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May 18, 2010
Walking Architecture, NearlyNet, Mujicomp
Matt Jones for BERG brings the big science.
(Again, helpfully/annoyingly, tying into the essay thing I started over the weekend.)
It's very good.
It's a bunch of thinking about how designers (and BERG in particular) might start thinking through making products for 'smart cities' (as they're known for good and for ill) including the qualities that these products should possess in order for them to be invited into people's homes – something we've started calling'mujicomp'as shorthand in the...
Links for 2010-05-17
"About a month and a half after its last double flyby, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be turning another double play this week, visiting the geyser moon Enceladus and the hazy moon Titan. The alignment of the moons means that Cassini can catch glimpses of these two contrasting worlds within less than 48 hours, with no maneuver in between."
(tags:space )Ecologies of Excess
Whereas traditional patterns of urbanity sought to settle away from trash...
SPARKLINE: Surgical Club
His wife hadn't seen him naked in ten years. An open relationship that was dead at the heart, by all accounts. She couldn't explain the membership card for a "surgical club" in his wallet, nor the unusual scarring around his chest. Nor the seam that popped open to reveal a swing-wing ribcage. People wondered out loud about the nature of the "club" when they saw the UV tribal-style tattoos on his heart. Vaginal-fluid fingerprints on the aorta. Only when they saw the badly-reconnected...
Ghost Box: The Study Series
Received in email from Ghost Box Records:
Ghost Box is about to embark on a series of 7" and download singles. Provisionally titled the Study Series, these records will feature new material from Ghost Box artists with special guests and collaborators. So far contributors include Mordant Music, Moon Wiring Club, Hong Kong in the 60s, Seeland, James Cargill and Trish Keenan. We hope to release the first two singles at the end of June.
May 17, 2010
Night Music: Bslydr Hkyrs
I don't know what in hell mp3zulu is, and I wouldn't advise you click on them. But nonetheless they've put up a bit of Rxry, and I wanted to play a bit of Rxry because they very kindly emailed me three pieces off their next album earlier today. And they were very good. So here's this. G'night.
Links for 2010-05-17
"Although caffeine is the most widely consumed psychoactive drug worldwide, its potential beneficial effect for maintenance of proper brain functioning has only recently begun to be adequately appreciated. Substantial evidence from epidemiological studies and fundamental research in animal models suggests that caffeine may be protective against the cognitive decline seen in dementia and...
Systems
I don't have much that you'd recognise as a daily routine. Aside from one thing. The pub.
Within an hour or so of rolling out of bed, I stagger to the pub round the corner, buy three cans of Red Bull, and sit outside in the pub's smoking compound to drink them and have six or seven cigarettes. I have a terminal allergy to common housedust, and need to get out in the air for a good ninety minutes every day. So I sit there, caffeinate, push some smoke around my system, and read and...
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