A few weeks ago Stewart happened upon pictures of Panic Inc‘s new offices. In the shuffle was a photo of their vintage Apple //e computer sitting at an empty desk. Lovers of vintage hardware can’t resist. Stewart emailed Panic to ask if they would “do him the honor” of running the Jed’s Other Poem music video source code on it. Despite their tight schedules—including the recent release and promotion of Transmit 4—they did indeed get the code onto their Apple //e and even filmed their own version of the video! Have a look at what we’re affectionately dubbing “Jed Panic.”

Jed’s Other Poem is a music video for the Grandaddy song of the same name. And (perhaps) the world’s first open-source music video. You can download the Jed source code package to run on your Virtual II emulator or even your own vintage Apple II series machine. To do the latter just play the audio from the “cassette tape” source code file into your vintage Apple’s cassette drive port. You’ll need an audio cable with male mini-jacks on either end. (Read up on Apple DOS and the “LOAD” command, you’ll be fine.)

After Panic posted their version of the Jed video other Apple-related sites—such as Daring Fireball, TUAW, and 9to5 Mac—linked to it. The flood of traffic brought down Panic’s site temporarily. (We think that’s pretty hardcore.)

Happy holidays from Stewdio. Today we are releasing Browser Pong, a collaboration with sound artist and musician Dominic Matar of Nine Cats Music. Best in Safari for Mac. Also supports Chrome, FireFox, and Opera. Enjoy it here: http://stewdio.org/pong/.

Update. We’re pleased to see our Pong blowing up on Twitter and bloggers taking notice. Browser Pong was even briefly on the front page of Paul Graham’s Hacker News. So thank you all for posting and tweeting over the past 19 hours since we launched. Keep it up!

Update. Add these to the list of sites recognizing Browser Pong: It’s Nice That, Boing Boing, Daring Fireball, and more. Thanks everyone. Your support garnered Pong over 100,000 visits within its first 24 hours. Well done.

Next Tuesday, November 17th, Stewart will deliver a brief lecture at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, New York. His topic will be the Terre Natale (Exits Two) exhibition piece created by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, et al. His lecture is just one part of an evening of lectures under the banner Full Immersion: Art and the 360-degree screen, lead off by artist and scientist Bernd Lintermann of the Institute for Visual Media at ZKM, Karlsruhe. Be sure to see Eric Ameres, highly accomplished video engineer, and Thomas Soetens and Kora Van Den Bulcke along with their piece They Watch. The evening begins at 7pm in Studio 2.

Description from the Full Immersion page: An exceptional panel of international artists, engineers, and producers representing the evolving field of works created for the 360° panoramic screen. The panelists in Full Immersion – Stewart Smith, Bernd Linterman, Eric Ameres, and Thomas Soetens and Kora Van Den Bulcke of Workspace Unlimited – come from the visual arts, film, and data presentation. Some specialize in grand gestures, some write code. What they have in common is expertise in realizing works that surround the viewer, with effects that may be subtle, spectacular, or unsettling. In addition to talking about their field, they’ll also be showing up-to-the-minute examples of what’s been accomplished in it. The result will boggle not just the mind, but the eye and ear.

For this autumn’s AIGA Design Legends Gala, Trollbäck+Company designed an Eames-inspired deck of 100 unique table cards. The cards were built into sculptures that designated table numbers for the 500 creative luminaries that had gathered at the Waldorf Astoria ballroom for the gala. Larger cards were used as signage throughout the Waldorf gala space. Designed by Stina Smith; Creative director Jakob Trollbäck. See AIGA Presentations Gala 2009 Cards for additional photos and information.

Description from the AIGA website; hyperlinks added: The AIGA Design Legends Gala is an annual fundraising event honoring those whose work inspires designers of all ages, sets the bar for creativity and innovation, and defines the design profession as we know it. The sixth annual Design Legends Gala took place on Thursday, September 17, at The Waldorf-Astoria in New York City.

This weekend WindMaker received code updates to alleviate slow server response times under certain conditions. (Fast machines are still recommended for viewing pages with many elements.) Try WindMaker for yourself at http://stewdio.org/windmaker/.

The issue features Stewart’s essay Hello World Universe on Frank Drake’s 1974 Arecibo Message to aliens. It’s a humorous (and very loose) explanation of the message’s sophisticated design and how it inspires Stewdio. Also in this issue, a shout-out to fellow Yale MFA Ryan Waller whose work will appear in the It’s Nice That exhibition this September.

iQuit generates a formal letter of resignation from its library of pointed, yet ambiguous, sentences. Perfect for quitting almost any sticky situation. The iQuit site is a satire artwork. No affiliation is implied between this content and the organizations being satirized.

Congratulations to Ben Rubin and his Ear Studio for their work on Exits I and much gratitude for their contributions to Exits II. A very special thank-you to Bernd Lintermann for contributing his panoramic projection system and incredibly sharp eyes. And finally, we are in great debt to our Cartier counterparts Francois Gemenne, Ilana Shamoon, and Marta Niedzwiecka who assisted us above and beyond the call of duty to ensure Exits II told a cohesive and well-translated story.

See Stewdio’s Terre Natale project page at http://stewdio.org/work/terrenatale.