20110708
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Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible SI: Special
Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible SI: Special
Lab « NextNature.net
Besides observing Next Nature phenomena and writing about them, we also develop concrete design projects. Our goal is to grow a methodology on how to design, build and live in Next Nature. This page…
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? - but does it float
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? - but does it float
We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and… - but does it float
We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and… - but does it float
Contemplative computing
One of the great unexpected twists in the process was that lots of presses passed on the grounds that there are already lots of books about technology and distraction, and they couldn’t see how the…
Roomba Light Trails - First Run / 3rdeyepro
ordo v2.0
Roomba Light Trails - First Run / 3rdeyepro
Retromania
lifein2050_med1
A List of Completely Wrong Assumptions About Technology Use in Emerging Economies – The Ushahidi Blog
I’ve spent the past week at the iLab in Liberia and got what I came for: an updated reality check on the limitations of technology adoption in developing countries. Below are some of the assumptions…
ronit baranga03
burn magazine
burn is an evolving journal for emerging photographers curated by magnum photographer david alan harvey.
20110624
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Sound recordings: The sound of silence
The American rules infuriate scholars, archivists, musicians and the conservationists who preserve fragile recordings. They fret that by the time the recordings become available, many will be beyond…
Ensō Data
The foundation of the Ensō programming model is the representation and manipulation of data. We are borrowing ideas from database and information modeling, and turning that into a data structuring…
Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the… - but does it float
Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the… - but does it float
Open Source Food at FOOD 2.0
The Open Source Food panel raised a diverse and complicated array of ideas about what exactly open source is and how it can be applied to food from software, hardware, social, and research…
Here we are, it says I only work with the frog
programming, writing, fluency
My current theory is that programming is quite literally writing. The vast majority of programming is not conceptually difficult (contrary to what a lot of people would have you believe). We only…
Cryptoforestry: A beginners guide to the drift
A journalist emailed me for a contribution to a ‘beginners guide to drifting’. Only a deranged mugwump on a unicycle would dare to present him/herself in public as an expert on the art of getting…
Artist remains unrepentant for judging prestigious prize by tossing a coin
Richard Bell, one of Australia’s best-known indigenous contemporary artists, has defended his method for judging the Sir John Sulman Prize for subject, genre or mural painting—the toss of a coin.
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Artist remains unrepentant for judging prestigious prize by tossing a coin
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his… - but does it float
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his… - but does it float
20110531
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Abandoned Remains of the Russian Space Shuttle Project Buran
Abandoned Remains of the Russian Space Shuttle Project Buran
Abandoned Remains of the Russian Space Shuttle Project Buran
Abandoned Remains of the Russian Space Shuttle Project Buran
author: Jacopo de’ Barbari
author: Jacopo de’ Barbari
China used prisoners in lucrative internet gaming work
Liu says he was one of scores of prisoners forced to play online games to build up credits that prison guards would then trade for real money. The 54-year-old, a former prison guard who was jailed…
doctrine zero
Although the name “Doctrine Zero” has been borrowed from Grant Morrison, in this new context the term ZERO is intended to represent the point at which the pace of technological and cultural change…
20110517
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Bat Flower
nuclear shelter
BBC Domesday Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The BBC Domesday Project was a partnership between Acorn Computers Ltd, Philips, Logica and the BBC (with some funding from the European Commission’s ESPRIT programme) to mark the 900th anniversary…
»Rock«, 2011 and »Tree«, 2001 by Ai Wiewei.
20110510
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Secret Insignias From the ‘Black Ops’ World
Trevor Paglen, a bi-coastal artist and author based in Oakland and New York City, brought bad military patches to new heights of glory with his 2007 book I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to…
Sir Mick Jagger goes back to Exile
Then, there was a small period from 1970 to 1997, where people did get paid, and they got paid very handsomely and everyone made money. But now that period has gone.
So if you look at the history of…
man and his plan
Erlang: the Movie: Just the Calls
Erlang: the Movie: Just the Calls
Unthinking Machines - Technology Review
Winston blamed the stagnation in part on the decline in funding after the end of the Cold War and on early attempts to commercialize AI. But the biggest culprit, he said, was the “mechanistic…
plexus
The wheel Group « UNIX Administratosphere
The wheel group is, perhaps, not widely used today, or is seen as “archaic” and irrelevant. Nothing could be further from the truth.
CultureLab: An artist who had a radioactive imagination
WHO was James Acord? The artist, who took his own life in January, is perhaps most easily defined as the only person in the US to hold an individual licence for handling radioactive material. A…
peeta
takayuki hori: oritsunagumono
Beyond Civilized and Primitive
Western industrial society tells a story about itself that goes like this: “A long time ago, our ancestors were ‘primitive’. They lived in caves, were stupid, hit each other with clubs, and had…
New green investment fund from Carbon Trust and Siemens
UK businesses can now apply for green equipment finance from Carbon Trust and Siemens. Worth up to £550 million over the next three years, the dedicated low carbon finance scheme is the first of its…
Deformation of the Catenoid to the Helicoid
What happens when you try to leave the Church of Scientology?
Haggis was prominent in both Scientology and Hollywood, two communities that often converge. Although he is less famous than certain other Scientologists, such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta, he had…
What happens when you try to leave the Church of Scientology?
20110423
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How Vesicles Compute With Chemical Cocktails
One of the more exciting developments in computer science is the increased focus on exotic forms of computing. On this blog we’ve looked at some of them including hot ice computers, slime mould…
David Hobby: A Baltimore Sun photographer took a buyout, started a website, and changed photography forever
At first glance, David Hobby looks like just another casualty of the decline of print media: A longtime staff photographer for the Baltimore Sun, he was one of many employees who accepted a buyout in…
Leica - Zeiss - KMZ
Without belaboring the story of what happened after World War II, the Soviets carted an entire Zeiss Contax factory back to Ukraine (this is why the Contax IIa and IIIa are of a slightly different…
A peculiar crawlspace
A peculiar crawlspace
A peculiar crawlspace
«lined_2» (2010) - shuhei kimura / source material from a syuji yamada’s collection of nihon-tabi 1961–2010
Deleuze Cinema Movie List, Cinema 1, Cinema 2, (Cinéma I, Cinéma II), by director
Below is a list of the movies Deleuze cites in his Cinema 1, Cinema 2, (Cinéma I, Cinéma II) texts, listed in order of directors. The original titles and alternate translations might be found in…
Deleuze Cinema Movie List, Cinema 1, Cinema 2, (Cinéma I, Cinéma II), by director
Bernard Keane’s guide to writing to Ministers
You can also use the Government’s system for allocating correspondence. As a start, always write to your MP first, even if it’s a Coalition MP. They will send the letter to Conroy and ask for a…
{ n o n } T Y P E . blür
Equiluminant colors have long been recognized by artists as being special because they can generate a sense of vibration, motion or sometimes an eerie quality. This strange quality arises because the…
The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity
Experimental innovators are motivated by aesthetic criteria: their art is based on visual perception. Their goals are imprecise, so they work tentatively, by trial and error, frequently revising…
Hoover Dam, reimagined
The Vulgar Comparative Metaphor FAQ
It is intended as a vehicle to promote academic inquiry into the linguistic heritage of the English language. Every attempt has been made to treat this subject with professionalism and academic…
The Silver Computer Screen
But one thing that almost always breaks me out of any movie’s spell is the on-screen appearance of any kind of computing technology — specifically the appearance of interfaces for computing…
Reading and Writing Electronic Text
This course introduces the Python programming language as a tool for reading and writing digital text. This course is specifically geared to serve as a general-purpose introduction to programming in…
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U B U W E B :: Dada Magazine
Attempting to promulgate Dada ideas throughout Europe, Tristan Tzara launched the art and literature review Dada. Although, at the outset, it was planned that Dada members would take turns editing…
THE ISLANDS OF JACOB MAGRAW
Who’s afraid of Ai Weiwei all over Hong Kong 香港满是 ‘谁在害怕艾未未’ #graffiti ＃涂鸦 之我们的艾篇 请帮转推 by jiruan (via http://flic.kr/p/9yhEid )
Who’s afraid of Ai Weiwei all over Hong Kong 香港满是 ‘谁在害怕艾未未’ #graffiti ＃涂鸦 之我们的艾篇 请帮转推 by jiruan (via http://flic.kr/p/9yhEid )
the_midsummer_marriage
Transport networks for theoretical settlements
Flavour (Journal)
Flavour is a peer-reviewed, open access, online journal that publishes interdisciplinary articles on flavour, its generation and perception, and its influence on behaviour and nutrition. We seek…
What’s this public ‘engagement’ with science thing then?
There are various studies of public opinion with respect to science - this paper and this report are both worth reading if you are interested (some more links here). Most people, especially British…
We need a GitHub of Science
Evangelists for Open Science should focus on promoting new, post-publication prestige metrics that will properly incentivize scientists to focus on the utility of their work, which will allow them to…
Untouched By Human Hands
is there a boardroom somewhere where a marketing and product design group is trying to figure out how to make your next Happy Meal toy, laptop, or Ikea table look like it was handmade by a MAKE…
Conference on World Affairs Archive
Visualizing data in real time using drizzle and rabbitmq
Cigarette packets to be ugly olive green
AUSTRALIANS today got their first look at the plainer, uglier cigarette packets the Federal Government hopes will curb smoking among young people.
dustin-kemper–3
20110406
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The Sleepless Elite
Natural “short sleepers,” as they’re officially known, are night owls and early birds simultaneously. They typically turn in well after midnight, then get up just a few hours later and barrel through…
The Sleepless Elite
Natural “short sleepers,” as they’re officially known, are night owls and early birds simultaneously. They typically turn in well after midnight, then get up just a few hours later and barrel through…
Project VRM
VRM stands for Vendor Relationship Management. VRM tools provide customers with both independence from vendors and better ways of engaging with vendors. The same tools can also support individuals’…
Immutability and Blocks, Lambdas and Closures | …on Coding, Mac OS X | Algorithm.com.au
I recently ran into some “interesting” behaviour when using lambda in Python. Perhaps it’s only interesting because I learnt lambdas from a functional language background, where I expect that they…
Immutability and Blocks, Lambdas and Closures | …on Coding, Mac OS X | Algorithm.com.au
Jill Magid - A Reasonable Man in a Box
A Reasonable Man in a Box takes its point of departure from the “Bybee Memo”, a controversial 2002 document signed by Jay Bybee, Assistant Attorney General of the United States Department of…
Underscore Magazine
Ecolonomics No.10: ’When the facts change, I change my mind."
As I see it the debate over climate change, and in fact on environmentalism in general, has become disassociated from the economics and thermodynamics of the way society operates. Consequently the…
Ecolonomics No.10: ’When the facts change, I change my mind."
Underscore Magazine
Ecolonomics No.10: ’When the facts change, I change my mind."
As I see it the debate over climate change, and in fact on environmentalism in general, has become disassociated from the economics and thermodynamics of the way society operates. Consequently the…
Ecolonomics No.10: ’When the facts change, I change my mind."
On the Table by Michael Craig-Martin
Search Engine Deoptimization
I think this attack should be called Search Engine Deoptimization.
Data Protection: Betrayed by our own data
Mobile phones are tracking devices that reveal much about our lives. One look at our interactive map of data provided by the Green party politician Malte Spitz shows why.
Chinese students screened for ‘radical thoughts’ and ‘independent lifestyles’
One of China’s most prestigious universities has announced plans to screen all students and identify those with “radical thoughts” or “independent lifestyles”, provoking angry reactions from…
Chinese students screened for ‘radical thoughts’ and ‘independent lifestyles’
Up-nee-ent prospector you sprout all your worth and woof your wings - but does it float
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Up-nee-ent prospector you sprout all your worth and woof your wings - but does it float
MIT’s artificial leaf is ten times more efficient than the real thing (Wired UK)
Speaking at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in California, MIT professor Daniel Nocera claims to have created an artificial leaf, made from stable and inexpensive materials,…
MIT’s artificial leaf is ten times more efficient than the real thing (Wired UK)
Post-Tsunami Japan Turns Away From Excess
TOKYO — Even in a country whose people are known for walking in lockstep, a national consensus on the proper code of behavior has emerged with startling speed. Consider post-tsunami Japan as the age…
A Shoulder-Mounted, Humanoid Telepresence ’Bot, for Easy Tele-Dating
See, you carry TEROOS around on your shoulder but someone else controls it, using its built-in camera, microphone, and speaker to look around and communicate with the wearer. Communications and…
A Shoulder-Mounted, Humanoid Telepresence ’Bot, for Easy Tele-Dating
Werner Herzog’s approach to documentary filmmaking. - By Leo Robson - Slate Magazine
In his own nonfiction films, Herzog wants to tell stories and he doesn’t feel beholden to fact. His approach to documentary is an alternative to cinema vérité, the observational aesthetic that…
Werner Herzog’s approach to documentary filmmaking. - By Leo Robson - Slate Magazine