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Laila El-Haddad, and her father in Gaza on CNN tonight at 10pm

picklesno1 — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:02:16 +0000

Laila, @Gazamom has been tweeting about the ground invasion in Gaza City in real time. She and her dad will be on CNN at 10pm tonight. She also posts on the situation on her blog. Here’s a film that Laila did for Al Jazeera about the effects of the tunnel trade in Palestine.

Institute for the Future/Picnic Recap/Botanicalls Kits for Sale

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:47:10 +0000

I’ll be speaking tomorrow at the Institute for the Future’s Fall Horizon’s Conference in San Francisco – I’m speaking with Julian Bleeker (yay!), in a nutshell I’m speaking about how smart objects and emotional cues can create bizarre conversations between people and non-human points of view…should be fun

Recently, as a part of You Are Not Here, Mushon Zer-Aviv and I were invited to speak at Waag Society’s Locative Media Lab at Picnic 2008. While we were there, we had a great time working with the folks from the Waag on Madretsma, which…if you speak Dutch, you should check out Madretsma.

In Botanicalls news…our new Kits were featured in the November 2008 issue of Wired Magazine in an article on open source hardware by Clive Thompson.

Kits are now on sale at: Think Geek and Adafruit and other vendors coming very soon!

ETech09 CFP, thoughts: recycling urine, air purifying concrete, fiscal crisis, and more stuff

admin — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:25:23 +0000

ETech09 – O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference CFP Released
submit something and rock our worlds!

things i’m thinking about…

recycling urine, “ISS gets new recycling gear that transforms human waste to drinking water. Some of the water will be used to get Oxygene, too. This way it will soon be possible to host more crew members.”

air purifying concrete

fiscal game

Locative Lab at Picnic08

predicting national grid problems:
“The Visualizing Energy Resources Dynamically on Earth (VERDE) system, announced this week, mashes together images and stats of everything from real-time status of the electric grid and weather information to power grid behavior modeling and simulation.”

Nerds At Night

YANH: Gaza, Tel Aviv

picklesno1 — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:32:16 +0000

In the beginning of July, we launched the latest You Are Not Here, this time as a walking tour of Gaza through the streets of Tel-Aviv. We teamed up with Palestinian blogger/journalist Laila El-Haddad for what amounts to the geo-located audio podcasts. The map and an article on the project are published in the month’s Block Magazine, which focuses on Occasional Cities. Mushon and Dan were on hand in Tel-Aviv for some special events.

YANH, Social Practice

picklesno1 — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:42:39 +0000

Luis Silva wrote a piece on You Are Not Here

Also, social practice featured You Are Not Here as well.

More to come about YANH: Walking Tour of Gaza through the Streets of Tel Aviv coming soon.