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February 20, 2010
The Karim Rashid Asus Netbook
*Well whaddya know. A designer netbook by an actual designer. And in a confrontational, no-nostalgia hot pink, too.
*I'm tempted to get one of these, even though it would likely be seething with zero-day Chinese botnet viruses inside a week.





February 19, 2010
Mujicomp
*Okay, after reading that earlier post about the endless heaps of tangled indefinable data require to create "spimes," now get your head around the pure limpid low-key Nipponese simplicity of "Mujicomp."
(((("massive semantic heaps of everythingness" "mujicompfrastructure")))
(((Now you know why interaction designers get paid! Tra la la!)))
"In his presentation, he (((Matt Jones, who...
Spime Watch: Defining Post-Industrial Design
*Not as easy as it sounds in the manifesto, right? But if it ever actually happens in real life, it's not gonna be brought by angel-dust. It'll have to emerge from some structure or system that's already there.
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/eric-hunting-on-defining-post-industrial-design/2009/10/29
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Eric Hunting meditates and strategizes on the way forward from here to there.
"I've been thinking more on this lately -particularly as I've recently been working on an article on...
Simpliquity
*Hmm. Nifty notion — desk lamps that cast pools of interactive video augmentation. I wonder if that scheme actually works.
via @nicolasnova
http://simpliquity.ch/Simpliquity/Simpliquity.html
"How does it work?
"Our interactive lamps contain a camera and a projector that recognize documents and objects and project digital information on top of them. The lamps may contain a computer, which makes them independent, or be used as peripherals and must then be connected to an external computer such a ...
How slums can save the planet
*If you're gonna drink from the pure clean stream that is Favela Chic, you might as well accept it from the Maestro, no less a man than Stewart Brand:
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/01/how-slums-can-save-the-planet/
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The magic of squatter cities is that they are improved steadily and gradually by their residents. To a planner's eye, these cities look chaotic. I trained as a biologist and to my eye, they look organic. Squatter cities are also unexpectedly green. They have maximum...
February 18, 2010
Showtime: Animism by ToDo.It
*Projection-mapping.
Animism Projections from Muhka Web TV on Vimeo.
"From Jan. 22nd until May 2nd Extra City and M HKA present 'Animism', an exhibition on 2 locations. Outdoor projections in the city of Antwerp (Belgium) offer an introduction and a public invitation. Animation by ToDo (Italy), music by Dimitri Brusselmans (Boenox, Monky Pussy). Projections by Beam Inc (www.beam-inc.eu)."
More info: extracity.org, muhka.be.





Boris Vian, sci-fi translator (among other things)
*Heck of a guy, ladies and gents.
http://tamtambooks-tosh.blogspot.com/2010/01/quick-and-short-bio-on-boris-vian.html#links





Should we clone Neanderthals? Seriously.
*That headline may sound like tabloid bait, but this is quite a thoughtful and well-researched article. It had never occurred to me, for instance, that cloned Neanderthal stem cells and tissues might have commercial biomedical applications.
*But one rather imagines they would.
*It's also quite eerie to learn that the best current candidates for Neanderthal cloning are a group of murdered Neanderthals who were devoured by cannibals 49,000 years ago. Imagine these gruesome cannibal victims...
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