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Greenwich Ave, NYC

For the first time, the Park Avenue Tunnel was open to pedestrians this weekend. Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer transformed the Park Avenue Tunnel into an interactive light and sound installation.

I accept the topics I post about can be rather eclectic.  However, I did not see this coming.  Presented without further ado, the top four searches leading readers to the site, according to WordPress: transnational corporation network structure tiny tiny rss reader api number of brand conversation 18-24 year old men demographics I think doulingo…

Kevin Spencer recreated the classic chair at 1:20 scale with a 3D printer. h/t fubiz

“[T]he most important thing about language is its capacity for generating imagined communities, building in effect particular solidarities.” Benedict Anderson

I’m at Red Hat Summit this week talking about cloud with customers and partners, and it occurs to me one of the common metaphors isn’t quite right. The problem with the “Assembly Line” metaphor is everyone thinks of 1907 Ford (“any color you want, as long as it’s black”). And that’s actually a lousy example.…

I would like to programmatically generate a report using R.  The contents are mostly graphs and tables.  I have a working system, but it’s too many pieces.  When I hand this off to someone else, it become immediately fragile. Isn’t there a better way? Here are my elements: R script: collection of functions to manipulate the…