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		<title>Auduino: DIY Arduino Synthesizer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first physical computing project is complete! The Auduino: A DIY synthesizer.

Auduino: DIY Arduino Synthesizer from Mark Kizelshteyn on Vimeo.

A fantastic project by the tinker.it (Arduino) team, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in getting into electronics, using Arduino or just wants to build a synth. All code, designs and schematics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Plans 2.0: Lean and Icon-based</title>
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The attendees of Thursday night&#8217;s Bootstrapping and Agility meetup at Rotterdam witnessed the unveiling of a very neat idea that could very well change the game of business plan submissions. Though presented in a &#8220;tongue-in-cheek&#8221; manner, I believe the concept solves a very real problem: clear communication between entrepreneurs presenting new ventures and investors seeking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://turtlethink.com/2010/02/business-plans-2-0-lean-and-icon-based/</link>
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		<title>Garry Kasparov on Chess, Artificial Intelligence, the Human Mind&#8230; and Poker</title>
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History&#8217;s greatest grandmaster Garry Kasparov just wrote an in-depth review of Diego Rasskin-Gutman&#8217;s newly published &#8220;Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind&#8221; for the New York Review of Books. The article provides a spectacular summary of the history of computer chess programs and the AI engines that power them. What makes it a must-read, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://turtlethink.com/2010/02/garry-kasparov-on-chess-artificial-intelligence-the-human-mind-and-poker/</link>
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		<title>Philip Rosedale, founder of Second Life, venturing into creating Artificial General Intelligence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to James Au&#8217;s Second Life blog, New World Notes, Philip Rosedale is “working towards creating a sentient artificial intelligence which exists in a virtual world.” Rosedale&#8217;s ambiguous new company LoveMachine lists as one of the three projects on its website: &#8220;The Brain. Can 10,000 computers become a person?&#8221; To that I would probably answer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://turtlethink.com/2010/02/philip-rosedale-founder-of-second-life-venturing-into-creating-artificial-general-intelligence/</link>
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		<title>My Mouse Path</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anatoly Zenkov created a Java application that monitors your mouse movement. I ran it for a few hours throughout the day while surfing the web, writing emails and working in illustrator. And this is what happened&#8230;.

The lines are where I moved my mouse and the black circles are pointer stops (not clicks). You can run [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;3.6 Zettabytes&#8221; &#8212; the puzzle of American information consumption</title>
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3.6 Zettabytes is a wooden puzzle created by me and Mark Kizelshteyn that visually and haptically illustrates media consumption in the United States. The title refers to the total amount of information data absorbed by the country for the year 2008 as calculated by a recent study (December 2009) published by the Global Information Industry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://turtlethink.com/2010/01/3-6-zettabytes-the-puzzle-of-american-information-consumption/</link>
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		<title>Le Web Decompression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We (Paul and Mark) just spent two days @ Le Web in Paris and had a fantastic time. The conference was incredibly well organized and kudos to both Geraldine and Loic Le Meur (founder of Seesmic and one of France’s most influential tech bloggers) for doing such a fantastic job. 
We had the opportunity to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://turtlethink.com/2009/12/le-web-decompression/</link>
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		<title>From Hackerspace to FabLab: is DIY Culture and Personal Fabrication the future?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“At one time a computer was a job description rather than a machine. Before electronic computing machines, computer referred to the teams of people who operated simple mechanical calculating machines to solve complex problems. These human computers were programmed by their written instructions. Likewise, typesetting was once a career for a trained typesetter, laying up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://turtlethink.com/2009/11/from-hackerspace-to-fablab-is-diy-culture-and-personal-fabrication-the-future/</link>
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		<title>Brooklyn is Watching, Best of Year 1: The Final Five!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[STAGE 3: “THE FINAL FIVE”
Best of BIW: Year 1 Festival!
August 7, 2009- August 23, 2009

Its hard to believe that Brooklyn is Watching, a mixed-reality art project co-developed by Jay Van Buren and Popcha!, has surpassed the ripe old age of one &#8211; how exciting! What&#8217;s even better is the five finalists from the Best of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://turtlethink.com/2009/08/brooklyn-is-watching-best-of-year-1-the-final-five/</link>
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		<title>Journal of Virtual Worlds Research releases special issue on &#8216;3D Virtual Worlds for Health and Healthcare&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Volume 2, Number 2 of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research came online today. It&#8217;s an entire issue dedicated to healthcare innovation within the virtual domain and includes a lot of great resources for healthcare professionals looking to utilize emerging technology to help solve unique health-related problems. Best of all, all the articles are available [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://turtlethink.com/2009/08/journal-of-virtual-worlds-research-releases-special-issue-on-3d-virtual-worlds-for-health-and-healthcare/</link>
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