Tom Purves – Product Management, Fintech & AI

Damn you fran, my dear friend of most remarkable and continuous Autobiographical Locality, has once again found herself afoot in vienna for Roboexotica with famous art interventionists Monochrom (wikipedia: Monchrom) mixing robots with alcohol.

Link to Fran’s tale:

I naturally then made my way to Roboexotica 2006 where Johannnes in his trucker hat was directing fan traffic. As usual there was no shortage of robot stunts. I walked between a scultpural catapult cocktail maker, a machine that simulated drunken driving…Han was peddling his robo-cocktail dorkbot t-shirts and I vowed to go back for more today….While in the last few weeks it has been a busy and crazy time in my work life and life all around, I am glad I came back to beautiful Vienna where the gold winks at you and pushes you along her well-proportioned streets encouraging you to let go.

Flickr photos tagged with roboexotica

From Boingboing, See also video of Fran, Johannes, Cory Doctorow and co. on Austrian community TV last year. Love the mock-seriousness with which they manage to conduct the discussion on this very important conference of international cocktail robotics.

Thanks to Michele for passing this link ” i hope you like the link – verrry relevant stuff. they wrote the internet of things paper last year, and what’s even better is that this year it’s available for free download”

Wow, very true ITU has published their 06 digital life report and once again it’s a treasure trove of information. Lots of stuff to dig in to here over the next few days. Great stuff on Business and ICT, changing media habits, the complexities of personal digital vs physical/national identities, and also look for Canada conspicuously missing in action on stats like mobile broadband penetration….

Here’s the link: ITU Digital Life 2006

and just one many tasty info-graphics:

(side criticism: do you appreciate the irony of the Digital Life report clearly formated entirely with print distribution in mind, hence everything in unwieldy .pdfs (yuck) and all those teensy squinty fonts in said graphic. Now blogging, I think they’ve heard of it… )

Saturday morning links on the love of words:

# Cory Doctorow in Forbes on the future of books and publishing and the (not?) Dead Medium: “I’ve been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money.”

# Wordie.org OMG, it’s like a social flickr site for words! here’s two of mine: “aa“, “bobulated” (okay, one of these I made up).

# Ze Frank on scrabble: priceless.

# oh also, did you know you can type “define: anything” into google and google will return only definitions? try it yourself

what are your favourite word links you’ve come across?

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song of the day: the fantastic Working out Words – by the Diableros
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