July 2004 -

Cool stuff from O’Reilly, a magazine for tech projects called Make. Finally a magazine for wanna-be hackers and tinkerers! From their blurb: ...

Yesterday, we had 5 computers sharing Wi-Fi from a dial-up connection! Basically we created the worlds slowest wireless internet cafe! Therefore this ...

“? fish, plant, rack ? allows the navigational electrical discharges of the virtually blind elephant fish ?gnathonemus petersi? to instruct the ...

This is a great cross between late 90s net.art and early 2000’s office cubicle boredom. Oh and did I mention that this rules....

Heading to Boston on Weds to speak at a panel called “Design for Hackability” the Designing Interactive Systems conference! Should be a fu...

Thanks to some good advice, I just changed this site so that the blog is the front page at coin-operated.com. I hope this works and there will be a fe...

RSG and BEIGE‘s newest unusable hack is a new file compression system called Total Asshole Compression (TAC). Drag and drop a file into TAC and ...

Tomorrow night, we will be performing SimpleTEXT to open the Garage Festival in Straslund, Germany! This is the seventh performance of the project tha...

(Nathaniel Stern presents his work) Last nite we had the 19th installment of DATA! Here is a picture of presenter Nathaniel Stern talking about his wo...

Test your courage with this one-way mirror public toilet, a nice piece by LA-based artist Monica Bonvicini. I don’t know if I would use it but I...

My physical hit counter,!Alerting Infrastructure! that destroys an organization’s real-world bulding when people visit its “virtual”...

(image from DorkBot event) Heading to Barcelona today where Kaki and I will be speaking at Dorkbot Barcelona on the 17th! Will add some pics to this p...

Out of town for the next week will get back to this when I return! Meanwhile this interview with Frank Chu, leader of the Zegnatronic Rocket Society i...

I love it when people find ways around prize giveaways! Jesse Perry’s iTunes Countdown for Mac and PC sticks a counter in the menu bar showing h...

Is it just me, or is the new Beastie Boys album wanna-be political?. I don’t remember these doods rapping about politics before, but with lyrics...

Lots more social BlueTooth apps cropping up. BlueMonger is like Netstumbler for your mobile phone, telling you who is around you but then uploading th...

Today is Katherine’s bday! She shares a b-day with Howard Rheingold, Michelle Kwan, Ringo Starr, and lots more people!...

Mogi, Item Hunt is a GPS game based in Japan that people play through their cellphones and hunt for treasure (gifts, flowers, etc) on a virtual map of...

Anne-Marie Schleiner’s new urban gaming project, O.U.T., pits online gaming with urban graffiti on the streets of NYC during the Republican Nati...

The ERGODEX DX1 is a keyboard or game controller you can completely configure on your own. Imagine taking the keys off your keyboard and placing them ...

Happy 4th of July holiday to everyone back home! We miss you guys!...

The Location You @ Now is a group show in Beijing, China “based around a theme of physical and displaced presence through scavenged, recovered a...

Been updating work on our UMBRELLA.net project. On thursday we took the PocketPC application on field trials with 3 devices to check radio range and t...

"Make" Yourself into a Nerd

Dial Up Net Cafe

Fish Tank Technology

WinNoise

Design a Hack

Making Changes

Total Asshole Compression

SimpleTEXT @ Garage!

DATA 19 – Recap!

See Through Toilet

Destroy the Garage

Dorkbot BCN – revisted

Been away….

Cheat Apple out of an iPod

Beastie Boys Bust The Gov't

Ka-Bluey

happy bday katherine!

treasure GPS hunt

Gaming the Convention

DIY Keyboard

Happy 4th

Location is Everything

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