links for 2008-05-28

“Well then, expla­na­tions are now no longer caus­es but net­works of mutu­al con­tin­gen­cies. We can look at expla­na­tions not as pre­dic­tions, but as chords that have reached clo­sure. See­ing an expla­na­tion, we can feel relief that the world is at one.”

Ton offers a topol­o­gy of Twit­ter users based on their friends/followers ratio. And describes how he attempts to cre­ate con­ver­sa­tion­al sym­me­try for himself.

I like this—an inter­ac­tive light dis­play con­trolled by drip­ping col­ored inks into glass­es of water. Via Alexandra.

A dig­i­tal ver­sion of Debor­d’s Kriegspiel, by RSG. Via Bernard.

“…let­ting our­selves explore the land of the sens­es is the only way to start to break the dom­i­nance of the greedy, visu­al­ly-dri­ven inter­faces and deliv­er mobile expe­ri­ences and inter­ac­tions that — as Adam Green­field says — dis­solve into behavior.”

Slick ‘visu­al’ inter­face to the news. Spot­ted in James’ Flickr stream.