Naked bandit/ here, not here/ white sovereign - knowobotic research's contentions with extra-territorialities [1] are currently shown in the context of `Mapping new territories', an exhibition taking place in St.Gallen.
The installation - please forgive me if i got this completely wrong ;) - unfolds a space that is supposed to simulate such an extra-territorial scenario where it's players are floating in the ambiguity of being `here ' (within the environment of a sovereignity) but at the same time 'not here' (outside of the ruling laws and conventions but nevertheless controlled by that referring sovereignity). The sovereign, played by a flying blimp (de-territorialized from the Autonomous Systems Lab, EPFL in Lausanne) is roaming through the installation, detecting its way along the 'bandits' - simple, not technically enhanced black baloons. The zeppelin-like flying bot is equipped with sensors for distance and sort of a cam on its nose. Four propellers are the actuating and stearing force. Im sure there is an intelligence in how this thingy navigates through the installation, but i couldn't make out a pattern - it seems like to focus on a target (a bandit baloon) and then bumping in it, trying to find it's way around to a next target. But then it turns and accelerates again towards that baloon etc. Of course it reacts to the visitors, becoming additional bandits within the installation.
The installation actually provokes a sympathic, playful curiousity towards that `sovereign' - probably the opposite of what happens in the scenarios the concept refers to (guantanamo bay, ...)
[1] extra-territorialities:
Extra-territoriality describes a logic of space which is defined outside of the state and its law systems, but is yet controlled by the referring state power and sovereignity. (knowbotic research)
SubveRSSed is a python script that generates an rss feed from changes in a subversion repository. Seems to be very useful to subscribe to the rss feed from a subversion repository instead of having commit mails. The subverss script was initially written by Philppe Normand. It basically parses the output from svnlook and creates a sequential (last 20 commits) and a full RSS 2.0 feed of a given repository. Moreover it generates a neat html page.
I added a new option for appending the diffs to the RSS feed (-d) and another to specify a range of revisions to check. The second maybe useful to create only an excerpt of all commits. The modified subverss script can be checked out from http://svn.var.cc/svn/misc/mySubveRSSed (user:anonymous, no password). There's also a diff in order to patch the original script (applies to revision 45 of the original).
update:
Philppe added the above improvements to the main subveRSSed tree. Get it from here - this will a be the more actual version anyways ;). Thanks Philippe!
Soon the swiss open source `bazaar` is opening its gates. For the first time, LOTS is providing an open conference blog for visitors to post their impressions, coments etc. The blog is a BxCMS Blog instance that is publicly accessible from two Boxes at the LOTS venue (at the entrance and the dome) and generally at http://lots.bitflux.ch.
Some interesting sessions (professional day, 18.02.):
Moreover,
etoy is
recruiting agents for the etoy.ETERNITY project and the
etoy.PAINSTATION will be setup for battles!
mobile test 02
Pictures from the P*00 are still of no use ... :)
The bxm2m module now supports a modular set of directives to specify i.e. title or category when posting via mobile/email.
I must have missed that maintaining a thing called weblog ineviteably seem to affect the constitution of the self nowadays. The practice of `blogging' that leads to the identification of the subject as a `Blogger' seems to connotate with a whole lifestyle packet .
Moblogging to the BxCMS Blog is now possible. Like a standalone blog client (i.e. ecto, blogtk), the mail2blog process accesses the blog via its MetaWeblog API to post incoming mails. Cool thing :)
See also Chregu's posts:
MetaWeblog API support for BxCMS Blog
Our new Moblogging system
