Graham Sergeant

"What does a metre sea level rise actually mean? This is how we visualised some of the data confusion" - Graham Sergeant

"Cliché is herd thinking, herd writing." —Martin Amis - Graham Sergeant

heard by the herd? (can I have pedant sticker now? :) - James Tindall

""Maybe I make a terrible boss, but at least I know it," he tweeted. "Work with me." And based on that tiny little missive, his until-then unknown start-up Tiny Speck was flooded with job applicants hoping they join Butterfield as he and his partners made a second attempt at catching lightning in the Web 2.0 bottle. Of course, no one knew at that point what Tiny Speck was up to, beyond the fact that the start-up was hiring a creative production team lead. Much informed speculation pegged the effort at some kind of social gaming initiative. On Tuesday, CNET reported exclusively that Tiny Speck is building an online social game called Glitch, and that it has just launched its private alpha. The game is intended for a public launch sometime in the second half of this year. " - Graham Sergeant

"As described on Glitch.com, "It's called Glitch because in the far-distant and totally-perfect future, the world starts becoming less and less probable, things fall apart, the center cannot hold, and there occurs what comes to be called the 'glitch'--a grave danger of disemprobablization. This results in a time-traveling effort at saving the future, going back into the minds of eleven great giants walking sacred paths on a barren asteroid who sing and think and hum the world into existence." " - Graham Sergeant

"While Glitch shares some of the features of hard-core MMOs like World of Warcraft and EverQuest--principally quests, leveling up, an in-game economy and working socially with other players, as a 2D Flash game--it might at the same time feel mildly familiar to players of Facebook games like Farmville or Nintendo titles like the many iterations of the Mario franchise. At its core, Glitch is a social game in which players must learn how to find and grow resources, identify and build community and, at the higher levels of the game, proselytize to those around them. For those expecting warfare of the orc versus mage kind, perhaps it might be best to reset your expectations. "Rather than you and me fighting each other with swords," Butterfield explained, "it could be you and me having rival religious factions battling each other for converts." " - Graham Sergeant

He's going back to where he was before Flickr. £10 says the investors spot something else in the production and the whole thing goes off on a mad tangent. - zeroinfluencer

"it could be you and me having rival religious factions battling each other for converts" - hang on - this whole synopsis is about a few large digital/media firms and their occupants/users looking for bugs. It's the fairy tale of web2.0 - zeroinfluencer

"The boat appeared to be hanging, as if by magic, ...upon the interior surface of a funnel" - Graham Sergeant

"Where can you see a mangled jet, writhing orgy and Afghan space station all in one place? At a new art exhibition at London's Gagosian Gallery, where an eye-popping collision of sex and technology pays homage to JG Ballard's dystopian vision. Adrian Searle gives us a guided tour" - Graham Sergeant

How deep will the sandbox be? - zeroinfluencer

It's not bad by any standard. We aren't talking emergent complexity by any yardstick but if we can go by previous Halo games we are talking a set perimeter housing a free form organic squad based combat AI that has the ability to surprise and keep you guessing. - Graham Sergeant

"A new website that has been described as "surreal", "addictive" and "frightening" is proving a sensation around the world – and attracting a reputation as a haven for no-holds-barred, explicit material. Chatroulette, which was launched in November, has rocketed in popularity thanks to its simple premise: internet video chats with ­random strangers. When users visit the site and switch on their webcams, they are suddenly connected to another, randomly chosen person who is doing precisely the same thing somewhere else in the world." - Graham Sergeant

Like FF with video then? ;-) - Graham Sergeant

takes me back... 25 years *gulp* - Graham Sergeant

"The artist’s stylistic choices and deliberately muddling representation leave us even more confused. She mixes monochrome and colour. There is no sense of perspective or scale, with no sign of the sky, and aerial shots adjoin ground-level views. The prints, glued to aluminium sheets, have no protective glass shield, so there are no reflections. The colours are matt, the blacks ashen. What counts is the confrontation with matter" - Graham Sergeant

"“It’s obvious that if you look at leaves, they have a lot of loops,” Katifori says. To find out how the looped networks may be beneficial for the plants, the researchers created a computer model to compare how efficiently different branching patterns could do the job of leaf veins, which move water and nutrients around. “The question we’re asking is, what’s the best network we can build?” Katifori says." - Graham Sergeant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Graham Sergeant

Great tune. - Kol Tregaskes

Probably more frenzied than what we're after but packed with ideas. I'm aiming for a high rate of invention with as much media reuse as possible. - Graham Sergeant

Great White Lies? - zeroinfluencer

fishy - Graham Sergeant

Bait - zeroinfluencer

"Do you want to develop computer games without spending countless hours learning how to become a programmer? Then you've come to the right place. Game Maker allows you to make exciting computer games, without the need to write a single line of code. Making games with Game Maker is a lot of fun." - Graham Sergeant

What's the title? - i cant see this in Germany. I'm actually rly surprised the huge amount of videos that are blocked from here. - zeroinfluencer

Let Forever Be by Chemicals with Noel on vocals? - Graham Sergeant

"NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured more than 13,000 images of the red planet’s surface. And now, the space agency wants your input on what images to acquire next. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera is currently the most powerful camera on any NASA spacecraft. The images it has collected are truly amazing. They highlight how similar the Martian landscape is to Earth in some ways, as well as how otherworldly other parts of Mars can seem." - Graham Sergeant

Nice quote: "Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema. –Andrei Tarkovsky" - Graham Sergeant

"The rather dry word oscillate may become a bit less dry when we learn its story. It is possible that it goes back to the Latin word scillum, a diminutive of s, "mouth," meaning "small mouth." In a passage in the Georgics, Virgil applies the word to a small mask of Bacchus hung from trees to move back and forth in the breeze. From this word scillum may have come another word scillum, meaning "something, such as a swing, that moves up and down or back and forth." And this scillum was the source of the verb scillre, "to ride in a swing," and the noun (from the verb) scillti, "the action of swinging or oscillating." The words have given us, respectively, our verb oscillate, first recorded in 1726, and our noun oscillation, first recorded in 1658. The next time one sees something oscillating, one might think of that small mask of Bacchus swinging from a pine tree in the Roman countryside." - Graham Sergeant

"Edward Leedskalnin was jilted by his 16-year-old fiancée Agnes Scuffs in Latvia, just one day before the wedding. Leaving for America, he came down with allegedly terminal tuberculosis, but spontaneously healed, stating that magnets had some effect on his disease. Edward spent over 28 years building the Coral Castle, refusing to allow anyone to view him while he worked. A few teenagers claimed to have witnessed his work, reporting that he had caused the blocks of coral to move like hydrogen balloons. The only tool that Leedskalnin spoke of using was a "perpetual motion holder."" - Graham Sergeant

"They reveal the partnership intends to begin using the drones in time for the 2012 Olympics. They also indicate that police claims that the technology will be used for maritime surveillance fall well short of their intended use – which could span a range of police activity – and that officers have talked about selling the surveillance data to private companies. A prototype drone equipped with high-powered cameras and sensors is set to take to the skies for test flights later this year." - Graham Sergeant

Rly starting to take the piss now. - Graham Sergeant

" The yellow slime mold Physarum polycephalum grows as a single cell that is big enough to be seen with the naked eye. When it encounters numerous food sources separated in space, the slime mold cell surrounds the food and creates tunnels to distribute the nutrients. In the experiment, researchers led by Toshiyuki Nakagaki, of Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, placed oat flakes (a slime mold delicacy) in a pattern that mimicked the way cities are scattered around Tokyo, then set the slime mold loose. Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredsc..." - Graham Sergeant