Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 694
February 1, 2010
Internet, playground for global guerrillas
*This rising tide of mayhem isn't gonna be news to anybody who's been reading the jeremiads on this blog for the past X years.
*Every year it's fewer daffy teens and hippies, and more and more crooks and spooks. Darkside hacking has finally hit the top of the food chain: presidents, moguls, Google, diplomats, political advisors, nobody's safe any more. china china china hack hack hack
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Showtime: getting all bionic with Festo
*I actually like the sourceless global-english euro-atlantic voice talent here.
*Festo has tremendous in-house film talent, and this is a compilation of some of their greatest hits (missing the inflatable plane and the older robot jellyfish, sadly). That unearthly scene with the technicians and the silver air penguins in the spotless corporate atrium…. Man.
Here Comes Transmediale
FUTURITY NOW!
transmediale.10
2 - 7 February 2010
House of World Cultures (HKW) and other locations across Berlin
www.transmediale.de
But my mind was too confused to attend to it, so with a kind of madness growing upon me, I flung myself into futurity.'
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, 1895
Dear spectrites!
Last night, as part of Berlin's 'Long Night of the Museums', we opened two exhibitions by transmediale.10 award nominees, [The User:] and...
Wikipedia Theorists
Critical Point of View: Second international conference of the CPOV Wikipedia Research Initiative
Date: 26-27 March 2010
Location: OBA (Public Library Amsterdam, next to Amsterdam central station), Oosterdokskade 143, Amsterdam
Organized by the Institute of Network Cultures Amsterdam, in cooperation with the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India.
Website: www.networkcultures.org/cpov
Discussion List: http://p10.alfaservers.com/mailman/li...
Wikipedia is at...
January 31, 2010
Ana Rajcevic, sculpture, costume, architecture
*I've just gotta root for the Beograd home team here. "Go Unhumans."
*Really kind of adorable.
"Armor as inspiration, the eroticism of evil in the form of battle garments. Seducible, sculptural forms that meet the classic elegance of tradition and the brutal, combatant futurism of the modern age. Utilitarian objects like shoulder and knee caps become sensual, erotic accessories. Leather coats encrusted with glittering metal become uniforms of a distant, dehumanized...
American news bankrupted and lobotomized, replaced worldwide by Al Jazeera
*I'm not really buyin' this Alternet thesis, but it would be awesomely strange if market forces annihilated news, so that the only people who knew what was really going on were rich Arabs and their clients. And, you know, all the other discourse was just Third-World-style Twitter bazaar gossip.
*Next up? Venezuela buys Wikipedia.
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Foreign bureaus have been among the hardest hit by...
The Arduino in the Atlantic
*Gosh, the time-honored Atlantic is an interesting venue for a discussion of the Arduino.
*This is basically a MAKE magazine article wearing shined shoes and a bowtie. Look how upmarket and toney this is! Whatever next, one wonders. Maybe free giveaway Arduino kits for all the attendees at Davos? That would be kinda awesome.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201001/robot-art
The DIY Chip
PHYSICAL COMPUTERS AS populist devices may be the most momentous tech trend of the past five years that...
The ReadWriteWeb events guide
*And that's just for February. Imagine that you went to all of these gigs. What kind of condition would your head be in?
*Would you even be able to talk? I mean, without using words like "disintermediate"?
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/readwriteweb_events_guide_30_january_2010.php
January 30, 2010
The Advanced Persistent Threat Attack
*Why are hackers of this breed so "advanced" and "persistent"? Because somebody put them on a full-time salary.
*And maybe into a uniform, too.
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http://www.darkreading.com/database_s...
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Seven stages of the advanced persistent threat attack
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An APT attacks involves seven basic steps, according to Mandiant. All but the seventh mirror the steps taken by a penetration tester or auditor...
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