- Justice Dept. Defends Public’s Constitutional ‘Right to Record’ Cops
- WordPress in place of Sharepoint
- Jane Chafin: Duchamp’s Urinal? Maybe Not!
more to suggest "Duchamps urinal" was actually Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s urinal . via @mitpress
- Justin Pickard : gonzo futurists
a subset of the power weirdo
- (404) http://t.co/g8H
RT @Coudal: Status update: Although it’s still comfortably Wednesday, the situation is fluid and could change quickly.
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Links – May 16, 2012
- The Listening Machine
music generated in real time by twitter usage
- Abandoning the Orphans: An Open Access Approach to Hostage Works by Lydia Loren :: SSRN
"Hostage works" as the more accurate term
- Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? – NYTimes.com
- The Sex Myth: How To Blog Anonymously (and how not to)
Belle de Jour talks about her experince
Links – May 15, 2012
- Untitled (http://gizmodo.com/5909961/kodak-had-a-secret-weapons+grade-nuclear-reactor-hidden-in-a-basement)
If Kodak was allowed to have weapons-grade uranium reactor, what the fuck does Exxon have stashed in THEIR basement?
- Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived – The Oatmeal
Tesla.
Links – May 14, 2012
- Chris de Burgh – Don’t Pay The Ferryman
– YouTubeSquirrels are jumpy and freaked out because they perceive the world as an overwrought Chris de Burgh video. - Griffith Observatory – A History of Griffith Observatory
May 14: 1935: Griffith Observatory formally opened on land donated by Griffith J. Griffith. Observatory history:
- Specimenism
RT @underware: If this doesn’t make you hot, type is not made for you and you’re not made for type —
- Mat Gleason: Do Corporate Sponsors at MOCA Have Censorship Authority?
MOCA: brought to you by some dude wearing a gold chain with a Mercedes logo hanging from it. So shut up.
- The CEO’s weekly checklist
- MORE ON MACHINE TRANSLATION.
- YouTube: the possible future
Jack Williamson
- Why TV is Better Than Games | GamesIndustry International
Links – May 13, 2012
- Golden Dawn (Greece) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Golden Dawn" (the Greek neo-Nazi party) opposes the "so-called Enlightenment" and the Industrial Revolution.
Links – May 12, 2012
- BLDGBLOG: Papercraft
"In other words, only if you know exactly what to look for—or in a strange moment of speculative paranoia—would you realize that the paper on the walls around you is actually an electronic device. "
- Pin-Up Girls Before and After II, 1950s
- THE WEEK IN GREED #6: To Behave Like The Fallen World – The Rumpus.net
I’m serious, you guys. Read this piece. It’s so good and so important.
- BETALEVEL » The Signal Archive
Nostalgic for dial-up modem sounds? Come feel the way you will feel about mobile device interference… in the future!
- Chris Poole part 1/3- ROFLCON 2012 – Solo Panel
– YouTubeI loved Chris Poole’s ROFLCon talk on the changing meme landscape: (Cameo by @fredbenenson’s anti-SOPA shirt.)
Links – May 11, 2012
- Reasons to love you, Game of Thrones
- » A Digital Hornbook for the Digital Humanities? SAMPLE REALITY
- Ben Jackson on memes, the Internet, and the divine
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/dvsch/status/200768670744584193/photo/1)
Love this sign. Old lasubway station
- Google agrees with Mozilla’s Windows RT browser concerns | Business Tech – CNET News
The very idea of "innovation in the browser space" should make you cackle with despair.
Links – May 10, 2012
- AREvent day 2 User experience in AR, Ben Cerveny (Bloom)- Ambient Discovery AREvent on USTREAM. Conferencia
quite pleased by the enthusiastic response to my talk at ARE today. looks like it is already viewable on the interwebs:
- NYT: Game Over for the Climate
- Welcome to the Future Nauseous
- Bat, Bean, Beam: Endings
Links – May 9, 2012
- Articles: Strange Anomalies in the Famous Situation Room Photo
There’s critical paranoia. There’s clinical paranoia. And then there’s rightwing disavowal of all forms of consensus reality. "Referring back to the "Situation Room" photo again, look at the difference in head size between Obama and Biden"
- A List Apart: Articles: Say No to Faux Bold
get the actual font for your headings and a bold fallback font when fallback happens.
- Olympics Brand Exclusion Zone
"The most carefully policed Brand Exclusion Zone will be around the Olympic Park, and extend up to 1km beyond its perimeter, for up to 35 days. Within this area, officially called an Advertising and Street Trade Restrictions venue restriction zone, no advertising for brands designated as competing with those of the official Olympic sponsors will be allowed."
- California Proposition 8 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
What kind of redneck hillbillies would amend their Constitution to enshrine bigotry???
Oh yeah. Californians.
- There Is Actually Nothing Better in the World Than Talking About Yourself
"Just as monkeys are willing to forgo juice rewards to view dominant groupmates and college students are willing to give up money to view attractive members of the opposite sex, our participants were willing to forgo money to think and talk about themselves."
- Study helps explain why we over-share on Facebook, Twitter – latimes.com
- t.co / Twitter
RT @thinkprogress: FACT: Last time North Carolina amended their constitution on marriage it was to ban interracial marriage …
Links – May 8, 2012
- The Circus. 1870s–1950s | if we could fly
including "Blacaman, Hinu Animal Hypnotist"
- From Graduate School to Welfare
"Many administrators are not aware of the whole extent of the problem. But all it takes is for somebody to run the numbers to see that their faculty is eligible for welfare assistance."
- Are you here for the meth? « Dan Cull Weblog
“The energizing and obsessive effects make it fun, almost pleasurable, for tweakers to do the tedious work of artifact hunting."
- Peter Vidani on the Evolution of the Tumblr Dashboard
- Shanghai Expression: Graphic Design in China in the 1920s and 30s – 50 Watts
- Retail Theft | Theft Prevention | Organized Retail Crime | Booster Bag | Checkpoint Systems, Inc.
Sarah Vanson’s radio silence Faraday bag will set off every alarm gate while shopping #not_silent
- Sarah van Sonsbeeck, artist
Sarah Vanson’s radio silence Faraday bag will set off every alarm gate while shopping #not_silent
