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All Blog Posts Tagged 'pearltrees' (6)

lets evoke flashmobs in gameworlds

Though our urgentevoke network is more than 19000 strong we are spread out thinly in our realworld.To gain further momentum it might be an idea to organize flashmobs in gameworlds like World of Warcraft or Covert Ops. It looks like a waste of energy to invest time in those gameworlds we are trying to turn around but since it is so fundamental in Jane McGonigal's project and the issue is in this game only indirectly adressed through the…

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Added by Gordon Freeman on May 17, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments

The Serendipity City Challenge

started prepping for a live! serendipity trip reacting to FutureEverythings first GloNet, a prototype for a new kind of globally networked event, on Thur 13 May. FutureEverything is shifting from a single city event to one taking place simultaneously at venues around the globe.

http://www.futureeverything.org/festival2010/glonet2010

for starters kicked in a small Ning vid…

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Added by Gordon Freeman on May 12, 2010 at 6:27pm — 5 Comments

numbed in my superpowers i decided to act , QUEST005

'''when in Nijmegen - now a little more than a year ago - a few University students started to enact some of my Half Life videogame pivotal moments into a real world setting by means of a - with special effects radiating viral sciencefiction - goshort youtube film

mobile via : http://bit.ly/4ltry

i was so numbed in my superpowers that i decided that i would counteract those feelings by metamorphosing from my… Continue

Added by Gordon Freeman on May 6, 2010 at 6:26pm — 5 Comments

credit where credit is due , Grimsel's magic

would like to adress your attention to :

DT: http://bliin.com/#item=t.4258

mobile: http://m.bliin.com/?t=i&p=&item=t.4258

a trip that intertwined live! bliin , qik , twitter and pearltrees interfaces

mobile via: http://pear.ly/i2vv

which contained - though… Continue

Added by Gordon Freeman on May 6, 2010 at 4:07pm — No Comments

The Myth of Gravity

Meet Erik Verlinde , dutch theoretical physicist ( String Theory ) at the University of Amsterdam.

He recently introduced a deep new way of looking at gravity , in which gravity is no longer seen as

a fundamental force but as a emergent phenomenon.

The way his reconceptualizations will lead to you inventing creative and sustainable ways to power

our everyday lives lay still deeply hidden in our future. And by means of spreading his

concepts i hope to… Continue

Added by Gordon Freeman on May 6, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments