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Martian landscapes - The Big Picture

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:22:03 +0100

Researchers have been able to create new human senses -Wired 15.04

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:18:54 +0100

Researchers have been able to create new human senses -Wired 15.04:

With Arnoldussen behind me carrying the laptop, I walked around the Wicab offices. I managed to avoid most walls and desks, scanning my head from side to side slowly to give myself a wider field of view, like radar. Thinking back on it, I don’t remember the feeling of the electrodes on my tongue at all during my walkabout. What I remember are pictures: high-contrast images of cubicle walls and office doors, as though I’d seen them with my eyes.

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claytoncubitt: Romaine Brooks, ‘Self-portrait’ 1923

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:12:08 +0100

claytoncubitt:

Romaine Brooks, ‘Self-portrait’ 1923

I have the worst of luck with earphones, every time I get a new...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:58:11 +0100

I have the worst of luck with earphones, every time I get a new pair, I seem cursed by the fuck-demon of audiophilia: either the left/ride side blows and dies, the coating over the wire shreds, I lose them or the plug just conmits suicide. Or worse, the sound quality plummets after a month. We are talking about some expensive stuff here : Shure SE110 (two pairs : one lost, other one plug is iffy and noisy), Shure e2cs (coating near each speaker gone after a year, had to duct tape them ) and a pair of etymolitic ER6I-C (plug dead after 6 months.) So yeah, at around a 120 euros a piece….
So now, in term of earphones : I have the in-ear apple buds (not bad, just a bit of a strain in the ears) and my old AIAIAI swirl black earphones. The AIAIAI never let me down, never tangled, never performed short of excellence. So I’m done. Maybe not the greatest sound isolation, not the greatest bass, but hey, I’m getting the orange ones as soon as I can get them, and AIAIAI has my love.
AIAIAI earphones : Swirl Orange

"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:44:00 +0100

“A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.”

- Segal’s law

Daily commuters 1960, Zürich. What strikes me is how much...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:38:39 +0100

Daily commuters 1960, Zürich.

What strikes me is how much this reminds me of axons and neurons.
Geovisualization - but does it float

Batman Logos The one before last, third column, has my...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:35:00 +0100

Batman Logos
The one before last, third column, has my fancy.

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"Because human beings hold many identities, the mainstream is a shifting coalition, and none of us is..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:23:01 +0100

“Because human beings hold many identities, the mainstream is a shifting coalition, and none of us is entirely within it. As queer theorists have recognized, it is not normal to be completely normal. All of us struggle for self-expression; we all have covered selves.”

- Kenji Yoshino
on Covering and Conformity

“Ballet Studio” By Roe Ethridge (via audreyhepburncomplex)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:19:25 +0100

“Ballet Studio”
By Roe Ethridge

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“Purity” by Barry X Ball. I’m totally fascinated by the...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:10:00 +0100

“Purity” by Barry X Ball. I’m totally fascinated by the material, it’s called Golden Honeycomb Calcite.

today and tomorrow

Drake Brodahl Legally Blind - 6” x 6” cel vinyl...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:12:45 +0100

Drake Brodahl
Legally Blind - 6” x 6” cel vinyl acrylic on cradled panel

The Number 2 (via olovecharlieo)

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:42:50 +0100

The Number 2
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ralf baecker’s Rechnender Raum : The inverted...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:41:13 +0100

ralf baecker’s Rechnender Raum :

The inverted machine - Rechnender Raum (Calculating Space) is a light-weight sculpture, constructed from sticks, strings and little plumbs. At the same time it is a full functional logic exact neural network (*). Through its strict geometric and otherwise very filigree construction, the observer is able to track the whole processing logic from every viewpoint around the machine.

"Much of business process functions to signal who is important and who is allied with whom, rather..."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:36:06 +0100

“Much of business process functions to signal who is important and who is allied with whom, rather than to actually get stuff done. Huge efficiency gains await the organizations that can figure out how to expunge these parasites.”

- Robin Hanson

Stendig calendar . Minimalissimo

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:22:00 +0100

Stendig calendar . Minimalissimo

Days of the DeadThe Big Picture

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:06:00 +0100

Days of the Dead
The Big Picture

Flooding The Subway Campaign of the film’s release in...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:20:00 +0100

Flooding The Subway
Campaign of the film’s release in 2012 in Brazil. Action in the subway Cantagalo, in Copacabana - Rio de Janeiro, where a patch of about 45m on each sides simulates a flood in the subway.

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Basic Systems Disruption -Global Guerrillas

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:03:55 +0100

Basic Systems Disruption -Global Guerrillas:

System disruption leverages network structure and dynamics to turn small attacks into large events. Selection of the best point to attack is based on an analysis of the network’s design and flows. The term to describe this point is: the systempunkt. Essentially, the systempunkt is the point in the network, that if attacked, will yield the maximal possible impact.

An Intellectual History of Cannibalism -n+1

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:58:00 +0100

An Intellectual History of Cannibalism -n+1:

You can’t eat them because to do so would be to break the rules of the game. There are no such rules for the consumption of vegetable matter: whatever nourishes will do.

This distinction reveals something significant about meat eating: it is what you might call a charged domain of human activity, like sex and violence, and it is so no matter what kind of moral arguments you might offer up for or against culling deer herds, free range farming, and so on. Meat eating, like sex and violence, is regulated by religions, while for the most part plant-eating is not. Who can have sex with whom, or who can kill whom, or who can eat what meat when, are practically what religion is about. (The stuff about God is a later development, of interest to only a few.)

Justin Smith reviews Cătălin Avramescu’s book.
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the miniatures project by jason barnhartBEGINBEING

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:31:46 +0100

the miniatures project by jason barnhart
BEGINBEING