Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 633
June 8, 2010
Spime Watch: Internet of Things devices
*Internet of Things — real opportunity, or toys for hackers? The answer is still "toys for hackers," but they are bigger, more capable, and there are more of them.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/6_geeky_devices_connecting_the_internet_to_your_things.php
"It's time for a roundup of the latest read/write devices that Internet of Things geeks are using to program our future. (((Oh boy.))) We're doing this in part because today IBM announced the free open-sourced Mote Runner Software...
Augmented Reality: L'Echangeur Augmente la Réalité, June 2010
*Hefty French augmented reality gig. It's got Total Immersion, Ogmento, Layar and even Pachube kicking in. Not to mention onsite demos from Int13 and Metaio.
http://www.amiando.com/AREchangeur.html
L'Echangeur Augmente la Réalité
Réel ou virtuel. Nouvelle dimension, nouvelle perception, nouvelle réalité. Depuis quelques années, l'Echangeur montre des exemples d'usage d'une technologie qui permet, instantanément, la superposition d'informations virtuelles sur le réel : la réalité augmentée...
Spime Watch: Trapped by Anna Trapenciere
http://annatrap.lv/trapped/trapped_v21.html
"inspired by Rob van Kranenburg and Bruce Sterling, project trapped is an idea of the internet of things created in the most private place i could think of - my home.
"within trapped i have tagged over 40 objects/data-carriers at my home (such as coffee mug, sugar, basil, my dog Nelle etc.) and equipped myself with an rfid reader. whenever i am home, anyone with an internet access can trace my actions and see the somewhat intimate communication among ...
The latest DOORS OF PERCEPTION
*Might cut the endless, steadily mounting gloom from oil-soaked American shores.
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The James Lovelock of grasslands - ...
The Social Network Users' Bill of Rights
*Well, it might be an organizational step forward from the squalid, autocratic favelas that are current social networks.
http://cfp.acm.org/wordpress/?p=341
"It's time for a Social Network Users' Bill of Rights
"It's time for a Social Network Users' Bill of Rights — and CFP's the perfect place to create one.
"A broadly-recognized social network users' bill of rights will be a huge step forward for online freedom and privacy. For me, and hundreds of millions of others, sites like Facebook...
Musica Globalista: Shanghai Techno
*B6 live at The Shelter, Shanghai, 2008:
*Jinbaobab:
"Jinbaobab's music career started as a member of a three person punk rock group. He switched to electronic music in 2007 after convincing his mother to buy him some introductory software and equipment. He lives in a compound with the families of Changsha police officers. The name "Dormancy Oatmeal" comes from a time in Jinbaobab's life where he didn't leave the house much and ate oatmeal everyday."
http://expoartists.com/music/jinbaobab
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World's biggest computer embezzler gets his innings
*This oughta be pretty good. A big financial show-trial from an ambitious minor clerk who figured out how to push undocumented buttons.
*The French might let Kerviel off. They like him. And who can't hate a banker, these days? The financiers lost a trillion almost overnight, and now they're keen to destroy entire European countries. To the lanterne, financial aristocrats.
"If you...
Meanwhile, in Somalia
*Nice to see that the jihad has become as globalized as capitalism. What with a banking crisis and the euro possibly breaking up, the disorder might get more globalized than the New World Order.
*Kind of a good thing that this way of life is so relatively unattractive. Unless you're sixteen, male, ticked-off, and they give you a gun, that is.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/07/somalia-civil-war-al-qaida
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Foreign backing
Just as the government receives military and financial support f...
June 7, 2010
Spime Watch: Stickybits Pepsi Spimes
*Pepsi. Well, that's a change from the increasingly cliched coded winebottle.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/07/stickybits-pepsi/
"Seth Goldstein, the chairman and co-founder of Stickybits, described the progression of media on the Internet this morning at the Conversational Marketing Summit in New York City. In 1996, Webpages became media. In 2001, search became media. In 2005, people became media. In 2007, status updates became media. Last year, places became media. And in 2010, he predicts, ...
Showtime: Cibelle, 'Man from Mars,' Live
*Really glad that our Martian songbird didn't get Brazilectronocuted right on the spot.
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