December 2010
30 posts
“None of that’s necessary anymore. When everyone has easy access to their...”
– Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die - Patton Oswalt
Wired
(via whisperoftheshot)
A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation →
“We have to get past this idea that the solutions to our problems will come when...”
– Chris Bateman - Only A Game
They're made out of Meat, by Terry Bisson →
I forgot if I linked to this before but it’s worth doing it again. It’s a great sci-fi short story and it’ll take you five minutes to read.
AFP: 'Starving yogi' astounds Indian scientists →
“Commonly, the authorities don’t much like to crush apple-cheeked white-guy...”
– Bruce Sterling’s epic assessment of Wikileaks, Assange and modern diplomacy has been getting a lot of play around the interwebs, but it is Sterling’s portrait of Bradley Manning that resonates most strongly. They are going to crush that poor boy. (via thegoverned)
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“Let’s get something straight: Julian Assange is a journalist.”
– Larry Flynt
Thinking like an octopus →
Octopuses have large nervous systems, centered around relatively large brains. But more than half of their 500 million neurons are found in the arms themselves, Godfrey-Smith said. This raises the question of whether the arms have something like minds of their own. Though the question is controversial, there is some observational evidence indicating that it could be so, he said. When an octopus...
proclus:
: Leakspin - Chinese hackers employed to secure Microsoft Windows - wikileaks cablegate Chamber of Commerce - #p http://ping.fm/4zG8x
Why WikiLeaks hackers are a glitch, not a cyberwar →
If anything, the current debacle demonstrates just how tightly controlled the net remains in its current form, as well as just what would have to be done to create the sort of peer-to-peer network capable of upending corporate and government power over mass communication and society itself. - Douglas Rushkoff
Program or Be Programmed | Reality Sandwich →
The problem is that we haven’t actually seized the capability of each great media age. We have remained one dimensional leap behind the technology on offer. Before text, only the Pharaoh could hear the words of the gods. After text, the people could gather in the town square and hear the word of God read to them by a rabbi. But only the rabbi could read the scroll. The people remained one...
“One of the most profound transformations we can learn from games is how to turn...”
– Tom Chatfield (via Video Game Designers Play to Solve Real-World Problems)
What place gives you that kid in the candy store...
For me its the “Tools” aisle of a hardware store. I drool at hammers and ratchets. I stare at various types of precision screwdrivers. I want one of everything.
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http://213.251.145.96/ →
In case you guys were wondering where’d it go….
“I for one welcome our arsenic-based interplanetary overlords.”
– William Gibson (via emmanuelnegro)
NASA Finds New Life →