http://www.supereverywhere.com Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:30:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just got the new Japanese copy of Core Memory. They did a really good job -- it looks fantastic. Of course I can't comment on the translation exactly, but for all of his diligence and attention to detail, I'd say that translator Masao Kamosawa must have really done a ... http://www.supereverywhere.com/2008/03/10/japanese-edition-of-core-memory/ Researcher Yuichiro Katsumoto, whom I met at Mobility 2006 in Bangkok, has created two new tools for looking and acting like a superhero, even if the only thing you're battling is the weather or a humdrum commute. The first, Amagatana, is an umbrella that when used like a sword sounds like ... http://www.supereverywhere.com/2008/03/09/superheroic-umbrella-and-scarf/ Yup. Bring the real back to your life by making it hyperactive. Need a reason to use pencils? How about writing with incredibly long-lasting smells? http://www.supereverywhere.com/2007/07/13/nanotech-aromatherapy-pencils/ June 21 is the French day of music, when everyone has a green light to sing the blues, or the reds, purples, and any other synaesthesiac label they want. Or not. Anyway, the point is there's music in the air. And if you take the advice of Le Monde, you'll ... http://www.supereverywhere.com/2007/06/12/day-of-music-2007/ Paul McCartney's view of making an album in this part of the new century: "I was bored with the old record company's jaded view," McCartney says, plopped on a sofa in the large, comfortable farmhouse that doubles as a rehearsal studio here in the rolling, tree-studded hills of rural East Sussex. ... http://www.supereverywhere.com/2007/06/12/72/ We had a fun party at the Computer History Museum for the release of Core Memory! That's photographer Mark Richards (who really drove the project) distracting me with an inscrutable gesture as I diligently try to move books. http://www.supereverywhere.com/2007/06/11/book-signing/ Yahoo's new celebrity site, OMG! just launched (in beta). Giving all that celebrity material a sparkling new home. Notice how the interactions reflect the brand? Well, hopefully they do, anyway. I was part of the team that worked on this. And despite the anxiety that celebrity culture sometimes gives me, ... http://www.supereverywhere.com/2007/06/11/omg-it-finally-launched/ Wired's Chris Kohler writes today about "Nintendo President Satoru Iwata's conviction that what consumers really wanted out of video games was simpler, more accessible entertainment -- not the photorealistic graphics and massive online worlds that the company's competitors were chasing," and how that led to the Wii, now the top-selling ... http://www.supereverywhere.com/2007/06/11/low-budget-big-fun/ One of the greatest drummers, and musical explorers of our age died Monday of cancer at the age of 54. As one of the Sun City Girls, Charlie was the first drummer that I really got into watching. It sounds late-blooming and all, but it was Charlie who fully convinced me ... http://www.supereverywhere.com/2007/02/21/rip-charles-gocher/ "The Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today." Some of the coolest free music I've gotten recently. The file ... http://www.supereverywhere.com/2007/02/19/sounds-of-the-twentieth-century/