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Location Awareness

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 Location Awareness2003-01-20 19:10
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HeadMap is a site, a magazine and a collective focusing on examining the social implications and applications of location aware devices. Cool, cool things. You know, along the lines of wearable computers that know where you are, and that know things about the local environment, and that can connect you with others who are around.
there are notes in boxes that are empty

every room has an accessible history

every place has emotional attachments you can open and save

you can search for sadness in new york

people within a mile of each other who have never met stop what they are doing and organise spontaneously to help with some task or other.

in a strange town you knock on the door of someone you don’t know and they give you sandwiches.

paths compete to offer themselves to you

life flows into inanimate objects

the trees hum advertising jingles

everything in the world, animate and inanimate, abstract and concrete, has thoughts attached



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20 Dec 2014 @ 06:41 by Carllos @186.91.165.49 : bhEsUznXRXEwB
Had that happen once to me, too. Was bkcaing an old Jeep down the driveway and suddenly no brakes. And the emergency brake didn't work either. Yikes! Had to run into one of Mom's tall, large bushes backwards to keep from hitting the corner of her house. I was working a good paying job back then and had all the brakes, the emergency brake, and brake master cylinder replaced. Set me back $800, but it was worth it.  


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