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  • may 12:34 pm on November 27, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Open Access Libraries Meetup 

    This looks like something rajbot might be interested in :-)

    December’s San Francisco NetSquared Meetup will feature Richard Cave, IT Director, and Barbara Cohen, Executive Editor, of PLoS (Public Library of Science).

    PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. PLoS is helping to shape the global open access movement–which includes scientists, funders, publishers, librarians, patient advocacy groups, lawmakers, and many others.

    Where:
    Citizen Space

    1. 300, 425 Second Street
    San Francisco, California 94107

    When
    Tuesday, December 12, 2006
    6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

    More info

     

    • rajbot 1:54 pm on November 27, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Thanks for the heads up! I definitely want to meet with the PLoS peeps!!

  • rajbot 6:53 pm on November 25, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Roböxotica – Festival für Cocktail-Robotik 

    Did you know there is a conference on drinky-making robots taking place in Vienna on December 5??? Well, there is, and once again, our invite was “lost in the mail”. We’re not going to give up hope, however. We’ll be waiting by the phone.. waiting for their call.. it’s going to ring any minute now.. i just know it……… (via)

     

    • magnus 3:26 pm on December 10, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      LOL – damn US postal service!
      you should drop us your phone-number, so we can call you _before_ the event next year!!
      we’d love to have you on our panel of secret judges for the Annual Cocktail Robot Awards …
      this year’s winners are listed on Simone Davalos’ blog SuicideBots, who took one of the trophies to San Franciso with her:
      http://www.suicidebots.com/2006/12/09/el-borracho-wins/

      cheers from vienna!

  • may 12:39 pm on November 21, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Dave Eggers & Valentino Achak Deng @ Herbst 

    whatIsTheWhat.jpg Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng are going to be at Herbst Theatre next month! (Dec 11 at 8 pm)

    Eggers’ new book What is the What is based on the true story of Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of a 1000-mile exodus in Sudan. I haven’t read the book yet, but rajbot has and apparently thinks it’s really good so I’m going to read it :-)

    You can get tickets for the lecture here.

     

  • may 5:57 pm on November 17, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    SF hiphop dancefest 

    SFHHDF06_flier_300high.jpg The SF hiphop dancefest is happening this weekend! I’ve been going to this thing almost every year since the very first show (when it used to be at theatre artaud) and can say that it is always ALWAYS a good time. 25 urban dance companies from around the country come together to show off some of the flyest moves you will ever see. never mind that the guy in the poster is doin the karate kid bird thing, it’s lots of fun! and inspiring too.

    I’m going to try and get tickets for Sunday night (b/c that is the only time i can make it this weekend and also because flo-ology is performing then) Lemme know if you want to go too! (yes i know…tickets are kind of pricey. but these troupes are not well off and worth supporting. also, micaya, the producer of the show and who i used to take classes with is awesome!)

     

  • may 4:19 pm on November 15, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Giant Robot Dinosaur Party 

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    Giant Robot is proud to present Dinosaur Party, a group art show in honor of handmade toys and games, at GRSF.

    Everyone loves toys, and there was a time when kids had to make their own. This special show will include objects such as handmade paper models, one-of-a-kind playing cards, mutated action-figures, tweaked stuffed animals, and a custom chess set.

    Saturday, Nov 18, 6:30-10pm
    618 Shrader Street

     

  • may 8:00 am on November 14, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    veloswap 

    veloswap1.jpg Coming this Sat to SF, Veloswap is apparently *the* place to “see, swap, buy and sell every imaginable bike, part, and accessory.” Not that I need any more bike stuff, but I’m going to see if they’ve got a blinky glow-in-the-dark jacket that i need for wintery night-time-riding (cause there are drivers like me on the road!) and if it’s not there, then i guess i really will have to make my own.

     

  • rajbot 1:08 am on November 8, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Evil Hello Kitty = Appley Rotten 

    evilkitty1.jpgRemember that silly Vox ad with the hipster? Well, it turns out that the hipster in that ad was wearing a Appley Rotten T-shirt! I would totatlly get one of these but they only come in girly tees, which I probably couldn’t squeeze into..

    Here are some Appley Rotten animations, and here are more cute things by the same team. Apparently they will be showing and selling stuff at Feria Urbana at the Canvas Gallery on November 18. (via this incoming link)

     

  • rajbot 1:36 am on November 7, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Kahle v. Gonzales – the Orphan Works Trial 

    Kahle v. Gonzales is going to be argued by Larry Lessig on Nov 13th at, maybe 10 or 11AM.

    What is at stake is libraries being able to have out-of-print books on their digital bookshelves as they have out-of-print books on the physical shelves we grew up with.

    James R. Browning US Courthouse
    United States Court of Appeals – 9th Circuit
    95 Seventh Street
    San Francisco, California 94103
    Courtroom 2, 3rd Floor

    This is open to the public. Please come!

    Lots more info on the case and a FAQ at CyberLaw. Here’s the forum thread.

     

  • may 9:31 am on October 22, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Extra Action 

    Fearless butter lapper and speed demon Kathryn plays the trumpet for a band.

    This Halloween, Tuesday October 31st at 12 Galaxies (2565 Mission Street @ 22nd), witness the Extra Action Flag Team rising from the dead with selections from Black Sabbath’s First Album. With the Moon nearly full and the scary people in the Castro doing the same ol’show, the Brass will Howl into the chill of the Mission night air.

    Tickets are $10 and you can pick up advance tickets here:

    Doors will open just after you have finished your trick-and-treating (i.e. 8 PM)

     

    • rajbot 10:07 am on October 22, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Extra Action breaks my brain, but in a good way :)

      Too bad the show is at 12 galaxies..

    • may 6:24 pm on October 22, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      yeah, not my favorite place either – got totally smooshed and pushed up against everyone’s armpits the last time they had a show there. but oh! the flag team! HOT!

  • may 9:44 pm on October 18, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    khraigslist! 

    is a place where you can find stuff like

    khraigslist is a production of kasperhauser. They’ve got a book coming out at the end of the month called SkyMaul: Happy Crap You Can Buy from a Planeand there’s gonna be a party to celebrate (at Cobbs on 11/14). I’m gonna go. you should go too. and buy their book cause my friend John really really needs a new haircut. (actually that’s his twin brother James but they look so much alike…)

     

    • rajbot 5:02 pm on October 21, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Your friends are entirely too funny.. are you going to the party at Cobbs?

    • may 9:21 am on October 22, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      yep! colette and i are gonna go for sure (i think you met colette at the lobster show :-) You guys should come too! Tickets are over here.

  • peliom 3:37 pm on October 9, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Welcome to Web 2.165 


    Google swallows YouTube for $1.65bn

    We better get an open-bar party out of this.

     

  • rajbot 11:06 am on October 6, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    49 Up opens today!! 

    So you’ve probably heard me rant about how much I love the 7UP series, an amazing documentary series that follows the lifearcs of fourteen British children for over 40 years. The series is absolutely mesmerizing.

    Well, 49 Up opens in San Francisco and Berkeley today, and is showing for only a week! That gives everyone this weekend to catch up, in case you aren’t up-to-date on the series, and we’ll go see it Wednesday or Thursday!

    wiki – trailer – amazon – netflix – first run features

     

    • may 12:26 am on October 10, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Drat, I didn’t get around to seeing 28, 36, and 42 over the weekend like I’d planned to. (I fell asleep on your couch instead). Oh well, don’t give away the ending!

  • may 7:42 am on September 21, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    PARK(ing) Day 

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    Today is Park(ing) Day here in SF – a day to temporarily transform a metered parking spot into a PARK.…at least until the meter runs out! Here’s an email Arena sent about it

    Today I will be volunteering to help deploy the “Temporally Displaced Open Space” in the downtown area of San Francisco — part of PARK(ing) Day. Or, to put it more succinctly, I’ll be hauling dirt with my bicycle trailer.

    If you get time today (Thursday), check out some of the installations all around downtown (one near Axis Cafe in front of CCA(c) and one in front of Ritual Roasters on Valencia). This is a one day art installation to visualize the potential of parking spaces as green spaces.

    Consult the map:

    http://communitywalk.com/map/19478

    or the website:

    http://rebargroup.org/projects/parkingday/index.html

    and please pass those links on to anybody that you think would be interested …or make a PARK(ing) space of your own, it’s an open-source project.

     

    • Travis 6:28 pm on September 21, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      This is so awesome! I’m so doing it one day! Where are the animals in the park? I would bring some dogs and a few ducks…

  • may 9:16 am on September 9, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    You’re invited!! 

    to the semi-annual Tikirobot brunch! That’s right…all 3 or 4 or 5 of you who read this blog are invited over to my place for brunch tomorrow. 10:30 am. No need to bring anything but yourselves. Oh and friends of course are welcome too. See you later! Ping me if you need directions.

     

    • rajbot 10:08 pm on September 9, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Yay!! I’m bringing experimental tiki mimosas :)

    • Travis 4:09 pm on September 10, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      hahah there is like a million people that read this you just dont know about it! I wanna come can i bring Miss Tookie!?

    • rajbot 3:29 pm on September 11, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Thanks May!!!! What a wonderful day! :)

  • rajbot 12:32 am on August 27, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Muni Link-o-Rama 

     

    • may 11:41 am on August 27, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      hmm. I’m not so sure about “free rein at City Hall” but hooray for the bicycle coalition!!

      i wonder if it’s possible to make Muni private and free? or at least, not expensive. i guess that would be the *most* far-fetched.

    • rajbot 12:39 pm on August 27, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      I guess since only 1/4 of the MUNI budget comes from fares, it isn’t as far-feteched as it might seem.

      There is free shuttle that runs from downtown to the Presidio. I’ve taken it once and it wasn’t overrun by sleepy homeless people, which seems to be peoples’ biggest fear.

      My solution to increase ridership would be to double the frequency of the buses.The extra buses would be air-conditioned, clean, have limited stops, a coffee bar in the back, and cost $3/ride.

      With daily ridership up 15% during the Bay Area’s recent free transit experiment, some officials are calling for the policy to be made permanent.

      Wikipedia link to free public transit systems

    • may 5:31 pm on August 28, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      $3/per ride! that’s almost as much as caltrain! how about more buses and $1/ride? (or a free ride!) The revenue for the extra buses and reduced fare could come from location based marketing – while you’re on the bus, a video screen could describe some of the commercial establisments you’re passing en route to your destination…restaurants, shops, local businesses etc. (as a bonus, you’d be given the option to text in a special code for a discount at any of these places).

      This might drive me crazy on a daily commute ride…but if it were only once in a while, it might be useful. I’d be sure to take the bus that passes by Tartines to get a discount on their chocolate croissants :-)

    • rajbot 1:57 am on August 29, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      The buses in LA, in addition to being cleaner than ours and air-conditioned, have TVs with local ads and ridiculous public service announcements.

      I can’t believe that LA, a city which seems to fiercely hate non-drivers, has such a nice bus system.

  • rajbot 2:49 pm on August 11, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    6 Flags over Hell 

    Scott Beale has setup photos of the SRL show online. I can’t wait!

    Someone please bring a video camera! I think we’re going to need the video to show our kids, and our kids’ kids.

    “Look children! Back on Earth there was this really boring place called San Jose. Then one day the machines came…… That’s why live here now, forever orbiting the smoldering hunk of our ex-planet :(“

     

  • may 3:44 am on August 9, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    ZeroOne in San Jose 

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    ZeroOne is an international art & technology festival that’s happening in San Jose this week so my office is taking the day off tomorrow to check it out! Since I was enlisted to organize the day out, I thought I’d post some of the things I culled over here too (these are sort of biased towards location based, sound, and telephony projects, cause well, that’s what we do at work. But there are lots of other neat projects to check out!)

    At the San Jose Museum of Art as part of the Edge Conditions exhibition

    • Listening Post
      is an “art installation that culls text fragments in real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. The texts are read (or sung) by a voice synthesizer, and simultaneously displayed across a suspended grid of more than two hundred small electronic screens.” Sort of like We Feel Fine but amplified!

    (More …)

     

    • Anonymous 7:51 pm on August 9, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Thanks for the clues of what to do!

    • rajbot 10:33 pm on August 9, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      I saw pictures and video of SRL’s Big Walker being resurrected and lost it. I can’t wait for the SRL show!!

    • may 7:49 am on August 10, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      i’ve never seen an SRL show so i’m pretty psyched too!

      oh and i’d gotten an extra ticket for arena, but now she can’t go so if you know of anyone who might want it, lemme know.

    • may 7:52 am on August 10, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      also, if you can make a day of it, the ZeroOne exhibits pass is a sweet deal! $20 gets you into all the ISEA Exhibits, The Tech Museum, and the San Jose Museum of Art.

    • rajbot 9:25 am on August 10, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Yup, I know someone who needs an SRL ticket!

  • rajbot 2:40 pm on August 4, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    RaNCh Open Studios on Sunday and Thursday! 

    Two Fabulous Nites! Two Fabulous Floors of cATacLySmIc Creation!

    Come to the Cataclysmic Megashear Ranch to meet the Ranch Hands and view their Art.

    CMR, nestled in the heart of scenic Bayview, has long been home to shady characters and dubious activities. This is your chance to see the latest crop of manufactured handiwork from the artists currently in residence.

    Opening Day:
    Sunday, August 6th, 3p – 9p

    Closing Night:
    Thursday, August 10th, 6pm – Midnight
    Live Bands: SF Cattle Company and Babyshakers

    Artists – Exhibition Catalog (updated):

    NEWLY ADDED/AMENDED:
    Dave Cherry – Comic Art
    Kiki Pettit Jewell – Neon and plasma sculptures
    Scott Bartlett Jewell – Turbo jet engine: Turbo from a car, metal, and ingenuity
    Paba Free – Interactive Sound Installation
    Dominique Hatt – “Floating dream light device” 2000-2006
    Elizabeth Dougherty – birdbath, candlestick, fountain and copper framed photo.

    PREVIOUSLY LISTED:
    Carl Copek – “CMRetrospective – sights n’ sounds 1995-2006″
    Nick Thompson – “You are Here” Installation
    Mike McCabe – Time Lapse Animation of Atmospheric Strata
    Max Carlson – Time Lapse Animation of Kingdom Plantae
    John Doe – “Video Feedback – Realtime interactive video kaleidoscope surprises and briefly entrances most hipsters”.
    Barbobot – “Creature” An installation of lightbulbs and feedback sensors which create an intimate environment for the viewer.
    Furry – “Garden Tub and Environs” Glowy lights, silk plants and clawfoot.
    Michael Ang – “Interactive video installation and/or a blinky light thing”
    Hillary Seidner – “LED chandelier”
    Nurse Saz – Stories and microbial organisms from the Congo
    Uncle Kruddy – Mixed Media
    Kathryn Arnold – Collection of Paintings
    Lisa Pimental – Mixed Media
    Pernilla Persson – Mixed Media Photos
    Mauricia Gandara – Mixed Media
    Mr. Foo – I don’t know what he’s showing but I bet it is very Bright and goes crackle or boom

     

    • may 3:35 pm on August 4, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      cool! so, um, where exactly is this ranch???

    • rajbot 3:45 pm on August 4, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      That is a good question!

    • may 11:35 am on August 5, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      are you guys going? i don’t wanna go by myself, cause i don’t know who any of these people are, and um, i’m afraid they’ll bite.

    • rajbot 7:13 pm on August 5, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Yeah, Jess and I are going tomorrow at 7pm. You should come!

      I would say ‘don’t worry, they don’t bite’, but, um… they do ;)

  • may 10:47 am on July 29, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Survival Research Labs in San Jose 

    JET_GLOW1.jpg A show that’s sure to have lots of blinky lights (and very big, loud, exploding things). SRL will be in San Jose (as part of ISEA) on Friday night, Aug 11th. I think I’m gonna get tickets and check it out.

    Also, the following day, my friend Doria will be here from NY for a visit (and some foo camp thingy) but before that, we’re gonna go for some *real* camping, possibly along the Lost Coast (aug 12th-15th). I think dogs are allowed! and it’s on the beach!

    what say you people?? wanna go??

     

    • rajbot 11:21 am on July 29, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      I’m definitely in for SRL.. Jess and I have tickets and I’m super-excited about it!!

      That weekend is booked up with Puppy Class, an engagement party, and a couple b-days, so I won’t be able to go camping.. next time!

  • may 7:01 am on July 21, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Lotsa Biking Events This Weekend 

    Pedal Monster web flyer.jpg Starting on Friday night at Zeitgeist and running through the whole weekend, Cyclecide presents Pedal Monster! a gathering of mutant bicycle clubs descending on San Francisco for bicycle-rodeo-
    pedal-powered-sideshow-circus-madness! The weekend’s events will be at the Mission Village Market at 18th and Alabama

    fat.gifAnd on Saturday, there’s the Tour De Fat at Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park. “Two parts bike rodeo and one part circus you can expect fire-jumping bike acts, cycling games, a cruiser bike parade, live music, tasty eats and great beer….all proceeds benefit two nonprofits: the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition& the Bay Area Ridge Trails Council.” I don’t know why they decided to have both events on the same weekend because I can’t decide which one to go to!

    Lastly, a biking event that just passed, the butter lappers showed up en masse wednesday night for a wedding on wheels!

     

  • may 12:27 pm on June 22, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Will Wright & Brian Eno on Playing with Time 

    Will Wright will be giving a talk at Herbst Theatre next Monday on playing with time and his new game Spore. Brian Eno who worked on the sounds for the game will be there too. I’m gonna check it out. Lemme know if any of you guys want to go too!

    More info at the Long Now Foundation.

     

  • peliom 4:30 pm on May 9, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    TikiRobot at Zeitgeist! 

    Dust off your pineapples and eye patches folks. It’s time for the sunniest TikiRobot party ever!.

    Time: 6pm Wednesday!!!, May 10, 6pm
    Place: Zeitgeist, SF
    Address: 199 Valencia

    Come on down and join us for beer, BBQ smoke, and sunshine. Did I mention beer?

    (drawing from Dead Monkey Comics)

     

    • may 9:05 pm on May 9, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      drat, did this already happen?

    • rajbot 12:23 pm on May 10, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Nope, it’s today! I’m going to go, and so is Jessica :)

    • rajbot 3:17 pm on May 11, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      That was way fun! When is the next one??

    • may 7:12 am on May 12, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      I don’t know when but I thought it was gonna be at your place! :-)

  • peliom 7:53 am on May 9, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Support Walkers! 

    Steve Vaught decided to battle depression and obesity by walking from his home in Oceanside to New York City. Steve weighed 410 at the start of the journey. Today is the last day of his walk! People in the NYC area can join up and walk the last mile. Meet at George Washington Bridge, today, at 5:30pm.

    Link to TheFatManWalking.com

     

  • peliom 5:02 pm on May 4, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Turing Tables 

    This piece is amazing and deep.

    German artist Franz John, in collaboration with sound artist Ed Osborn and programmer Brsma, makes visible this unseen data in Turing Tables.

    The work:

    ….points instead to the consciousness that the earth is an organism, that it moves and is an organism in constant flux.

    Really, I’m just posting this because it involves projecting PERL code onto the walls.

    Link to press release. Turing Tables is at the Exploratorium through June 18.

     

  • peliom 12:15 pm on April 25, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    T Line Testing!!! 

    I saw the coolest thing this morning. First Train!!!!!! The SF Muni T Line started testing “rolling stock” yesterday AM. They are just testing folks. As the MUNI website helpfully explains:

    DO NOT BOARD!!!

    Hopefully service will begin sometime this summer.

     

    • rajbot 12:25 pm on April 25, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Whoa! F1rSt TrAIn!!!!111!!!!one!!!

      I saw some people on the bus this morning holding 3rd St Rail ‘DO NOT BOARD’ pamphlets..

    • may 8:20 pm on April 25, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      lucky you!! where does it go??

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