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BIO
Jason Van Anden is a new media activist, artist, inventor and robot maker. His creations are exhibited internationally, receiving recognition in the art, science, technology and gaming communities. More about Jason and his work can be found at his website www.smileproject.com.
Re: spamtropy
Hi Jim,
I have noticed this too. I added a filter to my log file analyser todeal with this a while ago - evil referrals automatically get taggedas junk. I have a database of hundreds of these suspect domainscollected at this point.
The nice thing about this form of spam is that you can usuallydisqualify it pretty quickly - the domain names are generally agive-away and they tend not to travel beyond one page.
The absurd ones are the "resume" ones. What are these people thinking?
Jason Van Andenwww.smileproject.com
On 12/7/05, Jim Andrews <jim@vispo.com> wrote:> over time, i've noticed more and more urls in my referral logs for my site> that are not, in fact, linking to my site. they are commercial sites that> have nothing whatsoever to do with art. it seems that they have bought some> service that places their url among referral logs.>> the more general point is that it seems spam creeps into different forms of> information over time. email is of course the prime example. spam now> dominates email accounts.>> as though there is some law of entropy and capitalism whereby information> sources tend to disorder/spam/noise over time?>> ja> http://vispo.com>>> +> -> post: list@rhizome.org> -> questions: info@rhizome.org> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support> +> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php>
I have noticed this too. I added a filter to my log file analyser todeal with this a while ago - evil referrals automatically get taggedas junk. I have a database of hundreds of these suspect domainscollected at this point.
The nice thing about this form of spam is that you can usuallydisqualify it pretty quickly - the domain names are generally agive-away and they tend not to travel beyond one page.
The absurd ones are the "resume" ones. What are these people thinking?
Jason Van Andenwww.smileproject.com
On 12/7/05, Jim Andrews <jim@vispo.com> wrote:> over time, i've noticed more and more urls in my referral logs for my site> that are not, in fact, linking to my site. they are commercial sites that> have nothing whatsoever to do with art. it seems that they have bought some> service that places their url among referral logs.>> the more general point is that it seems spam creeps into different forms of> information over time. email is of course the prime example. spam now> dominates email accounts.>> as though there is some law of entropy and capitalism whereby information> sources tend to disorder/spam/noise over time?>> ja> http://vispo.com>>> +> -> post: list@rhizome.org> -> questions: info@rhizome.org> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support> +> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php>
Robotic Couple Seeks Same
Hola Earthlings,
I am pleased to report that Neil and Iona are up and running at vertexList in Williamsburg (Brooklyn, NY, USA). The opening is this Saturday night, October 22nd from 7-10pm.
Who are Neil and Iona? Neil and Iona are a pair of cybernetic improvisational performance artists who freely express their feelings with those they come into contact with - in other words, human-scale emotive entities, or robotic sculptures who probabilistically react to each other and their audience.
Info about Neil and Iona can be found here:
http://www.smileproject.com
Details about the exhibit can be found here:
http://www.vertexlist.net
Jason Van Anden
www.smileproject.com
I am pleased to report that Neil and Iona are up and running at vertexList in Williamsburg (Brooklyn, NY, USA). The opening is this Saturday night, October 22nd from 7-10pm.
Who are Neil and Iona? Neil and Iona are a pair of cybernetic improvisational performance artists who freely express their feelings with those they come into contact with - in other words, human-scale emotive entities, or robotic sculptures who probabilistically react to each other and their audience.
Info about Neil and Iona can be found here:
http://www.smileproject.com
Details about the exhibit can be found here:
http://www.vertexlist.net
Jason Van Anden
www.smileproject.com
Re: A few words concerning open-source and art
>
> Cool stuff. I still have os x.3 on my macs - so I have not looked into
> widgets too much. Sounds like yet another iteration of batch files from D=
OS
> days.
> Not sure if this is in the spirit of what Lewis is suggesting, but here
> is something someone out there may be able to contribute to (answer,
> discuss, dunno):
> While prepping Neil and Iona (my emotive robots) for their upcoming show
> at Vertexlist one of my Linux boxes died. (Show opens Oct 22nd, in
> Williamsburg, Brooklyn ... official announcement coming soon!)
> Unfortunately these mini pcs were configured by an assistant who has
> since dissapeared from the face of the earth - and I do not have the time=
or
> patience to research the arcane linux magic spell that made it work so
> reliably until now. Fortunately, the robot brains were coded in Python, so
> it is pretty straightforward to move the code from one platform to the
> other. Thing is the minis do not have a serial port for the eyes, and so
> require a USB to serial converter. I have purchased a couple of Mac
> compatible connectors - and so here is the question...
> If anyone out there has experience with calling serial ports via USB on
> OS X.3 using Python, that would be incredibly helpful. For the record, the
> serial is currently being called using the 2.3 Twisted modules. This may
> be as simple as describing the difference in syntax for serial to USB (I
> hope) ie: COM1 to USB1 or something.
> Thank You,
> Jason Van Anden
> On 10/6/05, Pall Thayer <p_thay@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Well, just to get the ball rolling a bit, here's a bit of info I've
> > recently discovered and am still examining. It has to do with OS X
> > Tiger widgets (like my level widget). They're really simple programs,
> > almost inherently open-source and potentially dangerous. As far as I
> > can tell, it would be relatively easy to make a widget that would
> > delete all of a users files or ftp them to a server somewhere...
>
>
--
Jason Van Anden
http://www.smileproject.com
> Cool stuff. I still have os x.3 on my macs - so I have not looked into
> widgets too much. Sounds like yet another iteration of batch files from D=
OS
> days.
> Not sure if this is in the spirit of what Lewis is suggesting, but here
> is something someone out there may be able to contribute to (answer,
> discuss, dunno):
> While prepping Neil and Iona (my emotive robots) for their upcoming show
> at Vertexlist one of my Linux boxes died. (Show opens Oct 22nd, in
> Williamsburg, Brooklyn ... official announcement coming soon!)
> Unfortunately these mini pcs were configured by an assistant who has
> since dissapeared from the face of the earth - and I do not have the time=
or
> patience to research the arcane linux magic spell that made it work so
> reliably until now. Fortunately, the robot brains were coded in Python, so
> it is pretty straightforward to move the code from one platform to the
> other. Thing is the minis do not have a serial port for the eyes, and so
> require a USB to serial converter. I have purchased a couple of Mac
> compatible connectors - and so here is the question...
> If anyone out there has experience with calling serial ports via USB on
> OS X.3 using Python, that would be incredibly helpful. For the record, the
> serial is currently being called using the 2.3 Twisted modules. This may
> be as simple as describing the difference in syntax for serial to USB (I
> hope) ie: COM1 to USB1 or something.
> Thank You,
> Jason Van Anden
> On 10/6/05, Pall Thayer <p_thay@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Well, just to get the ball rolling a bit, here's a bit of info I've
> > recently discovered and am still examining. It has to do with OS X
> > Tiger widgets (like my level widget). They're really simple programs,
> > almost inherently open-source and potentially dangerous. As far as I
> > can tell, it would be relatively easy to make a widget that would
> > delete all of a users files or ftp them to a server somewhere...
>
>
--
Jason Van Anden
http://www.smileproject.com
Re: Need a Geek
this might be helpful:
http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread625&page=1#35599
Jason Van Anden
Claire Jervert wrote:
> No offense. I'd like to work with a programmer to produce a DVD by
> grabbing corporate logos from web sites and pulling them into a motion
> graghic sequence twisting and morphing the brands in space.
>
> Anyone interested in working with me.
>
> Claire Jervert
http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread625&page=1#35599
Jason Van Anden
Claire Jervert wrote:
> No offense. I'd like to work with a programmer to produce a DVD by
> grabbing corporate logos from web sites and pulling them into a motion
> graghic sequence twisting and morphing the brands in space.
>
> Anyone interested in working with me.
>
> Claire Jervert