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Atompunk Prologue Party

sat. april 4 2009 (((I missed it! Darn!)))

PLANETART Medialab Artspace

Wibautstraat 150 Amsterdam NL

20-03 u admission: zero euro (((price is right!)))

ATOMPUNK: Exploring the atom era

first of a series of presentations in PLANETART Amsterdam as prologue to the GOGBOT festival Enschede 10-13 sept. 09, edition Atompunk.

film:

'Future by design', part 1

documentary about the work and ideas of Jacques Fresno, futurist, inventor. http://www.futurebydesi

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"Listen to Zomby tunes like Spaceman and Aquafresh (off his recent 7-track EP for Hyperdub) and it's like someone's taken the monochrome diagram that is dubstep's rhythmic grid and scrawled woozily all over it with fluorescent marker pens." -- Simon Reynolds (((who else)))

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/mar/05/wonky-ketamine-dubstep-zomby

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/03/nicolas-sarkozy-barack-obama

*Can't help it, I'm rooting for the chick who married the weird foreigner.

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*I'd love to see somebody sell a few metric tons of Brussels-approved
european cyberspace.

--EU Calls For Development of Strategy to Protect European Cyber Space (31st March 2009)

The European Commission has called for the development of a strategy to protect Europe from disruption to critical networks resulting from cyber attacks or natural disasters. The EC highlights that the region is becoming more and more dependent on the continuous availability of IT and communications systems for s

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*I'd be a happy guy to see publishing changed for the better. Even if it
was a "worthwhile Canadian initiative."

*A long speech. Then again, reading books requires sitting still a long time,
even if you're got a Handheld Jesus Reader.

http://blip.tv/file/1894592/

*Electronic book readers still have "Date Repulsion Mode." Not
quite so bad as homemade Trek jewelry, but right on down there.

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http://www.flickr.com/groups/postopolis_la/pool/

*Worth it just to spot Regine Debatty's new hairdo.

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AFFIDAVIT OF __________________

STATE OF _____________

COUNTY OF ___________

STATE OF ____________

NATION OF _____________

Before me, the undersigned notary public, (((if you happen to have one of these notary people around, they can be legally handy))) personally appeared ________________ and on his/her oath declared as follows:

1. My name is _______________________. I am over the age of 21 years and am fully competent to make this affidavit. I have personal knowledge

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The "Exotic Enemies Do Get Married" Campaign

by Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic

Surprising news has just arrived for us at our American home address. Although we have been married for four years now, the American Immigration services can't find any paper trail for the two of us.

We have no joint bank account, no insurance accounts and no joint children. The authorities therefore suspect that our marriage is a phony "Green Card marriage," and they would like to have Jasmina deported

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Comunidad Autinoma #18, Ballenas Flotantes - with "Beluga Row"
Teatro del Circulo de Bellas Artes
C/Castillo 43 Santa Cruz de Tenerife,
Canary Islands

Solo exhibit by Jed Berk.

Dates: 04.05.2009 - 05.09.2009

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*What a great climate-crisis app! With this post-disaster infoviz program, future real-estate
agents will be able to fully annotate, describe and sell tomorrow's highly affordable "informal architecture"
(formally known as "urban rubble").

*I hope the crew at Postopolis Los Angeles have been informed.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/23257/

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