Month: November 2011

  • Lessig Blog, v2: Dear Candidate for Congress …

    Lessig Blog, v2: Dear Candidate for Congress … lessig: Thanks for your call, which I am sorry I was not able to accept. But after many too many contributions to candidates for Congress, I have adopted an absolute rule: I will not consider making a contribution to your campaign for Congress unless you commit absolutely…

  • Secret panel can put Americans on kill list’ | Reuters

    Secret panel can put Americans on kill list’ | Reuters wilwheaton: wilwheaton: American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials. There is no public record of the operations or decisions of…

  • Goldman Sachs, the global investment bank and financial services firm, announced Friday morning that it is running for president of the United States. The announcement was made at a farm near Waterloo, Iowa, by the musician Ted Nugent, who was hired to speak for the candidate. “We love oil and God and gasoline!” shouted Mr.…

  • interactivestuff: (via Twine will rig up anything with sensors, send online alerts | The Verge)

  • monstereatsdesign: (via Woodworks on the Behance Network)

  • dropouthangoutspaceout: (via @ibogost) 

  • “Watching Dr. Who is exciting enough, but imagine if a robot Dalek in your living room was acting out the scenes live along with the on screen action. That’s the idea behind a new BBC technology that sends metadata directly into your room, along with the picture and sound. The metadata is sent to the robot Dalek…

  • paintedetc: Someone had to do it sooner or later, and here is a try. Now you can buy digital editions to display on your devices via Sedition. Of course it helps that all of the works currently on offer aren’t really digital artworks as such, and are pretty much just photographs of things that have…

  • emergentfutures: IARPA Commits $10.5M to Develop Gamification for Intelligence Late last week, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA, it’s like DARPA for spies) announced a new contract of $10.5 million to develop “serious games” that include training for US intelligence officers. Along side projects designing the future of silicon chips and predicting the future…