Solipsism Gradient

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X-Ray. Creativity. In Style. (OS X Panther)

Rainer’s not only decidedly got past that developer’s block.

Thankfully, Bruce Sterling’s weblog now has a RSS feed! And he’s linking to great stuff… I especially recommend Levitated.net (by Jared Tarbell & Lola Brine), which also ties in with my previous post about interactive webpages. I’m not into Flash, but if you are, there’s lots of interesting source code here.

According to Boing Boing, Bruce also points at the Perpetual Ocean gallery; I couldn’t find this reference, but it’s well worth a visit, too; especially the Digital Image Gallery.

In line with his tips for shareware authors that I mentioned recently, Brent Simmons points at Rogue Amoeba?s Good Ideas. A must read.

Der Schockwellenreiter graciously links to XRay… danke, Jörg!

While debugging buggy bugs (as my iChat status line says most of the time), I can’t resist reading my RSS feeds at least once a day. Lately several interesting interactive webpages have come to the notice of the people who are doing my web browsing for me, and the thing has reached a critical mass where I absolutely have to post this.

The Economists.

The Eyes Have It, Flower, Swarm, Swarm Plant, ah well, just look at the index of everything.

Programmable Smileys.

The Scribbler.

There were a few others, but I couldn’t find the URLs on short notice. I think all of these were found by the folks at Boing Boing and/or the peripatetic John Walkenbach.

Now, back to them bugs…

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Apple bites, frank views and a flower for my favourite feline

A “long and winding road of litigation”.

It’s been some time since I wrote about the World of Ends meme. Now Dave Pollard writes about how it might (or rather, will) apply to large corporations:

You know business is in trouble when it starts suing its customers. Bad sign. What has led to this terrible state, and what does it mean for the future of business?

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What remains is the business ‘world of ends’ in Figure 3, no different from Figure 2 except that it has ‘imploded’, with the removal of the no-longer-necessary large corporation getting in the way of true, open, networked commerce. This is a world of entrepreneurs, perhaps even New Collaborative Enterprises, agile and responsive to customers, specialized but working as a network, no middle-man required.

Well worth reading. I’ve been remiss in not linking more to Dave’s articles, they’re always intriguing…

Wired is moving into hosting weblogs. The first one is, appropriately, Bruce Sterling’s “Beyond the Beyond”. There are some nice links there already, among them this interview. Bruce responds very tersely, but I liked this:

Q: Do you view our inability to see the higher reality as a problem related only to human perceptions or does it involve our spiritual aspect?

A:There is no “higher reality” in the sense that you mean here. If one sees a spiritual higher reality, that in itself is a major problem.

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Take that, Paulo Coelho! 😉

That said, there’s no RSS feed. Tsk, tsk… how un-beyondly…

Thanks to Boing Boing for the link!