Brian's Barefeet

test pics

Techdirt: MPAA: The Grateful Dead's Success Was An Abomination Against Nature

really enjoyed this.

Three Lessons From tufte: Special Deliverable

See principle 1: Authorship, examples of including author names on documentation.

incredibly rich communicative process visualization.

checkie

Welcome to Inxight Software, Inc.

Hey Bob,

Check out this software company.

They automtate the manual drawing of business or visual mapping.

DesignEducation.ca - Thousands of Design Resources

the moral hazard myth - gladwell

via blurb.

Our Documents

"To help us think, talk and teach about the rights and responsibilities of citizens in our democracy, we invite you to explore 100 milestone documents of American history. These documents reflect our diversity and our unity, our past and our future, and mostly our commitment as a nation to continue to strive to "form a more perfect union."

Thinking in Web 2.0: Sixteen Ways (web2.wsj2.com)

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web - a practical guide to web typography

nice indeed.

Andy Warhol’s Dream America: screenprints from the collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

Update: Did not go...maybe next week.

Going to see Mr. Warhol's work today @ SMOCA.

I am excited.

MIT World » : Video Index

MIT World » : Video Index

You see this Bob?

Free Computer Books, Tutorials, and Lecture Notes (http://computerbooks.web.com) - AJAX

Healthcare Information Systems, Digital Medical Records and Telehealth

General Design Features - January 2001 Family Practice Management

Asus shows modular concept PC

Asus shows modular concept PC - Engadget

nice. bookshelf design.

my new homepage

Hooray Web 2.0 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Drug combination prevents HIV infection in monkeys

"By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
DENVER (Reuters) - An injection of two drugs normally used to treat HIV patients completely protected monkeys from becoming infected with the AIDS virus, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

While it is too early to tell whether people can pop a pill and escape infection, the study provides the strongest evidence yet that it might be possible, the researchers said.

Dr. Walid Heneine of the Centers for Disease and Prevention studied rhesus monkeys that were injected with a version of Truvada -- Gilead Sciences Inc.'s once-a-day pill that includes its drugs Viread, or tenofovir, and Emtriva, or emtracitibine.

The pill is often used in drug cocktails to treat HIV infection, although they cannot cure it.

The monkeys were then exposed to a combined human-monkey AIDS virus called SHIV, using a rectal method aimed at simulating male homosexual contact. That happened daily for 14 days and the monkeys also got daily injections.

"Treatment continued for four weeks after last challenge," Heneine told the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, a meeting of AIDS researchers being held in Denver.

The six monkeys that received the drug combination were all completely protected from infection. By comparison, nine monkeys that took part in a previous experiment all eventually became infected with the SHIV virus.

"Study authors believe the findings may be the strongest animal data yet suggesting that potent antiretrovirals given before HIV exposure may prevent sexual HIV transmission," the CDC said in a statement.

The researchers cautioned the drug dose was slightly different from that seen in people taking Truvada and said studies under way will answer the question of whether the findings will translate to humans.

Either drug taken alone prevents HIV infection for a while, but imperfectly, Heneine said.
The CDC noted that Truvada was highly effective in suppressing the AIDS virus in people already infected. It is not a cure but is among the drugs that can help keep HIV patients healthy. "

dooce: That Lovely Glow Effect

happy birthday benj

the benj is 3.

My top 20 films of 2005*

* didn't see munich, that may change things.

IT Conversations: Danny O'Brien - On Evil

Ultimate VNC Setup at Damaged In Transit

Who fired the first musical shot? | Ask MetaFilter

Huh...

The tradition of dissing, also called dozens or 'playing the dozens', goes back to the earliest days of African-American culture, if not before. The very first written citation of an African-American song in English, published in 1830, is a song of this type: Round the Corn, Sally, in which the enslaved female singer is described as dissing every member of a picnic party in skillful rhyme.

Up until very recent times, you could find rap's closest antecedent, toasting (or improvising spoken poetry, without a beat), in Southern roadhouses, and toasting often featured dissing and call-outs. For a sample of American toasting (along with a mind-blowing collection of other African American roots music traditions collected in the early 70s), you might want to view Alan Lomax's film, Land Where the Blues Began.

It's not quite what you asked, because you're looking for specific call-outs, but at least in African-American music the idea of it goes way, way back. You'll certainly find examples in the pop world , but I thought you'd want to know that it is deeply rooted in traditional oral culture.

wonderful new fiona apple vid (qt)

oh fionna. simply delicious.

my current blockbuster que

delicious:days

beautiful design. simple. food, glorious food.

bar photobooth

a club that has a photobooth that uploads pictures taken by patrons.

> thanks memepool.

mlk

Corporate Identity

http://users.ncrvnet.nl/mstol/56.htm

standard motion // brooklyn, new york

pool hustlers

"It's 4:30 AM inside the Golden Q, a pool hall in Woodside Queens, New York City. I sit and talk with a man who goes by the name Cornbread. He speaks to me about Harlem in the 1950's, the music and the nightlife. To his right is Lefty, an 82 year old retired police detective who is whispering into the ear of a 17-year-old high school student. The feelings of isolation and intense passion linger like the smokey haze that surrounds the room. The one question that's debated every night is weather the expanding gentrification of NYC will bring an end to this shrinking sub-culture.
Starting in January of 2002, I started photographing this community of underground pool hustlers, one of the last remaining social clubs of 'old NewYork'. Over the past ten years pool halls all over the city have been sold and turned into flashy sports bars, waitresses serving martinis to the 'after work' crowd; The players now conregating between three pool halls throughout the entire metropolitan area. The Golden Q just got sold, making the list even shorter. I ask Joseph, an elder of the community how this will affect his lifestyle.

As gentrification continues to spread, property values increase and the streets maybe cleaner, but the character of NYC is vanishing."

Cool Tool: Art Forms in Nature

Cool Tool: Art Forms in Nature: "Library of possible life forms"

Become Your Own Web Host in 75 Steps

"One of the biggest issues involved with becoming a web publisher is the question of hosting. With an internet clogged with false hosting review sites, hosting companies trying to rip you off, and hosting companies run by 14 year olds, the majority of web publishers are at the mercy of random chance when it comes to finding a quality host. To solve this huge problem and to grant freedom to all, we have come up with 75 extremely specific steps that will get you up and running with a *nix box (running FreeBSD), along with the most recent versions of Apache, Perl, PHP, and MySQL.

Minimum Requirements:

To use this guide, you are going to need the following:

1 burnable CD-R
A computer with at least a 4GB hard drive
A working ethernet card
A network that uses DHCP."

Selma to Montgomery

The New Yorker: From the Archives

"This week in the magazine and online, David Levering Lewis reviews “At Canaan’s Edge,” the final installment of Taylor Branch’s three-volume social history of the American civil-rights movement. Here, from the April 10, 1965, issue, Renata Adler reports on the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, led by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr."

and here.

visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on mapping complex networks

Princeton University: WebMedia - Lectures

beautiful book covers

well designed book art.

> thanks kottke.

Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders His 'Problem Child'

interesting.

Sarah Bishop - The Girls

be warned, this is xrated. but beautiful nonetheless.

Zapatistas Begin Tour to Reshape Mexico - New York Times

very interesting.

cut it out

i love martin o'neill

"UK based illustrator and artist specialising in a collage style,
montage, illustration, worldwide clients."

Classic Trailers - The Killing

an early kubrick flick. nice trailer.

"Johnny Clay after spending 5 years in Alcatraz decides to pull off 'the big one'. He is going to rob $2,000,000 from the local racetrack and nobody will get hurt. All goes fine until his greedy partners want more of the spoils for themselves."

Cooperative Cyber Threat Monitor And Alert System

scary.

thanks jorn.

Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization

nice.

thanks tufte.

new bed

PocketMod: The Free Disposable Personal Organizer

The Best Links 2005 (kottke.org)

kottke's picks for best links this year. nice list.

Imagining America: Icons of 20th-Century American Art

great show.

my favorite section was "Songs of Myself", which...

"concentrates on the change in the depiction of self over the 20th century, from the inner life of the mind expressed by Pollock and de Kooning to the assemblage of ordinary materials and cultural symbols in the later work of Robert Rauschenberg and Jean-Michel Basquiat."

some pics of the fam

our new place

our new place. (map it)

SIRIUS Satellite Radio

i got sirius. it is nice

Revolutionary Science (here & now)

listen here

MyLifeBits Project

"MyLifeBits is a lifetime store of everything. It is the fulfillment of Vannevar Bush's 1945 Memex vision including full-text search, text & audio annotations, and hyperlinks. There are two parts to MyLifeBits: an experiment in lifetime storage, and a software research effort.

The experiment: Gordon Bell has captured a lifetime's worth of articles, books, cards, CDs, letters, memos, papers, photos, pictures, presentations, home movies, videotaped lectures, and voice recordings and stored them digitally. He is now paperless, and is beginning to capture phone calls, IM transcripts, television, and radio."

Lead was the cause of Beethoven's illness?

"...Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have found massive amounts of lead in bone fragments belonging to 19th Century composer Ludwig von Beethoven, confirming the cause of his years of chronic debilitating illness."

The age of Ray Kurzweil

"What will happen when technology outstrips human intelligence? Renowned -- and controversial -- techno-visionary Ray Kurzweil says we won't have to wait long to find out. And he, for one, is looking forward to it."

to work

The Subtlety Of Simplicity

"Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, while adding the meaningful."

Categories: design, simplicity, mit

The Crime of "Unauthorized Reproduction"

This makes me want to throw up. Found the original link via Hip Mama. What is wrong with people?

The Crime of "Unauthorized Reproduction"
By Laura McPhee

Republican lawmakers are drafting new legislation that will make
marriage a requirement for motherhood in the state of Indiana,
including specific criminal penalties for unmarried women who do
become pregnant "by means other than sexual intercourse."

According to a draft of the recommended change in state law, every
woman in Indiana seeking to become a mother throu gh assisted
reproduction therapy such as in vitro fertilization, sperm donation,
and egg donation, must first file for a "petition for parentage" in
their local county probate court.

Only women who are married will be considered for the "gestational
certificate" that must be presented to any doctor who facilitates the
pregnancy. Further, the "gestational certificate" will only be given
to married couples that successfully complete the same screening
process currently required by law of adoptive parents.

As it the draft of the new law reads now, an intended parent "who
knowingly or willingly participates in an artificial reproduction
procedure" without court approval, "commits unauthorized
reproduction, a Class B misdemeanor." The criminal charges will be
the same for physicians who commit "unauthorized practice of
artificial reproduction."

The change in Indiana law to require marriage as a condition for
motherhood and criminalizing "unauthorized reproduction" was
introduced at a summer meeting of the Indiana General Assembly's
Health Finance Commission on September 29 and a final version of the
bill will come up for a vote at the next meeting at the end of this
month.

Republican Senator Patricia Miller is both the Health Finance
Commission Chair and the sponsor of the bill. She believes the new
law will protect children in the state of Indiana and make parenting
laws more explicit.

According to Sen. Miller, the laws prohibiting surrogacy in the
state of Indiana are currently too vague and unenforceable, and that
is the purpose of the new legislation.

"But it's not just surrogacy," Miller told NUVO. " The law is vague
on all types of extraordinary types of infertility treatment, and we
wanted to address that as well."

"Ordinary treatment would be the mother's egg and the father's
sperm. But now there are a lot of extraordinary thing s that raise
issues of who has legal rights as parents," she explained when asked
what she considers "extraordinary" infertility treatment.

Sen. Miller believes the requirement of marriage for parenting is
for the benefit of the children that result from infertility
treatments.

"We did want to address the issue of whether or not the law should
allow single people to be parents. Studies have shown that a child
raised by both parents - a mother and a father - do better. So, we
do want to have laws that protect the children," she explained.

When asked specifically if she believes marriage should be a
requirement for motherhood, and if that is part of the bill's
intention, Sen. Miller responded, "Yes. Yes, I do."

A draft of the actual legislation is available here. [ pdf ]

Uncle David

Congratulations to my Uncle David.

He was inducted tonight into the Mesa City Sports Hall of Fame. He received such an illustrious award for doing really well at the sports he played for Mesa High School. I got to attend an event tonight in his honor and it was very nice to see him and Paula (my aunt). And just because whenever I talk about him I always mention his previous occupation, I am not going to mention his previous occupation. Least I could do. Anyway, I like him.

Categories: family

the benj talkin jive

Categories: family, benjamin, audio, audioblog,

Oatmeal From '70s Still Tastes OK

got to say...i am way paranoid about old food. this is somewhat comforting.

Categories: food, old

david lynch: consciousness, creativity and the brain

Great Berkeley webcast of a talk by Lynch on all of the above. Interesting to see and hear him in this sort of forum, especially given the content of his films. He says the words "super" and "beautiful" in a very nice way.

Categories: film, meditation, consciousness

Backwards City: Happy Birthday, Wanda Jane

Happy Belated B-Day Mr. Vonnegut. Your contributions to our world are priceless. Thanks for the good times.

Categories: bday, vonnegut, literature, writing, artist,

Do you want nuts on that?

Hi. I would like to introduce myself. My name is Pat Robertson.
I am nuttier than a fruit cake with nuts in it.

"...If their is a disaster in your city, don't turn to God, you just rejected him from your city..."

>Thanks One Good Move.

Categories: religion, politics, video, blog

dirty rotten princess

a good rolling stone bio on sarah silverman. i am in love with her.

>Thanks Jorn.

Categories: comedy, biography, humor

a day at the fair

My mom, sister,brother-in-law, niece & nephew, the benj and myself..made our way to the Arizona State Fair last Saturday.

Categories: family, photography

what happens in the news.

a visual overview of what was newsworthy this week.

Categories: news, art, culture, daily, funny, visualization, design

borrowing the bush

yet another reason we need some adult supervision in the white house, instead of what we have..whatever that may be.

> Thanks Fark.

Categories: bush, politics, money, government,

Microsoft Live Platform Preview

A taste of what is to come from Microsoft. The live platform, vista, office 12...basically how they will be competing with the host of Ajax driven applications.

Kinda weak presentation graphics compared to the simplicity of a Jobs/Apple rollout.

Categories: microsoft, flickr, windows, photos, technology,

wholphin

Add this to my wishlist.
looks and sounds like another great contribution from eggers and co.

"Wholphin is a new quarterly DVD magazine lovingly encoded with unique and ponderable films designed to make you feel the way we felt when we learned that dolphins and whales sometimes, you know, do it.

Our debut issue includes Spike Jonze's revealing portrait of Al Gore, an excerpt of David O. Russell's controversial documentary on US soldiers in Iraq, and a Selma-Blair-starring adaptation of Alison Smith's award-winning short story "The Specialist," which originally appeared in McSweeney's. It's also got Miguel Arteta's and Miranda July's beautiful short "Are You The Favorite Person Of Anybody?" which is the closest thing to cinema haiku we've ever seen. There are other surprises we don't want to give away too. You will enjoy them."

Categories: magazines, movies, art, film, literature,

teenagers detachment from self

nice rambling on the state of adolescence via UNDERNEWS, this line in particular jumped out at me:

"If a teenager can feel a steel bolt through her tongue move whenever she speaks, at least she knows she inhabits her own body, even if she doubts her own soul. If she can use low-cut jeans or a glimpse of thong underwear to attract glances from boys around her, at least she knows she occupies space and time at the center of their attention."

Did you feel like that when you were a teenager? I wonder what role technology (text messaging, chat room, online living) has played in assisting teens (or all of us) in feeling like observers vs. participants.

By the way, I love UNDERNEWS, it is really pleasant. Sam Smith is a profound observer of the US politic and culture.

Categories: teenagers, self, psychology, detachment

UPDATE: Comfortable Numb

UPDATE: no longer available.

UPDATE: Jorn posted a comment with a link to the full version available here.

Thanks again Jorn. For those of you who don't read robotwisdom, please start. It is one of the best.

Categories: music

a better version of comfortably numb

has anyone heard this?

dar williams (w/ ani difranco) covering "comfortably numb"

listen right now! it is just an amazon sample...if you want to hear the whole thing go to robotwisdom and scroll through the player in the top right corner. Thanks Jorn!

Categories: music

makutus?

makutus island (created by playco), the anti-feeder, trever and katelyn and saint elaine (my mom). in case you were wondering, as was i, here is the defininton of makutu.

Categories: photography, family, audio, audioblog, benjamin

panopticist: Cultural Surveillance

really enjoying this...design and reading.

Categories: blogs, blog, culture, media, music, funny, humor,

Baltimore by night

Nice "unofficial tour" of Baltimore via b&w photos using only natural lighting. kinda haunting. Cate and I were thinking of buying a house in Baltimore because some were so cheap ($2000, 2 yrs ago). Wish we had. > Thanks Julia.

Categories: photography, b&w, baltimore, night

Flight Patterns

"The following flight pattern visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya and the final piece was highlighted at SIGGRAPH 2005 in the NVIDIA Immersive Dome Experience."

Categories: traffic, travel, visualization, cool, design, video, art,

The Secret Life of a Restaurant Critic

Great read...a job i have always dreamed about.

Categories: food, critic

Trever and Katelyn have arrived!

My neice and nephew are here for a visit. listen to them say hello by clicking above.

Categories: photography, family

goin to the store

streaming thoughts about:

trader joes (ribs), the l word, the awful truth, team of rivals by doris kearns goodwin (link to daily show clip), sekai sushi and sushi rolls

Categories: audio, audioblog, food, tv, books

Categories: halloween, family, photography

armchair activism

start a revolution, from home.

Categories: activism, politics,

luke @ birth

Categories: photography, family, luke

playin with picasa

Categories: me, photography, briansart

daddy and luke

Categories: me, photography, briansart, family, luke

Brian's Barefeet

6.25.2006

test pics

6.09.2006

5.29.2006

3.14.2006

3.13.2006

checkie

3.10.2006

3.07.2006

3.06.2006

3.02.2006

2.26.2006

2.25.2006

2.24.2006

2.23.2006

2.15.2006

my new homepage

2.11.2006

2.06.2006

2.03.2006

happy birthday benj

2.02.2006

My top 20 films of 2005*

1.29.2006

1.28.2006

my current blockbuster que

mlk

1.25.2006

Corporate Identity

1.17.2006

1.16.2006

1.15.2006

1.11.2006

1.07.2006

1.03.2006

1.02.2006

1.01.2006

new bed

12.31.2005

12.29.2005

some pics of the fam

our new place

12.28.2005

12.07.2005

11.29.2005

11.28.2005

to work

11.26.2005

11.24.2005

11.21.2005

11.19.2005

the benj talkin jive

11.14.2005

11.12.2005

11.10.2005

11.09.2005

11.08.2005

11.06.2005

11.05.2005

11.04.2005

11.03.2005

10.30.2005

goin to the store

10.28.2005

10.27.2005

10.26.2005