links for 2008-11-17

“…I think peo­ple will per­form bet­ter when under­stand­ing the the­o­ret­i­cal con­structs in which they oper­ate, so they can appre­ci­ate self-imposed arbi­trary lim­its that may not have real­ized.” Not to men­tion the philo­soph­i­cal under­pin­nings of those the­o­ret­i­cal constructs.

“A lap­top scans the room using the open source Roomware soft­ware. It con­nects to ran­dom vis­i­tors and search­es the Last.fm data­base for sim­i­lar­i­ty. It then shows the sim­i­lar­i­ty on a big screen by show­ing the pro­files. A per­cent­age and five artists both have in common.”