At some point I'll point this over there I guess.

But for now, if you end up here, you can go to this site to see something reasonably up to date (that is, it actually gets updated):

http://yoteigai.blogspot.com/

YEAH I've removed the ability to comment without approval. I guess reCaptcha died? This blog shall rise from the dead. But first I have to kill Drupal. Drupal, "I used to love her, but I had to kill her..."

Looks like people have figured out how to evade the captcha stuff too, which is annoying, although at least I can wipe it all pretty easily.

In the meantime, here's a pleasant video of a Japanese Christmas tree with squid on it. Enjoy.

I did pretty well I think! For a programmer.

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Online Color Challenge—How well do you see color?

（日本語で）

I'm not really sure what I'm trying to say with this one, but it just makes a sort of cosmic sense to me right now with where I am in my life.

牧島昭成さん、おめでとう！

So, one of the things I've been super busy with lately is the humanities+digital conference my little group at MIT just put together. I would argue it was a success. I certainly had a lot of fun, and looking around and talking with others, I would say they did too. I met a ton of cool people and even persuaded my buddy Ted Byfield to come and give a talk, which turned out to be quite the awesome contrarian call to arms for re-thinking visualization in the humanities (although there were a number of those during the conference; Johanna Drucker gave one in the beginning and Lev Manovich continued the insanity at the end of Friday...an interestingly, those two were also the only two—if I recall correctly—to get up and raise issues with Ted after his talk).

I especially loved Martin Wattenberg's "Numbers, Words and Colors." It was lovely conceptually and visually. And I think every question asked of him he responded by saying, "that's a great/important/really interesting question," and then he would proceed to answer it in a great/important/really interesting way, regardless of its merits. Good stuff.

Of course, what I was most excited by was showing off the the timeline software I am building which we are releasing really soon now (a.k.a. as soon as it gets through the gauntlet of MIT lawyers and other bureaucrats). You can see it here for now. I got a lot of interest and great feedback from people coming up and trying it out. Many people seemed interested in using it with their own data sets, including Lev Manovich! Fun.

There's also a trail of tweets if you want to poke around there...and some pics on flickr under the tag hdigital, even a picture of yours truly! I'm famous, on that page on flickr.

This is like a juicy steak and a bourbon:

...and this is the ice cream sundae you have afterwards:

I think that that パフュームビデオ is part of an ad campaign, but, ya know, いずれにしても好きだ。

No really, just wait a bit.