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Re: it's all learned (GUI Needs An Upgrade)

chrysaora — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 18:08:28 -0000

It's not actually GUIs you're mad at, it's icon-based representation for file systems! Technically, a GUI is anything that's not strictly text-based interface.

Re: Insert Coin: Public Lab DIY Spectrometer wants to be the 'Shazam of materials'

chrysaora — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 23:33:17 -0000

Well, hand-assembled versions of this are already to market! http://shop.breadpig.com/pr... The kickstarter is to do a bigger run.

Also, Public Laboratory has done several Kickstarter projects in the past and they've come through on rewards every time.

Re: Insert Coin: Public Lab DIY Spectrometer wants to be the 'Shazam of materials'

chrysaora — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 23:29:08 -0000

According to the Kickstarter, it's "as high as 3nm". I'm guessing that's with the HD webcam setup and not the smartphone...

Re: Why Non-Profits Need a Powerful Tool for Finding Potential Allies

chrysaora — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:39:52 -0000

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this was a good idea! Now we just need some kind of platform to share this data between organizations...

Re: The Institute on Higher Awesome Studies

chrysaora — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:28:55 -0000

Joanne, you should email me (christina AT awesomestudies) and let me know where you're coming from and what kind of chapter you'd like to start!

Re: ZOMG A NEW SMBC BOOK…and monocles?

chrysaora — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:34:41 -0000

We did make some lubricated ones. They were too gross for the public.

We will do our best to make them available online!

Re: SXSW 2012 - Harnessing the Power of the Benevolent Internet

chrysaora — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:14:11 -0000

I'm excited to be on a panel about internet giving and do-goodery that has such a wide spectrum of perspectives: facilitators, instigators, donors, and recipients! We're gonna work hard to give you a really good look into our little microcosm of giving, as well as looking at the big picture of what this means for THE FUTURE.

Re: SXSW 2012 - Storytelling with URLs

chrysaora — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:14:46 -0000

SXSW has way too many poorly thought through panels about social media and marketing, so I'm glad to see a panel that's specific, smart, thoughtful, and useful like this one. Mitcho is one really smart dude and I'm sure this talk will be totally fascinating!

Re: SXSW 2012 - Designing a Creative Online Community for Kids

chrysaora — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:09:44 -0000

Scratch is one of the coolest, most successful projects to come out of the MIT Media Lab, and that's saying a lot. If you're at all interested in learning about kids and online communities, give this one an upvote!

Re: Save Yourself! Launch Party

chrysaora — Thu, 12 May 2011 14:50:56 -0000

@quintushalls Maybe for the book 2 party, when we all know each other better. Besides, did you see those dinosaurs??

Re: Save Yourself, Mammal!

chrysaora — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:28:19 -0000

You're totally right! First ever ENGLISH book. Good catch!

Re: Save Yourself, Mammal!

chrysaora — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:21:11 -0000

ODB once famously said that "Wu-Tang is for the children." Breadpig one-ups them by being for the science in addition to being for the children.

Breadpig really just wants a belated invitation to the Wu-Tang Clan.

Re: Announcing…HACK CLUB!

chrysaora — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:05:25 -0000

You can come and go as you please, of course, but robots take time to build! And don't you MISS pulling all nighters?

Re: Warning! Don’t eat crawfish.

chrysaora — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:45:34 -0000

I swear to god they have monthly meetings where the agenda is like
1) Did you know as soon as it is dark out, your children will be raped in the streets?
2) THE DANGER OF *Insert public health misconception*
3) This month's hot career: accountant!

Re: Allow me to introduce myself

chrysaora — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:00:14 -0000

Thanks! My official title at C4FCM was "outreach coordinator" (see: http://civic.mit.edu/blog/x... but I worked on a whole bunch of things. Most notably, I headed up the Extract project for a while (http://civic.mit.edu/projec... we were building web-based tools to help citizens dealing with extractive industries.

Re: Vietnam: Educating Girls in Tra Cu, pt. 2

chrysaora — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:40:28 -0000

Simon, (and everyone else) you are certainly welcome to use any of the photos! They are available in full-size at http://www.flickr.com/photo...

Hope all is well with you and Florence!

Re: What the hell is going on in that “Telephone” video?

chrysaora — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:25:32 -0000

Would you say the same about Andy Warhol?

Re: The Future of Record Labels

chrysaora — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:49:43 -0000

Getting your album out there is EXACTLY what the internet has made easier, much more so than making it easier for you to fund your album!

It's true that the internet won't really help you hit up radio stations or agents, but the whole point is that they aren't necessary for you to hit the big time anymore. Some of the most influential critics are bloggers. You can connect directly to fans if you know where to find them. There's lots of examples of this working out of people: Soulja Boy and Sean Kingston did all of their own self-promotion quite successfully on MySpace and were subsequently noticed by record labels because they were already blowing up on their own. Granted, this is a little different for you because, as you said yourself, your primary audience is grandmas....

Re: Where the internet is going

chrysaora — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:45:55 -0000

So they already have this at the Media Lab: http://oblong.com/

I agree that 3d internet would be cool, but there's lots of interface considerations to be made. First of all, websites have tried to include 3d-esque content before (VRML in the 90s! Good stuff) but it turns out that it's just kind of....lame video-game-y. Second, even if you had an interface that could work like the one I linked to above or with Natal---would you want to? That's kind of a lot of work to just be navigating a menu, or typing! In certain ways, pressing a button or hitting "down" is a beautifully elegant way of navigating, and we shouldn't forget that in the new shiny future...

Re: http://soisawthisthing.tumblr.com/post/429268846

chrysaora — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:13:21 -0000

Why do I feel like this was posted just for the completely unnecessary jab at Ohio?

Re: http://soisawthisthing.tumblr.com/post/395644174

chrysaora — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:58:45 -0000

I was explaining how I wanted to make something like this to Brennan a while ago! My version had a separate views for personal/friends/world, but same basic plan. Cool!

Re: The U.S. Bureau of Fabulous Bitches - When Daleks Were Scary

chrysaora — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:25:06 -0000

I think our villain is clearly zombies. Especially those created by our own hubris. They're dumb and uneducated, but somehow are still better at surviving than we are, which plays into a fear of our pending Darwinian comeuppance.

P.S. "Darth Vader is never going to find himself in a porn." Are you kidding me? Rule 34! A quick Google reveals (VERY NSFW): http://galleries.famous-com...

Re: The U.S. Bureau of Fabulous Bitches - Sifting Through ROFLCon

chrysaora — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:03:52 -0000

Yeah, it was pretty cool to gain other accomplices in making fun of you =D

I know I've said this like a million times, but I wonder about the selection bias we get with Twitter as an organizational tool. What I would like to see next year is even more types of backchannels (and maybe some creative way to crossfeed them??) so that people can use whatever medium they feel most comfortable with without self-segregating because of it.

It was a good run!

Re: The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Theses For All

chrysaora — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:01:32 -0000

Thank you!

The Free Thesis Project is located here: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/.... Theses of all disciplines are welcome, and if you are interested in helping to coordinate an extension of the project to any of the graduate schools at Harvard, please let us know!