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14-minute video of Jamais Cascio speaking at the Activate...

14-minute video of Jamais Cascio speaking at the Activate conference, demanding money from fellow speakers and terrifying people with his shoes while talking about the futures of the internet. Is very good.

RED LIGHT PROPERTIES

I was going to cover this a while back, but, frankly, the site was so badly busted as to make it unusable. All fixed now, I've just been told. So allow me to introduce you to Dan Goldman's new webcomic RED LIGHT PROPERTIES:

Welcome to Red Light Properties, a tropical-horror series about a group of Miami-based realty office specializing in placing foreclosure victims into "previously-haunted homes" at prices well-below market value. With his recently-ex-wife Cecilia at the helm as the office's...

How in the hell did I not notice until last night that Ch...

How in the hell did I not notice until last night that China Mieville has a blog?

I See Dead Things Everywhere Today

Future Perfect » Sincerity at the Point of

Ambassador avatars from the ghost world of the bank.  The bank is an institution that is mostly invisible, as it is built on electronic transactions, notional money.  And it was built by your ancestors.  This is the earthly instantiation of the realm of the dead telling you your bank account's buggered. But respectfully. Because you are merely...

David Benque's Acoustic Botany

David Benque's Acoustic Botany –
"RCA graduate David Benqué proposes a future where genetic engineering and synthetic biology are used to not only to address vital issues like the environment, health and the food supply, but also to extend the age-old inclination f humans to shape our environment to suit our aesthetic desires. Working specifically with the bio-engineering of plants and referencing flower gardens, drug cultivation, and agricultural grafting, Benqué imagines an...

The new RxRy EP, MEMORY LANDSCAPES, is rather pretty, a s...

The new RxRy EP, MEMORY LANDSCAPES, is rather pretty, a sketch of the summer we didn't quite have (at least over here in the UK). And it's free. You kind of want to write liner text for it that is a list of bullet points of things that reflect off the shiny notes.

One Day

One day, little notebook with an Internet tv show in it. One day.

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Appazine

Someone said to me the other day, "the way to do a niche magazine now would be as an app." And I had my little kneejerk reaction in my head of "noooo damn you i wants paper paper is my precious" etc and bleeding so forth.

And then I looked at the internets (yeah, I know, "i wants paper" and then I look at the internets) and saw that, as of April this year, 50 million iPhones and 35 million iPod Touches are said to have been sold. And 3 million iPads as of June. Assuming that a lot of...

Bidding is still running on these beautiful Eliza Gauger ...

Bidding is still running on these beautiful Eliza Gauger art pieces.