runme.orglatest new projects on runme.orgCity Distances: measuring informational distances between cities.- (Found July 2, 2008 ) "This three-dimensional scheme represents the strength of relations between cities from searches on google. The main idea is compare the number of pages on internet where the two cities appears one close to the other with the number of pages they appear isolated". We call that the google-platonic distance between cities.http://runme.org/project/+Citiesdistances/ Nude Studies in Aleatoric Environments- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Automated nude studies abstracted through geological intervention. This software creates vector-based "paintings" of online nudes (tagged Flickr images) that are "re-interpreted" by incorporating live seismic readings from various parts of the world to a real-time screen rendering of each image. The hosted version uses four locations in North and South America however the network from which the ...(more)http://runme.org/project/+nudestudies/ The Hypertext Revelation- (Found July 2, 2008 ) So, partially in the interest of making tangible the structure of an obscure text, and partially just for fun, I wrote a script that chopped up the King James version of the Book of Revelations and analyzed it, cataloging each unique word in the text and all the unique words that followed it. I then used that data to make a website that lets you trace phrases through the space of Revelations, ...(more)http://runme.org/project/+hyperrev/ The Meta Technology- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Meta Technology is a new type of technology. Meta Technology takes the standard input-process-output flow and modifies it. Meta technology weakens technology so it slows down enough for you to examine. It's a very special, pioneering strategy to understand technology.http://runme.org/project/+TheMetaTechnology/ ShiftSpace- (Found July 2, 2008 ) While the Internet's design is widely understood to be open and distributed, control over how users interact online has given us largely centralized and closed systems. The web is undergoing a transformation whose promise is user empowermentbut who controls the terms of this new readwrite web The web has followed the physical movement of the city's social center from the (public) town square ...(more)http://runme.org/project/+shiftspace/ ByteMolester- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Glitch forcing utility for distorting data.http://runme.org/project/+bytemolester/ Evil Pinball- (Found July 2, 2008 ) The iconic Windows 3D Pinball game meets Ronald Reagan's 1983 "Evil Empire" speech - and pinball becomes a tool for generating rap. While many game hacks modify a familiar game's visuals, Evil Pinball "hacks" the audio. Simply by replacing default audio files, the concept of the game is transformed.http://runme.org/project/+evilpinball/ Desktop3D explorer- (Found July 2, 2008 ) With these application, you can explore my "private" Desktop configuration in 3D. ...investigate... privacy...http://runme.org/project/+Desk3Dex/ |