Christopher Clay

a resource for parents and/or educators who are interested in teaching programming to children of different age groups (by @citizen428) http://www.happynerds.net/ - Christopher Clay

We're proud that Soup is going to host next year's Red Ribbon Award, a project to raise awareness about AIDS by engaging pupils in a contest to create related multimedia content. It's run by the Austrian Aidshilfen charity, planned and executed by PKP BBDO, and we're happy to lend a hand on the technical side. [Reposted from kitchen] - Christopher Clay

Saturday, December 19th, 7pm @ Metalab You (yes, you!) are invited. Enjoy cooking? Come at 6pm, bring ingredients and recipes. Have something on your mind, some kind of project, idea or ambition that could use an audience? Want to share something that influenced you this year? Grab the open mic (no longer than 5 minutes please, 3 are recommended, nothing that requires prior audience knowledge). Have friends? Bring friends. Also still looking to borrow 1-2 old TVs or any kind of cheapo Lomo camera (color splash, fisheye, etc). One or two more bar tenders would help as well. - Christopher Clay

"Wien ist ja momentan ein quicklebendiges Sammelbecken für verquere, individualistische, autodidakte Soundtüftler ... die meisten dieser seltsamen Freigeister stellen den Zauber des Moments und die Beseeltheit des Intuitiven über die bloße Anhäufung von sterilen Konzepten, die technisch versierte, keimfreie K(n)öpfchendreherei. Ein ganz besonderer Rohdiamant ist in dieser Hinsicht Ob meiner Indifferenz; ein junger, hochtalentierter Steirer, von dem man 2010 sicher noch einiges hören wird. Großes Kino, das sich weigert Blockbuster zu sein!" –Problembär Records. Einiges hören wird man von ihm aber bereits am 19.12. @ http://c3o.org/26/ :) - Christopher Clay

"A gadget for Google Wave that emulates the functionality of MS Paint using HTML5 Canvas and Javascript, based on CanvasPaint by Christopher Clay" – Awesome! So it did make sense to renew the canvaspaint.org domain tonight after all. https://code.google.com/p... - Christopher Clay

"Gene variants generally considered misfortunes (poor Jim, he got the “bad” gene) can instead now be understood as highly leveraged evolutionary bets, with both high risks and high potential rewards. ... [T]he children who suffer most from bad environments also profit the most from good ones." –The Science of Success – The Atlantic - Christopher Clay

"Today's trendsetters are using 'microblogging' sites such as Tumblr, Posterous and Soup.io, which are taking the opportunity for creative 'borrowing' to new heights." http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol... [Reposted from kitchen] - Christopher Clay

"Hackerspaces enrich their region's cultural and technological scene. They are places of information, discussion, experimentation and openness. They are the real world manifestations of a new paradigm, originated in the free, border-less and undiscriminating nature of the internet and its communications structures. Hackerspaces are places where freedom of opinion meets creativity and spawns inspiration. They're the birth-place of start-up firms that employ cutting edge technology, of altruistic community projects and of art in new media." –Open letter in support of Forskningsavdelningen – Metalab - Christopher Clay

How the AI that we locked in a box to be safe will trick us, wrapped in a compelling sci fi story. http://lesswrong.com/lw... - Christopher Clay

Tech_Society talksDay 1: Preparing for the emancipation of machines, robotic warfare, whether & how technology can realize utopian ideas Day 2: Liquid Democracy, journalists getting spied on Day 3: City hacking, Kreationismus als Beispiel eines totalitären Erklärungsmusters für ein komplexes System, how far along we are with evolving collecting consciousnesses (ie, the web and social networks specifically) Day 4: Media hacking General tech or creativity talksBlinkenclothes (2), DIY moon rockets (2), String Theory (4), doing photography wrong (4)... I was planning to go for just a single day pass this year... but the interesting stuff is too spread out! http://events.ccc.de/congres... - Christopher Clay

The Hidden Park is an augmented reality iPhone game for kids: "The children navigate their way through the park by following a map that lets them know where the magical creatures live. [They] must solve puzzles and riddles on their way to the next destination. Clues to the answers can be found on the signposts in the park. Following Trutton’s directions, the children take photos of various landmarks. As if by magic, Trutton’s fantastical friends appear in the photos – sometimes right next to the children!" - Christopher Clay

Pictory Issue #1: 25 Stories of Culture Shock, told through photos and tweets. I want to travel now. The site is a project by Laura Miner, who also organized and wonderfully documented the photography+camping event Phoot Camp. (Found via Snarkmarket, where Robin contrasts it with the SportsIllustrated concept video of a magazine of the future.) - Christopher Clay

More Ripo - Christopher Clay

Ripo painted random news headlines on top of eachother for ten days: work-in-progress video here. His typographical graffiti is awesome. - Christopher Clay

"[Wir] müssen wir uns immer wieder der mühsamen Aufgabe des Verlernens stellen" - Christopher Clay