Require free access over the internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research.
∞May 22, 2012
May 21, 2012
May 19, 2012
May 15, 2012
"If you can’t beat laser cat, you probably deserve to die."
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
I can’t believe I’m linking to Giz post. But this line is spot on.
May 8, 2012
May 5, 2012
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Live 1988 (by Phanou75)
Fast forward to 8:12. Ladies and Gentlemen, I have found the lost Liz Lemon saxophone solo of 88’.
∞May 1, 2012
Big Maconomics: How McDonald’s Explains the World
The Big Mac is a triumph of technology.
For thousands of years, families devoted the majority of their lives to food. Their waking hours were spent growing and harvesting crops, and most of their income from growing and harvesting went right back into eating. Deep into the late pre-industrial era, unskilled laborers worked grueling hours in fields to earn an income that could often barely feed their family. ….
The first sentence is true, not for all humans, just for SOME, and certainly not for humans thousands of years ago. Not all humans were perpetually toiling to survive. Possibly the greatest trick that modernity has pulled, is convincing people that they have more control, or buying power, or leisure time. Anthropological research broke this myth apart decades ago. In fact many cultures of the past (and some still today) spent less time engaging in these basic survival pursuits. The Big Mac isn’t a triumph of technology, it’s a tragedy of Capitalism.
∞April 30, 2012
April 28, 2012
∞Ronald Van Der Meijs: Clouds of Knotted Sound
water-filled brass and bronze bowls on turntables. Watch a demo here.
The sound installation consists of two sound bowls. Because the two different sine waves are dueling with each other it creates nodes in the sound field that are audible and visible. These resonance areas can be observed in space by walking around the installation and can be observed with your ears. The visibility of the sound is created by the vibration patterns of the water in the bowls. The installation creates a sculpture of sound.
April 26, 2012
"We live constantly in the shadow of history’s incompleteness.."
Michael Taussig paraphrasing Walter Benjamin
"The tasks which face the human apparatus of perception at the turning point of history cannot be solved by optical means, that is, by contemplation, alone. They are mastered gradually by habit, under the guidance of tactile appropriation."
Walter Benjamin “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
April 25, 2012
1982:
Culture of Fear + Attention Economy = ?!?! by Danah Boyd via @boingboing
(Source: vimeo.com)
∞April 23, 2012
∞There are no walls between Stanford and Silicon Valley. In this week’s issue Ken Auletta asks, should there be? http://nyr.kr/HWXpQw
April 17, 2012
∞“Yo Hologram Tupac, I’m real happy for you and I’mmma let you finish but Obi-Wan Kenobi was one of the best holograms of all time!” (via @kanye)
