STEIM presents two lectures in one night

Sven König — sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! (see also this post)
Phoebe Legere — Sneaker Lecture

Location: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Date: Tuesday May 23 2006
Time: 20:00
Entrance: free
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One should always be drunk. That’s the great thing; the only question. Not to feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and bowing you to the earth, you should be drunk without respite.
Drunk with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please. But get drunk.
And if sometimes you should happen to awake, on the stairs of a palace, on the green grass of a ditch, in the dreary solity of your own room, and find that your drunkenness is ebbing or has vanished, ask the wind and the wave, ask star, bird, or clock, ask everything that flies, everything that moans, everything that flows, everything that sings, everything that speaks, ask them the time; and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird and the clock will all reply: “It is Time to get drunk! If you are not to be martyred slaves of Time, be perpetually drunk! With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please.”

~ Baudelaire

Alright, it’s time to summarize some cool new articles i read and websites i visited in the past weeks. It’s getting hard to keep up to date, it seems like Moore’s Law also applies to cool mashups and ideas for new websites these days. Anyway, let’s get started.

I don’t have a cameraphone yet but semapedia.org makes me want one. The idea is to link wikipedia entries to physical locations, that’s right, in the real world. You make a tag on semapedia to link a particular wikipedia entry to a particular real world location (some kind of bar code) and stick it on the real world location. When you walk by and see a tag like that, you scan it with your cameraphone and surf to semapedia which then automagically points you to the wikipedia entry. Bye bye tour guides. I’d also like pictures, audiotours and events at that location … I guess it’s just a matter of time. What about activist info? And of course commerce has jumped on this as well: shotcode.com. I’d rather like objective info, thank you.

TurnHere is a new Internet video destination which chronicles different neighborhoods and places across the country through the use of Internet video films. Created by professional and amateur filmmakers specifically for the Internet, TurnHere’s high-quality videos offer a first-hand, insiders look at different destinations around the country, and are hosted by real people who live there. Films focus on the people, culture, history, local businesses and political landscapes specific to each destination.

connotea.org - a recommendation system for scientists. Connotea is a place to keep links to the articles you read and the websites you use, and a place to find them again. It is also a place where you can discover new articles and websites through sharing your links with other users. In Connotea, every user’s links are visible both to visitors and to every other user, and different users’ libraries are linked together through the use of common tags or common bookmarks.

librarything.com - last.fm for books.

Imagining the google feature. Fun to read. Also check tegenlichts webspecial on searchengines, elaborate and good. googlesystem.blogspot.com/ a blog about new google features etc.

Yahoo! UI Library The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources. All components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses.

tvrss.net - need a torrent from your favorite episode?

A nice and very elaborate list of places where you can find good online documentaries. By my good friend Feliks (and me actually ;)) He forgot, or refuses to put on indypeer.org - a site with torrent and ed2k links to activist videos. We’ll soon post a list with some nice documentaries we saw.

vpro’s de toekomst over nieuws in de toekomst. Erg interessante documentaire.

Mmmmhh, I got the feeling I forgot a whole bunch. Well, if I recall I might put them online later. Anywaz, thanks to tikitu, auke and ine for some of these recommendations through delicious, mail or blogs.

I just love wit remarks:

dour has a massive line-up again! And they started using tagging :p The first festival which I see using tags. And it works well! http://www.dourfestival.be/nl/tag/.

Wat als alle informatie in de wereld gecategoriseerd en gemakkelijk doorzoekbaar zou zijn? Wat als al het nieuws van over de hele wereld, alle boeken, geschreven teksten, foto’s en video die er bestaan op één plaats in de wereld verzameld zou worden, en overal beschikbaar zou zijn? Dat is precies het doel van Google, en het bedrijf zal er niet lang meer over doen om dit te verwezenlijken. Via de bekende zoekmachine, via Google Earth, waarin alle mogelijke informatie ingedeeld wordt op geografische locatie. Maar bijvoorbeeld ook via Google Books, een project waarbij Google complete bibliotheken digitaliseert.

Bekijk de zeer goede documentaire hier.

Een mogelijk antwoord vind je op open-search.net

“The Sultan’s Elephant is a spectacle you’ve only imagined… Created by theatrical magicians Royal de Luxe (en,fr), it tells the story of a sultan from far-off lands and his magical, time-travelling mechanical elephant. Forty feet high and 42 tonnes in weight, this beautiful creature will capture the hearts and minds of everyone who sees it.