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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:21:09 +0000

More Lessig Goodness…

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:59:11 +0000

More Lessig Goodness…

After picture of DVD “burned” in the microwave for 5...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:56:32 +0000

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

love the instructables…

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:21:21 +0000

love the instructables…

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.

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:14:00 +0000

‘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)

eye candy for type freaks

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:32:14 +0000

eye candy for type freaks

Cliché

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:29:47 +0000

Cliché:

bobulate:

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

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:26:03 +0000

Steve Mills - Photorealist Oil Painter

Photo-Lettering: for your display font needs.

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:17:35 +0000

Photo-Lettering: for your display font needs.

picture links to reader, link to pdf.

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:07:22 +0000

picture links to reader, link to pdf.

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

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:39:46 +0000

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

3D printing comes to ceramics

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:18:42 +0000

3D printing comes to ceramics

Corrupt Software Facing a $2.8 billion deficit and pending...

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:12:55 +0000

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)

From Gaping Void

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:23:11 +0000

From Gaping Void

The group won’t be bearing the cost of its sudden popularity;...

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:14:01 +0000

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.

According to Anand, the idea was first conceived by an Indian...

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:09:00 +0000

According to Anand, the idea was first conceived by an Indian physics professor at the University of Maryland, who, in his travels around India, realized how widespread bribery was and wanted to do something about it. He came up with the idea of printing zero-denomination notes and handing them out to officials whenever he was asked for kickbacks as a way to show his resistance. Anand took this idea further: to print them en masse, widely publicize them, and give them out to the Indian people. He thought these notes would be a way to get people to show their disapproval of public service delivery dependent on bribes. The notes did just that. The first batch of 25,000 notes were met with such demand that 5th Pillar has ended up distributing one million zero-rupee notes to date since it began this initiative. Along the way, the organization has collected many stories from people using them to successfully resist engaging in bribery.

Photo

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:42:03 +0000

Die Antwoord

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:40:14 +0000

Die Antwoord

Astoria Scum River Bridge The unauthorized bridge is a gift to...

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:17:00 +0000

Astoria Scum River Bridge

The unauthorized bridge is a gift to the pedestrians of Astoria in the absence of successful municipal efforts to ameliorate the problem.

The bridge was made at zero cost entirely from recycled materials: an old work bench found on the curb, rescued screws from a disassembled desk, and a metal plate from an expired electrical component.

Cooking Grill No. 1

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:57:01 +0000

Cooking Grill No. 1