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Stuff that caught my eye.
Mar 11
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Mar 09
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More Lessig Goodness…

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After picture of DVD “burned” in the microwave for 5 seconds to ensure complete irreversible elimination of sensitive data.

After picture of DVD “burned” in the microwave for 5 seconds to ensure complete irreversible elimination of sensitive data.

Mar 01
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love the instructables…

love the instructables

Feb 27
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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
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Steve Mills - Photorealist Oil Painter

Steve Mills - Photorealist Oil Painter

Feb 20
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picture links to reader, link to pdf.

picture links to reader, link to pdf.

Feb 18
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Clayton Boyer makes wooden clocks aand sells the plans to build your own.

Clayton Boyer makes wooden clocks aand sells the plans to build your own.

Feb 17
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3D printing comes to ceramics

3D printing comes to ceramics

Feb 15
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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)

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
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Feb 06
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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.

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.