Alistair Beattie

Keep the noise down

Schiphol Sound Barrier on the Behance Network.

Effects and Consequence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awareness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recollection
Salience (neuroscience) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

1234567890 Day

1234567890 Day.
Easily the most deliciously nerdy thing I've seen all week.

Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » Locative Play

Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » Locative Play.

Kind of cool, I like the restrictive play environment and the opportunity to build a set of regular players. Insider-ideas are appealing. Just a small quibble though, digital "leaking into the real world", it's a flood. We're drinking from the fire hydrant. The quaintness of this remark will be self-evident in the next five years.

Snowman is an island

It was good to see all the positivity around the brief dump of snow that we had on Monday. It seems that most of London took the hint (no buses, tubes, trains, planes, taxis etc) and took the day off. People were out and about, interacting with strangers and, heaven forbid, talking to each other. Twitter is gaining traction rapidly as an emergent social phenomena and I was really interested in the tweets/map mashups that sprung up overnight. Twitter is still pretty immature but it's got great potential as a lightweight and intelligently networked social information system. It made the BBC Weather forecasts look lumbering in comparison, being able to see pictures from all over the UK was great. The inherent sociability of a big shared event was brought to life by a relatively simple (but extremely smart) use of technology. Our national obsession with talking about the weather will never be the same again.