[FRIAM] More sheep

2009-03-22 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Hey. perhaps the sheet are like placard-holders in the football stands. They just stand in one place and the programers change the led's. Do you think sheep dogs could maintain a sheep-raster? By the way, what was the vertical column of lights on the hillside that the sheep seemed to run back a

[FRIAM] Google Chromium Browser

2009-03-22 Thread Douglas Roberts
The Linux build doesn't seem to do much yet, except to be fairly fast for javascript-intensive pages like gmail. I guess that's a start. About what we might expect for an alpha release. --Doug On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Owen Dens

Re: [FRIAM] For you javascript junkies

2009-03-22 Thread Roger Critchlow
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Now if Google ever makes Chrome available on platforms other than Windows, > that'd get me really on the band wagon.  Maybe the next Android? There's an daily automated alpha build of chromium for Ubuntu available at: https://launchpad.n

Re: [FRIAM] For you javascript junkies

2009-03-22 Thread Victoria Hughes
This actually might be a good thing to get people learning to learn, to enhance various tools held innately that train them to notice, to act, not to get stopped by mistakes, etc. Probably all old conversation to many of you, but interesting to me. On Mar 22, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Owen Densmor

Re: [FRIAM] For you javascript junkies

2009-03-22 Thread Victoria Hughes
Never you mind, I got it. Great way to spend time doing something other than one's own work, thanking you so very much! On Mar 22, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: This one was impressive: http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/twitch/ Its by Casey Reas, one of the authors of Proces

Re: [FRIAM] For you javascript junkies

2009-03-22 Thread Victoria Hughes
Hey! What was THAT? I just went to this link- very cool, but I am not sure how to interact with it. How can I get more info? When were those various physical computing / ambient modeling gigs happening again? [ with a week or so notice?] Thanks. Wow, that was like a shot of espresso seein

Re: [FRIAM] For you javascript junkies

2009-03-22 Thread Owen Densmore
This one was impressive: http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/twitch/ Its by Casey Reas, one of the authors of Processing. Note he's using the 2D Processing-in-Javascript (Processing.js). This is one reason we're considering SSJS (Server Side Javascript) as an abs-fab envrionment. Bl

Re: [FRIAM] YouTube - Extreme Sheep LED Art

2009-03-22 Thread Victoria Hughes
Thanks for clarifying. We neophytes, we know what we see, but we need to be educated to know what it means. Got the big sheep issue. I wiki'd 'viral video ad'; once that's in the mix the rest is obvious. Certainly was entertaining though. You know - art, entertainment, function, advertising -