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Here Comes FutureEverything

*Might help Britons get over the trauma of the election.

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The FutureEverything conference for 2010 is our best and most ambitious yet. We are also delighted to present the world's best speakers under our conference themes of ImagineEverything, Unlimited Connectivity, Open Data and The City Experiment.

13-14 May 2010
Contact, Oxford ...

The Tea Party Contract From America

*Or, crowdsourced right-wing American ideology circa 2010.

http://www.thecontract.org/

"About Us

"The Contract from America is a grassroots-generated, crowd-sourced, bottom-up call for real economic conservative and good governance reform in Congress.

"The Contract from America initiative was developed within the decentralized tea party and 912 movements. Ryan Hecker, a Houston Tea Party Society activist, developed the concept of creating a grassroots-generated call for reform prior to the April ...

Augmented Reality: Squatting Supermarket in Torino

*I reckon I'll be dropping by to squat.

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Newsletter 05.05.2010
Piemonte Share - SMIR: Squatting Supermarket

Dead Media Beat: analog journalism

http://www.mndaily.com/2010/05/02/journalism-professor-asks-students-unplug

Journalism professor asks students to unplug

Students were told to go five days without modern technology.

PUBLISHED: 05/02/2010

BY BRENT RENNEKE

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Last month, Heather LaMarre, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, asked the students in her principles of strategic communication course to go five days without using technology created after 1984.

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Also, the assignment enlightened the...

Ice sculptures made with routers

*If you're in the ice-sculpting biz and you come across one of these CNC fabulations, it must really bring out your inner Luddite.

http://www.icerouter.net/FAQ.html

Palin intruder guilty, guilty, guilty

*Oh, there were those among us having a jolly laugh at his prank at the time, and now a ton of ugly legal bricks are gonna fall on the clever head of keyboard-tappin' political hackerboy here. I hope he kept his happy scrapbooks of the stunt that made him a felon.

via SANS

–Kernell Guilty on Two of Four Charges in Palin eMail Intrusion Case

(April 30, 2010)

Former University of Tennessee student David Kernell has been found
guilty on two of four counts in a case regarding his having broken into

Arphid Watch: class attendance

*I know it's natural to assume that anything happening in Arizona these days must be insane by definition, but….

http://badgerherald.com/news/2010/05/04/ariz_college_to_posi.php

Students at Northern Arizona University will have a hard time skipping large classes next fall because of a new attendance monitoring system.

The new system will use sensors to detect students' university identification cards when they enter classrooms, according to NAU spokesperson Tom Bauer. The data will be recorded a...

Deviant Globalization

*Yep, you see it every day…

From: Stewart Brand

Subject: The anti-state economy (Nils Gilman talk)

Gilman described deviant globalization as "the unpleasant underside of transnational integration."

There's nice tourism, and then sex tourism, such as in Thailand and Switzerland. The vast pharmacology industry is matched by a vast traffic in illegal drugs. The underside of waste disposal is the criminal dumping in the developing world of toxic wastes from the developed world.

Military...

Banning the Arabian Nights

*Yeah, because a centuries-old literary heritage is a threat to conservatism.

http://akhondofswat.blogspot.com/2010/05/bs-column-offended-in-egypt-1001-nights.html

*A lot like watching the Attorney General of Virginia flip out over the nudity of Virtue on the State Seal.

http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-local_tamara_0505may05,0,3553824.column

*Why is the world beset with fantastically radical conservatives and incredibly doctrinaire and hidebound liberals? It's been getting like this for...

Hipsters stinking drunk in Chernobyl

*Well, that was kind of edifying. Especially when the mask of indifference slips and they really get scared.

http://dailymotion.virgilio.it/video/x1gin2_vice-travel-chernobyl-ukraine_shortfilms