Starship Stormtroopers
Starship Stormtroopers by Micheal Moorcock
Information Warfare - Part 1
Consider however the effects of connecting a Tazer into a wall socket LAN port, using a home built RJ-45 or BNC attachment. Fifty kiloVolts will punch through every isolation transformer on the…
Walter Benjamin’s Aura: Open Bookmarks and the future eBook | booktwo.org
Walter Benjamin’s Aura: Open Bookmarks and the future eBook | booktwo.org
Real-time heatmap example with Javascript
The following demo generates a real-time heatmap with javascript and the HTMLCanvas element depending on the user s mouse movement. The heatmap is applied to the picture on the left.
‘Aliens have taken the place of angels’
Before the term “science fiction” appeared, in America in the 1930s, during the golden age of bug-eyed monsters and girls in brass brassieres, stories such as HG Wells’ The War of the Worlds were…
Iceland - Michael Schlegel
ProjectCollage
mattermedia
Research material and annotations: history and theory of art and media
Programming crowds
Both papers describe software that uses Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service to farm tasks out to human beings sitting at Internet-connected computers. The best-paper prize went to VizWiz, a cell-phone…
Slavoj Žižek · Can you give my son a job?
What we have in China isn’t simply a combination of a private capitalist economy and Communist political power. In one way or another, state and Party own the majority of China’s companies,…
Robot Invasion Welcomed in Japan
TOKYO — Could it be that the Japanese view of robots as friendly helpers — and not as the rebellious, violent machines that populate much of Western science fiction — is rooted in the Shinto…
Harold McGee’s ‘Keys To Good Cooking’ For Chefs
His latest book, the Keys to Good Cooking, is a how-to guide for home chefs in which McGee, a food science expert, explains techniques for kicking recipes up a few notches. McGee details why people…
The Corporate Intelligence Community
The robot that reads your mind to train itself
Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into…
Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into…
Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into…
Chris Berens "Microcosmos"
Dale Frank
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Making things hard to read ‘can boost learning’
Difficult-to-read fonts make for better learning, according to scientists. The finding is about to be published in the international journal Cognition.
Chris Berens “Leeuwenhart”
The Goat Rodeo Complex/Difficult situation scale
Please feel free to use the Goat Rodeo scale (“This is a 4th Degree Goat Rodeo problem”) when thinking about the scope and difficulty of problem areas. Note how many of the things we are struggling…
The Utopia Experiment
“We live in strange times, caught between two opposing views of the future. On the one hand, the believers in technology and progress promise a world of ever increasing prosperity, a science-fiction…
The other side of Dan Reisinger
Brothers Quay Shoot a Film at the Mütter Museum
THROUGH eyes as blank as a tilapia’s Stephen and Timothy Quay contemplate a world that is curious, doubtful, beastly and deranged. These identical twins, 63, have chronicled their world in more than…
The Zero G Coffee Cup
Astronaut Don Pettit invents a zero gravity cup to drink coffee, and anything else, in weightlessness.
Credit: NASA
»Mass Black Implosion (Iannis Xenakis ST/48 – 1, 240162 )«, 2007 by Marco Fusinato.
»Mass Black Implosion (Iannis Xenakis ST/48 – 1, 240162 )«, 2007 by Marco Fusinato.
»Untitled«, 2010 by Jorinde Voigt.
»Diatope Sketch«, 1978/1979 by Iannis Xenakis.
Affinity Diagramming
Affinity diagramming is a participatory method where concepts written on cards are sorted into related groups and sub-groups. The original intent of affinity diagramming was to help diagnose…
All About Polymorphics
Simon Ramo’s concept of “polymorphic” computing is laid out in stop-motion animation, accompanied by acoustic guitar. The film anticipates parallel, distributed processing and the architecture of…
The 64-degree poached eggs
Eggs cooked with an immersion circulator are not, strictly speaking, cooked sous vide, since they aren’t vacuum sealed. But they are an excellent candidate for the long-time/low-temperature approach…
Methods - Usability Body of Knowledge
Practitioners in usability and user-centered design (UCD) employ a wide range of methods for gathering information about users and their tasks, analyzing needs, creating design solutions, iterating…
1975: And the Changes To Come
1975: And the Changes To Come
Eggs Benedict Project - Kayahara
Benoit Mandelbrot the Maverick, 1924–2010
The world is mourning the loss of the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, who may have established a record by earning tenure at Yale in 1999, 75 years after his birth. (There’s an excellent older…
Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science
MUCH OF WHAT MEDICAL RESEARCHERS CONCLUDE IN THEIR STUDIES IS MISLEADING, EXAGGERATED, OR FLAT-OUT WRONG. SO WHY ARE DOCTORS—TO A STRIKING EXTENT—STILL DRAWING UPON MISINFORMATION IN THEIR EVERYDAY…
Why Rebel Groups Love the Toyota Hilux
Why rebels and insurgent groups the world over love the Toyota Hilux pickup as much as their AK-47s.
ANACHRONORM アナクロノーム: ANB–219
Website Aims to Keep Track of Politicians’ Promises
A new online tool aims to make it more difficult for politicians to renege on election promises. The Perpetually Public Data Project is an online archive of the websites of Senate and House hopefuls….
soviet moonlander
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russell davies: something something something
It’s hard to miss the missing future in science fiction. Zero History feels like it’s set in the past, actually last year, when we were all obsessed with tactical pants and I was still updating EBCB….
Edo-period medical illustration
Anatomical illustrations from Edo-period Japan
algorithmically-designed “DARPA Hoodie”
Several years ago, Otherlab’s Jonathan Bachrach and Saul Griffith, former BB guestblogger and MacArthur “Genius” received a DARPA grant to develop algorithms that convert 3D objects into 2D pattern…
Design Patterns between Free Software and Permaculture | fscons.org
Following an interdisciplinary approach to pattern languages, we’ll adventure in the discovery of Permaculture Principles in relationship to Free and Open Source Software development.
Design Patterns between Free Software and Permaculture | fscons.org
An observation on Drew Barrymore — rabbit hole ahead!
EU Oil dependence and Energy Mix
Without having hard numbers, this reliance on Oil is mainly due to the Transport sector, given that all the PIIGS have been modernizing their Electricity infrastructure and consolidating balanced…
Ghosts Of The Future: Borrowing Architecture From The Zone Of Alienation
GHOSTS OF THE FUTURE: BORROWING ARCHITECTURE FROM THE ZONE OF ALIENATION
Ghosts Of The Future: Borrowing Architecture From The Zone Of Alienation
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Stefano Mancuso | Profile on TED.com
Stefano Mancuso is a founder of the study of plant neurobiology, which explores signaling and communication at all levels of biological organization, from genetics to molecules, cells and ecological…
Which “Aesthetics” Do You Mean?
If you have this book in your hands, you’re most likely a creator or culture worker who, on any number of occasions, has been seized by the desire to wrestle the terms “aesthetic” and “aesthetics” to…
The Milosevics
The text for “The Milosevics” is an exact transcript of telephone conversations among members of the Milosevic family that were recorded in 1997 by Croatian intelligence agents and released in…
Delusions – Museum of Schizophrenia
Delusions is a museum of schizophrenia that offers guest a first hand experience into the life of someone who suffers from the disease. The experience is presented in an exaggerated yet entertaining,…
Global Survey of Early Warning Systems
Global Survey of Early Warning Systems - An assessment of capacities, gaps and opportunities towards building a comprehensive global early warning system for all natural hazards
Russia inflates its military with blow-up weapons
The Russian military has come up with an inventive way to deceive the enemy and save money at the same time: inflatable weapons.
nickcave_6
but does it float
but does it float
Blue Harvest
HERO in CHiQ
8Texts Book
Sentient City Survival Kit
artifacts for survival in the near-future sentient city
K.O.F.Y sur MySpace Music
NE-TON
Ne-ton | That’s not the way to do business: Ne-ton (Non-tone) is an independent music label that focuses on free music in the broadest sense of the term. It encompasses various music genres such as:…
£850bn: official cost of the bank bailout
In search of Belgrade’s sonic underbelly
Belgrade is not a polished, shiny city like Prague, it still retains its rawness and Balkanic chaos. Theoretically, cities like these - as is/was the case with all your Berlins - are usually bustling…
Animation « XVIVO
One of the best parts of XVIVO’s creation of MOAs is the front row seat we have, interviewing the scientists who invent today’s medical marvels. They, in turn, appreciate our ability to understand…
Svetlana Industries
eastern daze: In search of Belgrade’s sonic underbelly
First impressions of Belgrade from Avala train.
September’s melancholic mood with last few glimpses of sunshine offered a perfect backdrop to our first Balkan-bound journey in our project. It couldn’t have been more different to our preceding journey to the relatively clean-cut Poland where…
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EDF Climate Corps
EDF Climate Corps bridges this resource gap. We match trained students from leading business schools with companies that need to develop practical, actionable energy efficiency plans.
Malcolm Gladwell Is #Wrong
Malcolm Gladwell’s take on social media is like a nun’s likely review of the Kama Sutra — self-righteous and misguided by virtue of voluntary self-exclusion from the subject. But while the nun’s…
I’ll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people setting the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a…
“I’ll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people setting the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever writes“Gobi Desert Opera” because, well, it’s just kind of plonkingly obvious that there’s no good reason to go there and live. It’s ugly, it’s inhospitable and there’s no way to make it pay. Mars is just the same, really. We just romanticize it because it’s so hard to reach.”
–Bruce Sterling
Steven Johnson’ - Where Good Ideas Come From
Science writer Steven Johnson’s latest book, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation is, in some ways, a classic Johnson book: drawing from diverse sources across many…
Should we listen to futurists or are they leading us towards ‘nerdocalypse’?
They’re building robots, they’re making us immortal, they’re hanging out with Stevie Wonder and getting off on fruit-fly porn. These are the visionary thinkers who can make our future bright, and…
Should we listen to futurists or are they leading us towards ‘nerdocalypse’?
Robots Now Guarding Nevada Nuke Site
Citizens of Nevada, you can now relax. The Nevada National Security Site, home to tens of millions of cubic feet of low-level radioactive waste — and location of over a thousand Cold War nuclear…
Books I will not write #4: Space Pirates of KPMG
What’s going on behind the curtain is that the Eschaton is a local enforcer for the Strong Anthropic Principle; it can only ensure its survival if nobody else commits GCV within its light cone. So it…
Information Physics - The New Frontier?
At this point in time, two major areas of physics, statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics, rest on the foundations of probability and entropy. The last century saw several significant…
Fabric Type
"This painting is not available in your country"
A Cold War Spy Craft, the Updated U–2 Dodges Retirement
Falacia o sofisma 05 - Antonio R. Montesinos
Did Knives and Forks Cut Murders?
In 1939, at one of civilization’s lowest points, a little-known Swiss sociologist, Norbert Elias, published a book called “Über den Prozess der Zivilisation” (“On the Civilizing Process”) with a…
The Phenomenology of Error
I am often puzzled by what we call errors of grammar and usage, errors such as different than, between you and I, a which for a that, and so on. I am puzzled by what motive could underlie the unusual…
On Random Forests
The Random Forests algorithm was proposed by Leo Breiman in 1999. The algorithm can be used for both regression and classification, as well as for variable selection, interaction detection,…
DASH7 - Wikipedia
DASH7 is a new wireless sensor networking technology using the ISO/IEC 18000-7 standard for active RFID, operating at in the 433 MHz unlicensed spectrum. DASH7 provides multi-year battery life, range…
The Utopian Blues
The bards or poets ranked with aristocrats and even royalty, but musicians were merely the servants of the bards. In Dumezil’s tripartite structure of Indo-European society, as reflected in Ireland,…
Sizing Up Consciousness by Its Bits
Tononi
Experimental Cartography: The Map as Art
What tattoo art has to do with fashion, vintage atlases and Nazi concentration camps.
The Anti-Caliph
and Khezr, the Hidden Prophet, the Green Man, King of Hyperborea, wily servant of Moses, trickster-cook of Alexander, Khezr who drank from the fountain of life in the Land of Darkness. Flowers and…
Now we are aiming our technologies inward where they will start to…
Now we are aiming our technologies inward where they will start to…
Aaron Horkey
I am under no disguise
Genghis Tron Drawing
An Interview with Aaron Horkey
That two human beings can communicate with each other at all is rather remarkable.
That two human beings can communicate with each other at all is rather remarkable.
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