The launch of news site Daylife almost two weeks ago was met by a flurry of feedback from thoughtful types across the web. So what happened? Bloggers alternately fawned over Daylife’s “engagingly pretty” interface and decried its lack of interactivity. TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, a Daylife investor, was disappointed at the absence of commenting and RSS […]
Networked Nature at Foxy Production
At a bit before seven this evening I found myself standing beneath the pulsating lights and gently inflating and deflating tentacles of a mechanical septopod, while watching slime mold – in extravagant magentas and greens – creep across a television screen. A woman leisurely wandered past the mold toward the hydroponics to my left, and […]
Listeners
My fellow, patriotic Americans, Today, I speak to you as the President of the United States of America, your President, not as the Leader of the Free World. I want to talk to you about patriotism, about preventing terrorist attacks on our country and about how you can all be involved in our War […]
Midnight Thought
00:31 And here I am drifting away on my raft into the seas of imagination. Carlos Gardel accompanying me with his intimate voice making love to his music. Thats the nature of tango I would have to say. I leave in about ten hours, ready and packed. The end of another tumultuous semester and I […]
Changes in Facility Planning
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Sacramento State’s planned Recreation, Wellness and Event Center is facing monetary setbacks and will not be built as originally presented to students, according to University President Alexander Gonzalez. Gonzalez appeared before a meeting of the Associated Students Inc. on Wednesday to formally correct information in an article appearing in The State Hornet […]
Red Ken the Mayor of London strikes again – Oyster Card Acceptance
London Transport has promoted the Oyster Card on the Tube and Buses, but not with the agreement of all the train companies serving London (about 15). Hence customers get a hard time from some of the train companies and have to buy tickets even when they have credit on their Oyster Card. Because of the […]