prosthetic knowledge
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“ But England is not Latin America, and its riots are not political, or so we keep hearing. They are just about lawless kids taking advantage of a situation to take what isn’t theirs. And British society, Cameron tells us, abhors that kind of behavior.
This is said in all seriousness. As if the massive bank bailouts never happened, followed by the defiant record bonuses. Followed by the emergency G-8 and G-20 meetings, when the leaders decided, collectively, not to do anything to punish the bankers for any of this, nor to do anything serious to prevent a similar crisis from happening again. Instead they would all go home to their respective countries and force sacrifices on the most vulnerable. They would do this by firing public sector workers, scapegoating teachers, closing libraries, upping tuitions, rolling back union contracts, creating rush privatizations of public assets and decreasing pensions – mix the cocktail for where you live. And who is on television lecturing about the need to give up these “entitlements”? The bankers and hedge-fund managers, of course.
This is the global Saqueo, a time of great taking. Fueled by a pathological sense of entitlement, this looting has all been done with the lights left on, as if there was nothing at all to hide. There are some nagging fears, however. In early July, the Wall Street Journal, citing a new poll, reported that 94 percent of millionaires were afraid of “violence in the streets.” This, it turns out, was a reasonable fear.
”— Naomi Klein, extract from the article, “Daylight Robbery, Meet Nighttime Robbery” -
What an Astronaut’s Camera Sees via SpaceRip
Really worth watching in HD:
An intimate tour… in 1080p… of Earth’s most impressive landscapes… as captured by astronauts with their digital cameras. Dr. Justin Wilkinson from NASA’s astronaut team describes the special places that spacemen focus on whenever they get a moment.
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Vladimir Zhirinovsky let’s the cat out of the bag on Scalar Weapons?? (via existentialvaccum)
“A top Duma political leader caused shock waves in a recent television interview when he warned that Russia could deploy an arsenal of new technology to “destroy any part of the planet” and kill over a hundred million people using secret weather weapons if the United States, the UN or Georgia tried to stop Russia’s entry into the WTO.”
slabbb-blockkk-hilarious: Yep. Oops!
Me: ?!?!?!
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Project: Hoxtron (working title) via Play-Create
This is great:
This is a project that has been sitting on my hard-disk for a while now that I’ve been working on with my audio-engineer friend Nick Ryan. The idea is to create a tool that allows novice users to easily create a sound landscape that responds to their favourite music in a unique way. It’s basically a configurable 3D spectrum analyser. I intend to develop this project over the next few months, and open it up to community participation. I’m also working on an iphone/ios player version, and the final web version will probably be HTML5. More soon!
It isn’t finished, but the demo on this page is an absolute digital beauty - minimal, but effective. You can use the mouse to roam the soundscape.
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Daily chart: global alcohol consumption. In 2005, the world drank 6.5 litres of pure alcohol per person. Moldovans drink more than anyone else, beating the Czechs into second place. 30% of the world’s liquor was brewed at home.
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Visualization of Friendships around the world in Facebook
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An existential term a day.
dasein: being-in-the-world. Ideally, should be open to one’s past and future as well as one’s present. (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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Traveling Denim - Recording color fade for two years by Takayuki Akachi
This is a documentary film that a girl wearing denim traveled over 50 countries in two years.
The denim walks freely in the world, meets people, changes and fades. -
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The internets are so blurry we’re going to have to wear (3D) shades. (sorry - sometimes I have to)
It would be extremely interesting to see/hear what google has planned for the future of the Internet. I’ll bet that this project will go nicely with their Google TV announcement the other day. Watching 3D IPTV content served from Google in their own Chromium Browser.
At the end of all of this, Google is going to put this world on steroids. Phones, Books, TV, Power, ISP, GPS, Streets, Goggles, Translation and of course Advertising. They are lighting things up.
“Google has launched a new project for Chrome that will let the browser run a wider range of 3D graphics content without downloading additional drivers.
The open-source project, called ANGLE (Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine), seeks to let Chromium run WebGL content on Windows computers, wrote product manager Henry Bridge on the Chromium blog.”
Google Launches 3D Graphics Driver Project for Chrome - PCWorld
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EXPO 70 in Black and White by nyclondonguy
Part of a collection of images used in an article at Pink Tentacle, about the 1970 World’s Fair — a.k.a. Expo ‘70 — which opened in Osaka 40 years ago this week.
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Erebus by Georgios Cherouvim
There once used to be a small but beautiful blue rock somewhere within the vast void of the universe. Life appeared on its crust relatively fast and as usual through out the evolution, one of the species dominated the rest, by forming complex societies to overcome its primordial survival needs. The dominant inhabitants progressed technologically, excelled in many different fields within their closed society and managed to build establishments on every corner of the planet’s terrain. But during the process of solving these initial problems and building their dream utopia, more problems would arise faster than before, making their daily lives gradually more and more complicated. The time came when their overcomplicated society demanded so much devotion, that they stopped questioning other, more fundamental issues. It was then, when they even stopped looking up the sky. The sky that once used to inspire and guide them will now bring them disaster and Erebus. -
World Progress Report
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