Month: November 2010

  • The Art Damien Hirst Stole

  • Awful elevator panel design – Boing Boing

  • Kettle | increpare games

    Kettle | increpare games game made in response to the “kettling” of children who protested cutbacks in education spending in England. Kettling is – according to press reports – the act of containing people out in the open. The conditions were freezing, and the children were kettled for hours.

  • Timeline 1975 Bill Gates drops out of Harvard, after a dispute over his illegal use of school computers for commercial purposes. According to various accounts, Bill Gates and Paul Allen used a DARA funded PDP-10 computer to develop commercial software for the MITS Altair 8800. Some Harvard officials thought that Gates had broken university rules,…

  • Printcrime

    Printcrime

    Printcrime short story by Cory Doctorow, typeset and hand bound in 2010. This is a set of offprints that I’ve reassembled into a rough prototype. I don’t think I kept a copy for myself. I took these photos in 2021 12 06 and backdated this post to 2010 11 30.

  • illillill: THEM THANGS

  • djsheep: BRAAP!

  • nelvonwood: Gutfish for Christmas

  • impermeable: a history of home video game consoles as any museum has ever created. @ museum of arts and trades, paris, france a collection of video games so extensive that all but the most hardcore gamer would be hard-pressed to identify them all. they stretch from the birth of pong in the 1970s through the…

  • The art market: Hands up for Hirst | The Economist

    The art market: Hands up for Hirst | The Economist