ArchiveBlogsOther 2006
75 Items
NM
Blogs

WebWalker 1.2
Media Lab
Dec 2006
Christmas has come and gone, but this post is still going to be Christmas related, unlike some blogs that have self-imposed moratoriums on such posts. My Mother always told me Christmas is a season, not a day, so I feel within respectable guidelines posting these things.
Everyone in my family elf’d themselves (yes, that is me). It truly seems that user generated content has hit the mainstream when this…
NM
Blogs
Hacking Keynote for digital signage
Media Lab
Dec 2006
In the process of looking for digital signage software this afternoon, I ran across this great hack using a keynote developed by Kendrick Erickson and Eric Perrino at the University of Minnesota. Essentially, they pulled info from the school’s database and used XSL to translate it and insert it into Keynote’s XML-based file format. They also used a mac mini to do the displaying, since, of course…
NM
Blogs
More changes to the blogs
Media Lab
Nov 2006
Brent added the blog title to the blog aggregator page. Now it is much easier to tell what content goes to what blog. Additionally, post titles link to the blog post and the blog name to the front page for that blog.
We’ve added the ability to display info about our blog authors. Authors are now listed in the sidebar in each blog. When you click our name you’ll be able to see our email address…
EC
Blogs

Ice Queens
Field Guide
Oct 2006
Tomorrow we’ll be hosting another fab civic engagement community forum, and I hope many of you will head this way. In partnership with the Red Door Clinic and many others, we will be screen Todd Ahlberg’s recent documentary, Meth.
I met with the projectionist earlier this week to do a test run of the film – I got a sneek peek at the first 25 minutes – and I was immediately interested in many of the…
EC
Blogs

Domo Arigatou, Mr. Roboto
Field Guide
Oct 2006
The geeks were out in full force at the 2006 Walker Student Open House for the artist talk with Giant Robot Magazine co-founders Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong. Momentarily distracted by the teens duking it out with Mortal Combat in the lobby, I rushed in to find a seat and hear about all things Asian and Asian-American pop culture.
Five minutes in to the talk, I was harboring a serious geek crush…
EC


Blogs



Blowtorches and paint
Field Guide
Sep 2006
The two Alexander Calder works in the Sculpture Garden are being repainted to protect the works from the elements. As with Spoonbridge and Cherry, this process happens every five years.
Calder “signed” his sculptures — something I just discovered earlier this week. I’d never noticed it before.
Garden conservation isn’t just about painting efforts — there’s fire involved, too. Noah was hard at work…

