November 2010
36 posts
“But though it is impossible to feel pain and pleasure at the same time, yet...”
– Aristotle, in chapter IV of his Ethics. (via barretta)
In AIDS Fund-Raiser, Celebrities Will ‘Die’... →
That’s one of the most interesting fundraisers for AIDS I have ever encountered. Celebrities will digitally die, meaning stop using digital communications, and their fans will have the power to resuscitate them by giving back to the “Keep A Child Alive” initiative.
The campaign’s goal is 1 million dollars. I think they won’t have a problem amassing this sum.
WatchCould somebody please send this video to Peter Greenaway? I would love to hear his thoughts.
Exclusive: Everything Everything’s ‘Photoshop Handsome’ music video and making-of documentary
Fundamental Condition of "Digitality"
The established differences between author and reader, performer and spectator, creator and interpreter become blurred and give way to a reading writing continuum that extends from the designers of the technology and networks to the final recipient, each one contributing to the activity of the other - the disappearance of the signature.
-Pierre Levy [1997]
“Like the faces in cameos
I wanted beloved voices
To be a fortune which one...”
– From Charles Cros’ poem “Inscription”
Google to require two-way data-sharing street →
infoneer-pulse:
Google is putting its data liberation philosophy to work in a direct slap at Facebook.
Techcrunch noticed last night that Google made a subtle change to a paragraph in the guidelines that govern how external services can let their users import contacts data from Google. Now those services will have to allow their users to export that data in a manner similar to how Google...
Intentional Code
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