Xeni on NPR: Renaissance of Breakin'

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Breakin' 3: Ecclesiastic Boogaloo

Breakin' 3: Ecclesiastic Boogaloo 01/26/2004 01:50 PM
Breakdancers receive blessing from the Pope. A story about the papacy that isn't frustrating, just for a change. It doesn't say it in the article, but I like to think that His Holiness learned to do the Worm.

Renaissance gown and renaissance wedding
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Renaissance gown and renaissance wedding
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Renaissance Man

Renaissance Man 07/02/2004 08:23 AM

« The studio-castle Tarvaspää. »

On our way around the solar system, we paid a visit to Akseli Gallen-Kallela's studio-castle in Tarvaspää which is now a museum. [There is also Kaleva, Gallen-Kallela's summer cottage and studio in Ruovesi, which is a little north of Tampere. ] The house was completed in 1913 and is another lovely example of the Jugend architecture of the period. Gallen-Kallela was a particularly talented artist and illustrator who unfortunately died before finishing his seminal work, an illuminated edition of the Kalevala. The castle/museum contains much of his artwork and depicts his openness to new things such as a tiled bath inside the house, a novelty which he came to know in the US when he was visiting there. His artwork was also influenced by his travels and the difference in styles make it easy to see which period of his life each work is from. Cosmopolitan yet one of those most closely associated with the rise of Finnish nationalism and identity.

I must admit that I've not read the entire Kalevala or the lesser known Kanteletar from cover to cover as, like any national epic, it's long and full of references to things that you have to go hunt down the meanings of if you are to fully understand it. I've noticed that the Oxford translation is awfully dry and lacks any of the poetic metre, which might also be a contributing factor, so I'll be giving the Otava edition from 1989 a try since it is regarded as the best English translation. I have been thinking about doing a serial sort of kalevala-a-day blog, in a similar style to the Pepys Diary online, as a way to get me to really read it and annotate it. I managed to register kalevala.info and kanteletar.net so if I don't become totally bored with the idea in the next few weeks I'll do something with it. And the photos from Juhannus may have to wait another day or two as the weather is gorgeous today for a change and I'm going out into the bright light instead of sitting in the dark cave scanning photos. :)

Renaissance 0.8.0

Renaissance 0.8.0 12/14/2003 11:22 AM
A program that allows you to describe your user interfaces.

A renaissance for the workstation?

A renaissance for the workstation? 08/29/2004 11:26 PM
A California start-up thinks so. Its 96-processor unit is aimed at the film industry and life sciences researchers, among others.

Autoresponder Renaissance

Autoresponder Renaissance 12/15/2003 08:02 PM
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Investigating the Renaissance

Investigating the Renaissance 12/23/2003 05:46 PM
Inve stigating the Renaissance. 'This interactive program demonstrates the ways in which computer technology can be harnessed to add to our knowledge about Renaissance paintings and how they were made.' Analysis of paintings using x-ray, infrared and ultraviolet technology.

Ikea and the renaissance

Ikea and the renaissance 01/28/2004 07:42 PM
Adam Greenfield's 'Ikeaphobia and its discontents' is just great: I must hear some version of this spiel once a month, generally from some self-consciously leftie male between the ages of sixteen and twenty-two desperate to prove his authenticity, present his...

Behind VoIP's renaissance

Behind VoIP's renaissance 01/17/2004 10:56 PM
Declared dead just a few years ago, Internet telephony is now all the rage. Knowledge@Wharton provides a reality check on how big this technology will become.

Is a Moog Renaissance Nigh?

Is a Moog Renaissance Nigh? 05/20/2004 05:35 AM
Fans gather at a Moogfest to celebrate the 40th birthday of the Moog synthesizer. Surprisingly, the analog Moog sound -- created by a tub of knobs and wires -- is making a comeback. Noah Shachtman reports from New York.

Microsoft Predicts Mac Renaissance

Microsoft Predicts Mac Renaissance 01/22/2004 10:24 AM
Microsoft's group marketing manager for home and retail products, Jonathan Hulse, said: "We anticipate a growth in Mac sales over the next two to three years." By Jonny Evans (Macworld UK via MyAppleMenu)

The Continuing Renaissance Of Apple

The Continuing Renaissance Of Apple 09/10/2004 10:58 AM
The IT industry and the PC industry, in particular, needs Apple to succeed. By Robin Bloor, IT-Director.com (via MyAppleMenu)

First Phantom Renaissance Screens

First Phantom Renaissance Screens 06/14/2004 04:33 PM

The digital music renaissance

The digital music renaissance 07/01/2004 08:43 AM
Having all your tunes at your fingertips isn't just fun -- it makes you a more avid consumer of music. So why are the recording companies fighting the future?

Steve Jobs - Apple renaissance man

Steve Jobs - Apple renaissance man 09/10/2004 08:46 AM
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Renaissance Says Apple Supplies Easing

Renaissance Says Apple Supplies Easing 09/16/2004 08:37 PM
"Supplies are quickening up and we expect the shortage to ease significantly in the next few weeks." By Darren Greenwood, New Zealand Reseller News (via MyAppleMenu)

Shneidermann Demands Computing
Renaissance

Shneidermann Demands Computing
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Friends Invent Best Seller From
Renaissance Tale

Friends Invent Best Seller From
Renaissance Tale 05/25/2004 11:57 PM
Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason have written a novel in which they have invented a solution behind the mysteries of the 1499 book "The Hypnerotomachia."

Netscape renaissance: AOL to release
browser update

Netscape renaissance: AOL to release
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SAN FRANCISCO - The Netscape Web browser may not be dead after all. After being written off by industry observers last year, America Online Inc. (AOL) plans to release an update to the Netscape Internet software package as early as next month.

BBC Charter Opens the Gates to Cultural
Renaissance

BBC Charter Opens the Gates to Cultural
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Renaissance Health Improves Patient Care
with IT

Renaissance Health Improves Patient Care
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The small physician practice is working with Greenway Medical Technologies, a small IT company funded by doctors, to help serve patients' diverse needs.

iPod Demand Helps Renaissance To Bumper
Profit

iPod Demand Helps Renaissance To Bumper
Profit 08/02/2004 07:06 PM
Overwhelming demand for Apple's iPod has helped local distributor Renaissance to a bumper six-month result. By New Zealand Stuff (via MyAppleMenu)

The Digital Music Renaissance -- In
Spite Of The Industry's Efforts

The Digital Music Renaissance -- In
Spite Of The Industry's Efforts 07/01/2004 05:14 PM
You have to wonder sometimes whether or not the recording industry will ever figure this out, but the power of digital music to make a better, more informed and more willing to buy consumer seems completely lost on them. Andrew Leonard, over at Salon, has written a great essay on how the digitalization of music files has changed his music consumption habits. Note that he's not talking about downloading music from file sharing systems, but having the freedom to discover new music easily, obtain that music without too many hurdles, and then do with it what he wants. That's what's so powerful. While the industry is entirely focused on people "not paying" for music, they're missing the opportunity to engage all those who just want to be better music consumers. And, as Leonard points out, no matter how hard they try, the economics of supply and demand show that the industry will never win this battle. "Instead of trying to prevent me from enjoying my own music, the recording industry should be working as hard as it can to get everything online and available, cheaply. It should be making it easier for me to rip and burn to my heart's content. Because when I'm happy listening to music, it doesn't take much encouragement for me to spend more money."

Renaissance Festival Goes on Ye Olde
Internet Auction Block

Renaissance Festival Goes on Ye Olde
Internet Auction Block 08/15/2004 09:05 PM
A renaissance festival in Sterling, N.Y., went up for sale this month in the most modern of ways: Internet auction.

Xeni on NPR -- Death, Sex, and E3

Xeni on NPR -- Death, Sex, and E3 05/14/2004 09:27 AM
Today on the National Public Radio program "Day to Day," I report back from the E3 gaming convention taking place in Los Angeles. Porn-themed video games, first-person combat shooters with real-life resonance, and a live tactical urban assault demonstration by the US Army -- complete with copters, guns, and terrified pedestrians -- to promote the latest edition of its online computer game/recruiting tool, "America's Army: OVERMATCH."

And on Wired News, these photos I shot at the convention this week.

Link to Day to Day home, Link to archived audio for today's show, which will be available after 12PM PT.

Xeni on NPR: MP3 bl0gs

Xeni on NPR: MP3 bl0gs 08/27/2004 01:46 PM
Xeni Jardin: On today's edition of the NPR program "Day to Day," I explore the odd universe of MP3 blogs with with host Noah Adams. On these personal websites, music lovers trade and comment on rare finds, mashups, and unusual twists on familiar favorites -- and recently, major record labels have been taking notice in an unexpected way. During the radio segment, we'll play a few funky tracks scraped from the blogs, should be fun. Link to online archive for today's NPR "Day to Day" segment on MP3 blogs.
(Thanks to BoingBoing reader Skye Ashebrook for pointing me to tons of great, lesser-known MP3 blogs, and to Jason Schultz of the EFF who provided astute tech law insight for this story.)

Xeni does her thang

Xeni does her thang 07/30/2004 08:39 AM

Xeni Jardin is one of the shining lights in the blogosphere. She crosses over to maintream journalism with style and grace.

Here's her latest....

I just filed this story for MSNBC about the business value of social networking services. Truth or hype: can some SNSes become helpful professional tools for businesses -- in particular, independent entrepreneurs and smaller companies, for whom each new personal connection is a significant business building block? Includes interviews with unrepentant compulsive digital networkers danah boyd, Frank Keeney of SOCALWUG, Noah Glass of audblog, Scott Beale of Laughing Squid, Scott Rafer of Feedster, Travis Kalanick of RedSwoosh (and, once upon a time, Scour.net), and human router Joi Ito -- who said this:

Their usefulness depends on your needs and networking style. LinkedIn, for example allows you to search histories and CVs in your network -- it's great for finding people who work in a particular company, or who have worked with someone you know. It's also an interesting way to find references for people or companies you're getting to know.

I think email is broken in a serious way, and SNS is trying to address some of the issues associated with that breakdown. These networks may get it right and really change the way we do business, but we're still at the beginning of the development and evolution curve.

Link [ BoingBoing]

What's In Your Gadget Bag, Xeni?

What's In Your Gadget Bag, Xeni? 06/01/2004 07:25 AM

Effervescent Bollywood advertisements, e-voting, and food-as-porn photoshop remixes. I didn't cherry-pick those three topics from Xeni Jardin's BoingBoing contributions to achieve some eclectic frisson -- those posts just happen to be her last three. They may be indicative, though, of Jardin's many tentacled exploration into dozens of subjects, not just as one of the four cornerstones of BoingBoing, but as a contributing writer for WIRED Magazine and on-air commentator for NPR's Day 2 Day radio program, as well as her duties as conference and art show organizer extraordinaire. Who better to ping with a packet of, "What's in your gadget bag?" (Am I getting good at these, or what? Thanks, Xeni!)

• Sweet little Motorola V600. Fat 65k color screen. Bluetooth. Built-in VGA cam with zoom. I'm co-curating "SENT," the first major exhibit of phonecam art in the US. As the project's sponsor, Motorola provided V600s for each of the Mark Cuban, Megan Mullally, Randal Kleiser, Penelope Spheeris, Weird Al Yankovic). We also got a batch of pre-release V710s which are sweet to the tenth power, but carrier availability isn't here just yet.

Wardriving Ms. Xeni

Wardriving Ms. Xeni 12/02/2003 04:55 PM
Xeni Jardin wardrives on NPR's Day to Day: Xeni takes a trip with two SOCALWUG members (Frank Keeney and Mike Outmesguine) in this segment. The audio element of wardriving is great because they have voice synthesis on that's beeping and speaking wireless access point detected over and over again. Frank or Mike said: If we see passwords...it's because people have set up their networks without any form of encryption....

Xeni Flies Zero-G

Xeni Flies Zero-G 09/10/2004 02:08 AM
Xeni Jardin: Next week, on Wednesday September 15, I'm going on a zero-gravity flight about 32,000 feet above earth.

The company operating this flight is ZERO-G, whose founder Peter Diamandis is also the man behind the Ansari X-Prize competition. I invited Dr. Diamandis to speak at Wired Magazine's NextFest earlier this year, met him there, and learned he'd been working on this program for more than ten years.

The flight I'm taking next week (for NPR and Wired News) is part of ZERO-G's five-city media launch. Soon, they'll begin a commercial service on specially-equipped Boeing 727-200s. For about $3,000 US, passengers will be able to experience about 20 doses of parabolic weightlessness during a 90-minute trip.

Nothing like this has ever been offered to American consumers before. ZERO-G is the only company with FAA approval to conduct weightless flights for the public within the US.

NASA operates flights similar to this for training astronauts (Link), but not to the public. Space Adventures -- the company that made space tourists out of Dennis Tito and Mark Shuttleworth (and, almost, N'Sync's Lance Bass) -- sells "vomit comet" flight experiences to paying passengers, but they cost closer to $10K and depart from a remote location in Russia. The combined costs of the flight, the prep, and getting to the departure site add up to a hefty five-figure sum. With the launch of this new service in the US, zero-G above the earth will now only cost a few G.

I've never done anything like this before. What will weightlessness feel like? A rollercoaster? Or floating in water, but without the water? When I was little, I used to have lots of recurring dreams about flying -- the dream-sensation of weightlessness felt so vivid, once I half-woke-up and sleep-jumped right off a flight of stairs. How is it that our bodies already know what zero-g feels like? Are we remembering what it felt like to float in utero? That waking dream of flight and floating -- it's something each of us physically understand. I'm looking forward to feeling the real thing.

My grandfather was an amateur astronomer. He taught me a lot of things about stars and space when I was a kid. He was there, downstairs in the living room, when I realized I couldn't fly that day -- about halfway down the stairs. He picked me up, held me in his arms, wiped my tears, and probably had to work really hard at not laughing.

Later, after lots of band-aids and kleenex, he explained what gravity was. I remember feeling really sad and crying all over again when he told me, "Honey, people just can't float like that." I wish he could still be here now, and float with me next Wednesday.

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Xeni profile in the LA Times

Xeni profile in the LA Times 04/10/2005 08:54 PM
Cory Doctorow: w00t! Our very own Xeni Jardin is the subject of a gigantic, flattering profile in today's LA Times! Go, Xeni!

Jardin is a very specific sort of rising star, the type born of the 21st century whose celebrity is fluid and self-made — she's a journalist, a blogger, a TV personality, an artist and an entrepreneur. She is, at once, a member of the media and a media darling, who translates light-speed cultural shifts as they happen and looks great doing it. Jardin is the child of artists who revels in the Internet's infinite reach, but fights ambivalence about its impermanent legacy. She wears Gucci and drives a convertible Mercedes, but sees herself as an outsider.

"I want to see how far I can push it," Jardin says, "before they realize I'm a nerd."

Link

Update: Jeremy Joseph forwards this excerpt from a response Xeni sent to pho list members discussing the story:

I'm humbled and grateful, and more than a little disoriented. Feels like that feeling you have when you step out of the vomit comet, after floating around in microgravity for a while. A little woozy. A little drunk on weightlessness and thin air.

It would be irresponsible of me not to clarify two things right away. First, the kevinsites.net project mentioned in the story was hardly something I created singlehandedly for our tireless, intrepid correspondent friend. JP put in a lot of time, hard work, and sharp thinking to raise that digital barn -- as did other folks like David Ulevitch, who has donated hosting for the project since day one.

Secondly, as flattering as the phrase might be -- I'm no "self-made woman." Until they sell those handy self-cloning kits we've all been waiting for (and I'm keeping an eye out for 'em on engadget or gizmodo), that's just not possible. Each of us are the product of families and mentors. Communities of people who gave because the act of giving was imperative. People who gave when they didn't have to, even when the act might go unnoticed, or come at personal cost. People who gave because generosity is part of what makes us truly human beings, and is of itself a life-affirming act.

Xeni says:

For the record, the note I sent to pho (re-posted here on Boing Boing) was a response to members' comments -- I wasn't responding to the text of the story itself. I was attempting to clarify statements made in that forum by subscribers, not implying any lack of thoroughness in the reporter (Gina Piccalo)'s work.

Xeni on Dennis Miller, via BT

Xeni on Dennis Miller, via BT 04/14/2005 02:25 AM

I'm trying out blogtorrent on my server here, and my first test file is a 12 minute clip from tonight's Dennis Miller show with Harry Shearer, Xeni Jardin, and Mickey Kaus, as they talked about blogging. I think all three were great though I can barely stomach Dennis Miller these days.

Throughout the late 90's, I used to get HBO solely so I could see the new Dennis Miller shows on every Friday night and I used to look forward to watching them live. But then everything changed and his sense of humor was replaced by anger, and his showed died soon after. Oh well.

HOWTO de-Xeni BoingBoing

HOWTO de-Xeni BoingBoing 03/19/2005 03:03 AM
Xeni Jardin: Jason Gill says,

Someone has posted a script for GreaseMonkey (a Firefox extension that lets you add your own Javascript code to any website, to remove ads or add features: Link) that automatically removes any post by Xeni when viewing BoingBoing."

Link< /a>. Of course, if you're not reading my posts you're gonna miss this one. D'oh!

Update: Jesse Andrews, the fellow who wrote this de-Xeni script, would appear to be busted. :-) Chad Hurley, who identifies himself as Mr. Andrews' employer, says:

Hi Xeni,

Just a note about Mr. Andrews and his "de-Xeni" plugin - We’ve caught him looking at far worse things than your "over the top" posts. Why he has picked you to filter, one may never know, but I have an idea for a plugin. Maybe I will add it to the Grease Monkey requests. It’s really simple. When Jesse opens Firefox, it directs Jesse to a folder on my server called, "Things Jesse needs to do today before the big hand is on 12 and the little hand is on 5"! Just an idea.

Keep on keepin' on,

Chad

Xeni on NPR -- Kaiju Big Battel

Xeni on NPR -- Kaiju Big Battel 09/23/2004 04:05 PM
Xeni Jardin: On today's edition of the NPR program "Day to Day" -- snip:

Old-time professional wrestling fans nostalgic for the days when camp was king and characters like Junkyard Dog and Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka ruled the squared circle have a whole new set of heroes to cheer for -- on the Kaiju Big Battel wrestling circuit. Think of Kaiju Big Battel as the horrific spawn of Japanese monster movies and the WWF ("Kaiju" means "monster" in Japanese). It's a tongue-firmly-in-cheek contest of "athletes" wearing patently silly costumes, looking to give their opponent a solid (and likely pre-ordained) smackdown.

In the mythology of Kaiju, the matches are part of the balance of the universe, where earthly forces of good counter evil creatures invading our planet, bent on world domination. Or something like that... Day to Day technology contributor Xeni Jardin recently infiltrated this underground wrestling circuit, filled with far-out science-fiction characters with names like Silver Potato, Gomi Man and Louden Noxious. She was witness to the coming-out party of Kaiju's rising star: Dr. Cube, a "human-genius-turned-quasi-monster" who, with his evil army, continues his quest for world domination.

Link to archived audio: NPR Day to Day "Kaiju Big Battel: Wrestling Meets Godzilla". Link to previous BoingBoing post.

Xeni on NPR's "Day to Day": more
gadgets!

Xeni on NPR's "Day to Day": more
gadgets! 12/23/2003 02:11 PM
On today's edition of the NPR radio program "Day to Day," host Alex Chadwick and I chat about more last-minute gadget ideas for the geek in your life. Wireless fishfinders, bluetooth headsets for your mobile phone, and how to buy a DV cam -- including my current favorite toy, the Panasonic DVX-100 (true 24P for under $3G. Sweeeeeeeet) . Link, audio stream will be available after 12PM Pacific.

Xeni on NPR: INDUCE Act update

Xeni on NPR: INDUCE Act update 07/27/2004 01:18 PM
On today's edition of the NPR program "Day to Day," I speak with host Madeleine Brand about the Hatch/Leahy INDUCE Act, much-blogged here and there and elsewhere of late. The law seeks to ban technology that would "intentionally induce" copyright infringement. Hollywood and the recording industry back it, seeking new muscle to combat filesharing. Tech companies, digital liberty advocates, and geek activist groups like savetheipod.com say it's ill-conceived and badly written. In its current form, INDUCE would unfairly stifle innovation, they say -- and could outlaw a wide range of gadgets and services we take for granted, from iPods to PDAs to web search engines (et tu, Google?).
Link to online archive for today's "Day to Day" show, available after 12pm Pacific time.

Xeni on NPR "Day to Day:" in-car video
tech... and the law

Xeni on NPR "Day to Day:" in-car video
tech... and the law 01/27/2004 02:51 PM
On today's edition of the National Public Radio program Day to Day:

"Never mind cell phones -- the newest trend in driver distractions is having multiple in-car video screens. Day to Day tech goddess Xeni Jardin profiles one man with 11 LCD video screens in his SUV -- even though, the man admits, he couldn't possibly fit 11 people inside. We go channel surfing on the highway."

Lin k to NPR feature, including photo gallery of life inside a blinged-out SUV, and archived audio.

Xeni on NPR: US government crackdown on
P2P

Xeni on NPR: US government crackdown on
P2P 04/12/2004 02:11 PM
Today on the NPR program "Day to Day," I talk with host Alex Chadwick about recent actions in Congress and the Department of Justice to crack down on filesharers, and new studies that show a rise in P2P popularity. Link for today's show, scroll down for online audio of "Peer-to-Peer File Sharing On the Rise"
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