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*Evgeny Morozov is making some great points here. There was a day when backward local governments were caught flatfooted by fax machines and 1200 baud modems, but that was then, and this is definitely now.

*After getting scorched by Twitter last season, the Iranians are breaking new ground in using the Net to screw with their offshore diaspora. It'll be particularly interesting when people like the Belarus regime get it together to firewall their own country, and then digitally oppress the ...

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*Got some guidebook/AR crossover, urban-informatics action here. Looks like a significant development.

http://www.mobilizy.com/enaugmenting-travelers-lonely-planet-mobilizy

Augmenting Travelers – Lonely Planet and Mobilizy

December 9th, 2009

Lonely Planet, the world's favorite travel company, has teamed up with mobile augmented reality pioneer Mobilizy to bring a world-class mobile AR experience to their renowned travel guides. Whether you are a seasoned traveller or fledgling explorer...

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*Y'know, it's probably the very DIRT-SIMPLE STUPIDITY of this scheme that succeeded in reaping thousands of passwords for the malefactors here.

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*"Fedbizopps"? Oh, for heaven's sake, guys…

Comprehensive Interior Reconnaissance (CIR)

BAA09-38

Posted Date: March 31, 2009

Response Date: March 30, 2010

Archive Date: March 31, 2010

Fedbizopps Reference

Description

The intent of this solicitation, DARPA-BAA-09-38, Comprehensive Interior Reconnaissance, is to investigate technological approaches that leverage building infrastructure to opportunistically collect information for interior awareness. DARPA believes that opportunistic sensing may...

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*D J Ladida."Being Free." She's from Prague.

Dj Ladida-Being free

LADIDA | MySpace Music Videos

*A nice thing to watch while reading Vaclav Havel's latest memoirs, "To the Castle and Back."

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*I'd like to see Nicole Stott do a book about her space station experiences. She's quite a thoughtful, closely observant, well-spoken person. People who read her extensive remarks on the DWELL website seemed impressed by the gravity of Nicole's zero-gravity lifestyle up there.

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=187110202354

Notes from Nicole Stott Post-Landing Interview

Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 6:33am

The space station just got more beautiful.

(On returning) I think the initial...

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*Well, it's a baby industry, and those gizmos are still hacker toys rather than the thundering, world-warping hardware of an Internet-of-Things.

*Pretty nifty hacker toys, though.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_internet_of_things_products_of_2009.php

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*Especially liking the woodworms around 2:40. via @generatorx

Zimoun : Sound Sculptures & Installations | Compilation Video V1.5 from ZIMOUN VIDEO ARCHIVE on Vimeo.

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*It's like a French village art festival for with-it multimedia. Man, only in Europe.

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*Uh-oh. Massive AR stirrings in Mountain View. Not just locative pop-ups, but real-world image search and recognition in real time.

*And it's on Android.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/07/google-goggles/

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