January 2012
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Rhizome | Hidden Information: The Work of Jim... →
Cryptographic sculptures have already been exposed to the mainstream back in 2009, when Wired published an article on Kryptos, the now famous sculpture outside CIA’s headquarters: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/ff_kryptos?currentPage=all.
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Watch“Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics.”
TED Talk: Chris Jordan pictures some shocking stats (by TED)
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“We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into...”
– The Pirate Bay - The galaxy’s most resilient bittorrent site
TPB on 3D printing and the future of sharing
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Citing Ayn Rand
”Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage — the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character...
December 2011
5 posts
“For Virilio, even reality is divided or more accurately it is substituted with...”
– Failed utopia: The art of surveillance and simulating control: An interview with Toni Dimitrov | www.furtherfield.org
Swiss Govt: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay... →
infoneer-pulse:
One in three people in Switzerland download unauthorized music, movies and games from the Internet and since last year the government has been wondering what to do about it. This week their response was published and it was crystal clear. Not only will downloading for personal use stay completely legal, but the copyright holders won’t suffer because of it, since people...
November 2011
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WatchJ. J. Abrams mystery box (by TED)
October 2011
3 posts
WatchOne of the creepiest experiments I’ve ever encountered. Moving closer to the cyborg era.
Interview With The Eyeborg (by DiagonalView)
August 2011
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“We lead plural lives: we talk, we exchange, we create, we weave links through...”
– Towards knowledge-sharing societies: http://vecam.org/article493.html
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Watchmanybots:
How you can use your public transportation data and other geolocation information. A cool self-experiment shared by Joost Plattel, during a Quantified Self Meetup in Amsterdam.
via Quantified Self
June 2011
9 posts
WatchOn Wikipedia Art // MADE REAL by Scott Kildall & Nathaniel Stern (by Furtherfield)
"It's a little like a spaceship landed." →
My thoughts exactly after watching the meeting’s video.
parislemon:
Steve Jobs goes to Cupertino City Hall to make the case for Apple’s new proposed headquarters. This is easily the most fascinating city council meeting ever. A few things:
1) Jobs is still officially on medical leave, but he clearly felt strongly enough about this new campus that he wanted to give this presentation....
WatchVideo games as fine art? (by CNN International)
WIREDInsider: iPad Apps: One Year Later →
wiredinsider:
One set of instructions for the Moleskine iPad app. Image courtesy of WIRED.com.
Neilson Norman Group has released a follow-up to their report last year on the usability of iPad apps. A year after the iPad was introduced and changed the very course of human history, some apps are still…
May 2011
14 posts
WatchA short film on open government data and the importance for governments to open their datasets in order to re-articulate the relationship between governance and citizens. Even the simplest mashup of information can yield solutions to our pressing daily issues.
I won't follow you if... →
Simple truths why people won’t follow you on Twitter. Feel free to submit your own.
“The larger lesson is that Foucault had a point: The dynamics of power can...”
– How Power Corrupts | Wired Science | Wired.com
Manuela Farinosi on the Panopticon and... →
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April 2011
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March 2011
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