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Recently an anonymous hacker wrote a script that took over embedded Linux devices. These owned computers scanned the whole rest of the internet and created a survey that told us more than we’d ever known about the shape of the internet. The little hacked boxes reported their data back (a full 10 TBs) and quietly…
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Software is so bad because it’s so complex, and because it’s trying to talk to other programs on the same computer, or over connections to other computers. Even your computer is kind of more than one computer, boxes within boxes, and each one of those computers is full of little programs trying to coordinate their…
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In February, in a New Yorker piece originally titled “Is Amazon bad for books?,” a small press publisher, Melville House co-owner Dennis Johnson, described how Amazon had bullied him into signing up for its paid distribution service despite refusing to relinquish any information to him about his actual on-site sales. Johnson described how, after his…
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explore-blog: The Morgan Library makes 500 Rembrandt etchings available online, a heartening digital humanities effort. To appreciate it even more, see this fascinating short video of how The Morgan is digitizing its collection.
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We Feel vs We Feel Fine
WE FEEL (2014): NPR in the US reported on a Twitter reading app developed in Australia that takes the real-time emotional temperature of a region as a way to responsively allocate (mental health?) resources. http://wefeel.csiro.au/#/ What is We Feel? We Feel is a project that explores whether social media—specifically Twitter—can provide an accurate, real-time signal…
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zerostatereflex: Augmented Reality Sandbox with Real-Time Water Flow Simulation “Video of a sandbox equipped with a Kinect 3D camera and a projector to project a real-time colored topographic map with contour lines onto the sand surface. The sandbox lets virtual water flow over the surface using a GPU-based simulation of the Saint-Venant set of shallow…
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Conditional Design – Manifesto
Conditional Design – Manifesto “Instead of operating under the terms of Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Media Art or Sound Design, we want to introduce Conditional Design as a term that refers to our approach rather than our chosen media. We conduct our activities using the methods of philosophers, engineers, inventors and mystics.”
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aztec-princesss: Mayan ruins, Tikal, Guatemala
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Subcomandante Marcos Is No More
Subcomandante Marcos Is No More littleopticalmachine: At 2:08 am this morning, Subcomandante Marcos announced that as of that moment, he had ceased to exist. In a statement made before those attending a tribute to Galeano, the Zapatista assassinated in the Zapatista community of La Realidad, the military head of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN)…
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nevver: This is not an exit