December 2007
37 posts
Promise and peril of data-scraping →
Josh McHugh’s Wired feature, “Should Web Giants Let Startups Use the Information They Have About You?,” is a meaty, thinky piece about the many risks of data-scraping. The piece investigates the risks to users (your data, slithering around the net), the risks to scrapers (your business entirely dependent on someone else’s goodwill), and the risks to scrapees (bandwidth...
on my own robin guthrie / Hype Machine MP3 Blog... →
I need this track. Someone help me.
·•Bendito Machine•· →
this stuff rocks
In »SPOMENIK / The End of History« Jan Kempenaers... →
In »SPOMENIK / The End of History« Jan Kempenaers portrays monuments raised by the communist regime in former Yugoslavia.
IAMAS →
Art center in Japan recommended by Zach.
YCAM 山口情報芸術センター - YCAMポータル →
Art center in Japan recommended by Zach.
Chaos Communication Congress begins in Berlin →
Mark O’Neil reminds us all that…
Tomorrow is the start of the 24th annual ‘Chaos Communication Congress’ organized by the Chaos Computer Club here in Berlin, Germany. Anyone is welcome to attend and it is usually quite interesting. The lectures are held in both English and/or German and the conference itself is quite user friendly.
Link
Dress made of meat tests ‘telematic’ jeans concept →
Double Happiness Jeans has an intriguing business plan involving a giant printer, a dress made of meat (images), a sweatshop in Second Life and printable cloth. Actually the meat dress (called the Meat Mini) is just a way to test out the concept of “telematics,” which basically boils down to creating virtual clothes in Second Life, then printing and assembling them in the real world (a.k.a. First...
Radical Software: historic '70s zine about video,... →
A number of early issues of the historic print zine Radical Software are available online. Looks like they’ve been on the web for a few years, but it’s new to me. Snip from background:
[The publication] was started by Beryl Korot, Phyllis Gershuny, and Ira Schneider and first appeared in Spring of 1970, soon after low-cost portable video equipment became available to artists and...
DTV :: All the demoscene on a web TV ! →
I can’t get this to work . Will try again later.
Sleeptracker - Testimonials, Hear What Others Have... →
I’m skeptical but hopeful. What do you think?
Delutube - The Deleted YouTube Video Viewer →
Delutube - The Deleted YouTube Video Viewer When it’s gone, it’s not quite gone
PLUR - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "If... →
PLUR - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“If you don’t start showing some peace, love, and unity, I’ll break your fucking faces”
[from jamiew] YouTomb →
Tracking taken down YouTube videos, and why — via Kevin Driscoll bookmark this on del.icio.us - posted by jamiew to youtube video legal copyright - more about this bookmark…
Tony-B Machine: The most awesome flash music game... →
From France comes Tony B Machine, which pisses on Rave Generator and Punk-O-Matic from a great height. If you’ve ever wanted to make really awful trance/pop using a Whigfield sample, then this essential. The interface is awesome, and you can sequence your button pushes on a grid, then release your ‘recordings’ in an album. Here’s hoping that Tony B decides to put his...
Stanley Kubrick S Is For Stanley t-shirt →
There are plenty of Clockwork Orange t-shirts around, but here’s one in tribute to the man behind it - the S Is For Stanley t-shirt. Stanley is of course Stanley Kubrick and the t-shirt os the work of London-based graphic artist JAKe, known for his portraits of artists like Massive Attack, Beastie Boys and Oasis, along with design work for Steinski / Sugarhill Records, and Lucasfilm (...
Prisoner Christmas →
Prepare yourself: This Christmas, the Professor Brothers are breaking out of academia and into a lil’ ditty about jailbirds.
SpaceCollective →
Mike says to look at this.
Remote Labor Systems: Cross Border Telepresence,... →
Stephanie says this is the inspiration for Invisible Threads.
Interview with Forays: Geraldine Juárez and Adam... →
Forays is a low profile (that’s their words) artist group strung somewhere between New York and Montreal whose work focuses on the research and creation of open-source minor architectures and low-tech modifications of everyday life. Forays is Adam Bobette and Geraldine Juárez. Geraldine Juarez is a self-taught designer and an artist from Mexico City based in Brooklyn, New York where she is...
we make money not art →
Jerry makes it to WMMNA!
Sno-baller is about 4 billion years overdue →
So the earth is around 4 billion years old? Well, that is 4 billion sad and unfortunate years that this device has not existed, but it should have. The Sno-baller is the cherry on top of the lazy sundae that is the human civilization. Rather than having to ball up awkwardly shaped snow balls on your own, this quick device will do it for you. The Sno-baller operates similar to a pair of scissors....
George Saunders on Bookworm →
George is going to be on NPR’s Bookworm to talk about the construction and the beauty of the short story, airling live on 12/27. You can listen to it here, on KCRW’s website. …
Film & Events — Sundance Film Festival →
Wooo I’m on page 64 of the Film Guide - except they spelled my name wrong. Search for “Jeffery”
Hating It Fashion: Olsen Sisters Targeted By... →
Mary-Kate, and Ashley, two sisters with three names, are getting torn to shreds by animal-rights activists for their fur line of clothing. This is one of the hating it photos they are putting out of the twins. Sort of paints them as psyco dahmer-ettes.
Twin Killers
Password Management Hardware →
is cool
HAY SUP →
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picture: dunno source, via our lolcat builder. lol caption: Snubs
Facebook Business Solutions →
Emily’s been working on a piece about Facebook’s creepy Beacon software (you probably heard about it in the news). But in the midst of the controversy Facebook has taken the marketing of social networking profiles to a whole new low with facebookbusinesssolutions.com. Did they think we wouldn’t notice?
It starts with Facebook Surf and goes downhill from there:
Facebook Surf
Keep track of your...
MindQuest.mov (video/quicktime Object) →
Double Happiness Manufacturing →
Double Happiness Manufacturing is a project of Invisible Threads - a collaboration between Jeff Crouse and Stephanie Rothenberg. Certified as an ISO-9001 & 14001 manufacturer, Double Happiness produces fashionable jeans in a state-of-the-art telematic manufacturing factory in Second Life.
As Second Life becomes more populated, the price of virtual land increases, becoming the game’s idealized...
Episode #5 →
Episode #5 →
Tim and Eric get into the spirit of the holiday season with a master gingerbread house builder… then all hell breaks loose! Catch all the violent action right here!
Just got to work
and I have 20 emergencies. Why am I messing around with this?