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A Cybernetic Meadow

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:55:39 -0400

The intro to the 2001 Japanese film All About Lily Chou-Chou remains one of the most evocative depictions of notional space.

For some reason the youtube box isn’t showing up inside tumblr. but it is so beautiful and you must watch. sundays are made for watching videos like this

"Over the 20 years that followed, I found that being a woman put me at one remove from the general..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:45:00 -0400

“Over the 20 years that followed, I found that being a woman put me at one remove from the general society of programmers. I resented that distance, but I liked to think that it was in some way fortunate — that my standing back gave me a clearer view of our profession and its effects on society at large.”

- How to Be a ‘Woman Programmer’ - NYTimes.com

there’s so much good here i wouldn’t know what to quote. but this line especially communicates something pretty powerful, so subtly

"We learned so much about regulation with Google Health. It turns out, the government has rules about..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:20:04 -0400

““We learned so much about regulation with Google Health. It turns out, the government has rules about health records, and that people care about these rules for some reason. So we began looking around for ways to avoid regulation. For example, government regulation meant it was much easier to experiment with white space in Kenya than in the United States. So we started thinking: What if the entire world looked more like Kenya? Or, even better, Somalia? Places where there are no laws. We haven’t adapted mechanisms to deal with some of our old institutions like the law. We aren’t keeping up with the rate of change we caused through technology. If you look at the laws we have, they’re very old. A law can’t be right if it’s 50 years old. Like, it’s before the Internet. Here, put on these glasses.” I did, and suddenly, my vision was filled with tentacle porn. “Go ahead, watch” said Page’s Being. “I won’t judge you, I never have. I merely document, filter and suggest. Based on your history, we know you are interested in cephalopods. This is just a new direction. Enjoy yourself.”

- Welcome to Google Island | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

late to reading this, but oh wow is it worth it

jerrybrito: Dueling #bitcoin ATMs at Bitcoin 2013.

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:08:42 -0400

jerrybrito:

Dueling #bitcoin ATMs at Bitcoin 2013.

Kate Bush - Love and Anger - Official Music Video (by...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:21:19 -0400

Kate Bush - Love and Anger - Official Music Video (by KateBushMusic)

realized my favorite Kate Bush song has changed over the years depending on how close I am in age to when she wrote it…. Wuthering Heights ->Running Up That Hill -> Love & Anger ….

looking forward to finally appreciating King of the Mountain when I’m 50

"AW: It is. Twitter is my city, my favorite city. I can talk to anybody I want to. And anybody who..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:02:00 -0400

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AW: It is. Twitter is my city, my favorite city. I can talk to anybody I want to. And anybody who wants to talk to me will get my response. They know me better than their relatives or my relatives. There’s so much imagination there; a lot of times it’s just like poetry. You just read one sentence, and you sense this kind of breeze or a kind of look. It’s amazing.

— Ai Wei Wei

”

- ‘Twitter Is My City’ - By Jonathan Landreth | Foreign Policy

natgeofound: Fifty-two stories high, city noises fade and...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:56:42 -0400

natgeofound:

Fifty-two stories high, city noises fade and vistas expand. Chicago, June 1967.
Photograph by James L. Stanfield, National Geographic

that is chicago.

A twenty-minute drive later, through relatively featureless...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:52:04 -0400

A twenty-minute drive later, through relatively featureless desert, our visit to “Afghanistan” began with a casual walk down the main street, where we were greeted by actors trying to sell us plastic loaves of bread and piles of fake meat. Fort Irwin employs more than 350 civilian role-players, many of whom are of Middle Eastern origin, although Ferrell explained that they are still trying to recruit more Afghans, in order “to provide the texture of the culture.” The atmosphere is strangely good-natured, which was at least partially amplified by a feeling of mild embarrassment, as the rules of engagement, so to speak, are not immediately clear; you, the visitor, are obviously aware of the fact that these people are paid actors, but it feels distinctly odd to slip into character yourself and pretend that you might want to buy some bread. (via BLDGBLOG: In the Box: A Tour Through the Simulated Battlefields of the U.S. National Training Center)

Internet of Dreams: o

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:33:01 -0400

Internet of Dreams: o:

internet-of-dreams:

After 666 comments, a friend of mine was kicked off Metafilter. That was ten years ago. He told me his old screennames over drinks a while back, and I spent the rest of the evening reading the archived posts. As “Settle” and later, “Kettleblack” he was often “cryptic and awkward,” …

Sir Arthur C Clarke (by jonwy) Sir Arthur C Clarke talks to...

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:31:10 -0400

Sir Arthur C Clarke (by jonwy)

Sir Arthur C Clarke talks to Martin Kavanagh and Hari Kunzru at Heaven club, at megatripolis, the underground club ( Charing X London ) 31 May 1996. Sir Arthur was speaking from his home in Sri Lanka via a portable satellite phone (and dish), which had been transported to him by Adrian Clint, of the mega-t crew. Pretty apt considering he virtually invented the satellite. There was a power cut in Sri Lanka at the time and Adrian was using Sir Arthur’s back-up generator. Bear in mind this was organised by a nightclub event in the early days of the internet, everything was cutting-edge and the budget was close to 10 pounds GBP. Organised by Martyn Kavanagh who ran the ‘Virtualitea room’ a pioneer of the internet and certainly the first person to ever put a computer + internet forum in a club. - mega-t) Thanks to Hari Kunzru from Wired magazine at the time.Sir Arthur was speaking at the time of writing his book 3001.
RIP Sir Arthur C Clarke.

i don’t want to pretend to be guillotined but Oculus for...

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:37:39 -0400

i don’t want to pretend to be guillotined but Oculus for Google Street View would be nice

One of the most moving pieces on everyday cyborg life I have ever read is Sharon Lehner’s essay “My...

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:56:05 -0400

One of the most moving pieces on everyday cyborg life I have ever read is Sharon Lehner’s essay “My Womb, the Mosh Pit,” which we published in Sexuality and Cyberspace. In fiercely intimate detail, Sharon described how she was introduced to, made familiar with, and ultimately separated from the fetus of her unborn child, entirely through sonogram images. Certain moments of that story—for example, the nurse’s declaration that Sharon’s fetus had a penis that was “standing like the Statue of Liberty”—still resonate with me as examples of the power of gender performativity. Others, such as Sharon’s lament that she was “mourning the death of an image,” remind me of cyborg theorist Sandy Stone’s comment that asking whether mediated identities are real is similar to “asking where the flame goes once a candle is blown out.”

—Terri Senft

In 1994, I joined a New York City–based text-only bulletin board called Echo, which at the time was...

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:55:21 -0400

In 1994, I joined a New York City–based text-only bulletin board called Echo, which at the time was unique in having a large percentage of women as users. In 1996, with Echo founder Stacy Horn, I co-edited a special issue of the journal Women and Performance, entitled “Sexuality and Cyberspace: Performing the Digital Body.” In that journal, I co-wrote an essay with a transgendered woman named Kaley Davis, who was having more luck passing as a woman offline than online.

In everyday life, her clothing choices, hair styles, and body shape made the switch from Ken to Kaley unmistakable. Online, Kaley was—like the rest of us—nothing more than the words she typed on the screen. Because she had joined Echo as Ken, users—particularly female ones—were reluctant to accept her as the woman she now claimed to be.

—Terri Senft

my home irl

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:17:43 -0400

my home irl

Polytron makes giant projection touchscreens, selectively opaque...

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:44:31 -0400

Polytron makes giant projection touchscreens, selectively opaque glass, holographic glass, LED-impregnated glass, color-changing glass, rainbow glass, and glowing glass. Now, they’ve set their sights on transparent glass smarthphones. (via Polytron, Maker of Switchable Privacy Glass Aims For Transparent Smartphone | Singularity Hub)

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Mon, 13 May 2013 16:32:07 -0400

a rainy day on google street view! i’ve been looking for...

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:11:11 -0400

a rainy day on google street view! i’ve been looking for an example of one for years. via j hermann. see also, gsv at night

Gangnam Style [through Glass] (by Sarah Price)

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:59:36 -0400

Gangnam Style [through Glass] (by Sarah Price)

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Mon, 13 May 2013 13:32:29 -0400

Nanex ~ Order Routing Animation ~ 02-May-2013 ~ JNJ (by...

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:40:42 -0400

Nanex ~ Order Routing Animation ~ 02-May-2013 ~ JNJ (by EricHunsader)

Watch High Frequency Traders (HFT) at the millisecond level jam thousands of quotes in the stock of Johnson and Johnson (JNJ) through our financial networks on May 2, 2013. Video shows 1/2 second of time. If any of the connections are not running perfectly, High Frequency Traders can profit from the price discrepancies that result. There is no economic justification for this abusive behavior.

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