'If we look at overall results, the fastest machines are ancient. Newer machines are all over the place. Fancy gaming rigs with unusually high refresh-rate displays are almost competitive with machines from the late 70s and early 80s, but “normal” modern computers can’t compete with thirty to forty year old machines.' via https://hax0rz.lol/@hackerfriendly/101147422233416521

"Adapting the doublet we created for our sound installation at King Street Station, we designed a volvelle whose apertures reveal a word ladder composed of 31 words. The gradually changing poem waxes and wanes along with the lunar phases, shown on the opposing side of the dial."

"Creative Help is an experimental application intended to help people write stories by automatically suggesting new sentences in the story. At any point while writing, simple type \help\ to generate a new sentence. You can edit, add to, or delete this suggestion just like any other text in your story."

okay I want this

by jane friedhoff. orig post here: http://nytlabs.com/blog/2015/11/05/membrane/ 'Membrane... is an experiment in permeable publishing. By permeable publishing, we mean a new form of reading experience, in which readers may “push back” through the medium to ask specific, contextual (and constrained) questions of the author.'

"The original designers of Unix viewed the “simplicity” of text streams as an advantage. Consequently, they declined to impose any structure on the data that was to pass between programs. This decision, intended to banish inessential complexity, instead managed only to push essential complexity further downstream. [...] Even the earliest version of Unix was ultimately only a particular, flawed implementation of the Unix philosophy. If we want to encourage more widespread acceptance of the philosophy, we should not try to defend the implementation by downplaying its flaws." (via https://eldritch.cafe/@enkiv2/100752583219102878)

how does this operate though

new interfaces for textual expression

"A typewriter?–why shd it only make use of the tips of the fingers as contact points of flowing multi directional creativity. If I invented a word placing machine, an “expression-scriber,” if  you  will, then I would have a kind of instrument into which I could step & sit or sprawl or hang & use not only my fingers to make words express feelings but elbows, feet, head, behind, and all the sounds I wanted, screams, grunts, taps, itches, I’d have magnetically recorded, at the same time, & translated into word–or perhaps even the final xpressed thought/feeling wd not be merely word or sheet, but itself, the xpression, three dimensional–able to be touched, or tasted or felt, or entered, or heard or carried like a speaking singing constantly communicating charm. A typewriter is corny!!"

this looks rad

this looks incredible :O

lots of screenshots of visual programming languages/environments (and some stuff that is not programming, like buzz??)

"D.O.R.T.H.E. reuses words. She analyzes them, and use them for music creation because she believes that words, sentences and phonetics have many resemblances to music. Both one to one mappings like number of letters in a word translated to a pitch in music, but also emotional states like joy, distress, happiness, discomfort and fear."

this looks amazing :(((((

elegant, strangely beautiful

via waxy, hooks into osx accessibility to associate keystrokes with midi

pretty good

new additions to "mobile poetics: a select bibliography of digital textuality/art apps" suggestions for apps to add?

physical keyboard for ipad actually STRIKES THE SCREEN

ERXCERPTERNERL

a footpedal to switch modes

"a project by Jonathan Puckey to convey some of the aspects of handwriting, namely speed, into typographic weight"

format for text that tracks time of input

"aesthetically unobtrusive" but pretty cool single-hand keyboard (touch thumb to inner knuckle to complete a circuit)

whaaat is this

magnetic tape glued to a rotating cylinder, played with tape heads on batons---brilliant

"Adrià Navarro created this excellent DIY DJ turntable from a junk pile walkman and PC fan. When you rotate the fan with your fingers, the voltage is read by an Arduino, which smooths and remaps the levels and then uses PWM to control the audio casette player’s motor."

not... exactly sure what the real-world utility of this is, but it's a cool idea

pretty good introduction to the unix command line (link from syllabus?)

this is a great idea. can't wait to try it out.

need to play with this; the demo is amazing

ah, this old canard

wonderful

so good

via ckolderup's greader. interesting and important!

just a giant foot-operated typewriter

the "obama board"

RT @golan: Keyboard whose keys are raised in proportion to their frequency of use. (RT @play_create) #physviz

it's... full of stars

I don't want to use hyperbole, but this is the most important thing to ever have happened to IF.

uh, seriously though---collecting this kind of data from playthrough transcripts is just a good idea. using that data to tune the game, and seeing the concrete results of those changes---even better.

"savestate is a digital language instrument / interactive poetry-toy"

flight of the bumblebee + youtube clips of people typing

space cadet, other amazing early programming keyboards

giant walls of keyboard keys---beautiful (via rhizome)

didn't know that swype originated as accessibility technology

great photo of rubber keyboards sans device context

lingering problems with me2's interface---fwiw, I agree with all the complaints about the original ME but am hard-pressed to think of moments in ME2 where the interface got in my way

this actually works! thank heavens for the internet.

lots to explore here---custom instruments and musical interfaces

not sure where I got this from, but it's a great list: on making user interfaces that are primarily textual and "conversational"

the typewriter with no keyboard

what iphone's autocorrect hath wrought

here's where that interesting dungeon crawler from the one-button competition ended up... pretty slick and also fun

automated typewriter (playing a text adventure)

posted this to twitter but apparently not to delicious.

(via engadget) keys on the rear of the device for a new kind of typing. not sure if this would ever catch on in the mainstream, but I would love to see it for a limited purpose device (portable IF player?). also wondering whether it could be adapted for one hand---is it possible to keep the device stable on the palm while having full motion in the fingers?

'Fort Paladin is a medieval computer castle automaton trained to kill and master the American army 's recruitment training game "America's Army" using elecro-mechanics and a custom written expert system.'

how history could have been different: I'm trying to imagine what portable PCs would have looked like (or mobile phones, or the set of Star Trek) if their keyboards were shaped like this. incredibly beautiful.

open source stenography software (via sumana's blog)

comment I couldn't add because it was apparently too "spammy":

I like to think of these as "interactive poetry generation systems":

http://www.decontextualize.com/projects/nite/

A few others:

- Google Poetry Robot: http://www.gpeters.com/auto/autotype.php
- Eater of Meaning: http://www.crummy.com/software/eater/
- Alan Sondheim's Julu: http://www.runme.org/project/+sondheimjulu/

And, of course, Google Scribe is probably the most important (if inadvertent) interactive poetry generation system to recently arrive on the scene:

http://scribe.googlelabs.com/

it's like gnoetry except it uses the entire web as its corpus... and fills in suggestions as you type, in real time.

initially I thought these were cupcakes. but on further inspection I guess they're lumps of rock? anyway, it's cool.

awesome---game controller uses peltier effect to evoke hot and cold temperatures

forget kinect, control things with your EYES