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Be a search engine all weight champion. 5 minutes per day, results not
guaranteed. By Cesar Harada, thanks to Ross Cairns and Nicolas Myers, naughty boys.

==Define a nice identity for yourself==
Choose a good, relevant domain name : if you are a Ping-Pong racket maker, best it to have http://pingpongrakets.com as your domain.
Than it is a good idea to name each of your page, your sub-folders relevantly http://pingpongrakets.com/buy/nice_green_rackets.htm (with title “buy nice green Ping-Pong racket”),  so people would easily remember them and it will be indexed better.

==Submit your URL to Search engines and directory==
<b>submit your website to search engine</b>
Tell Google where to look,
http://www.google.co.uk/addurl/?hl=en&continue=/addurl
Tell Yahoo where to look
http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
Tell AltaVista
http://addurl.altavista.com/

<b>directories</b>
http://www.google.com/dirhp
http://www.dmoz.org/about.html
http://www.dmoz.org/add.html

==Cleaning your pages code==
<b>tag your pages properly, like Chris Woebken.</b>
<meta name=”description” content=”A young energetic designer exploring
Interaction Design”/>
<meta name=”keywords” content=”Interaction Design, Experience Design,
Experiments”/>

==Spread the world==
<b>increase statistically the number of visits</b>
*make good works (that could be useful!)
*E-mail your friends (ask them to spread)

==Keep your visitors inside your website==
<b>increase the number of internal links</b>
Make people navigate inside your many pages.

==Get them into your website==
<b>increase incoming links</b>
*Propose your works to bloggers, make sure you have them in your newsletter.
*Official magazines and websites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

==Install Google inside your website==
<b>Install an internal search engine in your website</b>
http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

==Make yourself famous==
<b>wikipedia</b>
Have you written a good article about yourself on Wikipedia? No? Pay someone to do it!
<b>flickr</b>
Open a flickr account, post all your pictures in there, make friends,
ask your friends to comment the pictures to start the fuss
<b>youtube (dailymotion, vimeo, sevenload)</b>
<b>be on facebook, but with not your face as profile picture, post
your work in there instead of family and friends on holidays</b>

==Be a low grade hacker==
<b>social bookmarking (delicious, reader…)</b>
Create multiple identity on socialbookmarking sites and comment (from
your different identities) how amazing your stuff is!

==Stop being hacker, be polite with robots==
<b>map out, clean directory</b>
Create web crawlers readable directory listing:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html
<b>Create a map of your website</b>
http://www.mypagerank.net/

==Using Google==
<b>analytics</b>
Install google to track your visitors
https://www.google.com/analytics
optimize languages , operating system according to your visitors profiles, geolocalizing their IP adress.

==Publish fake stats about your popularity==
http://www4.clustrmaps.com/
Take still images from other websites stats map and embed in your ownpage (with a broken link to source of course).

==Become Google bitch==
<b>ad word</b>
https://adwords.google.com/

==Be everybody’s bitch==
Stop programming your website, use a CMS (Content Managing System) that automatically includes you in its directories, such as Indexibit
http://www.indexhibit.org/participants/

==Be a slave to the machine==
Make sure your RSS feed has always something new everyday or more
frequently, attach yourself to the machine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)

==Invade==
<b>more domains</b>
buy more domains
<b>more subdomains</b>
create more sub.domains
<b>Create Linkfarms</b>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_farm
And the nastiest way to invest in linkfarming in buying other people “expired” domains names (that’s evil) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGvEoYjFlRc

==Be a thief : Republish good articles, talk about famous people and events==
Copy-paste good articles from major websites. Prefer the one with quite famous topics, and even better : republish access-limited websites (learn also to be “anonymously famous” at that point).

==Pollute the “real” unsustainable earth==
Buy the medias, print giant colourful posters and stick them in the streets, sponsor events, publish derivated products like puppets, open a charity, shake the hands of major states presidents, top models, actors, popes and soccer players, making sure your URL is always visible, even humbly in each of these cases, the subliminal at work.

==Become a hacker again==
<b>redirection </b>
Redirect the pages you don’t like, or pages everyone goes and redirect
them to the one you want
<b>mirror</b>
Mirror the pages you don’t like, or pages everyone goes and redirect
them to the one you want
<b>cloak</b>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking
and drink enough to forget how naughty you are.

==Loose your friend==
<b>spam</b>
Send everyday thousands of email to promote your work, don’t forget to use a signature engine to protect your indentity …
http://mairas.net/projects/sigeng/
you will need something like this, but better !
<b>Micro-blogging, twitter, tumblr, moodblast</b>
Publish tiny pieces of thoughts, personal feelings, all the time, to everyone, force people to RSS your content.

==Go to jail==
<b>homemade bot</b>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler
Buid one in your backyard!

==Change your life==
<b>now you are in jail, you have no friends, but you are at the top of
google results, well done!!!</b>

==Edit a CMS, get out of jail, be a charitable hotliner until death==
If you want to become a useful person again in the society you can program design frameworks and content management systems for others, debug version after version, translate in many languages and multiple platforms. After all the evil you have done to the world, you can start to empower others, make sure there is a link to your CMS editor website (in a Wordpress fashion).

==A quick call to Larry or Sergey==
Just ask them directly, they are nice guys aren’t they?!!

==Build something more powerful than google==
Just try.

==But hey, you cant do better than this?==

Today Google released the ice-cream background for email accounts… this feature is just.. TOO POWERFUL… Nothing you can do against this… Too cuuuute !!!!!!  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH Google’s got my soul!

From Pasta&Vinegar (nice!), thanks to R-echo

Incomplete buildings are something that fascinate me. The raw backbone of the buildings looks as if it had been never finished or strip naked after a momentarily stopped renovation. To me, the city of the near future definitely looks like this sort of architecture. And this fascination is not just poetic, it’s a very recurring encounter in lots of cities due to economic and cultural issues in construction.

For example, the picture above has been taken in Cusco, Peru. It nicely reveals how the floors reached different levels of completeness. The one above is a restaurant where I had lunch in august, whereas the two other stories below have a totally different affordance. Sometimes, it’s even more fascinating when you have incomplete skyscrapers, falling into despair. Some are totally abandoned, some only partly… with pockets of emptiness. These structures often lead to interesting new forms of socialization that would surely need some time to be uncovered.

If like me you’re into this sort of things, you may be intrigued by a french architecture firm called coloco which works on this concept. Régine pointed me to their Skeleton Observatory. It’s actually a summary of their exploration, about why the think this architectural typology is important and may play a role in the near future. It eventually lead them to describe projects about “inhabiting the skeletons”, i.e. the re-appropriation of abandoned and incomplete architectures. The skeleton becomes and “invitation à l’usage” (i.e. “an invitation to be used”). They even have their own France-based abandoned building to test their hypotheses.

Why do I blog this? cataloguing curious signals about new forms of architecture on a pure exploratory angle.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jared_diamond_on_why_societies_collapse.html

Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about the signs that collapse is near, and how — if we see it in time — we can prevent it.

I will add to it : if societies are collapsing we must use this fact. Collapse is an immense release of energy, we can foster this energy to generate the “next society”. 

But I really think societies do not collapse, they transform. “Collapse” is a scholar adjective, transformation is what people do to survive, they adapt and this is continuously happening.

I like this article very much. More crunches ahead?

Fear The Coming Nature Crunch
By George Monbiot, 17 October, 2008, from Monbiot.com

This is nothing. Well, nothing by comparison to what’s coming. The financial crisis for which we must now pay so heavily prefigures the real collapse, when humanity bumps against its ecological limits.

As we goggle at the fluttering financial figures, a different set of numbers passes us by. On Friday, Pavan Sukhdev, the Deutsche Bank economist leading a European study on ecosystems, reported that we are losing natural capital worth between $2 trillion and $5 trillion every year as a result of deforestation alone. The losses incurred so far by the financial sector amount to between $1 trillion and $1.5 trillion. Sukhdev arrived at his figure by estimating the value of the services - such as locking up carbon and providing fresh water - that forests perform, and calculating the cost of either replacing them or living without them. The credit crunch is petty when compared to the nature crunch.

The two crises have the same cause. In both cases, those who exploit the resource have demanded impossible rates of return and invoked debts that can never be repaid. In both cases we denied the likely consequences. I used to believe that collective denial was peculiar to climate change. Now I know that it’s the first response to every impending dislocation.

Gordon Brown, for instance, was as much in denial about financial realities as any toxic debt trader. In June last year, during his Mansion House speech, he boasted that 40% of the world’s foreign equities are now traded here. The financial sector’s success had come about, he said, partly because the government had taken “a risk-based regulatory approach”. In the same hall three years before, he pledged that “in budget after budget I want us to do even more to encourage the risk takers”. Can anyone, surveying this mess, now doubt the value of the precautionary principle?

Ecology and economy are both derived from the Greek word oikos - a house or dwelling. Our survival depends on the rational management of this home: the space in which life can be sustained. The rules are the same in both cases. If you extract resources at a rate beyond the level of replenishment, your stock will collapse. That’s another noun which reminds us of the connection. The Oxford English Dictionary gives 69 definitions of “stock”. When it means a fund or store, the word evokes the trunk - or stock - of a tree, “from which the gains are an outgrowth”. Collapse occurs when you prune the tree so heavily that it dies. Ecology is the stock from which all wealth grows.

The two crises feed each other. As a result of Iceland’s financial collapse, it is now contemplating joining the European Union, which means surrendering its fishing grounds to the common fisheries policy. Already the prime minister, Geir Haarde, has suggested that his countrymen concentrate on exploiting the ocean. The economic disaster will cause an ecological disaster.

Normally it’s the other way around. In his book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond shows how ecological crisis is often the prelude to social catatrosphe. The obvious example is Easter Island, where society disintegrated soon after the population reached its highest historical numbers, the last trees were cut down and the construction of stone monuments peaked. The island chiefs had competed to erect ever bigger statues. These required wood and rope (made from bark) for transport, and extra food for the labourers. As the trees and soils on which the islanders depended disappeared, the population crashed and the survivors turned to cannibalism. Diamond wonders what the Easter islander who cut down the last palm tree might have thought. “Like modern loggers, did he shout ‘Jobs, not trees!’? Or: ‘Technology will solve our problems, never fear, we’ll find a substitute for wood.’? Or: ‘We don’t have proof that there aren’t palms somewhere else on Easter … your proposed ban on logging is premature and driven by fear-mongering’?”.

Ecological collapse, Diamond shows, is as likely to be the result of economic success as of economic failure. The Maya of Central America, for instance, were among the most advanced and successful people of their time. But a combination of population growth, extravagant construction projects and poor land management wiped out between 90% and 99% of the population. The Mayan collapse was accelerated by “the competition among kings and nobles that led to a chronic emphasis on war and erecting monuments rather than on solving underlying problems”. (Does any of this sound familiar?) Again, the largest monuments were erected just before the ecosystem crashed. Again, this extravagance was partly responsible for the collapse: trees were used for making plaster with which to decorate their temples. The plaster became thicker and thicker as the kings sought to outdo each other’s conspicuous consumption.

Here are some of the reasons why people fail to prevent ecological collapse. Their resources appear at first to be inexhaustible; a long-term trend of depletion is concealed by short-term fluctuations; small numbers of powerful people advance their interests by damaging those of everyone else; short-term profits trump long-term survival. The same, in all cases, can be said of the collapse of financial systems. Is this how human beings are destined to behave? If we cannot act until stocks - of either kind - start sliding towards oblivion, we’re knackered.

But one of the benefits of modernity is our ability to spot trends and predict results. If fish in a depleted ecosystem grow by 5% a year and the catch expands by 10% a year, the fishery will collapse. If the global economy keeps growing at 3% a year (or 1,700% a century), it too will hit the wall.

Iam not going to suggest, as some scoundrel who shares a name with me did on these pages last year, that we should welcome a recession. But the financial crisis provides us with an opportunity to rethink this trajectory; an opportunity that is not available during periods of economic success. Governments restructuring their economies should read Herman Daly’s book Steady-State Economics.

As usual I haven’t left enough space to discuss this, so the details will have to wait for another column. Or you can read the summary published by the Sustainable Development Commission (all references are on my website). But what Daly suggests is that nations which are already rich should replace growth - “more of the same stuff” - with development - “the same amount of better stuff”. A steady-state economy has a constant stock of capital that is maintained by a rate of throughput no higher than the ecosystem can absorb. The use of resources is capped and the right to exploit them is auctioned. Poverty is addressed through the redistribution of wealth. The banks can lend only as much money as they possess.

Alternatively, we can persist in the magical thinking whose results have just come crashing home. The financial crisis shows what happens when we try to make the facts fit our desires. Now we must learn to live in the real world.

Amazing talk and project healthmap.org presented by John Brownstein PhD, Clark Freifeld, Mikaela Keller PhD, on Googletechtalks on youtube.

URBAN SPACE STATION Sofia, Madrid 2008 from cesar harada on Vimeo. All documentation on http://urbanspacestation.org.

[source : technology review]

This week, IBM announced plans to build the world’s largest “noise free” nanoelectronic fabrication facilities in Switzerland. By shielding equipment from external electromagnetic, thermal, and seismic noise, the new facilities should help advance research in a wide range of fields, such as spintronics, carbon-based devices, and nanophotonics, says IBM.

“Once you move into atomic-scale research, you are dealing with very low energy levels, and so you need very sensitive instruments,” says Kaiserswerth. And the more sensitive the instrument, the more responsive it is to disturbances in the environment. “Every time we bought a new piece of equipment,” says Paul Seidler, IBM Zurich’s science and technology manager, “we would find ourselves having to think hard about which lab was most suitable.” {by Duncan Graham-Rowe for Technology Review, Friday, June 27, 2008}

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I find this very interesting that IBM needs this kind of facility for new technologies : seeking an absolute model of precision to cope with Moore’s law as if it was a production imperative… I think I am going in the precise opposite direction of IBM, by letting entropy increase, extremely noisy architecture. Giving space to nature and openess in the experiment we might obtain non-mesurable yet invaluable results.

Still I think a clever compromise between chaos and order must be found, the Urban Space Station Sofia (june 2008) in Madrid is one, but I can’t stop thinking of alternatives, or derivated, that may be more in the “jungle” direction, even more open, cheaper, progressive, informal… The way is open in front of us.

The station construction is completed… Now it all looks so simple!

An astronaut ready for launching.

Here is the space station!

How it looks inside, it is a small crowed space, looks better in video, soon.

That’s a lazy astronaut!

Unfortunately it was not allowed to take pictures of our own work during the launching, we will do a proper filming session soon + video.

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Tonight was the VIP launch, I think it was very successful, people
were surprised, interested, and honnestly that was a lot of people for a night the Spanish football team plays a quarter-final of Euro, 3-0 against Russia, Madrid was just mad tonight, most people were as naked and nervous as me in the streets! heheheh!

As far as I understood, we are not going to show the whole thing, but more a model of the system, just a model to explain the system. There will not be 2 structures, but one communicating with the outside; the air system of the pillows and the air system of the greenhouse rotation are distinct. So my task isn’t clearly defined : functional engineering or just prop’ / system explaination with nice graphics? Well, it is up to me, if I come up with a great system that is simple to implement, than we can do it, else, we’ll just carry on and try to build this as well as possible.

Ok, I need to make it simple, show the circuit that holds all the variables :

Ok, if this is to be re-used, I need to make it look good, and more clear:

Ok, great, now everything is as clear as a subway system map. We can sense and control each “line” running between the World - the Urban Space Station - Human, it quantity, quality, even nature, the following post will contain proposals of apparatus, BUT …

THE ARCHITECTURE IS JUST MAKING LIFE FUNCTION OBVIOUS (protecting, extending the human Body limits, embodying functions in technical objects, isolating and specialising objects)…
- HOW OBVIOUS DO WE WANT TO GET?
- HOW MUCH DO WE WANT TO MANIPULATE AND CONTROL (when change and difficulty is engine of progress and evolution, where is optimization? That’s an ethical and/or political statement, and as it it not my work, what should be my influence
- HOW FAR CAN BE THE ARCHITECTURE (in its obviousness) BE CHANGED FROM THE ORIGINAL PROJECT (optimized, functions made obvious) EXTENSION OF THE ARCHITECTURE DOMAIN? LET’S MAKE MORE THAN A GREEN HOUSE -> TOWARD MEDICAL AND AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY?.

We are eternally computing with the universe so … OK, let’s make a list of tecnical artefact proposals that could optimize the system functions, may it be ironical…