The Think Tank

Stanford Researchers Offer Open Software For Cameras • IEEE Intl...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:12:37 -0700

Stanford Researchers Offer Open Software For Cameras

• IEEE Intl Conference On Computational Photography (ICCP) April 8-9-10, 2011

Breaking the brain code — Scientists are trying to create artificial life, but we have not yet managed to cross the border between material that is not alive, and life.

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:07:12 -0700

Breaking the brain code — Scientists are trying to create artificial life, but we have not yet managed to cross the border between material that is not alive, and life.

This week in history: Gutenberg Bible completed. The Bible is printed for the first time by DANIEL BENSADOUN

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:05:43 -0700

This week in history: Gutenberg Bible completed. The Bible is printed for the first time by DANIEL BENSADOUN

Freelancers need social support mechanisms that will...

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:15:23 -0700

Freelancers need social support mechanisms that will ‘prop’ them up when bureaucrats attempt to reduce their involvement and needs to a discussion about medical insurance.

"A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture..."

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:36:36 -0700

“A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.”

- Beverly Sills

"Sane is a dangerous word. It implies a clear distinction, a sharp line between the Sane and the..."

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:56:08 -0700

“Sane is a dangerous word. It implies a clear distinction, a sharp line between the Sane and the Insane that we all see clearly and accept as a truth of nature. But it is not. No. The only real difference between the Sane and the Insane, in this world, is the Sane have the power to have the Insane locked up. That is the bottom line. CLANG! Go immediately to prison. You crazy bastard, you should have been locked up a long time ago. You are a dangerous freak—I am rich, and I want you castrated.”

- Hunter S. Thompson American Journalist & Author (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005)
Kingdom of Fear, Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century. (page 27)

Human Interface Technology Lab :: Virtual Retinal Display (VRD) animations

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:55:44 -0700

Human Interface Technology Lab :: Virtual Retinal Display (VRD) animations:

These three animations show how the Virtual Retinal Display (VRD) scans laser beams into the eye to create bright high-resolution images.

The best apocalyptic depiction I’ve seen of...

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:14:00 -0700

The best apocalyptic depiction I’ve seen of ‘augmented reality’ was in Cloud Ten Pictures film ‘Tribulation’ using a ‘virtual retinal display’. The promises of the ‘virtual’ offered by none other than the accuser of the brethren as a lure for all of your dreams coming true.

Old Media vs. New Media Paradigms

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:30:29 -0700

Old Media Paradigm: Don’t blame television programming for brainwashing your child, blame your own lack of discipline for leaving your child unattended.

New Media Paradigm: Don’t blame on-demand embedded content for brainwashing your child, blame the lack of parental controls on the device you let your child use.

The ‘M’ on Mount Sentinel in Missoula,...

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:18:27 -0700

The ‘M’ on Mount Sentinel in Missoula, Montana.

[sen•ti•nel —noun a person or thing that watches or stands as if watching.]

Whatever it is, I’m against it // Groucho Marx

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:51:53 -0700

Whatever it is, I’m against it // Groucho Marx

"Incorporation, n. The act of uniting several persons into one fiction called a corporation, in order..."

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:27:08 -0700

“Incorporation, n. The act of uniting several persons into one fiction called a corporation, in order that they may be no longer responsible for their actions.”

- Ambrose Bierce

Teach Your Children Well by Crosby, Stills & Nash — (Apple...

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:06:10 -0700

Teach Your Children Well by Crosby, Stills & Nash — (Apple //e Advertisement)

Just launched: ‘Skewed News’… Discovering...

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 09:07:00 -0700

Just launched: ‘Skewed News’… Discovering the issues people think are skewed to provide a broader perspective on the status quo. (Facebook: Skewed UP / Twitter: @skewedup)

“When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one...

Fri, 28 May 2010 01:37:18 -0700

“When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, “You mean they forget?” ~Howard Ikemoto

In 2007 at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Rage...

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:11:03 -0700

In 2007 at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Rage Against The Machine sent goodie-two-shoes home when they reunited for the first time in 7 years.

“Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses….”

A Not-So-Random Factoid

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:33:23 -0700

In 1735 actor Charles Macklin got into a quarrel with another actor over a wig and killed the other actor in the green room at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. The alley behind the M Concepts Design Lab is also called ‘Drury Lane’.

Ohio Impromptu, and the new cognitive turn in analyzing...

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:52:00 -0700

Ohio Impromptu, and the new cognitive turn in analyzing drama…”Little is left to tell”: Beckett’s theater of mind, Winter, 2004 by Yanna Popova

“My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It’s the...

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:55:22 -0700

“My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It’s the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You’ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond ‘Z’ and start poking around!” ~Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)

If 98% of your network security is a matter of common...

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:14:19 -0700

If 98% of your network security is a matter of common perception, do you really want satanists developing your core operating system (and corporate rhetoric)?