Giftmix 2011

Marginalia

• Open data: A new goldmine
  "No one has a clue what breakthroughs open data will allow, just as Reagan never guessed that future drivers would obey robot voices telling them to turn left."
• How Swedish Malort Became Chicago's Mascot Bitter Drink : NPR
  "Turning taste buds into taste foes for generations."
• Neil deGrasse Tyson's remake of Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' headed to Fox in 2014
  Perfect man for the job.
• Meet the Chicago Man Who Planned to Nuke the Moon
  "Reiffel and his team focused on the potential scientific benefits of a lunar blast; beyond scaring the crap out of humanity."
• Coral-bots: teams of robots that repair reefs — Kickstarter
  "Borrowing ideas from swarm intelligence, we can build on state of the art expertise in each of coral biology, autonomous underwater robots technology, swarm intelligence and video/image processing – giving coralbots the ability to distinguish coral and understand the other key things in its environment."
• Take the London Underground ... because it's closer to hell
  A unique historical poster for the tube.
• Space Oddity revised and recorded by ISS Commander Chris Hadfield
  Please can we make Hadfield chief of the ISS permanently?
• Meet ‘algoraves:’ Raves with music generated by artist-controlled algorithmic software
  I want to like this. Not there yet.
• Anil Dash, ThinkUp on Big Omaha
  Truly inspiring talk about how we can do better designing social interaction on the web. And what we can learn from mistakes doing so in cities.
• Pumpcast News
  "You want Livin' on a Prayer?"