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Decommissioned Sea Fort Reborn as Luxury Island Retreat | Earth911.com
“While the reimagined Spitbank Fort features ultra-modern fixtures and decor elements, its jaw-dropping design schemes incorporate much of the original structure, including rugged exposed brick and armor-plated walls.”
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Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol Foundation Settle Banana Album Dispute | Billboard
“The Velvet Underground and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts have split their differences over the iconic cover art for the 1967 album The Velvet Underground & Nico.”
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EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM in HTML5 | Electronic Frontier Foundation
“the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a formal objection to the inclusion of digital rights management (DRM) in HTML5”
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“The strategy these companies use for radical innovation is decades out of date. We need to update it. We learned to do it at DARPA and we’re going to bring it to mobile, and it will have cascading effect on industry.”
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“$200 puts you in the driver’s seat. Steer the telescope and snap a photo of the celestial object of your choosing — a nebula, Jupiter, Saturn’s rings, another galaxy, maybe even an asteroid.”
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From a Free Software Movement to a Free Safety Movement | Local Autonomy Networks
“This is a call to all feminist hackers, anti-racist coders, gender hackers, genderchangers, queer and trans hackers, political hackers, anti-violence activists and networked activists to help stop violence against queer and trans* people, people of color, disabled people and women.”
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The New Aesthetic — A secret network of 20 roadside listening stations…
“criminals are attempting to jam GPS signals on a regular basis”
Month: May 2013
Daily 05/29/2013
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Survivorship bias: why 90% of the advice about writing is bullshit right now | Tobias Buckell Online
“the self assured expertise of anecdotes drives me nuts”
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2013 Internet Trends — Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers
“The latest edition of the annual Internet Trends report finds continued robust online growth.”
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Five Undercover Police Cars Sent To Arrest Single Alleged Movie Pirate | TorrentFreak
“What remains remarkable about FACT operations is how they are able to persuade the police to invest significant resources towards detaining individuals for non-violent crimes.”
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“A deep topically relevant exploration of this cyber drama comes to light as The Acme Corporation presents If You Can Get To Buffalo: An Exploration of a Rape in Cyberspace by Julian Dibbell, a new work by Trish Harnetiaux.”
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svg.js – A lightweight JavaScript library for manipulating and animating svg
“A lightweight library for manipulating and animating SVG.”
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Jackson Pollock’s ‘One – Number 31, 1950’ Restored by MoMA – NYTimes.com
“That meant they were added after 1962,” Mr. Coddington said. “And since Pollock died in 1956, those photographs confirmed they were put there after his death.”
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Me and Sad Keanu: A 3D-Printing Story – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic
“a meme materialized”
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TRUSTAFARIANS OF THE BELLE ÉPOQUE | CAREER SUICIDE
“here’s just a few of the famous artists who conducted art as a full time hobby” with added photoshops.
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Facebook agrees to block sexual assault ‘humor’ – NBC News.com
“Facebook is changing its policy on “humorous” posts and images that make light of rape and violence against women, following pressure from activists and advertisers.”
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BSA Study Demonstrates Open Source’s Economic Advantage – Open Enterprise
“the fundamental premise of the latest BSA study – that licensed proprietary software is better in many ways than pirated copies – actually applies to open source software even more strongly”
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Google defends its use of proprietary tech in Hangouts | TechHive
“Google is feeling the heat over its decision to build its new Hangouts IM and audio/video chat product with proprietary technology”
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“Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes vs Women in Video Games Is Back With More On That Oh-So-Irritating Damsel Trope”
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“a few of the GIFs Google has created showing some of the most startling pockets of change”
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Beneath the Fold: The Twisted Tale of Origami v. Sarah Morris | GalleristNY
“Ms. Morris did say that a friend pointed out to her that a group of origami zealots suing an artist was just about “the ‘least zen’ thing he’d ever heard.””
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Where Looks Don’t Matter and Only the Best Writers Get Laid | The Cluster Mag
“How the feminist internet utopia failed, and we ended up with speculative realism”
Daily 05/28/2013
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Artfacts API
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css rule application visualiser
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“The Raspberry Pi Twitter Sentiment Server (I really must called RPTSS for short) is an ongoing tutorial on using R, Sqlite and some Python to measure Twitter sentiment on given hashtags.”
Image from CityPaper, © 2013
There’s a play on in Baltimore this week by Trish Harnetiaux called “If You Can Get To Buffalo” about Julian Dibbell’s 1990s Village Voice LambdaMOO article, “A Rape in Cyberspace”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_in_Cyberspace
You can read reviews here:
http://citypaper.com/arts/stage/what-a-tangled-web-1.1492872
There’s an interview with the playwright here:
And the theatre company’s page about the production is here:
http://www.theacmecorporation.org/content/current-shows
This isn’t the first dramatic presentation of LambdaMOO, another example is this short film scripted from chat logs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqR_xM_50vk
Dibbell’s article was expanded into a book. It is a sometimes salacious but ultimately insightful examination of life on the MOO. You can read it here:
A more comprehensive insight into the operation, history and geography of LambaMOO is “Yib’s Guide To MOOing”, available here:
And a more ethnographic study of MOOing with lots of interesting historical and cultural details is Lynne Cherny’s “Conversation and Community: Chat in a Virtual World”, which you’ll have to buy a copy of:
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/1575861542.shtml
LambdaMOO is still here and is well worth exploring. You can install a Telnet client on your computer or mobile device (there’s one already on MacOS X) and telnet to:
I’ve restored the composition generators. You can find them here:
http://OFFLINEZIP.wpsho/composition-generators/
You can use them online, download the code, or download PDF books containing examples of the output of each generator.
Enjoy!
With a nightly build of Chromium and experimental code from vr.js you can run a free software JavaScript/WebGL Oculus Rift environment on GNU//Linux:
https://github.com/benvanik/vr.js/tree/master/experimental/usb-driver
The demo allows you to look around the inside of a cube, which reads as a room. It’s fun, and an exciting step for the Rift and Free Software.
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