Wygle Wide Web

A quiet field journal of digital archaeology. Reconstructing a life from 25+ years of digital traces, with occasional help from ChatGPT when things get weird or surprising.

Day: March 16, 2011

  • Fish follow ultra-simple mathematical rules, he explains, to ensure that they never collide with each other when swimming in groups. Borrow that algorithm for navigating cars and a new solution to congestion and road accidents presents itself: what if, in heavy traffic, auto-navigated cars could be programmed to avoid each other while continuing forwards as…

  • We made a record we stuff into furniture, that you could only get if you ripped the furniture open. I mean, we really went to great lengths to make sure possibly no one would ever hear our record! But it’s there. It’s so great. It’s there. There’s a hundred pieces of furniture out there that…