Clark: caution: may consume a lot of time: http://www.nowykurier.com/toys/gravity/gravity.html -- from S/J participant Seb Gillen Clark: Seb's blog, fascinating: http://www.weareinthefuture.com/ me: hmmm, open-sourcing of public safety codes me: yeah, he's central committee material me: incidentally me: Emma's going to be serving as my assistant me: and coming in from London to move in with me for a while Clark: ok, i will share all the spreadsheets to her, i am becoming weary of them Clark: so good news me: after which I may go back to London with her me: as I don't plan to stay in Dallas permanently whereas she has a daughter and other such things Clark: london = enviable place to live me: we've sort of had a whirl-wind romance me: which is probably for the best insomuch as that could use a woman to run my affairs Clark: seb says that "create proto disk" is a must-click in the gravity toy me: how now? me: oh, I see Clark: see link above me: will click now me: what exactly is this? me: oh, I see Clark: it appears to be computer modeling of the effects of gravity on matter, using planet like objects as a display me: huh, occurs to me suddenly that no one's made simple app like this me: now to prove capture theory regarding luna me: I guess one "game" to play here is to establish a stable solar system? Clark: actually a display like this could model the distributional patterns of blogger/journalist posts in the network me: or is that even possible me: we do indeed need a better visual representation but I think I've got that covered Clark: i think you could get something fairly stable by starting with one huge object and some tiny ones and extremely slow speeds so you can understand the effects you have created me: familiar with Conways game of life? Clark: no me: incidentally, was reading about heuristics last night - another thing I should have learned about long ago me: fuck, my "sun" is careening away Clark: I managed to get one that moves extremely slowly and so a few little objects are in loopy orbits around it, though not really stable me: anyway, I've been intentionally looking into new subject matter plus little games/apps like this in order to help get my mind in such a state as to be able to create new and ever better schematics for organization of groups me: playing Dwarf Fortress, shooting through Wikipedia, reading Bucky Fuller, etc Clark: seb says he is interested in being an administrator of the science journalism project within the limits of his health Clark: i will copy him and emma a bunch of documents this afternoon me: great Clark: emma will need to get G mail Clark: i only have a yahoo address for her