For the past year or so I’ve been working on a new media poem called Black River Ghosts. While the work is nowhere near ready to be presented to the public, I’ve been using some of its functionality on the social networks, and in a few spots these test cases/previews have been actually garnering praise. [...]
As a developer, I’m pretty picky about my tools. The old debate about whether ’tis better to use a plain text editor or a full-fledged Integrated Desktop Environment was settled for me long ago; quite simply, I spend too much time with my head in code to do everything manually, as a plain text editor [...]
Edward Picot brings up some interesting points in his latest essay Play on Meaning? Computer Games as Art up on both furtherfield.org and the Hyperliterature Exchange. I’m most struck by this passage: The insistence on interactivity as an important element of hyperliterature – and on computerised role-playing games as a paradigm of interactive art – [...]
John Resig: “The DOM Is a Mess” @ Yahoo! Video Over the last two years, I, along with many another developer, have developed a bit of a man-crush on John Resig, the primary creator of the jQuery Javascript Library. jQuery has taken a lot of the pain out of writing cross-browser javascript, and replaced it [...]
Reading the Lankavatara Sutra, I come upon this: There are four kinds of word discrimination, all of which are to be avoided because they are alike unreal. First there are the words indicating individual marks which rise from discriminating forms and signs as being real in themselves and, then, becoming attached to them. There are [...]