Greg Borenstein

Archive

2014
BERG London Changed My Life 9 September, 2014
Bots are the New Single-Serving Sites 23 August, 2014
Piketty For Futurists #1: Slow Change in the 21st Century 23 August, 2014
Compelling vs Compulsive Games: Threes, Super Hexagon, and The Replay Urge 19 February, 2014
2H2K Lawyer: Science Fiction Design, Artificial Labor, and Ubiquitous Interactive Machine Learning 7 January, 2014
2013
Research Proposal: Accounting for Anchoring Bias on User Labeling in Machine Learning Systems 1 November, 2013
Random Decision Forest's Interaction Affordances 25 October, 2013
GestuRe: An Interactive Machine Learning System for Recognizing Hand Gestures 11 October, 2013
Case and Molly: A Game Inspired by Neuromancer 3 October, 2013
Introducing 2H2K: Previz for the Second Half of the 21st Century 3 October, 2013
Announcing OpenCV for Processing 10 July, 2013
OOO and OOP 21 June, 2013
iPads in Space: Star Trek's Internet-Free Future 14 May, 2013
On Thingpunk 7 May, 2013
Making Photomosaics in Processing 13 January, 2013
2012
An ofxaddons.com Update 11 July, 2012
In-Screen Graphics as Religious Experience: On the Purpose of Invoviz 1 July, 2012
Designing for and Against the Manufactured Normalcy Field 24 June, 2012
Winning the New Aesthetic Death Match 1 June, 2012
Teaching Makematics at ITP 27 April, 2012
Paperless Post Tech Talk 26 April, 2012
Object-Oriented Sci-Fi: Harman's Four Methods 17 April, 2012
AI Unbundled 15 April, 2012
A Menagerie of CV Markers 8 April, 2012
Machine Pareidolia: Hello Little Fella Meets FaceTracker 14 January, 2012
2011
26 Books in 2011 30 December, 2011
A Personal Fabrication Nightmare 21 November, 2011
Announcing ofxaddons.com, a directory of OpenFrameworks extensions 14 November, 2011
Streaming Kinect skeleton data to the web with Node.js 27 October, 2011
Making Things See Available for Early Release 8 October, 2011
Techniques of the Observer 30 September, 2011
Announcing Drift 28 September, 2011
Today 23 September, 2011
On Being Seen by the Machine 16 September, 2011
Presenting at MakerFaire NYC This Weekend 16 September, 2011
Back to Work No Matter What: 10 Things I've Learned While Writing a Technical Book for O'Reilly 17 July, 2011
Physical GIF Launches on Kickstarter 5 July, 2011
Two Kinect talks: Open Source Bridge and ITP Camp 30 June, 2011
Into The Matrix: Proposal for a Platform Studies Approach to OpenGL 27 June, 2011
All Watched Over: On FOO, Cybernetics, and Big Data 20 June, 2011
On the Future and Poetry of the Calibration Pose 7 June, 2011
Making Things See: A Book for O'Reilly about the Kinect 31 May, 2011
Why The Pro Apps Matter: Final Cut Pro and Apple's Market Focus 16 April, 2011
Using the Kinect to Assess Involuntary Motion at Health 2.0 24 February, 2011
On the Launch of the Computer History Museum 22 February, 2011
Skeleton Tracking with Kinect and Processing 15 February, 2011
Night Flight: a miniature light sculpture cityscape using fiber optics 14 February, 2011
Treatment and design for a Nullsleep video using the Kinect 14 February, 2011
Sound Scan: 3D scanner using falling BBs and sound 10 February, 2011
Kinect Technical Drawings 8 February, 2011
Looking Up At The MJT 7 February, 2011
LO: October 29, 1969 25 January, 2011
Single Pixel Camera 24 January, 2011
Showing at Ventana244 Gallery 21 January, 2011
The Incident: Sweded! 21 January, 2011
What Makes a Programming Language Good 18 January, 2011
Rise of the 21st Century City State Final Presentation 15 January, 2011
2010
43 Books in 2010 31 December, 2010
Design and Laser Cutting Tests for Sculpture about the First Internet Transmission 4 December, 2010
The Rise of the 21st Century City-State 4 December, 2010
Kinect Experiments: compositing and 3d 28 November, 2010
Artist Statement, Bibliography, and Sibling Work 17 November, 2010
Tabula Rasa finished 17 November, 2010
Engelbart Haunts SRI 8 November, 2010
The Era of Big VC is Over 5 November, 2010
Tabula Rasa 3 November, 2010
Augment Mood Board 2 November, 2010
Augment Storyboards 1 November, 2010
Augment Caricatures 27 October, 2010
Augment: The Rise and Fall of Doug Engelbart, an Outline 26 October, 2010
Who is art for? 26 October, 2010
3D Space and Alignment in After Effects 17 October, 2010
360 Degree Interactive Camera with HTML5 Video, Canvas, and Processing.js 29 September, 2010
Matching camera movements between After Effects and Arduino 29 September, 2010
Atari Cartridge and Box Prototype 27 September, 2010
Interactive 360 Degree Circuit Documentation 25 September, 2010
Driving Force: The Venture Capital Crisis 18 September, 2010
Painting a Facebook Page: "Facebook | Cydney MacNeill" 16 September, 2010
The Cone of Plausible Pasts 14 September, 2010
Towards a Notation System for Foosball 30 August, 2010
Atari 2600 Cartridge Carved in Blue Foam 25 August, 2010
ITPoogle: An ITP-Specific Search Engine 25 August, 2010
Lessons from Big Games for Mobile Web Apps 7 June, 2010
The GitHub Stoplight 19 May, 2010
Slonimsky-inspired Musical Robot Helmet 6 May, 2010
Snake Party: An Urban Game for NYU's Stern Plaza 3 May, 2010
An Unofficial Video for Ambulance by TV On the Radio 1 May, 2010
Ambulance Video Design Process and Animatic 10 April, 2010
Tripod Force Body Diagram 31 March, 2010
Open: A Flash Animation About a Corkscrew 28 March, 2010
There Will Be Yolk: A Rube Goldberg Machine 27 March, 2010
Mouth Helmet 22 March, 2010
Atari ET Cartridge 3D Model: my first Blender project 16 March, 2010
An He Built A Crooked House: A probabilistic 8-bit composition 15 March, 2010
Retro Arcade Museum: An Electromechanical Wonderland 14 March, 2010
Stock Market-Driven Robot Basketball Shooter 24 February, 2010
In Response to You Are Not A Gadget 17 February, 2010
Bot on Wire: A Prototype Tightrope-Walking Robot 13 February, 2010
Ideas for Dozens' Fifth Annivesary 13 February, 2010
The Little Wine Key That Could 7 February, 2010
The Prisoner's Dilemma: A Game 5 February, 2010
Instructions for Indoor Music: Video 31 January, 2010
Don't Lose Your Shit: A Drive-by on Version Control and Backups 31 January, 2010
Instructions for Indoor Music 30 January, 2010
Thaumatropes 28 January, 2010
Call Out, a game of doubt for dice and cards 24 January, 2010
2009
The Backs of Their Heads 17 December, 2009
Using UNICEF's RapidSMS to Build an SMS-based Application 15 December, 2009
Free As In Beer: Cybernetic Science Fictions 6 December, 2009
Stationary bike speedometer with Arduino and reed switch 21 November, 2009
Drawing Machines Project Proposal: Face Fight 18 November, 2009
The Multixylophoniomnibus 15 November, 2009
Remote Bike Mountain Project Proposal 11 November, 2009
Design for UNICEF: Mancala Phone Game 9 November, 2009
Real Pen Etch-A-Sketch with Stepper Motors 21 October, 2009
Metal Race Game: Fabrication and motor control 8 October, 2009
Gravitygraphs: Drawing with General Relativity 4 October, 2009
In Memoriam, the Luminiferous Aether 4 October, 2009
Metal Race Game: Motion and Motors 29 September, 2009
Pinch Control 2: Laser Drawing by Touch 27 September, 2009
OurTube: Socially-controlled mobile urban cameras 23 September, 2009
Pinch Control: Gesture-based Personal Music Device with Arduino 23 September, 2009
On Contour Drawing 21 September, 2009
Crash Photography with Arduino and MatchBox Cars 16 September, 2009
Why the Arduino Matters 22 May, 2009
A Tour of the Arduino Internals: How does Hello World actually work? 18 May, 2009
Early 8-bit Sounds from _why's Bloopsaphone 12 May, 2009
GoGaRuCo and RailsConf Wrap-up 9 May, 2009
An Aesthetics Reading List for Programmers 5 April, 2009
Grabb.it Shutting Down 23 March, 2009
Selected Media Criticism: February 2009 14 March, 2009
Accepted at NYU ITP 13 March, 2009
Speaking at RailsConf 1 March, 2009
rtumblr: Find Your Rebloggers 21 February, 2009
Srender to Simple Javascript Templating 19 February, 2009
The Git Bell: post-commit → ruby → arduino → bell 13 February, 2009
RAD Talk Roundup 11 February, 2009
Speaking at GoGaRuCo 9 February, 2009
Selected Media Criticism: January 2009 6 February, 2009
The Crazy Knob: Ruby Arduino Controlling the Archaeopteryx Probabilistic Step Sequencer 3 February, 2009
How Architects Learn: What Architecture Could Learn from Experimental Music 29 January, 2009
Facebook Digs Deeper into the Black Hole of Custom Markup 13 January, 2009
2008
On Failure 1 December, 2008
Interview up on ChadFowler.com 15 September, 2008
Speaking at RubyConf 12 September, 2008
Songbird Media Player Integration for Web Pages, a Compendium 14 June, 2008
Getting Started with Merb vol.2: Intro to Routing and Controllers 3 June, 2008
RailsConf 2008 Lightning Talk Summaries 1 June, 2008
Time to Organize Recording Artists: Why an Enforcement-based Strategy is a Mistake for the Music Industry 29 April, 2008
RAD 0.2.2 Released: Arduino 0011 Support 29 April, 2008
On Politics: How Proprietary vs. Open Source is like Obama vs. Clinton and why we need to get over it and get on with the work 24 April, 2008
RAD 0.2.1 Announcement and Dorkbotpdx 0x01 demo 7 April, 2008
Guide to Getting Started with Merb and ActiveRecord 3 April, 2008
Announcing RAD 0.2: Software Serial Support, Inline Assembler, and More! 16 March, 2008
Automating Firefox for Web Application Integration 7 March, 2008
Developing Single Serving Sites using Ruby CGI scripts on Dreamhost 1 March, 2008
Using Sandy with Web Snippets 11 February, 2008
Ideas for Dozens' Third Annivesary 9 February, 2008
An iwantsandy Port of the Quicksilver Append Trick 8 February, 2008
I Want Sandy with SMS and Twitter 21 January, 2008
A Brief History of the Music Industry over the Last 10 Years 12 January, 2008
2007
50 Blog Posts I'd Like to See in 2008 26 December, 2007
What Happens When Web-Scale Computing Becomes a Commodity? 17 December, 2007
Steve Albini and Avi Bryant: Separated at Birth? 9 December, 2007
Why Don't Social Networks Provide RSS Feeds? 4 December, 2007
Amazon Announces Oprah Book Club on the Kindle 29 November, 2007
EFF Compliance Bootcamp Notes 14 October, 2007
Rules of Engagement: 9/11 is Over 7 October, 2007
What's Wrong with Google Reader 2 October, 2007
Largehearted Goat? First Annual Report 29 September, 2007
On the Expectation of Privacy in Social Web Applications 22 September, 2007
git_tools: the Beginnings of a Rake Library for Git 19 September, 2007
My Second Foray into Open Source Logo Design: Couch DB 18 September, 2007
The Poet Laureate of Web 2.0 17 September, 2007
Designing A Logo for The Ape 20 August, 2007
My PDX Pop Now! 2007 Liveblog 8 August, 2007
RAD demo videos online 2 August, 2007
FOSCON RAD slides 25 July, 2007
RAD: The first step towards Ruby on Robots 23 July, 2007
Haiku0002 29 June, 2007
Presenting THUMBNAIL: a Ruby wrapper for the AWS Alexa Site Thumbnail service 14 June, 2007
A Beginner's Guide to Practical Syntactic Magic: the tale of Hpricot's sudo-constructor 11 June, 2007
Practical Introduction slides are up 26 May, 2007
Speaking this Thursday: A Practical Introduction to Art for the Absolute Beginner 7 May, 2007
My First Mongrel Handler: A Recipe for providing a JSONP Callback 2 May, 2007
In the Meantime, Here's Tiny 1 May, 2007
The Hacker's Almanac for Thursday March 22, 2007 22 March, 2007
No Hacker's Almanac Today: New Scaled-back Schedule 19 March, 2007
The Hacker's Almanac for Friday March 16, 2007 16 March, 2007
No Hacker's Almanac Today 15 March, 2007
The Hacker's Almanac for Wednesday March 14, 2007 14 March, 2007
The Hacker's Almanac for Tuesday March 13, 2007 12 March, 2007
The Hacker's Almanac for Monday March 12, 2007 11 March, 2007
The Hacker's Almanac for Friday March 9, 2007 9 March, 2007
The Hacker's Almanac for Thursday March 8, 2007 8 March, 2007
The Hacker's Almanac for Wednesday March 7, 2007 6 March, 2007
The Hacker's Almanac for Tuesday March 6, 2007 5 March, 2007
The Hacker's Almanac for Monday March 5, 2007 5 March, 2007
The Hacker's Almanac for Sunday March 4, 2007 4 March, 2007
The Hacker's Almanac for Saturday March 3, 2007 3 March, 2007
The NY Times Explains the Ratings 25 February, 2007
Dipping a Toe in the C 7 February, 2007
Subverting Twitter 25 January, 2007
MFDZ Back Online! 5 January, 2007
2006
Web 2.0 or Captcha? 11 December, 2006
Getting ComputerKrafty: Arduino, Ruby, and Blurry Video of Some Blinking LEDs 9 December, 2006
Why "I'm A PC" Works 5 December, 2006
Safari is an inbox 5 November, 2006
I'm mp3 Blogging on Pampelmoose 28 October, 2006
learns_to use Expect for Easy Automation 20 October, 2006
Immense Miniatures: Saltz on Toba Khedoori 18 October, 2006
The Final Utilization of Tank: Hankang Huang's Unfunny Paintings 12 October, 2006
Stampology: Jonathan Herder's New Western Sublime 11 October, 2006
Lullaby Land: Amy Chan's Anxious Nintendo World 9 October, 2006
Passing Shadows: Adia Millett's Photographed Miniature Interiors 8 October, 2006
Another Red Day: Largehearted Goat Follow-Up 7 October, 2006
Largehearted Goat? 4 October, 2006
learns_to Modules and Namespaces: Lessons from Wrapping the del.icio.us api 10 September, 2006
Bridging the Gap: Socially Responsible Investment Research and Consumer Ethics 6 September, 2006
learns_to build Academic Archive::Part 2:Setting up a New Rails App and a First Iteration on the Paper Model, Featuring our First Tests 28 August, 2006
learns_to build Academic Archive::Part 1:Introduction, Concept, and Design 18 August, 2006
When Founders Die 12 August, 2006
Blogging the Sh*t Out of PDX Pop Now! 2006 2 August, 2006
The How-I-Learned-Ruby Quiz 27 July, 2006
The Conversations Network 26 June, 2006
James Elkins' Idea Mapping Method 24 June, 2006
Introducing the Institute for Figuring 22 June, 2006
Hendriks' Computer-Aided Contour Drawing 21 June, 2006
Superman Jesus Quoted on MSNBC 15 June, 2006
Toward Actual Open Source Web Applications 29 May, 2006
Back from the Lull 18 May, 2006
learns_to divide by zero 5 April, 2006
learns_to: A None-Too-Brief Introduction to Partials 3 April, 2006
Revealing the Workings: A Trend in Album Art 25 March, 2006
Why Rails? 13 March, 2006
learns_to use migrations 7 March, 2006
IDFDZ in the WWeek 2 March, 2006
learns_to use the ternary operator to make concise views 1 March, 2006
Quite the Weekend 19 February, 2006
learns_to use acts_as_versioned 14 February, 2006
Secret Structured Google Music Search 1 February, 2006
A Note from the Content Usage Department 31 January, 2006
And Again With the Censorship! 29 January, 2006
Hype Machine Download Script 24 January, 2006
Cafe Press Censorship: Solved! 24 January, 2006
Oregon E-Business and the Broadcast Flag 22 January, 2006
Cafe Press's Automated Censorship 14 January, 2006
Roundup: The Music For Dozens Blog 3 January, 2006
2005
The Infinte Water Trick 26 December, 2005
The World is Pointy: Thomas Friedman's Geometry 19 December, 2005
Get Your Spend On: the new T-Shirt-A-Day store 6 December, 2005
Feature Request: Where'd I Put That Darned Link!?! 6 December, 2005
Use Automator to Append from Anywhere! 28 November, 2005
Superman Jesus 17 November, 2005
T-Shirt-A-Day 14 November, 2005
The Secret Influence of Dr. Seuss: Jared Pankin at Carl Berg 10 November, 2005
Site Redesign Leads to Discovery of Comment Gold 9 November, 2005
Roboflop 2005 6 November, 2005
One Hour Photo: Mark Takamichi Miller's Stolen Ghosts 6 November, 2005
Yet Another Cheese Sandwich Blog 23 October, 2005
How To Do More Than One Thing At Once: On "Lifehacking" 17 October, 2005
Business Proposal: Free Musak 7 October, 2005
Pocket Review: "Broken Social Scene" by Broken Social Scene 5 October, 2005
The New Music For Dozens Blog 1 October, 2005
An Upload Manager for the User-Writable Web 14 September, 2005
The Struggle To Right Oneself: On Artists' Statements 13 September, 2005
The Linux Long Tail Clarified 10 September, 2005
The Long Tail of Linux Kernel Developers 9 September, 2005
Flickr's Interestingness and Images of Katrina 5 September, 2005
Back with a New Strategy 31 August, 2005
Lindsay's Satellite Map Mural 11 August, 2005
Everything Bad Is Good For You, Except Music 9 August, 2005
PDX Pop Now! Almost Now! 4 August, 2005
Flickr and Incomprehensible Mob Behavior 23 July, 2005
A Brief History of Music For Dozens, Part 1 21 July, 2005
Stewart Butterfield at WebVisions 2005 15 July, 2005
BJ Fogg at WebVisions 2005 15 July, 2005
Podcasting Panel at WebVisions 2005 15 July, 2005
Peter Merholz at WebVisions 2005 15 July, 2005
Return to the Cabinet of Wonder 1 July, 2005
Coming Soon 27 June, 2005
Automatic for the Season 27 June, 2005
Hyperlinks for iTunes 25 June, 2005
Why Learning Art Leads to Bad Art 23 June, 2005
Borenstein's Law 21 June, 2005
Batman Begins, Again: The State of the Blockbuster 18 June, 2005
Widget You Like to Know Where I Find the Time 12 June, 2005
Disjecta In Progress 9 June, 2005
Some Self-News 9 June, 2005
PDXPop Now! Votin' and Promotin' 8 June, 2005
PDXPOP Now! 2005 Compilaiton Tracklist Announced! 31 May, 2005
The Films of PES 28 May, 2005
A Little 43 Folders Love 27 May, 2005
Guest Check PDA 27 May, 2005
Star Wars Arcade World Record Tragedy! 18 May, 2005
Best Of IT Conversations 18 May, 2005
Tutorial: Blosxom 17 May, 2005
Braman Song Blog Online 15 May, 2005
This is a test of SSI includes 12 May, 2005
I'm holding my commas: Update 10 May, 2005
I'm holding my commas 10 May, 2005
Quicktime. . .emitkciuQ 10 May, 2005
RSS Recomendations 10 May, 2005
Quicksilver and Text Wielder: All of the Services 9 May, 2005
Upcoming 9 May, 2005
Give-a-Disc, Take-a-Disc 4 May, 2005
Very Local Music 4 May, 2005
Personal Telco Project 2 May, 2005
Text: Plain and Simple 30 April, 2005
Bloggable Public Space 29 April, 2005
Google SMS Tipsheet Hack 26 April, 2005
Making Stuff 25 April, 2005
Google Calling 11 April, 2005
The Wired Tower and the Digitally Collaborative Thesis 11 April, 2005
Stovepiping 8 April, 2005
FOAF, del.icio.us, and "The Net" (the Real One, the One We All Grew Up Reading About) 7 April, 2005
My Old Boss Makes Good 6 April, 2005
LicenseMusic.com 30 March, 2005
Business Idea: Digitized Rights Management 29 March, 2005
Is Clear Channel A Monopoly? 25 March, 2005
Chris's del.icio.us Script for Net News Wire 25 March, 2005
The New Digital Parlour Music 22 March, 2005
The Tiniest of Hacks 18 March, 2005
Ganson's Dancing Machines 15 March, 2005
The Launch of Podshow.com and Why Social Networking Sites are the Wall Marts of the Long Tail 14 March, 2005
Art or Not? 10 March, 2005
Making URLs Smaller 9 March, 2005
Flickr Fixr 9 March, 2005
Adarwal My Long-Lost Kin 8 March, 2005
Invisibilia 7 March, 2005
Painter Working From Hot-or-Not Photos 7 March, 2005
Demand's Photgraphy 5 March, 2005
Review: Accident Hash Podcast 5 March, 2005
The Real McCoys 2 March, 2005
Brickfilms 1 March, 2005
Review: Net News Wire 2.0 Beta 27 February, 2005
Anticipated and Unanticipated Packet Loss 24 February, 2005
Bookmarklets and the Moment 19 February, 2005
Olympus C-7000 18 February, 2005
The Art of Tagging Relationships 17 February, 2005
Association of Music Podcasting 16 February, 2005
Amy Sue Sings A Song 14 February, 2005
Hotmail is killing me (with kindness) 14 February, 2005
Gus 13 February, 2005
Hotmail is killing me 13 February, 2005
RSS parsing for the rest of us 12 February, 2005
Del.icio.us pushes us down The Long Tail 12 February, 2005
A New Home 11 February, 2005
Spam on del.icio.us 11 February, 2005
MEME: More purple fingers at the State of the Union 11 February, 2005
MEME: Iraqis' purple fingers on election day 11 February, 2005
My First Post On Neopoleon.com 11 February, 2005
Video games for the blind 9 February, 2005
Coinage: "Clipcasting" 9 February, 2005