johnlam

Real Name: John Lam
Location: Rochester NY 14620
Joined:3-10-2007
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About me
I develop software and specialize in social computing: how people and organizations use computing for collaborative work, to communicate, and build social enterprise.
Why I use Clipmarks
“Clipmarks shines helpful spotlights on the growing confusion and proliferation of the web, highlighting and preserving the bits that matter in our quest to manage increasing information overload. The social interaction built into the site acts like a collaborative lens, focusing and reflecting these highlights in meaningful but unforeseen ways—a process encouraging exploration and helping expand our own spotlights of understanding in fruitful and interesting directions.” —paraphrased from Kore7
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Fractal Food: Self-Similarity on the Supermarket Shelf
Kore7
by Kore7  2-9-2007    3
 This great article on computational self-similarity in nature provided the author with an excuse to take a series of spectacular close-up photos of the incredible Romanesco broccoli plant. Fractals never looked so delicious! (Click pictures for high-resolution images.) Nearly exact self-similar fractal forms occur do in nature, but I'd never seen such a beautiful and perfect example until, some time after moving to Switzerland, I came across a chou Romanesco like the one above in a grocery store. This is so visually stunning an object that on first encounter it's hard to imagine you're looking at a garden vegetable rather than an alien artefact created with molecular nanotechnology. But of course, then you realise that vegetables are created with molecular nanotechnology, albeit the product of earthly evolution, not extraterrestrial engineering.
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Candid NYC Subway Turnstile Photos
Kore7
by Kore7  1-28-2007    5
  UPDATE: Darn, the site didn't clip as well as I was hoping. But it's still worth seeing. See main site for high-resolution photos . Fascinating installation by NYC photographer, Bill Sullivan, who frames the wonder that is human variety in everyday — yet unexpected — locations. (Love the guy with the BMX wheels in his hands.) (Via kottke .)
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