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Music (& film) posters by Tadanori Yokoo
via Pink Tentacle by Edo on June 23, 2008
... [Enlarge]Tangerine Dream, 1976 [Enlarge]Beatles - Star Club, 1977 [Enlarge]Cochin Moon, 1978 [Enlarge]Holst - The Planets, 1979 [Enlarge]Earth, Wind & Fire, 1993 [Enlarge]* * * * *Yokoo is also known to have designed the occasional movie poster, including these three psychedelic beauties for Roger Corman’s “The Trip.”The Trip, 1968 [Enlarge]The Trip, 1968 [Enlarge]The Trip, 1968 [Enlarge]
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Vacuum Virtual Machine
via we make money not art by Regine on June 24, 2008
Yet another project i liked at the exhibition Banquete_nodos y redes which is currently running at LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre in Gijón, Spain. Vacuum Virtual Machine nevertheless required me to sit down and read carefully (twice, at least twice) what it is about. This graphic software explores and visualizes the changing reticular self-organization of atoms and molecules. The...
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U.S. School District to Begin RFID Tracking Students
via Black Listed News by (author unknown) on June 16, 2008
A Rhode Island school district has announced a pilot program to monitor student movements by means of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips implanted in their schoolbags
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Over-surveillance makes it harder to fight crime
via Boing Boing by (author unknown) on June 17, 2008
Shared by Nick intelligence is filtering information, not gathering it. but the governments want submission, not security (that's the selling point)My latest Guardian column "Surveillance: You can know too much," explains how collecting too much information on innocent people makes it harder to catch guilty ones:At a certain point, data gathered to predict the weather overwhelms your...
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Guantanamo museum and other tales of extraordinary rendition at Helga de Alvear gallery in Madrid
via we make money not art by Regine on June 15, 2008
The Helga de Alvear gallery in Madrid is currently running a (very timely) exhibition on the controversial topic of Extraordinary Rendition. The expression was coined by the Bush administration to define new legal measures designed to sidestep the existing Human Rights system and deprive some individuals from its protection in the name of the fight against terrorism.Detainees at Camp X-Ray, at...
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TODAY: visualized personal mobile communication
via swissmiss by swissmiss on June 02, 2008
TODAY is a piece of generative design for mobile phones. It’s an application that visualizes personal mobile communication. It sits on the periphery of the machine, monitoring our connectivity through the number and type of calls we receive, subtly displaying them back to us, in the form of a generative graphic. Here, the visual result is a figurative and seemingly abstract picture – the...
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Indispensible unit converter.
via swissmiss by swissmiss on June 02, 2008
SensibleUnits.com (via bblinks / via b3ta.com)
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Dungeons And Dragons Goes Interactive
via Mashable! by Sean P. Aune on May 20, 2008
... the gaming world.---Related Articles at Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog:Fluid Entertainment Gets $3.2 M for Kids’ Social GamesScripps to Spin Off Interactive UnitThank You!Need a Social App? Mashable Recommends Aux InteractiveFox Interactive Acquisition of Photobucket Approved by FTCWeb 2.0 Marketplace Listings for September 6, 2007Web 2.0 Marketplace Listings for September 1st, 2007
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NexusFile - Putting Windows Explorer out of its misery
via Download Squad by Drew Olanoff on June 02, 2008
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Productivity, SearchWhat's one of the worst things about Windows? The explorer function to find folders, documents, and pictures of your cat doing funny things.NexusFile aims to replace Windows Explorer. Here are some of the cool features that NexusFile sports that the Windows team left out on Explorer:Favorite FoldersTab support - This is a big productivity...
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Goosh: Making Web 2.0 Look Like DOS 2.0
via Mashable! by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins on June 02, 2008
A lot of hay has been made from the notion that the Web is the new platform, and that at some point we’ll just be booting up our computers to a web interface, and be done with it. The problem with that, or at least one of the problems with that, for old technology veterans like myself is that we’d miss desparately our command line access. Now, thanks to Stefan Grothkopp (and the anonymous...
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