August 2011
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Anon + LulzSec + Nyan Cat graffiti →
July 2011
3 posts
Could Quantum Computing Kill Copyright? →
Will China Save Global Capitalism? →
Featured Quote: D. P. Gaonkar on Alternative... →
June 2011
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UK Launches 'Peer To Patent' Pilot Project →
Why Web Personalization May Be Damaging Our World... →
April 2011
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Massive webs created by spiders fleeing the floods... →
January 2011
4 posts
Policing Genes →
Peep Into The Past – The Earliest Russian Color... →
Is Mark Zuckerberg the Next Steve Case? →
Rushkoff Proposes We Fork the Internet →
November 2010
5 posts
This painting is not available in your country... →
Originally via PAINTED,ETC.
Europe Simulates Total Cyber War →
Tutter writes with this quote from the BBC: “The first-ever cross-European simulation of an all out cyber attack was planned to test how well nations cope as the attacks slow connections. The…
Lab craft: digital adventures in contemporary... →
The fantastical becomes real:
Imagine objects three-dimensionally printed from a bed of nylon powder; shapes appearing to seamlessly morph and merge with each other; and new forms randomly…
China Mobile Joins the Linux Foundation →
eldavojohn writes “As a gold member, China Mobile has joined The Linux Foundation putting it next to AMD, Google, HP and Cisco in the roster of the foundation’s gold members. This marks the very…
The Urbee Hybrid is the first car to come out of a... →
3D Printers are getting ever more advanced and, apparently, ever bigger too. Proof to that is the Urbee Hybrid, the result of a partnership between transportation company Kor Ecologic…
October 2010
7 posts
South Korean Cartoonists Cry Foul Over Edgy... →
theodp writes “When asked to animate a dark commentary about labor practices in Asia’s cartoon industry — the edgy title sequence for the Simpsons’ episode ‘MoneyBART’ — staff from the South Korean…
USB 'Dead Drops' →
Okian Warrior writes “Aram Bartholl is building a series of USB dead drops in New York City. Billed as ‘an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space,’ he has embedded USB…
Okay, no more Times New Roman. But then what? →
It’s a week, I guess, to think about typefaces. I’m convinced now by Kendall Gray that I should no longer require my students to hand in their documents using Times New Roman as their font. In legal…
US Library of Congress: Copyright Is Destroying... →
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“The topic is recorded sound preservation, and in a 181-page in-depth study, the Library of Congress concludes that apart from technical difficulties, US copyright law makes it…
Facebook Bans More Activists: This Week in Online... →
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“Chinese activists banned from their own Facebook accounts. ReadWriteWeb has written before about Facebook’s shutting down of pages and groups devoted to boycotting corporations….
Stockholm Heartbeats: the Fate of Slussen →
In the center of Stockholm there is a traffic junction named Slussen. Connecting the two urban islands Gamla Stan and Södermalm it is also a sea lock, with its earliest roots from the 1600s….
The Most Boring Places in the World (2009) - Angie... →
“The Most Boring Places in the World” is a Google Earth tour that pinpoints the location of bloggers, live journal-ers, and chat room commentators. These authors all claim that…
September 2010
4 posts
Who owns Franz Kafka’s papers? →
I’ve written before about my skepticism over allowing the dead to exert control over the living to a sufficient degree that we the living are deprived of cultural riches. And just last week I…
Pentagon Aims To Buy Up Book →
jamie writes “Operation Dark Heart, a book about the adventures and frustrations of an Army officer who served in Afghanistan, has ruffled some feathers at the Pentagon. From the article: ‘The…
Self-Powered Parts Are the Future →
bossanovalithium writes that an umbrella group including Japanese heavyweights like Panasonic and Toyota is working on bringing the price of self powered parts down to levels where they can be mass…
Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang →
Hugh Pickens writes “The Guardian reports that in his new book, The Grand Design, Professor Stephen Hawking argues that the Big Bang, rather than occurring following the intervention of a divine…
August 2010
27 posts
YouTube - Introduction to TOTeM →
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This is a brief overview of the TOTeM: Tales of Things and Electronic Memory research project funded by the EPSRC. TOTeM will allow people to record and preserve personal histories…
RIAA President Says Copyright Law "Isn't Working" →
Kilrah_il writes “Apperantly not satisfied with the current scope of the DMCA, RIAA President Cary Sherman wants to broaden the scope of the law to have content providers such as YouTube and…
American Life in Russia, 1959 →
Back in 1959 there was a strange exhibition held in Moscow. It was a show case of American way of life demonstrated to common Russian people, something unseen by them and never even dreamed to be…
Look For AI, Not Aliens →
krou writes “Writing in Acta Astronautica, Seti astronomer Seth Shostak argues that we should be looking for ‘sentient machines’ rather than biological life. In an interview with the BBC, he said,…
Striking Waterspout in Novorossiysk →
There was an awful waterspout the other day in Novorossiysk! Hardly this city had ever seen something like this before! read more..
Julian Assange Faces Rape Investigation In Sweden →
mpawlo was one of many readers who have sent news that a warrant has been issued in Stockholm, Sweden for WikiLeaks founder and spokesman Julian Assange. The investigation apparently involves “one…
Why Software Patents Are a Joke — Literally →
eburnette writes “A former Sun/Oracle employee explains how developers created patents in an unofficial contest to see who could get the goofiest patent through the system. James Gosling said, ‘……
Andy Warhol was sued, but the cases were never... →
After posting Campbell Soup’s letter to Andy Warhol expressing admiration for his Campbell Soup paintings 2 weeks ago, I’ve been asked by several people whether Warhol was ever sued for his…
Future Crew Documentary →
A few months ago, we posted a week of articles covering the demoscene. This short documentary by Yle New Media Development, originally posted on Motherboard TV, is a nice follow-up to…
Subscribed to theRSAorg →
I subscribed to theRSAorg’s channel on YouTube.
Jamais Cascio presents the IFTF’s forecast for the... →
What follows is Jamais Cascio, who we’ve mentioned here a few times before, presenting a condensed, thirty-minute version of the Institute for the Future’s forecast for the next ten years….
China To Close 2,000 Factories In Energy Crackdown →
Hugh Pickens writes “The NY Times reports that China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has published a list of 2,087 steel mills, cement works and other energy-intensive factories…
The 14 3/4 Biggest Ideas of the Year - Magazine -... →
A guide to the intellectual trends that, for better or worse, are most shaping America right now. 14 3/4. Reefer Sanity
14. It’s Too Easy Being Green
13. Teachers Are Fair Game
12. The Rise of the…
Abandon Earth Or Die, Warns Hawking →
siliconbits writes “According to famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, it’s time to free ourselves from Mother Earth. ‘I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be in space,’…
CBC.ca | Ideas | How To Think About Science, Part... →
What happens when you study science in a scientific way? When you apply scientific methods to science itself? When you put science under its own microscope and ask, “What is science really all…
Wikipedia’s Lamest Edit Wars →
Featured Quote: John May →
A bypass road from Beit Jala, Bethlehem to Gilo Tantur
Checkpoint 300, from Bethlehem to Jerusalem
“Planning is the method by which modern violence is done; clean, unspoken, ‘just’ violence. It is less an act of design than an act of war, less cooperation than conquest, less color and light than sound and fury” John May, Verb Crisis, 2008.
The 'Net Generation' Isn't →
Kanel introduces this lengthy review in Spiegel Online this way: “Kids that grew up with the Internet are not ‘digital natives’ as consultants have led us to believe. They’re OK with the Net but they…
Google CEO Schmidt Predicts End of Online... →
Andorin writes “A tweet from the EFF pointed me to a short article detailing part of Eric Schmidt’s speech to the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe on August 4. According to Schmidt, true…
More Than 10% of Mozilla Bug Finders Refuse Cash →
angry tapir writes “The open-source Mozilla project has been offering cash bounties for security bugs for six years now, but often bug finders simply turn down the cash. Between 10 percent and 15…
Tanner America →
Tanner America is critical satire in the form of a Tumblr blog. The site is updated several times a week with “snapshot” style images and brief accompanying captions. Each image depicts a…
Storm of Butterflies →
A spectacle never seen in Vitebsk before: millions of little butterflies covered the entire bridge with their bodies! Maybe it’s the first sign of a doomsday predicted for 2012? read more..