Global village idiot

Piclens presents images in a nifty 3D gallery, but it's Flickrvision that really impresses me because of the eerie way it suggests a brain. A big brain. A big ceaseless brain. Neural activity going.. elliptically? epileptically? Like a butterfly dreaming. A big butterfly. A big ceaseless butterfly with a camera.

None of this is done in realtime - yet. At the moment Flickrvision picks up images only when people get home and upload them. However its not too unfeasible to imagine them being uploaded as they're taken. More like Twittervision.

With sensors uploading data into the ether there's all sorts of possibilities for the visual display of information, as in GoogleEarth.

Lion in meadow finds keg

How.. discombobulating. I had dropped my matchbox, and was so busy looking for it in the long grass that I'd forgotten about the lion. Then I heard an almighty clunk behind me, followed by a protracted hiss, and there he was, jaws clamped around the rim of a keg. Forty-two elephantine bubbles were everywhere.

Before fleeing I barely had the presence of mind to take a photo, and sign up for a Yahoo account and upload to Flickr, and adjust the privacy settings, and add some appropriate tags, and chose the layout, and join a group, and design a buddy icon, compose a profile and send a postcard, and create a mosaic, a jigsaw, a badge, a card, and locate the event on a map, add some notes, a comment, and send it to my blog.

Anyway, that's what happened, officer. When I got back to the car I smelt like I'd been sliding down a dragon's tongue, though I changed my wig, several times. Honest. Look, I can prove it, here's the link. Let's be friends.