Aram Zucker-Scharff

micdotcom:

These genius coders just built the Yelp for public safety 

During the International Girls Hackathon a
group of Brazilian women, ages 18 to 22, developed “Não Me Calo” (“I
Will Not Shut Up”), an app that “lets women review and rank public
venues based on the level of safety they provide for women and girls.”
The app, billed as a “Yelp for women’s safety” by the hackathon’s
organizers, the Global Fund for Women, won the overall competition on Tuesday. The other ideas in the competition sound pretty great as well.

procrastinaut:

What does Conrad’s Heart of Darkness sound like? Or rather, what would it sound like as music?

TransPose automatically generates music “in response to the emotion of words in literature.”

The text of a novel … [is] segmented into four parts, the octaves determined by the “joy and sadness densities,” and the length of notes set by the density of those emotions.

These emotions in turn are determined by a database of words linked to eight different sentiments, including joy, anticipation, anger, disgust, trust, fear, surprise, and sadness.

So the sections of the book each get an emotional profile.

More detail, and examples, at Hyperallergic.

Heart of Darkness and A Clockwork Orange seem convincing enough, but the musical interpretation of On The Road seems off. Cool experiment, though.

prostheticknowledge:

Iconic History

Chrome app by Shan Huang displays your browser history as a list of webpage favicons – an assignment on the subject ‘The Quantified Selfie’:

Iconic history is a Chrome extension that visualizes your browser history as a favicon stack. It creates a favicon for each url visited, and compiles all icons into a huge sequence based on access time.

You can find out more about the project here