Links For 2011
2011-4-13
"'Stun Ray' will blind you into submission":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-04/13/stun-ray-will-blind-you-into-submission
"Historical first look into the Fed's bailout payments reveals
breathtaking multi-trillion-dollar corruption":
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/13/historical-first-loo.html
"Sound-Generated Augmented Reality Sculptures":
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/04/sound-generated-augmented-reality-sculptures.html
"As promised, weve taken the last week or so getting the code from all
the Socialbots 2011 teams cleaned up and ready for public release. So,
for all you programming-inclined folks out there, were happy to say
today that you can now play from the comfort of your own home and rig up
your own automated social-influencing bot too.":
http://www.webecologyproject.org/
Kinect AR hack of the day:
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2011/04/augmented-reality-make-the-line-dance/
And another new sense after the North Paw's sense of direction, this
time a sense of distance:
http://www.blendedtechnologies.com/how-i-created-a-haptic-ultrasonic-range-finding-hat/234
2011-4-14
New Media Hipster Art ;-) :
[for @ninjafx]
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-04/14/gallery-augmented-reality-meets-old-school-projection
"Scientific management's unscientific grounding: the Management Myth":
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/14/scientific-managemen.html
"Twimal: Super-Cute Twitter Toy Pet Reads Tweets For You":
[via @greatdismal]
http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/03/25/twimal-super-cute-twitter-toy-pet-reads-tweets-for-you/
"The Technological Singularity as Religious Ideology":
http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/04/14/the-technological-singularity-as-religious-ideology/
"160,000+ Watch Virtual Popstar Hatsune Miku Return to the Stage":
http://singularityhub.com/2011/04/12/160000-watch-virtual-popstar-hatsune-miku-return-to-the-stage-video-2/
And a classic -
"Man Infects Himself With Computer Virus":
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/man-infects-himself-with-computer-virus/
2011-4-15
"3 Sims That Will Make You Want To Return to Second Life!":
http://alphavilleherald.com/2011/04/3-sims-that-will-make-you-want-to-return-to-second-life.html
"DIY Geiger Counters Take Center Stage":
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/04/diy-geiger-counters-take-center-stage.html
Biopunk:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1617230022/
Network Realism:
http://booktwo.org/notebook/network-realism/
Hauntology:
http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/008535.html
Dead Channel Surfing: Commonalities between Industrial Music and
Cyberpunk Literature.:
http://uwaterloo.academia.edu/KarenCollins/Papers/198765/_Dead_Channel_Surfing_Commonalities_between_Industrial_Music_and_Cyberpunk_Literature._
Cyberpunk:
http://project.cyberpunk.ru/
2011-4-16
Miso Susanowa's Second Life art (via NWN):
http://slofdreams.blogspot.com/2011/03/133-of-365-artist-miso-susanowa.html
Virtual Body Language:
https://virtualbodylanguage.wordpress.com/
"USPS accidentally issues Vegas Statue of Liberty stamp":
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/15/usps-accidentally-is.html
"A reading list for radical thinkers":
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2011/04/reading-list-world-book-texts
"space liberation [movement] - We augment reality." (via BruceS):
http://spacelib.org/
Infinite Reality:
http://www.infinitereality.org/
"Brazilian cops spot bad guys in a crowd with cyborg-style shades":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-04/15/cops-cyborg-shades
2011-4-18
"How can I be sure Ive been IWFd?":
http://grimboy.co.uk/blawg/in-the-uk-being-told-youre-already-downloading-or-have-failed-the-captcha-too-many-times-by-file-hosting-sites-for-no-reason-you-might-be-being-iwfd/
"HUMAN + The Future of Our Species":
http://www.sciencegallery.com/humanplus
"New DNA nanoforms take shape"
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-dna-nanoforms-take-shape
Virtual Futures 2.0:
http://virtualfutures.co.uk/
"Booklaunch Josephine Bosmas Nettitudes, Lets Talk Net Art":
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/weblog/2011/03/29/booklaunch-josephine-bosmas-nettitudes-lets-talk-net-art/
And BruceS has noticed Rosalind :-) :
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2011/04/web-semantics-furtherfield-rosalind-new-media-art-lexicon/
2011-4-19
"Virtual-Reality Scent System Fools Flavor Sense":
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/embedded-systems/virtualreality-scent-system-fools-flavor-sense
"Quantum trading! And tunnels through the Earth!":
http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/quantum-trading-and-tunnels.html
Twitter portraits (via @zeroinfluencer):
https://twitter.com/l______________
Open rTMS:
http://open-rtms.sourceforge.net/about.html
And more historically...
"TRANSHUMANISM Towards a Futurist Philosophy":
http://www.maxmore.com/transhum.htm
"Colonizing Virtual Reality":
http://cultronix.eserver.org/chesher/
2011-4-20
"Art schools face uncertain financial future":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/apr/19/art-colleges-face-uncertain-financial-future
The Search For Internet Intelligence:
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/04/the_search_for.php
"Elf Ears, Facial Horns & Complete Freedom of Expression":
http://grinding.be/2011/04/19/elf-ears-facial-horns-complete-freedom-of-expression/
Impossible Art Ideas (via BruceS):
http://impossibleartideas.blogspot.com/
"MoD: sort out drone ethics or 'risk our humanity'":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-04/19/defence-ministry-sort-out-drone-policy
2011-4-21
"Maps, open data and activism on the Heygate estate":
http://tom.acrewoods.net/2011/04/19/maps-open-data-and-activism-on-the-heygate-estate/
"Remix : Culture Hacking Panel at Mindfield, Dublin, April 29th":
http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profiles/blogs/remix-culture-hacking-panel?xg_source=shorten_twitter
"What it means to have all music instantly available.":
http://www.slate.com/id/2291532/pagenum/all/#p2
"Can Bitcoin Really Succeed Long Term?":
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110420/02412713972/can-bitcoin-really-succeed-long-term.shtml
"When is the the next '3D Printer Build Party'?":
https://code.google.com/p/pif3d/
Mind Bullets:
http://hex-machina.com/hw/mindbullets
"The power of the copy of the copy":
http://arduino.cc/blog/2011/04/21/the-power-of-the-copy-of-the-copy/
2011-4-22
"Scan and Reproduce":
http://blog.thingiverse.com/2011/04/21/scan-and-reproduce/
"The Aesthetics of Transhumanism":
http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/04/22/the-aesthetics-of-transhumanism/
Tactical Technology Collective:
http://www.tacticaltech.org/
"Making is Connecting: The social meaning of creativity":
http://www.makingisconnecting.org/
"Open Knowledge Foundation Newsletter No. 17":
http://blog.okfn.org/2011/04/22/open-knowledge-foundation-newsletter-no-17-jan-march-2011/
2011-4-26
"Social Network Pioneer Friendster To Erase All User Photos, Blogs And
More On May 31":
http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/26/social-network-pioneer-friendster-to-erase-all-user-photos-blogs-and-more-on-may-31/
"TweetingSeat shares your bench adventures with the world":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-04/26/tweeting-bench
Augmented Legality:
http://www.wassom.com/category/augmented-reality
"Personal Email Archive of Poet Acquired to Analyse Literary Social
Network":
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/british_library_buys_poets_emails.php
A statement from 1997 by Internet VR pioneer (and my ex-partner of 15
years...) Evie Matthieson, who died Friday night:
http://www.metamute.org/en/VR-Worlds-Online
2011-4-28
"What does it mean to grow up in a digital world?":
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/04/born_digital.php
"Digital Puppeteering With Moviesandbox":
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/04/digital-puppeteering-with-moviesandbox.html
"Plan For The Kidnap Of Princess Anne LP.":
http://englishheretic.blogspot.com/2011/04/plan-for-kidnap-of-princess-anne-lp.html
"Magnetic fingernails":
http://hypatia.ca/2010/06/magnetic-fingernails/
"Augmented Reality: Invisible Pink Unicorn at the Easter Vatican Service":
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2011/04/augmented-reality-invisible-pink-unicorn-at-the-easter-vatican-service/
"Copyright laws prevents release of historic jazz recordings":
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/26/copyright-laws-preve.html
2011-4-29
"FlavourCollider visualises your brain's reaction to cocktails":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-04/28/flavourcollider
[I'm using one of those headsetsfor my lo-rez uploads project...]
Nate Harrison's excellent free culture essays [via @joygarnett]:
http://nkhstudio.com/pages/writing.html
Spot the "Howl" reference:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_17/b4225060960537.htm
"Lessig: Copyright isn't just hurting creativity: it's killing science
(video)":
http://motherboard.tv/2011/4/25/lessig-copyright-isn-t-just-hurting-creativity-it-s-killing-science-video--2
All of Geocities as a torrent!!!-
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6350414/Geocities_-_The_PATCHED_Torrent
And, yes, those Brazilian gooles were over-hyped:
http://singularityhub.com/2011/04/28/brazilian-%E2%80%9Crobocop%E2%80%9D-security-goggles-over-hyped-weve-got-the-real-facts/
2011-5-2
More MOOs:
http://moo.echoduet.net/list.php
The Hug Shirt:
http://www.cutecircuit.com/products/thehugshirt/
"From Coding Consciousness to ESS [re]Code":
http://virtualfutures.co.uk/archive/papers/coding-consciousness-ess-recode/
"Kinect Hacking and Art Round Table: Why it Matters, What You Need to Know":
http://createdigitalmotion.com/2010/11/kinect-hacking-and-art-round-table-why-it-matters-what-you-need-to-know/
2011-5-3
10 points if you recognize the actual avatars! :-) :
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/05/avatars-do-it-in-cyberspace-bumpersticker-history.html
"LifeNaut.com is a web based research project that allows anyone to
create a free back-up of their mind and genetic code.":
http://lifenaut.com/
"Welcome to CyBeRev. Begin your mindfile today and take the first step
toward preserving your identity forever!":
http://www.cyberev.org/
"Forever online: Your digital legacy":
http://www.newscientist.com/special/digital-legacy
"Why poor countries lead the world in [copyright] piracy":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/may/03/why-poor-countries-lead-world-piracy
"Assange: Facebook, Google, Yahoo Are Spying Tools For U.S. Intelligence":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/05/assange-facebook-google-yahoo-are-spying-tools-for-u-s-intelligence/
2011-5-6
"A court in The Hague yesterday ruled in favor of the artist stating
that her right to freedom of expression outweighed LV's right to
protection of property.":
http://artmeetslaw.blogspot.com/2011/05/update-end-of-winning-streak-for-louis.html
A cheaper CAVE using OpenSim:
http://roots.greenbush.us/3/wordpress/?p=1251
"Against Naive Uploadism":
http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/05/06/against-naive-uploadism-memory-consciousness-and-synaptic-homeostasis/
"Trading on sentiment":
http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/05/sentiment-analysis-finance.html
"Mapping the Mixed Emotions following Osama bin Laden's Death":
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2011/05/mapping_the_mixed_emotions_after_osama_bin_ladens_death.html
Raspberry Pi Foundation (but HDMI???):
http://www.raspberrypi.org/
"Proprietary Software Licensing Produces No New Value In Society":
http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/07/07/producing-nothing.html
"Michel Bauwens will be speaking about Everything Open and Free: A
model for Hacking Everything on 08 May 12:30 14:00 Exchange
Dublin, Exchange Street Upper, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland":
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/everything-open-and-free-a-model-for-hacking-everything/2011/05/06
Sent from my high horse:
http://foocorp.net/horse/
2011-5-7
Boicouture [via the always interesting -empyre- list]:
http://www.biocouture.co.uk/
"Pink fluffy cat ears controlled by brain waves":
http://mindhacks.com/2011/05/05/pink-fluffy-cat-ears-controlled-by-brain-waves/
"Origami Artists Sue Sarah Morris For Copyright Infringement Over Crease
Patterns":
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2011/05/-origami-artists-sue-sarah-morris.html
"Court Throws Out Louis Vuittons Copyright Claim Against Artist"
[same story as yesterday, but another commentary]:
http://hyperallergic.com/23945/court-throws-out-louis-vuittons-copyright-claim-against-artist/
"MondoNet, a global wireless mesh network":
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/mondonet-global-wireless-mesh-network/2011/05/07
"HOWTO Newstweek for under 50":
http://turbulence.org/blog/2011/05/06/howto-newstweek-for-under-e50/
"Fuck Committees":
http://www.petehindle.com/2011/05/06/fuck-committees/
2011-5-8
"FACIAL HACKING: THE TWISTED LOGIC OF ELECTRO-FACIAL CHOREOGRAPHY":
http://artifacial.org/
"Censorship, Governments, and Flagellating Google (White Paper)":
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000849.html
Another Business Model for Art: eBay":
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2011/05/another-business-model-for-art-ebay.html
"Inventables is the innovators hardware store." [new materials for
artists!!1 :-) ]:
http://www.inventables.com/
"Peer 2 Peer University is an open community that enables learning with
and from each other.":
http://p2pu.org/
A guide to Twitter hashtags for the arts:
http://www.artistsandmakers.com/staticpages/index.php/Hashtags
As art Sims close their art is lost, and there isn't even an Internet
Archive for lost Second Life art:
http://brynoh.blogspot.com/2011/01/standby-closing.html
2011-5-9
"Race to save digital art from the rapid pace of technological change":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/may/08/digital-art-hilary-lloyd
"Fach & Asendorf Gallery [Scripts]":
http://www.creativeapplications.net/scripts/fach-asendorf-gallery-scripts/
"Augmented Reality Brings Virtual World Experience to London Commuters":
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/05/augmented-reality-virtual-world-experience-.html
"De-anonymizing Apple UDIDs with OpenFeint" [via O'Reilly Radar]:
http://corte.si/posts/security/openfeint-udid-deanonymization/index.html
"Legal Disclaimers: Spare Us The E-mail Yada-Yada":
http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2011/05/09/legal-disclaimers-at-the-bottom-of-e-mails-are-useless/
2011-5-11
"Ten Years From Now, Facebook Will Be Your Bank":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/05/ten-years-from-now-facebook-will-be-your-bank/
"Beyond idealism: university-level training in free technology":
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/beyond-idealism-university-level-training-in-free-technology/2011/05/11
"Blue Brain Project: Build a virtual brain in a supercomputer":
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/11/blue-brain-project-b.html?
"What are the key data categories companies want to control?":
http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/05/web2-summit-data-frame-map.html
"There's No "Meaningful Distinction" Between Second Life & FarmVille":
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/05/second-life-no-different-from-farmville.html
"Man vs. Box":
http://coilhouse.net/2011/05/man-vs-box/
2011-5-13
Bumper Friday edition...
"Public Libraries, 3D Printing, FabLabs and Hackerspaces":
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/05/public-libraries-3d-printing-fablabs-and-hackerspaces.html
"Art reproduction incongruencies":
http://flowingdata.com/2011/05/12/art-reproduction-incongruencies/
"If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the
product being sold.":
http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#3256046
"3D City Models Made By Missiles":
http://fabbaloo.com/blog/2011/5/12/3d-city-models-made-by-missiles.html
"How to Make Money in Microseconds":
http://www.lrb.co.uk/2011/05/19/donald-mackenzie/how-to-make-money-in-microseconds
The excellent algorithmic art of Paul Prudence:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-05/12/gallery-rynth
"The Spectrum Of Our Freedoms":
http://www.laquadrature.net/en/the-spectrum-of-our-freedoms
"Where Are The Bytes?":
http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/06/11/develop-in-public.html
HTML hex colour codes as words :-) :
http://lexadecimal.com/
2011-5-18
#NewMediaHipsters, your summer soundtrack is here:
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/16/mondo-vanilli-ru-sir.html
"When Will Scientists Grow Meat in a Petri Dish?":
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=inside-the-meat-lab
"Augmented Reality Guerillas Hijack Bruce Sterlings ARE 2011 Speech":
http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2011/05/17/augmented-reality-guerillas-hijack-bruce-sterlings-are-2011-speech/
"Fight back against Sarkozy's EG8 -- an exercise in censorship and
control dressed up as a technology summit":
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/17/fight-back-against-s.html
"Tens of thousands march in Spain to protest against austerity measures,
banks, politicians":
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/tens-of-thousands-march-in-spain-to-protest-against-austerity-measures-banks-politicians/2011/05/15/AF13OH4G_story.html
"Oxford University academics are seeking a symbolic vote of "no
confidence" against the government's handling of higher education in
England.":
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-13414756
"Arts Council cuts send creative industries to bed with corporate patrons":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-05/17/arts-council-cuts
"Report calls for overhaul of UK copyright law":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/may/17/copyright-law-overhaul-for-uk
2011-5-18
"Cindy Sherman Print Sells For $3.9 Million At Auction, The Highest Ever
For A Photograph":
http://www.popphoto.com/news/2011/05/cindy-sherman-print-sells-39-million-auction-highest-ever-photograp
"Lingodroid Robots Invent Their Own Spoken Language":
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/lingodroid-robots-invent-their-own-spoken-language
"The Government is Spying On You Through Facebook RightNow":
http://singularityhub.com/2011/05/18/the-government-is-spying-on-you-through-facebook-right-now/
"Bionic hand for 'elective amputation' patient":
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13273348
"R.U. Sirius on Mondo Vanilli and music" #newmediahipsterism:
http://unheard78.blogspot.com/2011/05/ru-sirius-on-mondo-vanilli-and-music.html
""""That's no moon...""":
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p-aFJ3jUBXM/TdH41fOF5xI/AAAAAAAADJs/ndOfalRg-aU/s1600/tumblr_leldtnl9ga1qzwtdlo1_500.jpg
2011-5-20
"France's G8 Focuses on Control and Restrictions to Online Freedoms":
http://www.laquadrature.net/en/frances-g8-focuses-on-control-and-restrictions-to-online-freedoms
"EU and China adopt harmonised approach to censorship":
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number9.10/eu-china-censorship-internet
"Kindle e-books now outselling all print books on Amazon US":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-05/20/kindle-books-outsell-print-books
""Bought This Bitcoins Badge With Bitcoins" Badge":
http://www.nerdmeritbadges.com/products/bitcoin
Video of fingertip magnet implanting (not for the squeamish):
http://vimeo.com/23836862
"Indeterminacy is a feature, not a bug":
http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/05/20/the-luxurious-ambiguity-of-intelligence-in-hyperconnectivity/
"William Burroughs Walking on Color":
https://wordobject.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/color-william-burroughs-color-walks/
A week of New York FourSquared checkin data visualised:
http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/FOURSQUAREWEEK1104/
Worlds Chat:
http://www.digitalspace.com/avatars/book/fullbook/chwc/chwc1.htm
Video of Lucasfilm's "Habitat", 1988 -
http://www.vwtimeline.com/artifacts/video/habitat-caribe-80s/index.html
2011-5-23
"Can Crowdsourcing Improve Open Data?":
http://blog.okfn.org/2011/05/23/can-crowdsourcing-improve-open-data/
"Lessons of the Victorian data revolution":
http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/05/victorian-data-lessons.html
"We should so blatantly do more randomised trials on policy":
http://www.badscience.net/2011/05/we-should-so-blatantly-do-more-randomised-trials-on-policy/
"Hard curves, soft electronics - code, tech & textiles":
http://www.slideshare.net/Rainycat/hard-curves-soft-electronics-code-tech-textiles
"Two of the worlds most famous real cyborg arms reunite":
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/two_of_the/
"Extremely high and concentrated tweets coming from Madrid protest":
http://web3lab.blogspot.com/2011/05/extremely-high-and-concentrated-tweets.html
"WikiLeaks 12m Legal Gag: a legal analysis ":
http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2011/05/wikileaks-12m-legal-gag-legal-analysis.html
"Copyright Reform":
http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/05/23/copyright-reform/
2011-5-29
"Pew Research raw survey data now available":
http://flowingdata.com/2011/05/25/pew-research-raw-survey-data-now-available/
"Why Open Licences?":
http://www.pawfal.org/dave/blog/2011/05/why-open-licences/
"Xsens Full Body Suit Motion Capture for the Mad Genius":
http://singularityhub.com/2011/05/26/xsens-full-body-suit-%E2%80%93-motion-capture-for-the-mad-genius-video/
"Human Plus: Five augmentations improving the human body":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-05/26/body-plus-gallery/viewgallery#!image-number=1
"Welcome to the Complete QS Guide to Self-Tracking!":
http://quantifiedself.com/guide/
2011-6-11
"The Social Revolution":
http://www.artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=3333
"Could a Social Singularity occur?":
http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/06/11/dialog-with-author-rick-moss-social-singularity/
"It's time to mash up Stephen Colbert!":
http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2011/06/08/what-youre-not-watching-its-time-to-mash-up-stephen-colbert/
"3D Printing: The Future is Here":
http://techliberation.com/2011/06/10/3d-printing-the-future-is-here/
"Another Appropriation Artist Loses Copyright Lawsuit; Are We Nearing
The End Of Appropriation Art?":
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110607/22123814604/another-appropriation-artist-loses-copyright-lawsuit-are-we-nearing-end-appropriation-art.shtmlWhat,
youre not watching? Its time to mash up Stephen
"Setting the historical record straight: copyright was designed by
distributors, to subsidize distributors not creators.":
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/setting-the-historical-record-straight-copyright-was-designed-by-distributors-to-subsidize-distributors-not-creators/2011/06/10
"Game Theory & Anarchism II: How information can smash the state":
http://www.patternsinthevoid.net/blog/2011/06/game-theory-anarchism-ii-how-information-can-smash-the-state/
"10 Physical Gestures That Have Been Patented":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/06/10-physical-gestures-that-have-been-patented/
Legion - "Apathy Patriots":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkKUMzaQHZw
2011-6-17
"doesnt fair use protect meaningless art, too?":
http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2011/06/at-the-brainwash.html
"New malware steals your Bitcoin":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-06/17/bitcoin-malware
"Is BitCoin legal?":
http://www.technollama.co.uk/is-bitcoin-legal
"An Increased Minimum Wage Is Good Policy Even During Hard Times":
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2011/06/higher_minimum_wage.html
"Top ten myths about introverts":
http://jerrybrito.org/post/6114304704/top-ten-myths-about-introverts
"Apple patents mobile camera that other people can shut off":
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/16/apple-patents-mobile.html
"Choosing the right license for open data":
http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/06/openstreetmap-creative-commons-open-database-license.html
"Insilico, a high end cyberpunk roleplaying sim in Second Life":
http://insilico.gemini-cybernetics.net/
"Joyce's puzzle solved: how to cross Dublin without passing a pub":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/17/joyce-puzzle-dublin-passing-pub
If you're a Doctor Who fan you'll love this:
http://www.combom.co.uk/2011/06/at-last-truth-about-rory-williams.html
2011-6-22
"The clear divisions on Bitcoin":
http://irdial.com/blogdial/?p=3102
A Bitcoin electronic newspaper you buy with Bitcoin:
http://thebitcoinsun.com/
"British Library Encloses the Public Domain ":
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2011/06/british-library-encloses-public-domain.html
"Is the Rise of Wearable Electronics Finally Here?":
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/06/is-the-rise-of-wearable-electronics-finally-here.html
"VIRTUAL SPACES AND ONLINE IDENTITIES":
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/knowledge/themes/virtualfutures/suethomas/
"The Age Of Empire: An Atari Teenage Riot Interview":
http://thequietus.com/articles/06454-alec-empire-interview-atari-teenage-riot-2
2011-7-5
The universe probably isn't a hologram:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-07/05/not-living-in-a-hologram
Emotion-reading glasses:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128191.600-specs-that-see-right-through-you.html
Public 2.0:
http://www.westminster.ac.uk/schools/media/cream/events/conferences/public-2.0
Proceedings of the 6th Open Knowledge Conference:
http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-739/
Talks from "Virtual Futures 2.0":
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/knowledge/themes/virtualfutures/
Conference organiser's handbook:
http://www.quirksmode.org/coh/
2011-8-3
"Debugging the profit motive" (with Whuffie?):
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/debugging-the-profit-motive/2011/07/31
"Installing Tor, Polipo, and Vidalia, and Excluding Bad Exit Nodes, in
Linux":
http://www.patternsinthevoid.net/blog/2011/06/installing-tor-polipo-and-vidalia-and-excluding-bad-exit-nodes-in-linux/
"Basic Security for Linux":
http://patternsinthevoid.net/security/linux.html
"MondoNet Fights The Internet Power: an Interview with Aram Sinnreich":
http://www.acceler8or.com/2011/07/mondonet-fights-the-internet-power-an-interview-with-adam-sinnreich/
Libre Graphics Magazine 1.4 call for submissions:
http://libregraphicsmag.com/blog/2011/07/1-4-the-physical-the-digital-and-the-designer/
"Itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny 3D-printed beach bikini: herald of the fashion
singularity?":
http://futurismic.com/2011/06/07/itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny-3d-printed-beach-bikini-herald-of-the-fashion-singularity/
"Hamad, the biggest name in the desert: Arab sheikh carves
two-miles-long name in sand until it's visible from SPACE":
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2016841/Al-Futaysi-island-Hamad-carves-2-miles-long-sand-visible-SPACE.html#ixzz1TzZykAyo
"Googles Official List of Bad Words":
http://fffff.at/googles-official-list-of-bad-words/
2011-8-4
Most American Benefits Recipients Don't Know They're Benefits Recipients:
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/08/most-beneficiaries-of-government-programs-dont-know-they-use-government-programs/
"UK government kills Copyright Great Firewall, establishes user rights":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/sqdc3RFBAvw/uk-government-kills-uk-copyright-great-firewall-establishes-user-rights.html
"Cinemetrics: Visualizing Movies":
http://feeds.infosthetics.com/~r/infosthetics/~3/XcikfBlU1dg/cinemetrics_visualizing_movies_1.html
"OpenCorporates hits 20 million companies, an open data milestone":
http://blog.okfn.org/2011/08/01/opencorporates-hits-20-million-companies-an-open-data-milestone/
"Archaeologists turn Kinect into handheld 3D scanner":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-08/02/archaeologists-and-kinect
"DIY UAVs For Cyber Warfare":
https://rabbit-hole.org/
"Cost of Computing in Coal":
http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20110727-00
2011-8-8
BlackBerry Messenger being used to co-ordinate action? :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/08/london-riots-facebook-twitter-blackberry
BlackBerry are covered by RIPA, and will co-operate with the authorities:
http://thenextweb.com/uk/2011/08/08/blackberry-makers-rim-is-engaging-with-police-over-london-riots/
Here's how RIPA works. In contrast to the USA, no warrant is needed in
the UK to demand your encryption keys:
https://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/contested-uk-encryption-disclosure-law-takes-effect-774
The police are monitoring social networking sites:
http://www.anorak.co.uk/289311/technology/riot-police-promise-to-spend-more-time-on-twitter.html/
And business is ready to help them:
http://www.freshbusinessthinking.com/news.php?NID=9659&
Some perspective on the role of technology, or at least Twitter:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14442203
2011-8-9
https://twitter.com/#!/search/riotcleanup
"Twitter spread misinformation faster than truth in UK riots":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-08/09/twitter-misinformation-riots
"Concrete Printing at Loughborough U":
http://fabbaloo.com/blog/2011/8/8/concrete-printing-at-loughborough-u.html
"Open source maps tell data journalism stories in Afghanistan":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/oreilly/radar/atom/~3/vCknRBrWuUg/open-source-maps-data-journalism.html
"Kurzweil Deflation":
http://blog.thingiverse.com/2011/08/08/kurzweil-deflation/
"8 Reasons Young Americans Dont Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth
Resistance":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/08/8-reasons-young-americans-dont-fight-back-how-the-us-crushed-youth-resistance/
"Live from Art Hack Weekend":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/makezineonline/~3/dA0hUZsDyvw/live-from-art-hack-weekend.html
[NSFW][Not Safe For Sanity Either] "Interspecies Intermingling on
Upswing in Second Life":
http://alphavilleherald.com/2011/08/interspecies-intermingling-on-upswing-in-second-life.html
2011-8-10
"Austerity survival guide":
http://zerostate.net/images/AusteritySurvivalGuide.jpg
"""The London Riots and the Liberal Crypto-Fascist Aftermath""":
http://artsagainstcuts.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/the-london-riots-and-the-liberal-crypto-fascist-aftermath/
"Transforming corporate forms through currencies":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~3/ljRD-b9hOHs/10
"Archaeologists turn Kinect into handheld 3D scanner":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-08/02/archaeologists-and-kinect
"DataPatterns.org: lets collect some tricks for data wrangling!":
http://blog.okfn.org/2011/08/04/datapatterns-org-lets-collect-some-tricks-for-data-wrangling/
"Vibrating fingertip glove boosts sense of touch":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-08/05/vibrating-glove-gives-you-super-touch
2011-8-11
"Prime Minister's attack on social media unwarranted":
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2011/david-cameron
"Britain considers mask ban; may use army if unrest continues":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/L8ZttTMJcus/britain-considers-mask-ban-may-use-army-to-suppress-future-unrest.html
"data and maps from the London riots":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/oreilly/radar/atom/~3/Ongw5ZXz_vw/twitter-storm-data-journalism-maps-bitrot.html
"Police use Flickr to identify London riot suspects":
http://thenextweb.com/uk/2011/08/09/police-use-flickr-to-identify-london-riot-suspects
"Anonymous plans to destroy Facebook on Nov. 5":
http://www.kurzweilai.net/anonymous-plans-to-destroy-facebook-on-nov-5
"Gamification is Bullshit":
http://www.bogost.com/blog/gamification_is_bullshit.shtml
"My Eight Hours of Hell in a Content Farm":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/08/my-eight-hours-of-hell-in-a-content-farm/
"Aesthetics":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6ak14hkAiU
2011-8-12
"Having learned nothing from Arab Spring, Cameron pursues a social media
crackdown":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/e8r8sH5ozdo/uk-riots-having-learned-nothing-from-arab-spring-cameron-hints-at-shutting-down-social-media.html
"British Prime Minister Does a 180 on Internet Censorship":
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/british-prime-minister-does-180-internet
"Iran, China, Libya and Zimbabwe claim hypocrisy from Britain":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-08/12/world-reacts-to-riots
"Can social media spread anarchy?":
http://www.technollama.co.uk/can-social-media-spread-anarchy
"South Korea to abandon real name internet policy":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/bnX-usSMj6A/south-korea-to-abandon-real-name-internet-policy.html
"THE "TRUTH" ABOUT THAT RIOT CLEAN-UP PIC":
https://plus.google.com/117394585037652877373/posts/KyEgRPo4s9J
"The Rewilding isn't so much a scenario as it's an alternative package
of assumptions.":
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/08/i-am-the-very-model-of-a-singu.html
"HAPPY HAPPY (JOY JOY) BIRTHDAY, REN & STIMPY!":
http://coilhouse.net/2011/08/happy-happy-joy-joy-birthday-ren-stimpy/
2011-8-14
"Why Facebook and Google's Concept of 'Real Names' Is Revolutionary":
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/why-facebook-and-googles-concept-of-real-names-is-revolutionary/243171/
"Facebook using natural language processing to group posts, link to pages":
http://www.kurzweilai.net/facebook-using-natural-language-processing-to-group-posts-link-to-pages
"David Camerons net-censorship proposal earns kudos from Chinese state
media":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/f-iK5XyD49k/david-camerons-net-censorship-proposal-earns-kudos-from-chinese-state-media.html
David Cameron, alleged rioter:
http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/04/exclusive-david-cameron-and-the-bullingdon-night-of-the-broken-window/
"The Jobless Future"[via p2pf]:
http://www.buzzmachine.com/2011/08/05/the-jobless-future/
"The End of the Job"[via p2pf]:
http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/2011/08/the-end-of-the-job-the-end-of-the-corporation-as-we-know-it.html
"Social Class as Culture":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/08/social-class-as-culture/
"3D Printed Koopa Shell RC Cars from Mario Kart Made on a Makerbot":
http://replicatorinc.com/blog/2011/08/3d-printed-koopa-shell-rc-cars-from-mario-kart-made-on-a-makerbot/
"Brain-Computer Interface for Disabled People to Control Second Life
With Thought Available Commercially Next Year":
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/08/brain-computer-interface-second-life.html
"Occult Map Of New York":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/08/occult-map-of-new-york/
2011-8-15
"BART Pulls a Mubarak in San Francisco":
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/bart-pulls-mubarak-san-francisco
"BART statement on killing wireless service in stations on Aug. 11, in
anticipation of civil unrest":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/cTIadF8IQv4/bart-statement-on-killing-wireless-service-in-stations-on-aug-11-in-anticipation-of-civil-unrest.html
"The Latest Entrant Into The Economically Clueless, Luddite 'Internet Is
Evil' Book Category":
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110815/00490015520/latest-entrant-into-economically-clueless-luddite-internet-is-evil-book-category.shtml
"When Will We Be Transhuman? Seven Conditions for Attaining Transhumanism":
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/07/16/when-will-we-be-transhuman-seven-conditions-for-attaining-transhumanism/
"How computational complexity will revolutionize philosophy":
http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-computational-complexity-will-revolutionize-philosophy
"Composite allows you to remix your surroundings to create artistic
compositions. Inspired by the collages of Robert Rauschenbergs":
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2011/08/new-james-alliban-art-app/
"Can you quantify love?":
http://quantifiedself.com/2011/08/2179/
"Tin Foil Hats Actually Enable Mind Control":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/08/do-tin-foil-hats-really-block-mind-control/
2011-8-16
"The moment someone with $45 billion dollars volunteers to be taxed over
here on his paltry income, you can bet its because they dont want you
looking over there at their accumulated wealth.":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/08/should-there-be-a-tax-on-wealth/
"$80 Android Phone Sells Like Hotcakes in Kenya, the World Next?":
http://singularityhub.com/2011/08/16/80-android-phone-sells-like-hotcakes-in-kenya-the-world-next/
Skin circuits [via absolutely everyone]:
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/333186/title/Computers_get_under_our_skin_
"Art, Revolution and Ownership: Cory Doctorow @ SIGGRAPH":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/newsgrist/underbelly/~3/-q6GqtZKovQ/art-revolution-and-ownership-cory-doctorow-siggraph.html
"Generated Spaceships":
http://fabbaloo.com/blog/2011/8/15/generated-spaceships.html
"3D Printed Model of a Virus Self Assembles When Shaken":
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/08/3d-printed-model-of-a-virus-self-assembles-when-shaken.html
"Food prices could hit tipping point for global unrest":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-08/16/food-price-threshold
"sealulz":
http://artsagainstcuts.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/sealulz
2011-8-20
A Google insider on Real Names. Guess whether they use their real name
or not:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/110295984969329522620/posts/ExKJZgBAYxM
"NYM WARS":
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/08/nym-wars/
"Why Real Names Policies Are Wrong":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/08/why-online-real-names-policies-are-wrong/
"#OpBart : BART Police database hacked by Anonymous":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~3/8O16f_OKTHE/opbart-bart-police-database-hacked-by.html
"BART Police website hacker had no previous experience":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ClV2Cctk5IQ/bart-police-website-hacker-had-no-previous-experience.html
"How does the FBI investigate Anonymous?":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/uZH4v74U-KQ/how-does-the-fbi-investigate-anonymous.html
"Generative Art: A Practical Guide [Books, Processing]":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/creativeapplicationsnet/~3/29Snjf35zaY/
"Non-profit Group Releases Open Source Mesh WiFi Network Software":
http://hothardware.com/News/Nonprofit-Group-Releases-Open-Source-WiFi-Software/
"Apparently the police in Long Beach, California, have a policy that
says if a police officer determines that a photographer is taking photos
of something with 'no apparent esthetic value,' they can detain them.":
http://theartlawblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/apparently-police-in-long-beach.html
"MTV explains the Internet in 1995":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/SeLKhD9bP0Q/mtv-explains-the-internet-in-1995.html
2011-8-23
"Digital natives need help understanding search":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/tvHiyl4HP-Q/digital-natives-need-help-understanding-search.html
Anti-nanotech terrorism:
http://waronsociety.noblogs.org/post/2011/08/15/mexico-individualists-tending-toward-the-wild-claim-responsibility-for-package-bomb-that-wounded-two-professors-full-communique/
"Combining Extreme Distrust and Spastic Bursts of Blind Faith What New
Edge Culture has to say about Todays Schizophrenic Information Society":
http://www.acceler8or.com/2011/08/combining-extreme-distrust-and-spastic-bursts-of-blind-faith%E2%80%A6-what-new-edge-culture-has-to-say-about-today%E2%80%99s-schizophrenic-information-society/
"Cities in Fact and Fiction: An Interview with William Gibson":
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=gibson-interview-cities-in-fact-and-fiction
Zero State:
http://zerostate.net/
"Beyond Human London, Sat 8th Oct":
http://humanityplus.org.uk/2011/08/21/beyond-human-london-sat-8th-oct/
"Glove-Mounted Sonar":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/makezineonline/~3/ANMIBTOkwjs/glove-mounted-sonar.html
2011-8-24
"Drones, Open Source Warfare, and Peak Armaments":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~3/9_ty_kLjzZg/23
"Does a terabyte of illegal downloads constitute art?" [no]:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-08/24/illegal-downloads-as-art
How to make conductive glue:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Conductive-Glue-And-Conductive-Thread-Make-an-LED/
"A changeable tattoo system with an electrically modifiable ink":
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,192,890.PN.&OS=PN/6,192,890&RS=PN/6,192,890
"Sensing with the brain":
http://web.archive.org/web/20070102093752/http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/005811.php
"So what's it like having magnetic vision?":
http://news.bmezine.com/2007/06/06/so-whats-it-like-having-magnetic-vision-bme-publishers-ring/
2011-9-2
"The Art of Burning Man (But Is It Art?)":
http://feeds.hyperallergic.com/~r/hyperallergic/~3/OeYScW24qfA/
"Visual Culture And Transhumanism":
http://singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com/visual-culture-and-transhumanism/
"Randal Koene on Substrate-Independent Minds":
http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/08/31/randal-koene-on-substrate-independent-minds/
"Stadium-sized artificial floating volcano aims to fix Earth's climate":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-09/02/volcano-climate
"minecraft in real life":
http://www.benpurdy.com/2011/08/minecraft-in-real-life/
Walt Disney's FLOSS!:
http://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/opensource.html
Trisquel GNU/Linux:
http://trisquel.info/
"Network analysis deflates Bitcoins anonymity myth":
http://www.technollama.co.uk/network-analysis-deflates-bitcoins-anonymity-myth
"Open source is illegal?" [in some countries]:
http://opensource.com/government/11/8/open-source-illegal
"Women fighters in reasonable armor":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/t_VZ-YpwxPQ/women-fighters-in-reasonable-armor.html
"Cyber Industrial Dance Tutorial: The Definitive Edition":
http://coilhouse.net/2011/08/cyber-industrial-dance-tutorial-the-definitive-edition/
2011-9-5
"An introduction to Crossplay (cosplay meets crossdressing)":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/eLd2Ek7-Ob4/an-introduction-to-crossplay-where-cosplay-meets-crossdressing.html
"Professor Behind Two Chatbots Chatting Discusses What Happened":
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110902/01512415775/professor-behind-two-chatbots-chatting-discusses-what-happened.shtml
"Heath Bunting and Annet Dekker in Conversation":
http://turbulence.org/blog/2011/08/31/heath-bunting-and-annet-dekker-in-conversation/
"Canadian Cyborg Documents The Reality Behind Todays Cyborg Tech":
http://singularityhub.com/2011/08/31/canadian-cyborg-documents-the-reality-behind-todays-cyborg-tech/
"GLI.TC/H 2011" [the excellent @hellocatfood is running the Birmingham
event]:
http://www.creativeapplications.net/events/gli-tch-2011-events/
"Tools For Art Are Getting Smarter. So Come Out And Play":
http://www.acceler8or.com/2011/08/tools-for-art-are-getting-smarter-so-come-out-and-play/
"Evolve Your Objects with Endless Forms":
http://fabbaloo.com/blog/2011/9/2/evolve-your-objects-with-endless-forms.html
"The Sexularity Is Near":
http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/09/02/where-are-you-sexularity/
2011-9-14
"Action Painting Redux [openFrameworks]":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/creativeapplicationsnet/~3/FUA8U56_uq4/
"Creativity is Vomit, Poison and Agony to Most":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/09/creativity-is-vomit-poison-and-agony-to-most/
"Term extension is a cultural disaster":
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2011/term-extension-is-a-cultural-disaster
"How ethical is the hacktivism of Anonymous? (or why DDos can be a
legitimate tactic)":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~3/9suS3HVPycI/11
Lectureleaks:
http://www.lectureleaks.com/about/
"An Algorithmic Future: Can Computers Curate?":
http://www.artfagcity.com/2011/09/09/an-algorithmic-future-can-computers-curate/
A 3D printed car:
http://fabbaloo.com/blog/2011/9/13/urbee-the-3d-printed-car.html
Forget fursuits, here's gendersuits [utterly, utterly, utterly unsafe
for work. I'm warning you.]:
http://www.rosesturn.net/femskin.html
2011-9-15
"Lisa Bufano: Dancer/Shapeshifter":
http://coilhouse.net/2011/09/lisa-bufano-dancershapeshifter/
"Art && Code [Events]":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/creativeapplicationsnet/~3/Q-SXBxRf0QY/
"Harnessing electricity from low-power sources in the environment":
http://www.kurzweilai.net/harnessing-electricity-from-low-power-sources-in-the-environment
"The Commons in Marxs Thinking: not what you think ":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~3/jl_WRC-2Grk/14
"Blackberry says would close messenger service in UK if ordered to at
times of civil unrest":
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/15/us-britain-riots-rim-idUSTRE78E3YB20110915
"Team plans to re-contact Britain's 1971 self-launched satellite":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-09/06/uk-satellite-revival-plans
"People Staring at Computers: the discreet gaze of the commodities":
http://www.neural.it/art/2011/09/people_staring_at_computers_th.phtml
"Google patents a glove for seeing with your hand":
http://www.kurzweilai.net/google-patents-a-glove-for-seeing-with-your-hand
"Female orgasm remains an evolutionary mystery" [straight male
scientists remain clueless]:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-09/07/female-orgasm
2011-9-16
Ada Lovelace Day, 7th October 2011:
http://findingada.com/
"LibDems get to vote on copyright reform, but who inserted the clause
saying downloading should be a criminal act?":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/5dATpBghFOw/libdems-get-to-vote-on-copyright-reform-but-who-inserted-the-clause-saying-downloading-should-be-a-criminal-act.html
A deservedly scorched-earth review of O'Reilly's "Gamification" book:
http://gamification-research.org/2011/09/a-quick-buck-by-copy-and-paste/
Industrial Revolution 2.0 at the V&A:
http://fabbaloo.com/blog/2011/9/15/industrial-revolution-20.html
"SkyNET quadrocopter hacks your Wi-Fi from the rooftops":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-09/13/skynet-drone
Is New Media Art being accepted by the mainstream or something:
http://www.artfagcity.com/2011/09/06/edward-a-shanken-on-is-new-media-accepted-in-the-art-world/
2011-9-26
"UK free and open source art exhibit":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/k0CcORA5As0/uk-free-and-open-source-art-exhibit.html
"Furtherfield: Collaboration and Freedom":
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2011/09/furtherfield-collaboration-and-freedom/
"Libre Graphics Magazine 1.3 is out":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LGWNews/~3/Zx9Evki15-A/news.php
"Gun Part on Thingiverse":
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:11669
"Proscribed Printables":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/makezineonline/~3/2rdAWTCLHFc/proscribed-printables.html
"Showing electronics in public? Be careful!":
http://arduino.cc/blog/2011/09/20/showing-electronics-in-public-be-careful/
"Electronics for children and artists":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/makezineonline/~3/sJKtcjGOxIs/littlebits-launches-at-maker-faire.html
"My Hippocampus is Bigger than Yours":
http://www.acceler8or.com/2011/09/my-hippocampus-is-bigger-than-yours/
2011-10-8
"Dulux and Unicef invite you to name a colour":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-09/29/dulux-unicef-colour
"/b/audrillard: Did the Internet Kill Postmodernism?":
http://www.artfagcity.com/2011/10/03/baudrillard-did-the-internet-kill-postmodernism/
Bitcoin coins! Via Chris Webber (who also suggests *chocolate* bitcoins,
which would be even better):
http://www.btcnn.com/2011/09/casascius-physical-bitcoins.html
"Andy Warhol's Apple Macintosh print":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/O8rxL98gpl8/andy-warhol.html
"The Alpha Dog Is Out of Its Cage New Walking Robot From Boston
Dynamics Destined For Battle?":
http://singularityhub.com/2011/10/07/alpha-dog-robot-will-carry-heavy-loads-into-battle-military-mules-keep-getting-bigger-and-better/
"prostheticknowledge: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet via...":
http://churchofcyberpunk.tumblr.com/post/11147180129
"Metadata for millions of cultural works will be published under CC0":
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/29421
"Europes national librarians support opening up their data via CC0":
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/29386
"Cynthia, The First Artificial-Human Celebrity":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/10/cynthia-the-first-artificial-human-celebrity/
"Women of the Future, 1902":
http://coilhouse.net/2011/10/women-of-the-future-1902/
2011-10-11
"World of Free and Open Source Art for ACE and P2P Foundation":
http://digitalcritic.org/2011/10/world-of-free-and-open-source-art-for-ace-and-p2p-foundation/
"The Matrix is a remix":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/EEWhknGu_oY/the-matrix-is-a-remix.html
"Kickstarter project will launch hundreds of personal satellites into
space":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/10/kicksat
"how a painting was saved by a combination of eye-tracking technology,
Photoshop and conservation expertise":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2011/oct/03/vision-science-john-martin-destruction
"Chaos Computer Club cracks Germany's illegal government malware, a
trojan that spies on your PC and lets anyone off the street hijack it":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/xX0B3kPda34/chaos-computer-club-cracks-germanys-illegal-government-malware-a-trojan-that-spies-on-your-pc-and-lets-anyone-off-the-street-hijack-it.html
"The following article on police tactics is a mustread for those
involved in the #OccupyWallStreet movement.":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~3/XfVRCWZ5Ed0/11
"Censorware or child protection?" [censorship...]:
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2011/censorware-or-child-protection
"Steve Jobs Said LSD Was One Of The Most Important Things In His Life":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-said-lsd-was-one-of-the-most-important-things-in-his-life/
2011-10-14
"Visualization of the Week: Sentiment in the Bible":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/oreilly/radar/atom/~3/TPjngtJfegE/visualization-bible-sentiment.html
"Here is an absolutely mind-boggling quotation Prof. Werner lifted from
one of the most widely used undergraduate economics textbooks:
Including money in the models would only obscure the analysis"
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~3/_RQkWrf6UyU/14
"Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On":
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/thedennisritchieeffect/
"Supermans Biggest Fan Has Plastic Surgery To Resemble Superhero":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/10/supermans-biggest-fan-has-plastic-surgery-to-resemble-superhero/
"A Closed World: queer-friendly Flash game":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/UfFn2HrRp80/a-closed-world-queer-friendly-flash-game.html
I did say "now make art with it". First steps towards the
scan-modify-print loop:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/M4dPiHXHCFc/3d-printed-glitchy-tea-set.html
2011-10-16
Teledildonics shield for Arduino:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slashdong/qsOv/~3/G53_L16eP-A/
"A Plan For A Post-Labor America":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/10/a-plan-for-a-post-labor-america/
Close your bank account, get arrested:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/nL5OfVs1JP8/close-your-citibank-account-at-occupywallst-get-arrested.html
"The Social Return on Professions: bankers destroy 7 of social value
for every pound they generate":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~3/m6-sX0rwBhg/12
"German state admits spying on citizens with trojan software":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/12/german-state-spying-software
"Facebook Says Some of Your Personal Data Is Its 'Trade Secrets or
Intellectual Property'":
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2011/10/facebook-says-some-of-your-personal.html
"DRM serves as piracy incentive, study finds":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/10/drm-piracy-incentive
"Occupy Wall Street Adds Second Life as a Protest Spot - And Why It's a
Legitimate Place to Rally":
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-second-life.html
"Why Education Startups Do Not Succeed":
http://avichal.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/why-education-startups-do-not-succeed/
2011-10-18
"an open source cognitive humanoid robotic platform":
http://www.icub.org/
"The Real Role Of Anonymous At Occupy Wall Street":
http://www.fastcompany.com/1788397/the-real-role-of-anonymous-at-occupy-wall-street
"Five Demands To Rein In Wall Street":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/10/five-demands-for-reining-in-wall-street/
"Bitcoin's value falls to 10 percent of June peak":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/18/bottom-drops-out-of-bitcoin
"'British Cinema's Golden Age Is Now': So Where's The 'Serious Problem'
Of Copyright Infringement?":
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111016/07023116375/british-cinemas-golden-age-is-now-so-wheres-serious-problem-copyright-infringement.shtml
"Arse Elektronika: Come for science!":
http://monochrom.at/blog/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=1628&blogId=1
"Glitches in The Technology of Orgasm":
http://mindhacks.com/2011/10/17/glitches-in-the-technology-of-orgasm/
2011-10-19
Art Student Owl -
http://memegenerator.net/Art-Student-Owl
Be afraid, be very afraid. Krauss is back -
http://www.galleristny.com/2011/10/rosalind-krauss%E2%80%99s-brain-the-combative-academic-is-back-with-a-new-book/1/
"PlaceKitten will generate a placeholder kitten of any size" -
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/19/placekitten-web-design
"netwurker_mez + her cardboard avatar [who might be made up of Boxes,
but is *not* Boxxy]." -
http://netwurker.livejournal.com/134629.html
"New Early Release from OReilly: Making Things See (Kinect, Processing,
and Arduino)" -
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/makezineonline/~3/rPf2A_vX1og/new-early-release-from-oreilly-making-things-see-kinect-processing-and-arduino.html
"24 year old student lights match: Europe versus Facebook" -
http://www.identityblog.com/?p=1201
"Price of Bitcoin Still Dropping" -
http://www.betabeat.com/2011/10/17/price-of-bitcoin-still-dropping-falls-below-the-price-of-mining/
2011-10-20
"The World's First Bitcoin Conference":
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/the-worlds-first-bitcoin-conference/0
"Demystifying #OccupyWallStreets Arts and Culture Meetings":
http://feeds.hyperallergic.com/~r/hyperallergic/~3/czkH7Ds82gU/
"How Will We Know If Our Warhols Are Real?!":
http://feeds.hyperallergic.com/~r/hyperallergic/~3/6n1tUCzvImw/
"Rome, Sweet Rome: movie that started as a Reddit comment bought by
Warner Bros":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/17/reddit-movie
"Free Bieber: campaign to kill proposed law that would send you to
prison for 5 years for singing copyrighted music on YouTube":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/JqoOEcvGmeE/free-bieber-campaign-to-kill-proposed-law-that-would-send-you-to-prison-for-5-years-for-singing-copyrighted-music-on-youtube.html
How not to not review an event:
http://www.metamute.org/en/articles/rewire_yourself
2011-10-23
Chris Ashley is better than Cory Arcangel because:
http://looksee.chrisashley.net/?p=7097
Lego Patent Expires:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HFA/~3/b4lTOg-cFbk/meanwhile-lego-patent-expired.html
"Will Librarians Revolt Over Amazons Kindle Lending Program?":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/10/will-librarians-revolt-over-amazons-kindle-lending-program/
"ACLU: FBI practicing racial profiling on an "industrial scale"":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/l5mSqH0VMQg/aclu-fbi-practicing.html
"Game Theory & The Occupy Movement":
http://www.patternsinthevoid.net/blog/2011/10/game-theory-the-occupy-movement/
"Performance and Social Networking in Digital Art CFP":
http://turbulence.org/blog/2011/10/22/performance-and-social-networking-in-digital-art/
"Ace of Zeroes: Warning Signs For Tomorrow":
http://churchofcyberpunk.tumblr.com/post/11750523489
Teledildonic flashback (NSFW):
http://churchofcyberpunk.tumblr.com/post/11792005878
2011-10-29
"A survey of UK art blogs":
http://www.criticismism.com/2011/10/26/canvasing-views-a-survey-of-uk-art-blogs/
"Saif Gaddafi's paintings":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/V7eLBvIgRNs/saif-gaddafis-paintings.html
"Senseless Drawing Bot is Senseless":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/makezineonline/~3/g8bO8w0ek68/senseless-drawing-bot-is-senseless.html
Saving hermit crabs by crowdsourcing 3D printed shells:
http://fabbaloo.com/blog/2011/10/28/3d-printed-crabs.html
Giant prehistoric squid were the first artists:
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/10/did-prehistoric-giant-squid-make-art-from-reptile-bones/
"We have to create culture, dont watch TV, dont read magazines, dont
even listen to NPR. Create...":
http://churchofcyberpunk.tumblr.com/post/11857806804
The never-ending circle of creative woe:
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/gemmacorrell/6286086586
2011-10-30
Envisioning emerging technology for 2012 and beyond:
http://envisioningtech.com/envisioningtech.png
"Propaganda 2.0 and the Rise of Narrative Networks":
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/4934
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=fd625a4022ec38fde2a8f6f1f4628395&tab=core&_cview=0
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/darpa-science-propaganda/
"Inside Facebook's massive cyber-security system":
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21095-inside-facebooks-massive-cybersecurity-system.html
"The Chapmans scabrous nihilism, their esoteric mix of anti-humanist
and post-humanist pop-theorising, has never really shocked":
http://blog.jjcharlesworth.com/2011/10/20/jake-dinos-chapman-jake-or-dinos-chapman/
"The LMAX Architecture":
http://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html?t=1319912579
"Of mice and academics: Examining the effect of openness on innovation":
http://acawiki.org/Of_mice_and_academics:_Examining_the_effect_of_openness_on_innovation
"An empirical test of the anti-commons hypothesis":
http://acawiki.org/Do_formal_intellectual_property_rights_hinder_the_free_flow_of_scientific_knowledge%3F_An_empirical_test_of_the_anti-commons_hypothesis
T-800 on Twitter:
http://churchofcyberpunk.tumblr.com/post/12037263222/happinesswarmgun-twitter-t-800
2011-11-1
Go back in time with Yahoo! maps:
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/11/travel-back-in-time-with-yahoo-maps/
"ariybitez:High School Students Crowned Americas First Lesbian...":
http://churchofcyberpunk.tumblr.com/post/12191527766
"The year 2011 marks the end of the End of History":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~3/zTwV5RBnbQA/31
"Open Data in Cultural Heritage: Finding your way through the license
labyrinth, London, 24th November 2011":
http://blog.okfn.org/2011/11/01/open-data-in-cultural-heritage-finding-your-way-through-the-license-labyrinth-london-24th-november-2011/
"The right to dual-boot: Linux groups plead case prior to Windows 8 launch":
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/10/the-right-to-dual-boot-linux-groups-plead-case-prior-to-windows-8-launch.ars
Using technology to protest against an online art project:
http://www.artfagcity.com/2011/11/01/a-cheap-grab-for-exposure-occupy-the-internet-exhibition/
"Authority Creates Stupidity":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~3/4jHKdIEhe7M/01
"St Paul's Cathedral drops eviction effort against OccupyLondon;
almighty Corporation of London plows ahead"
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/lxCb-ZTLxOE/st-pauls-cathedral-drops-eviction-effort-against-occupylondon-almighty-corporation-of-london-plows-ahead.html
"Germany To Put Special Monitoring Software On School Computers To
Search For Infringement":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/cBoI/~3/3S-VBfzogbM/germany-to-put-special-monitoring.html
"Is that a Donald Judd or Cheap Furniture?":
http://feeds.hyperallergic.com/~r/hyperallergic/~3/DFipOaMrG1Y/
2011-11-7
"Drapetomania was a supposed mental illness described by American
physician Samuel A. Cartwright in 1851 that caused black slaves to flee
captivity":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania
"Brain washing in post-war London":
http://mindhacks.com/2009/04/02/brain-washing-in-post-war-london
"The Conet Project - Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations":
http://www.archive.org/details/ird059
Eye tracking viewer responses to paintings:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2011/oct/03/eyetracking-viewers-john-martin-painting
"The Richard Prince Appeal: A Compendium":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/newsgrist/underbelly/~3/hY6kIPy8pp8/the-richard-prince-appeal-a-compendium.html
Art Data at The Data Hub:
http://thedatahub.org/group/art
The story of the first tweet from space:
http://stories.twitter.com/en/1/mike_massimino.html
Logistics, Apple's secret weapon:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/apples-supplychain-secret-hoard-lasers-11032011.html
Mesh networking for freedom:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/11/the-darknet-plan-netroots-activists-dream-of-global-mesh-network.ars
A smiley slider in HTML5:
http://glittle.org/blog/smiley-slider/
2011-11-9
The potential of geodata for the humanities:
http://earlymoderncommunities.com/home/interviews-2/ian-gregory-gis-can-reframe-your-questions/
A freely available 5 billion web page index dataset:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/common_crawl_foundation_announces_5_billion_page_w.php
The social graph is neither:
http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/
Bye-bye college degree:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-09/winds-of-economic-change-blow-away-college-degree-peter-orszag.html
Trends in movie poster design:
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/64047251.html
Harvard student believes "maximizing economic efficiency" isn't ideological:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/occupy-harvard-students-protest-class-by-famed-econ-professor-by-staging-walkout/
2011-11-13
Of course animated GIFs can be art:
http://churchofcyberpunk.tumblr.com/post/12718121515
"Are coders obliged to explain themselves?" Ask unreflective humanities
managerialists, secure in the certainty of their virtue:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DHNowEditorsChoice/~3/FRX0smhiDuc/
It's wrong when visitors do it, but not when sponsors do it:
http://feeds.hyperallergic.com/~r/hyperallergic/~3/ur9nin6z-YI/
"The Art of Hacking: An Art Exhibit":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/makezineonline/~3/NMJnYcBxQTE/the-art-of-hacking-an-art-exhibit.html
"How Virtual Private Networks keep Occupy Wall Street communicating":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~3/UWD5yH8WcYs/12
"Anonymous Takes On the Muslim Brotherhood (Video)":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/11/anonymous-takes-on-the-muslim-brotherhood-video/
"Scotland Yard arrest EDL members over alleged plot to attack Occupy
London":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/tUNR1Dg2J7U/scotland-yard-arrest-edl-membe.html
Ethics is the normatization of power:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/uIPmChewa0w/james-murdoch-the-first-maf.html
If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every
woman in Africa would be a millionaire.:
http://churchofcyberpunk.tumblr.com/post/12685932130
"How Much of the Economy is Friction?":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~3/VLGxLxCX4FI/11
"Where Does The Law Stand On Selling Haunted Houses?":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/11/where-does-the-law-stand-on-selling-haunted-houses/
2011-11-14
"'Nudge' policies are another name for coercion":
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228376.500-nudge-policies-are-another-name-for-coercion.html
"Secret documents reveal the flimsy case for Ofcom to give into BBC's
public TV DRM demands":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/1sGcHATStcQ/secret-documents-reveal-the-fl.html
"Copyright in Open Source Software - Understanding the Boundaries":
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20111110163408389
"On releasing museum data and the importance of licenses":
http://openobjects.blogspot.com/2011/11/on-releasing-museum-data-and-importance.html
"Hacks and hackers gather to write the first Data Journalism Handbook":
http://blog.okfn.org/2011/11/14/hacks-and-hackers-gather-to-write-the-first-data-journalism-handbook/
"Open Data Day a project Id like to be doing":
http://blog.okfn.org/2011/11/14/open-data-day-a-project-id-like-to-be-doing/
"ColorHug: Open Source Display Colorimeter":
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/11/colorhug-open-source-display-colorimeter.html
"A device to read your mind or not?":
http://arduino.cc/blog/2011/11/14/a-device-to-read-your-mind-or-not/
"Generating Text from Functional Brain Images":
http://www.frontiersin.org/human_neuroscience/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00072/full
"The free will rebellion":
http://mindhacks.com/2011/11/14/the-free-will-rebellion/
2011-11-19
We can stop using computers now. Hockney's here:
http://www.rom.on.ca/hockney/
"Can Sedition create a marketplace for digital limited edition art?":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-11/17/sedition-digital-art
"Why are original artworks valued more than identical duplicates?":
http://theartlawblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/why-are-original-artworks-valued-more.html
"Artist evades nude censorship with smartphone QR code":
http://blog.drawn.ca/post/12972808994
"The Occupy Wall Street API":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/RjXXoy6QlAE/the-occupy-wall-street-api.html
"motherjones: UC Davis police officer pepper sprays sitting...":
http://churchofcyberpunk.tumblr.com/post/13012625062
"Bankers Undemocratically Installed As Heads Of Italy And Greece":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/11/bankers-undemocratically-installed-as-heads-of-italy-and-greece/
"CIA Admits Total Monitoring of Facebook and Twitter":
http://churchofcyberpunk.tumblr.com/post/12871439312
"Mapping Wikipedia: Geolocated Articles as a Proxy of Culture and
Attention":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DHNowEditorsChoice/~3/QRp8-Nn15aI/
"Open source tool to evaluate redistricting proposals and stop
gerrymandering":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/sTzkTzYdW4c/open-source-tool-to-evaluate-r.html
2011-11-21
"The Quest To Invent A Sarcasm Detector":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/11/the-quest-to-invent-a-sarcasm-detector/
The cost of everything:
http://flowingdata.com/2011/11/21/xkcd-money-chart/
"Britain's Occupy movement picks up steam":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/9Eh6sGjJnJ0/britains-occupy-movement-pic.html
"Pepper Spray Cop Meme Walks Through Art History":
http://feeds.hyperallergic.com/~r/hyperallergic/~3/dE-LJ39ypU8/
"One day after pepper-spraying, UC Davis students silently, peacefully
confront Chancellor Katehi":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/h2LjXOUNCVU/one-day-after-pepper-spraying.html
"Clayton Christensen on Short-Sighted Pursuit of Profits":
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/11/18/clayton-christensen-how-pursuit-of-profits-kills-innovation-and-the-us-economy/
A response to the moral panic against Digital Humanities:
http://packets.jeanbauer.com/2011/11/03/who-you-calling-untheoretical/
A fun example of Digital Humanities visualization:
http://ragb.ag/post/12801647432/facebook-for-the-characters-of-19th-century
And a more reflexive example:
https://dhs.stanford.edu/comprehending-the-digital-humanities/
"Book of the Week Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~3/7JJaEXLJUIQ/21
"Walking through doorways causes forgetting, new research shows":
http://www.kurzweilai.net/walking-through-doorways-causes-forgetting-new-research-shows
"Miskatonic Monday - How to summon Cthulhu and the Great Old Ones with
magnetic poetry":
http://www.dieselpunks.org/xn/detail/3366493:BlogPost:166380
2011-11-23
"When students covered their eyes with their clothing, police forced
open their mouths and pepper-sprayed down their throats. Several of
these students were hospitalized. Others are seriously injured. One of
them, forty-five minutes after being pepper-sprayed down his throat,
was still coughing up blood.":
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/uc-davis-professor-demands-chancellor-resign-over-pepper-spraying-of-students/news/2011/11/19/30450
The psychology of pepper spray:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/R_UhviR744o/psychology-of-pepper-spray.html
"If this is how our government handles people, then we need to address
this… They’re treating us like roaches by spraying us like this,":
https://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/nov2011/davi-n23.shtml
Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band/1.3% Blue Band
Pepper Spray Amazon Reviews
http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Technology-56895-Stream-Pepper/dp/B0058EOAUE/
"UC Davis course catalog, pepper spray edition":
http://jayrosen.tumblr.com/post/13174138991/excerpt-from-uc-davis-2010-2012-general-catalog
"Get a job!":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/eNIel_TLl6M/get-a-job.html
"Run Tor as a bridge in the Amazon Cloud" [because Amazon worked out
sooo well for Wikileaks]:
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/run-tor-bridge-amazon-cloud
"Engineers take first step towards augmented-reality contact lenses":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-11/22/augmented-reality-contact
"Infoporn: Yup, Oxbridge is still running the country":
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/12/start/infoporn-oxbridge
"The Illuminati Pop Music Conspiracy Featuring Eminem, Gaga, Jay-Z…":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/11/the-illuminati-pop-music-conspiracy-featuring-eminem-gaga-jay-z/
2011-12-3
It makes better economic sense to give music away for free than to
stream it via a third party service:
http://derekwebb.tumblr.com/post/13503899950/giving-it-away-how-free-music-makes-more-than-sense
Landlords use computers to calculate rents:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/30/realestate/commercial/landlords-use-computers-to-arrive-at-the-right-rental-fee.html
"2012 London Olympics Causes Artist Rents to Skyrocket":
http://feeds.hyperallergic.com/~r/hyperallergic/~3/t1dErfhTtds/
"Why map data sometimes matters":
http://tom.acrewoods.net/2011/12/01/why-map-data-sometimes-matters/
"Robotics Meets Architecture 50 Quadcopters Will Autonomously Build
Twenty Foot Tower (Video)":
http://singularityhub.com/2011/12/01/robotics-meets-architecture-%e2%80%93-50-quadcopters-will-autonomously-build-twenty-foot-tower-video/
"Surreal Yugoslavian Sci-Fi Art from the 70s/80s":
http://coilhouse.net/2011/11/surreal-yugoslavian-sci-fi-art-from-the-70s80s/
Living cells made from metal mmmmhhhhmmmmm (via churchofcyberpunk):
http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/stories/scientist-creates-lifelike-cells-out-of-metal
"MAFIAAFire team's latest browser plugin beats the national firewalls of
Britain, USA, and China":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/3oGksI20CS4/mafiaafire-teams-latest-brow.html
2011-12-6
The personal computer is dead:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2011/11/30_zittrain-the-personal-computer-is-dead.html
Free hardware blueprints for civilisation:
http://c4sif.org/2011/12/marcin-jakubowski-open-sourced-blueprints-for-civilization/
Free hardware DNA scanner:
http://openpcr.org/2011/07/dna-is-now-diy-openpcr-ships-worldwide/
About that bail out...:
http://pubrecord.org/nation/8622/pentagon-papers-wall-street/?mid=546426
Europe must break free of debt serfdom:
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec11/euro-debt-serfdom12-11.html
2011-12-13
Bruce Sterling on my review of White Heat Cold Logic (disclosure: my
review :-) ):
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2011/12/white-heat-cold-logic/
UK police to test laser than temporarily blinds people. What could
possibly go wrong?:
http://new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/post/14125901517
"A tale of two worlds: Apocalypse, 4Chan, WikiLeaks and the silent
protocol wars":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~3/2HNNf27fikc/12
"Why Wireless Meshworks dont work at scale":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~3/3zY0tC8oo4s/09
"For Virtual Art to Gain Recognition With the Wider Art World, Must It
Be More Commercial -- and Physical?":
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/12/can-metaverse-art-gain-larger-credibility.html
Creative Commons are revising their licences. Get involved with deciding
how they should be changed!:
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/30676
"No Copyright Intended":
http://waxy.org/2011/12/no_copyright_intended/
Remember how the Digital Humanities lack narrative, theory and critique?
Here's a visualization of Bach:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/oreilly/radar/atom/~3/WGjB3-RWbK0/visualization-bach-cello-suites.html
"Cyberpunk 2.0":
http://www.technollama.co.uk/cyberpunk-2-0
"The Evils Of A World Filled With Touchscreens":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/12/the-evils-of-a-world-filled-with-touchscreens/
2011-12-18
"8 Technical Methods That Make the PROTECT IP Act Useless":
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/95013/8-technical-methods-that-make-the-protect-ip-act-useless/
"In case SOPA passes: emergency list of IP addresses for popular websites":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/2kXtv8llLsE/in-case-sopa-passes-emergency.html
"the purpose of SOPA is to close the loop, and allow the oligarchy to
shut down hostile coordinating sites as and when the anticipated
revolution kicks off. Piracy/copyright is a distraction":
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/12/seasonal-flame-bait.html
"U.S.-Funded Internet Liberation Project Finds Perfect Test Site: Occupy
D.C.":
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/internet-suitcase-dc/all/1
"Meet the 'Ikea anarchists'":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/15/ikea-anarchists-derritorial-support-group
"Why Do People Defend Unjust, Inept, and Corrupt Systems?":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/12/why-do-people-defend-unjust-inept-and-corrupt-systems/
"The Next Thing - Art in the 21st Century":
http://www.tnt-thenextthing.com/The_Next_Thing/Home.html
"Apps Are Too Much Like 1990s CDROMs and Not Enough Like The Web":
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AppsAreTooMuchLike1990sCDROMsAndNotEnoughLikeTheWeb.aspx
"Male privilege vs. women in gaming":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/gptm7TG97KI/male-privilege-vs-women-in-ga.html
"Donate to the Ada Initiative":
https://donate.adainitiative.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=1
"The best way to get value from data is to give it away":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/datablog/2011/dec/13/eu-open-government-data
2011-12-19
Program In PostScript!:
http://www.anastigmatix.net/postscript/direct.html
Learn the command line!:
http://learncodethehardway.org/cli/
Make a homebrew 3D scanner!:
http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/FabScan
monb科学省:
http://monbjp.tumblr.com/#13824587357
"Crafting a New Counterculture: The XFF Inside Scoop":
https://queersingularity.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/crafting-a-new-counterculture-the-xff-inside-scoop/
What could possibly go wrong with personal devices broadcasting your
identity to everyone in range?:
http://magnetu.com/
"What Is Security Culture?":
http://destroycreateagitate.tumblr.com/post/13732044581
The Crypto Project:
https://crypto.is/
Personal cloud computing:
http://owncloud.org/
Shannon's original essay on communication:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pdf
2011-12-20
"The Matrix"-style skill uploads:
http://dvice.com/archives/2011/12/an-mri-machine.php
"Cheap electronic skin edges us closer to cyberpunk future":
http://churchofcyberpunk.tumblr.com/post/14307583829
A version of MySQL that operates on encrypted data:
http://css.csail.mit.edu/cryptdb/
A Firefox extension to work-around SOPA:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/desopa/
"Ideas for openphilosophy.org":
http://blog.okfn.org/2011/12/20/ideas-for-openphilosophy-org/
"Extreme Futurist Festival: TED conference for the counterculture":
http://www.kurzweilai.net/extreme-futurist-festival-ted-conference-for-the-counterculture
An AR tattoo would be better:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/jN1q1AARd6s/the-random-tattoo.html
Google Earth glitches:
http://new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/post/14460091306
"Guerrilla Grafters make San Francisco's trees more fruitful":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-12/19/guerrilla-grafters
"Big crime meets big data":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/oreilly/radar/atom/~3/MSJKQPNfW_I/marc-goodman-data-crime.html
"Swiss Government Study: Online Piracy Benefits Artists":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/12/swiss-government-study-online-piracy-benefits-artists/
"The Long Nineties":
http://frieze.com/issue/article/the-long-nineties/
2011-12-23
"Simulation and Its Discontents, by Sherry Turkle":
http://new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/post/14667372319
"Generator.x 3.0: From Code to Atoms":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/generatorx/~3/H2HjASgE14k/
"3D printers as teleporters":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/IF7zJ1fJv0I/3d-printers-as-teleporters.html
"SOPA bans Tor, the US Navy's censorship-busting technology":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/jOeL21wH-Kg/sopa-bans-tor-the-us-navys.html
"Artist Resale Royalties: Do They Help or Hurt?":
http://theartlawblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/artist-resale-royalties-do-they-help-or.html
"Public Sculpture Is Latest Victim of Scrap Metal Theft Epidemic":
http://feeds.hyperallergic.com/~r/hyperallergic/~3/lR8AyLubWdw/
"The Citigroup Plutonomy Memos: Bombshell Documents That Detail the Rule
of the 1 Percent":
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/12/the-citigroup-plutonomy-memos-bombshell-documents-that-detail-the-rule-of-the-1-percent/
"Bitcoin's comeback: should Western Union be afraid?":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-12/22/bitcoin-comeback
Hacking a licence plate spycam:
http://churchofcyberpunk.tumblr.com/post/14657800208/youranonnews-how-to-hack-a-traffic-camera
"William Gibson and Timothy Leary in conversation, 1989":
http://www.acceler8or.com/2011/12/gibson-leary-audio-mondo-2000-history-project/
2011-12-24
"Teleporting Yourself to Dinner":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/makezineonline/~3/XaU5kQR5R40/teleporting-yourself-to-dinner.html
"Printrbot Hits The Jackpot":
http://fabbaloo.com/blog/2011/12/22/printrbot-hits-the-jackpot.html
"Augmented Reality with Processing [Tutorial, Processing]":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/creativeapplicationsnet/~3/C7TKC_AFt74/
"Are experiential, experimental forms of music and dance beyond
protection by copyright?":
http://script-ed.org/?p=83
"Women Want To Hack!":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/makezineonline/~3/g3_qcjbWiTQ/women-that-want-to-hack.html
"Mozilla releases Learning, Freedom & the Web (e)book":
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31107
"EU proposes the world's largest ever cultural funding program.":
http://theartlawblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/if-scheme-is-approved-estimated-300000.html
"Social network shutdowns during times of disorder not justified, MPs say":
http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2011/december/social-network-shutdowns-during-times-of-disorder-not-justified-mps-say/
Why not the Salvation Army:
http://churchofcyberpunk.tumblr.com/post/13926045296/why-you-shouldnt-donate-to-the-salvation-army-bell
NORAD Track Santa (they've already spotted him!):
http://www.noradsanta.org/en/
2011-12-28
The limits of perception:
http://abstrusegoose.com/421
The RepRap food printer:
http://fabbaloo.com/blog/2011/12/28/the-reprap-food.html
"A personal goodbye to steampunk":
http://nefferlemort.tumblr.com/post/14855726975/a-personal-goodbye-to-steampunk
The Twitter sleuths behind Truthy,:
http://new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/post/14897190553
"The Coming War on General Purpose Computation":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/A3-xchIDqVA/the-coming-war-on-general-purp.html
"More Details On Drug Cartel's Clandestine Communications Network":
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/27/1346220/more-details-on-drug-cartels-clandestine-communications-network
"Cybercriminals Now Using Public Social Networks...":
http://churchofcyberpunk.tumblr.com/post/14913534587
"Anonymous denies Stratfor hack":
http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/60413-anonymous-denies-stratfor-hack
"Twitter is really just lowering the resolution of the real world..."
[This is an observation that is key to understanding why social media is
such a boon for AI and Artificial Affectivities]:
http://new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/post/14917731178
"Yet Another Study Shows That Weaker Copyright Benefits Everyone":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~3/Gj-KgtviOxs/27
2011-12-29
New Harold Cohen site! Still no source code ;-) :
http://www.aaronshome.com/
Eighty years before the BBC got hacked live on air:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228440.700-dotdashdiss-the-gentleman-hackers-1903-lulz.html
Why you should use the GPL rather than a permissive licence:
http://churchofcyberpunk.tumblr.com/post/14962950822
"a critique of resistance as sufficient politics":
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~3/6PBzfGFV67g/29
"The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value":
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/11/28/maximizing-shareholder-value-the-dumbest-idea-in-the-world/
"Ill put millions of people on Mars, says Elon Musk":
http://www.kurzweilai.net/ill-put-millions-of-people-on-mars-says-elon-musk
"The mysterious nodding syndrome":
http://mindhacks.com/2011/12/28/the-mysterious-nodding-syndrome/
Psychogeophysics:
http://psychogeophysics.org/
"Brain Privacy: Inner speech as the basis for artistic conceptualization
: Soviet psycholinguistics and semiotics of art":
http://churchofcyberpunk.tumblr.com/post/14849528869
"The 40 best Memes of 2011":
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/the-40-best-memes-of-2011
Links curated by Rob Myers.