March 2009
THE FUCKING WEATHER →
kidplastik:
Fucking awesome. (via yewknee)
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Olmert rejected Palestinian peace overture..... →
The Guardian
Olmert rejected Palestinian attempts to set up talks through go-between before Gaza invasion
Hamas, the militant Palestinian organisation, attempted to conduct secret talks with the Israeli leadership in the protracted run-up to the recent war in Gaza - with messages being passed from the group at one stage through a member of prime minister Ehud Olmert’s family.
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February 2009
burialmix:
lounge lizards :: ” harlem nocturne...
Watchpapalegba:
The Raveonettes “Black and White”
Via: tv.hobnox.com
Artist Name : Scientist
Track Title :...
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hellovagina:
gustav - soldatin oder veteran
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UW scientists collect first seismic data from... →
For my Seattle Friends
From The Seattle Times
But the new sensors revealed that the viaduct and the ground it’s built on amplify vibrations, with the top deck shaking 10 times harder than the ground a few dozen yards away. At some frequencies, the shaking was up to 50 times stronger during the quake. The viaduct also shook about twice as long as expected in areas where the ground is...
neverneverland:
manipulated living, michael...
Yesterday I bought this CD and I have been...
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WatchI am sure we have all wanted to do this at one time or another.
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Self Righting Eyeball Camera →
Via: ODF
Field surveillance system specially designed for rapid deployment and real-time intelligence
Eye Ball is an advanced, audio/visual surveillance sensor that can be deployed and operated by a single person. Each unit is only slightly larger than a baseball making deployment easy; simply throw the Eye Ball into the area you need to survey, mount it on a pole or lower it on a cable through a...
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WatchVia: Funky Fruit“Pool” was a marvellous commission from / collaboration with Volante Now! two London-based video makers from Columbia and Portugal, Veronica Castro and Helena S. Inverno.
Media Viruses and Memes →
Henry Jenkins, Co-Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program, talk about Convergence Culture and Spreadable Media. [50 Minute Video]
Use of the terms “viral” and “memes” by those in the marketing, advertising and media industries may be creating more confusion than clarity. Both these terms rely on a biological metaphor to explain the way media content moves...
melanyouth:
(via measart):
black satin-miles...
William Deresiewicz on “The End of Solitude” →
Full Interview: William Deresiewicz on “The End of Solitude”
Nora Young of CBC interviews author.
The End of Solitude
As everyone seeks more and broader connectivity, the still, small voice speaks only in silence
By WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ
What does the contemporary self want? The camera has created a culture of celebrity; the computer is creating a culture of connectivity. As the two...
Interactive map of bank failures! →
Via: MaxZeledon
Do gravity holes harbour planetary assassins? →
THEY are the places gravity forgot. Vast regions of space, millions of kilometres across, in which celestial forces conspire to cancel out gravity and so trap anything that falls into them. They sit in the Earth’s orbit, one marching ahead of our planet, the other trailing along behind. Astronomers call them Lagrangian points, or L4 and L5 for short. The best way to think of them, though,...
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One of Lifes Malfunctions →
Another audio collage from SUPERFORCE.
Serotonin diet. ” He sat squared against a line of unforgiving passengers, clenching down his teeth and forcing my tongue back against mouth top rear. Where it belonged and against its unwanted movements, and the grimacing too, all brought on by Seroquel. That’s the new anti-psychotic drug with side effects that, he found, are predominantly...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-22) →
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (12)
klangwirkstoff scheibosan & eMU (11)
Death in Vegas (6)
Lee Dorsey (4)
D’Angelo (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Obama administration tries to kill e-mail case →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration, siding with former President George W. Bush, is trying to kill a lawsuit that seeks to recover what could be millions of missing White House e-mails.
Off the books White House communication, not available to the public record, in other words were the real deals were consummated.
Via: Dan Gillmore
papalegba:
Artist Name : King Britt...
A Rape in Cyberspace
Via: papalegba:
This article originally appeared in The Village Voice, Dec. 21, 1993.
A Rape in Cyberspace
or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database Into a Society
By Julian Dibbell
Read about the first cyber sexual harassment case. Mr. Bungle using virtual voodoo dolls to sexually harass Lambda Moo...
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Artist Name : Lee Dorsey
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The Credit Crisis Visualized in Animated... →
roamin:
information aesthetics
“Highly recommended: [crisisofcredit.com] by Jonathan Jarvis does exactly what it says. It might well be the most educational ten minutes you have experienced in days.
The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the subprime mortgage crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated.”
Watch it here.
