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Mapping Windsor, Round 1

Mapping Windsor via Google Maps

We spent a couple hours last night highlighting areas in Windsor that are of interest to us, either as potential research sites, potential exploration sites, or places in need of further examination. If you have anything that should be added to the map, please do so, but in order to edit it, I think you need a Google account. In particular, it would be good to build a better directory of places for rent in the downtown core. I also tried to make a screencast of the discussion and mapping, but having some difficulty getting it to export—I’ll post it when/if I can get it to work.

Photo by Darren.

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Mapping Windsor

Mapping Study Areas in Windsor via Google Maps

Next Tuesday night, December 2nd, at 7pm, Broken City Lab will be holding a Social Mapping Event, where we’ll use the tools Google gave us and highlight potential study areas (and broken points of interest)—the Google Map itself will be made public afterwards. We’ll also make a screencast of the process and make it available on the website afterwards.

So, if you’ve been meaning to come out to our weekly Office Hours, but haven’t had the time yet, clear your schedule for next Tuesday.

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What Google thinks of Windsor

Google ads

I am sure we have all been a little spooked by google’s prediction power. You type a gmail to a friend about India and in the side bar you get curry recipes. You exchange thoughts on stress levels cause by final exams and you get vacation deals.

With halloween coming up, I thought there was no better time to explore this spooky phenomena than now.

I just sent a rudimentary email to Justin regarding the down trotten state of Windsor. He replied, and I examined what google predicts Windsor will need.

There were a few ads regarding social work. Google knows Windsor may need some help, and google feels for us to make Windsor better, we may need to focus on social work and the social infrastructure. Spooky… The email never said anything about said social infrastructure being the primal concern.

Google also thinks that someone who is concerned with the state of Windsor may also be interested in fitness. (M test 2) I guess good fitness does equal a happier more active populace. but again, how did google know that?? this is starting to mimick the twilight zone a little too much.

Finally the one thing that is really frightening, is that google knows we should conduct regular testing for melamine. Is this an omen? Is WIndsor crumbling because we are all experiencing the toxic effects ofmelamine?

To investigate this spooky phenomena I will creat a data base that tracks what ads google predicts we may be interested in depending on the contentI place within pseudo searches and gmails.

I have never tampered with the occult before, but I know it can get me a show on A&E.

Godspeed.

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Google Stockholm by Yorit

Google Stockholm by Yorit

Google Stockholm by Yorit.

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This game is addictive…

guess-the-google game

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Broken City Lab is an interdisciplinary creative research group, engaging in projects that reimagine and disrupt existing conditions at a variety of levels, in an effort to fix a broken city.

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  • Jolie: http://erika.fisherking.org/ The home of the official Tree Sweater! Our city’s trees could use this :D...
  • darren: i’ll bring some of those round form pans to the cookie bake on sunday. i forget what they call those...
  • darren: hi joshua, i just used to use it to send video from one vcr to another tv. but sometimes we would attach it...
  • Justin: No problem Josh! Sometimes to fix that stuff you have to switch over to the code view and delete it from...
  • Joshua: P.S. Thanks Justin for deleting the unneeded table in my post (if you did). I had a hard time getting rid of...
  • Joshua: That little device sounds and looks interesting. What kind of things did you broadcast, Darren? I agree with...
  • darren: I’d love to help in any way too with the CJAM thing.
  • Justin: I think we need to work out some more audio projects… maybe the CJAM thing could be reworked (or we at...

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