the role of teaching in our culture and promote the value of lifelong learning. This blog post explores why education is a more important role for public broadcasting in America, a new role that would re-align PBS with its original mission as an educational network.
Our public broadcasting system should re-invent itself as a network for educational programming. Moreover, it should specifically focus on increasing public interest and engagement in science and civics. This is a vital public mission — promoting science and technology literacy and creating a greater understanding of our own system of government.
Friday
Wednesday
New streams of programming from WFMU
UBU AUDIO: Sound poetry culled from Kenny G’s amazing ubu.com. OMG.
ICHIBAN ROCK & SOUL: Obscure ’50s and ’60s Rock ‘n’ Soul as selected by Debbie D., Dave the Spazz, Rex and Mr. Finewine. Their blog has more info.
Tuesday
Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters
- Simple behaviors for individuals and pairs:
- Combined behaviors and groups:
- Crowd Path Following
- Leader Following
- Unaligned Collision Avoidance
- Queuing (at a doorway)
- Flocking (combining: separation, alignment, cohesion)
→ Computer simulation from 1986
→ Boids algorithm, step-by-step
Monday
“soundfiles of spoken words ‘voice’ vs. ‘prophet’ input force into the fluid simulation.” by evsc
Wednesday
Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi television reporter jailed for throwing his shoes at former US president George W. Bush, is kissed on the cheek by his uncle as he arrives at the Iraqi Al-Baghdadia studios in Baghdad on September 15, 2009, following his release. Zaidi was released after a nine-month stint in prison. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images) (via Boston.com)
Tuesday
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
mini viva – left my heart in tokyo (acid girls remix)
I can’t stop looking.
donald judd (via but does it float)
Wednesday
Friday
exclude files from an svn commit
# Handy if you want to do a quick commit
# of everything except a few things.
svn st | egrep -v "REG EXPRESSION" | awk "{print $2}" | xargs svn ci
# example:
svn st | egrep -v "config|settings|sqlite" | awk "{print $2}" | xargs svn ci -m "checking in everything except my local settings and database"
