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Stuff that caught my eye.
Mar 11
Mar 09
More Lessig Goodness…
After picture of DVD “burned” in the microwave for 5 seconds to ensure complete irreversible elimination of sensitive data.
Mar 01
love the instructables…
Feb 27
Bruce Sterling’s speech at Transmediale, a talk on “atemporality for the creative artist,” which explains what the net and technology have done to the idea of the history and the future.
‘Step one - write problem in a search engine, see if somebody else has solved it already. Step two - write problem in my blog; study the commentory cross-linked to other guys. Step three - write my problem in Twitter in a hundred and forty characters. See if I can get it that small. See if it gets retweeted. Step four - open source the problem; supply some instructables to get me as far as I’ve been able to get, see if the community takes it any further. Step five - start a Ning social network about my problem, name the network after my problem, see if anybody accumulates around my problem. Step six - make a video of my problem. Youtube my video, see if it spreads virally, see if any media convergence accumulates around my problem. Step seven - create a design fiction that pretends that my problem has already been solved. Create some gadget or application or product that has some relevance to my problem and see if anybody builds it. Step eight - exacerbate or intensify my problem with a work of interventionist tactical media. And step nine - find some kind of pretty illustrations from the Flickr ‘Looking into the Past’ photo pool.’
Atemporality for the Creative Artist (Video on Boingboing)
Feb 21
» Cliché
Seth Godin on clichés:
In printing, a cliché was a printing plate cast from movable type. This is also called a stereotype. When letters were set one at a time, it made sense to cast a phrase used repeatedly as a single slug of metal. “Cliché” came to mean such a ready-made phrase. The French word “cliché” comes from the sound made when the matrix is dropped into molten metal to make a printing plate.His secret weapon on how to use clichés:
The effective way to use a cliché is to point to it and then do precisely the opposite. Juxtapose the cliché with the unexpected truth of what you have to offer. …. I often use the Encyclopedia of Clichés to find clichés that then inspire opposites.Hear the sound of stereotypes, a 1949 Number Four VanderCook Proof Printing Press in particular.
Steve Mills - Photorealist Oil Painter
Feb 20
picture links to reader, link to pdf.
Feb 18
Clayton Boyer makes wooden clocks aand sells the plans to build your own.
Feb 17
3D printing comes to ceramics
Feb 15
Corrupt Software
Facing a $2.8 billion deficit and pending insolvency, Washington State’s House Bill 3176 proposes changes to its B&O Royalty tax that would give Microsoft an estimated $100 million tax cut annually and possible amnesty for more than a billion dollars in past tax evasion.
(Image: WEB DEVELOPERS!, a Creative Commons Attribution photo from Nick, Programmerman’s photostream)
Feb 13
From Gaping Void
Feb 06
The group won’t be bearing the cost of its sudden popularity; that is being taken care of by companies like Google. Its music videos are streamed by Google-owned YouTube, and most of the discussion about it happens on Facebook and Twitter or third-party blogs and news websites. Its own server is hosted in the USA, the land of milk and honey and bandwidth so cheap it’s nearly free. Its demo CDs are created on a home computer at a price that can be measured in cents per unit, and even its very slick and highly stylised videos were made for next to nothing.
