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Urban Exploration Walkware

Posted by Hemos on from the social-hacking dept.

wilfriedhoujebek writes "The Dutch Group Social Fiction has been experimenting with walking on algorithms for some time now. Under the heading ".walk" they are taking the thing one step further by introducing pseudo-software to determine the route of their walks. They explain how this works and how different .walk can be connected together to form a 'pedestrian computer'. You might want to read the postscript first."

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  1. Next item... by sulli · · Score: 5, Funny

    They merge with the Ministry of Silly Walks!

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    sulli
    RTFJ.
  2. Screw walkware... by sheetsda · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want software that actually RUNS!

    *ducks*

    1. Re:Screw walkware... by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      "I want software that actually RUNS!"

      C:\

      C:\Dos\Run

      Run \Dos\Run

      Yeah, I know, I ripped it from somebody's sig.

  3. Pun? by SoCalChris · · Score: 5, Funny

    they are taking the thing one step further

    So was the pun intended?

  4. algorithms + chewing gum = disaster by drayzel · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unfortunatley, for some people once GUM is introduced into the algorithms the wole system falls apart.

    ~Z

  5. This Seems... by mageben · · Score: 4, Funny

    Some how this all seems like some sort of subtle ploy to get me to execise... How I do despise them.

    Imagine it we could /. the entire planet.

    -Code

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    ---PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE---
    "Now, where's the damn 'any' key?"

  6. Dog walkers by batobin · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've been wondering how long it would take before something like this would hit the market. I've always had the fantasy of using robots with set paths as dog walkers. Can you imagine driving through a residential area, with a bunch of robots leading dogs around? Well....maybe only rich neighborhoods at first, but things only get less expensive.

    Of course, it would be a mixed blessing. It would take away another reason to get out of the house, and I don't imagine the robots would be able to clean up after the dogs at first. Plus you're going to need a huge robot to lead a big dog around. And there's nothing to pull the dog away when it bites the mailman.

    Well, it seamed like a good fantasy. I'd buy one for my dog.

    1. Re:Dog walkers by Bastian · · Score: 3, Funny
      things only get less expensive.


      Two words: Microsoft Office
  7. In related news: The Dutch are sooooo cool by EnlightenmentFan · · Score: 3, Insightful
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    Making trouble today for a better tomorrow...
  8. My First Walk Program by MrIcee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Repeat
    {
    1 st street left
    2 nd street right
    2 nd street left
    fpaintf(stdwall,"HELLO WORLD") }

  9. They think highly of slashdot.... by recursiv · · Score: 3, Funny
    From
    http://www.socialfiction.org/psychogeography /dummi es.html (describing a division algorithm)


    Everybody knows by heart that 8 divided by 2 gives 4, but only Slashdot creeps can divide 19 by 6 from the top of their head & come up with the correct answer of 3,1666

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    I used to bulls-eye womp-rats in my pants
  10. Wrong Trowsers by GuyMannDude · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've always had the fantasy of using robots with set paths as dog walkers. Can you imagine driving through a residential area, with a bunch of robots leading dogs around?

    Oh sure, that's how it starts. Nice and innocently. Then you'll see people using these walking robots to redecorate their house. Other uses for them will be found and, before you know it, evil penquins will be using them to steal priceless jewels from museums!

    Stop the madness now! We've got to nip this in the bud before it gets out of hand!

    GMD

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    watch this
  11. Speaking of puns.. by cliveholloway · · Score: 5, Funny

    I recently entered a pun competition.

    I entered 10 times and I was convinced that one of them would win.

    But, no pun in ten did.

    cLive ;-)

    (from Dennis/Punt, if I remember correctly :)

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    -- Trinity in high heels carrying a whip: The donimatrix - there is no spoonerism
  12. Disappointed! by brain159 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Folks, I'm disheartened... Over 60 posts at the time I started writing this comment and a brief scan reveals that *nobody* has yet made any allusions to HEX, the "working things out machine" run by the High-Energy Magic department of Unseen University in Terry Pratchett's Discworld.

    For those of you not familiar, HEX is a lovely analogy constructed out of fictional glass tubes through which vast numbers of ants walk, diverted by gates (you get the idea). It has components including an unreal-time clock and generates messages along the lines of "+++ Out Of Cheese Error. Redo from Start +++". It apparently bears a witty "Anthill Inside" legend, and in one of the Discworld adventure games a comment is made that when you break it and the ants escape "it's been completely debugged".

    I don't need to painfully fill in the gap between "walkware" and "ants walking around inside HEX", do I?