Brian Kerr

Note: Having written a post about web cut-ups as an alternative to web mashups in a sort of Burroughs burlesque, subtitled 'Yahoo! take this ontology / I can't use it anymore,' the logical conclusion was to generate a cut-up of the post and post that instead, which is what follows.

Web mashups hard to say Application hybrids, puerile to the grocery store! in the humanoid glance over knobby craigslist! craigslist again! best of craigslist fsckingwhat computer playing at relations adjacency and through humanoid relations or GET

Your tubes pipes feeds filled buying ‘em — “what did you consumed” — level of analysis blocks words even worse GETTING and SETTING micro the day of spamming my & your William S. Burroughs feeds back object to object

Destroy the following * Chr chronological order (cut it Category Taxonomy Classify) preceding they are category mud of OneBigSoup underfoot that with your straight hand-holding maps to onions and disease let avocados, subsq. humanity shared syndicated the desert here and they catch-up. Unimpressed trouble all we own so shit outta the kitchen

Ears etc. all weird subtle do today?” — “I general sis cocked — your GET wasn’t built in a day hermetically clean building yr social software with reason — your bidirection deepens like a coastal

Chr onological order (cut ti me images) * Alphabetication (shift lingual cont systems control towers and disintegrated in suffice today, so 2004 2005. Address book! address book induce a missed connection, it glance feverishly over published and published the desert far away! So with your schoolyard (acknowledge nuance of rranean plumbing words, noted more resources than GET i(de)mpotent building but ROME wasn’t build from blocks. elided text from the onal metaphors: relation shelf. me images)

Reverse l order (cut word lines) * ceptfucker * destroy the serializing flesh womb * efficiently disintermediated

(tags: metacrap web)

Remember the BrianKerr Bliki? I do. It was way more fun to write over there than in this blog, mostly because of InterMap. Anyways, I’m cleaning house on my crappy virtual host, so the bliki has seven days to live. The only thing worth borrowing is likely the bliki CSS.

(tags: metacrap self wiki)

Goofing around with this online summary of A Pattern Language, fresh copy of the real book in hand. I don’t know why I waste so much time with this stuff — maybe I have this AntiPattern — but there’s something about letting your mind wander from pattern to pattern, crossing levels of analysis, calming and energizing in turn, and the writing is gorgeous. Warm colors. Different chairs. Pools of light. Things from your life.

I want to make some connection between two documents I love, Christopher Alexander’s “A city is not a tree” (as in hierarchy) essay and Herb Simon’s “The Architecture of Complexity” essay, and the connection is that a city is a hierarchy, for some weird, noodly value of hierarchy.

(tags: design metacrap)

Over the weekend I set up a bliki at joechip.net/BrianKerr. I’m doing some blogging, note-taking, and etc. over there. If it sticks, I’ll probably redirect this blog’s URLs and feeds. In the interim, feel free to take a look and do any damage you see fit.

(tags: metacrap weblogs wiki)

Remember this? I changed my mind again — no more del.icio.us links on the index page. After two weeks or so of having it on, I decided against it. In the unlikely event that you are now crushed, you can always get to ‘em from the sidebar or at del.icio.us/bkerr.

(tags: metacrap)

I set up del.icio.us blog posting so that, once daily, things I post to del.icio.us/bkerr will show up here. Although I started using del.icio.us in March 2004, recently I have relied on the tool quite heavily; hence this change.

If you are reading from an RSS feed

I set up my blogging software such that it will not include these del.icio.us postings in its RSS feeds. However, the initial posting (for October 30) did spend a few hours in the feed. Depending on your setup, you may have seen that first posting, but should not see any more of them in the future.

(tags: metacrap)

Please read:

• Sue regarding Mother’s Day.
• Dan regarding certain kinds of video games.
• George regarding the Google Web Accelerator.

Lately, I’ve been organizing my notes and stuff; it’s great to get it under control. I’m historically really poor at recording which books I read, storing notes in any retrievable way, and identifying books I’d like to read in the future. I don’t have a really good solution yet, but I’m getting there. One side effect of the above is that reading doesn’t seem as risky a proposition any more, which means that I’m doing a lot more of it. The interesting parts of this process are identifying what I sense are the atomic units of dead-tree knowledge, and coming up with a way for documenting and referring to those units. Does that make sense? Sweet, sweet del.icio.us currently provides the best solution for handling (read: building context for) references to web stuff; the challenge is in devising a way to fake it if you’re in the library, or holding a library book you can’t deface.

Ultimately, I’d like to be able to approach a snippet from a book, a reference to a page or section of a book, an e-mail conversation, an IM transcript, a web link, or a “document” in an approximately equal fashion. Memetic.

(tags: design metacrap web)