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new-aesthetic: “Verso Books have offered Rhizome readers in the...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:45:12 -0400

“Verso Books have offered Rhizome readers in the UK a chance to win a 3D printed Guy Debord action figure.”

(via Front Page)”>Rhizome | Guy Debord Limited Edition Action Figure Giveaway)

Some Refs and Quotes: Neo-colonialism, 21st century style

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:40:30 -0400

Some Refs and Quotes: Neo-colonialism, 21st century style:

refsandquotes:

“..the ways in which musicians are screwed have changed qualitatively, from individualized swindles to systemic ones.” (Replace “musicians” with “anybody doing anything creative” and then include “individual designers who created the technology” and you have a creature that unconsciously feeds its own young to predators.) {Take back the whole idea of “sharing” and make it our own.} >

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-15/what-googles-move-against-spotify-could-mean-for-music

Photo

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:25:46 -0400

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:34:08 -0400

Numbers stations are mysterious shortwave radio channels of...

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:33:11 -0400

Numbers stations are mysterious shortwave radio channels of indiscernible origin that exist in countries all across the world and have been reported since World War 1. They are identifiable by the unusual contents of their broadcasts: seemingly random sequences of numbers, words, letters, tunes, and Morse code, usually spoken by artificially generated voices of women and children.

The most common theory regarding the purpose of these bizarre stations is that they’re used by governments the world over to secretly transmit encrypted commands and messages to spies. That said, even though numbers stations have been discovered all over the globe and in any number of different languages, no government has ever officially acknowledged their existence. While the espionage theory is a logical one, with no official confirmation of their purpose the jury is still out.

One particularly odd station, UVB-76, has existed since the late 1970s and has broadcast a simple, repetitive buzzing tone 24 hours a day ever since. On very rare occasions, however, listeners have reported a Russian voice interrupting the buzz to read out sequences of numbers and words, always in a consistent format — this happened once in 1997, once in 2002, once in 2006, 56 times in 2010, and 14 in 2011. As with all numbers stations, its true purpose is and will probably remain unknown, but the increase in frequency of whatever it’s doing is certainly odd.

You can listen to well over 100 recordings of numbers stations for free on archive.org but be forewarned that they’re all kind of, well, eerie. They feel like something you shouldn’t be listening to, which stands to reason since apparently you’re not supposed to know they exist.

Wikipedia — live changes

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:57:00 -0400

Wikipedia — live changes

new-aesthetic: “These are paintings which know that they will...

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:22:39 -0400

new-aesthetic:

“These are paintings which know that they will be Googled as well as seen. It’s not at all hard to imagine someone stood in front of another C-M-Y-K painting, ‘Give You My Lovin’’ (2012), smartphone in hand, listening to the song the title refers to.”

Techno-primitivism | The White Review

stochasticplanet: 50.216119°N, 98.920047°W east of Gladstone,...

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:21:40 -0400

stochasticplanet:

50.216119°N, 98.920047°W
east of Gladstone, Manitoba, Canada

photo by Elaine DeBock

ifway: rerun

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:38:02 -0400

ifway:

rerun

"There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:01:52 -0400

“There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes involving computers? How do we make concrete, or at least reconstructable in the minds of our readers, the terrible, true passions that cross telephony lines? Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing.”

- ACM Web Science talk, as written | Quinn Said (via new-aesthetic)
*Yeah, I wuz just talkin’ to the woman who runs my favorite laundromat about that, actually.

Droning down feral pigs in Louisiana.

Sat, 04 May 2013 15:07:00 -0400

Droning down feral pigs in Louisiana.

stochasticplanet: 44.917902°N, 14.457755°E Loznati, island of...

Sat, 04 May 2013 14:16:24 -0400

stochasticplanet:

44.917902°N, 14.457755°E
Loznati, island of Cres, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia

photo by hmorbitzer

Early cyberspace creatures. (“The flow of electricity in...

Sat, 04 May 2013 02:23:57 -0400

Early cyberspace creatures. (“The flow of electricity in the wire makes it possible to hear what Mr. Mann is saying.”)

new-aesthetic: “Sam Bland has spent a lot of time with Google...

Thu, 02 May 2013 21:49:52 -0400

new-aesthetic:

“Sam Bland has spent a lot of time with Google Goggles. He’s learned how it sees the world and how it communicates — they play games together. Goggles is the image search feature in the Google mobile app, and by layering the app’s best attempts to match his photos, Bland has created an artistic view of the world as seen through Google’s eyes. His first experiment with it, for example, was a picture he took of a tennis racket. Google sent back a series of pictures that, while similar in tone and shape, had nothing to do with tennis. There was a polar bear, a nuclear missile launch and stock photo of a box of pills, among other things. Instead of being disappointed, Bland was fascinated. He liked that Google was confused.”

Google Is Alive, It Has Eyes, and This Is What It Sees | Raw File | Wired.com

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:46:49 -0400

new-aesthetic: “Designed and built for the launch of COLORS #86...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:26:19 -0400

new-aesthetic:

“Designed and built for the launch of COLORS #86 - Making the News, the COLORS News Machine churns your tweets through different media filters and into print, simulating the contemporary 24-hour news cycle.”

The COLORS #86 News Machine (by COLORS Magazine)

Half the [garbled] in [garbled], [garbled] and [garbled] contains [garbled] errors.

"{I have|I’ve} been {surfing|browsing} online more than {three|3|2|4} hours today, yet I never found..."

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:24:26 -0400

“{I have|I’ve} been {surfing|browsing} online more than {three|3|2|4} hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours. {It’s|It
is} pretty worth enough for me. {In my opinion|Personally|In my view}, if all {webmasters|site owners|website owners|web owners} and bloggers made good content as
you did, the {internet|net|web} will be {much more|a lot more}
useful than ever before.|
I {couldn’t|could not} {resist|refrain from} commenting. {Very well|Perfectly|Well|Exceptionally well} written!|
{I will|I’ll} {right away|immediately} {take hold of|grab|clutch|grasp|seize|snatch}
your {rss|rss feed} as I {can not|can’t} {in finding|find|to find} your {email|e-mail} subscription {link|hyperlink} or {newsletter|e-newsletter} service. Do {you have|you’ve} any?
{Please|Kindly} {allow|permit|let} me {realize|recognize|understand|recognise|know} {so that|in order that} I {may just|may|could} subscribe.
Thanks.|”

- Evil Blog Comment Spammer just exposed his template through some error and the whole thing showed up in my comments. [Extract] (via new-aesthetic)

“Was faintly annoyed at just how interesting I found the...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:47:27 -0400

“Was faintly annoyed at just how interesting I found the experience.” - William Gibson on having tried Google Glass, if only for a few seconds

"The situation is very fluid … There was a misunderstanding, I mean, that was said to me, not so much..."

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:36:00 -0400

“The situation is very fluid … There was a misunderstanding, I mean, that was said to me, not so much that we have misunderstood but that there has been a misunderstanding and lots of cross-communications and understandably, as law enforcement tries to work through this, what they’ve got, who it is, what the purpose of that is, and what the next steps are. So, I myself have had conflicting reports, and I wanted just to be clear with you that they think that’s a result of the chaos and the quickly unfolding law-enforcement situation up in Boston.” - Fran Townsend, former Homeland Security adviser to George W. Bush and now professional television “contributor””

- “Total Noise,” Only Louder

nevver: Hide and seek “He walked outside and saw blood”...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:09:59 -0400

nevver:

Hide and seek

“He walked outside and saw blood” - Boston police commissioner, Edward Davis