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November 5, 2009

The Utopian Kim Stanley Robinson

http://shareable.net/blog/galileo's-dream

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TB: Your recent "Global Warming" trilogy (40 Signs of Rain; 50 Degrees Below; 60 Days and Counting) was about global warming—which leads to a deep freeze! What do you think of Obama's "green" agenda? Is it headed in the right directions?
 

KSR: Climate change will mostly be warming, but that will add such energy to the world system that the turbulence will lead to areas of greater cold in winter, as well as more severe storms, etc. So I followed a s...

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Published on November 05, 2009 09:27

EDRI-gram

*Normally I purloin some relevant bits from this fine publication, but I thought I'd show you what the whole thing looks like. Kind of a class act, EDRI. Comes out on time, properly proofread, footnoted, the whole nine yards.

*It's kind of embarrassing to us Americans to see Europeans with SO MANY digital civil rights. Up in Finland, they've got a new civil right to guaranteed universal access to broadband.

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Published on November 05, 2009 03:18

Spime Watch: are you ready for the Internet of Things?

*It's in Brussels, and they're bringing hardware…

http://liftconference.com/lift-at-home/events/2009/12/04/lift-brussel-council-and-tinkerit-present-are-you-ready-i

Lift Workshop @ Brussels, Council and Tinker.it!

Lift @ home

This event is part of Lift at home, a program where you can run your own Lift event at your place!

Are you ready for the Internet of Things?

Council and Tinker.it! present a LIFT @ Home event on December 4, 2009, at Brussel's Center for Digital Culture and Technology...

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Published on November 05, 2009 03:12

November 4, 2009

TV, not Facebook or Twitter, is going to revolutionize the world.

*Television: favela media.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/10/19/revolution_in_a_box?page=0,1

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"Since the 1970s, Brazil's Rede Globo network has been providing a steady diet of locally produced soaps, some of which are watched by as many as 80 million people. The programs are no more tales of everyday life in Brazil than Desperate Housewives is an accurate representation of a typical U.S. suburb. In a country where divorce was only legalized in 1977, nearly a fifth of the main...

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Published on November 04, 2009 11:50

Serge Gainsbourg and five years of French street graffiti

*Apparently it's some kind of viral video pitch for a Serge Gainsbourg documentary, but that sudden 3-D effect is messed-up.


*Probably "not safe for work" as your boss probably wouldn't be all that happy about Serge Gainsbourg at work OR raunchy French graffiti at work.


via @burnlab



Serge Gainsbourg - animation des graffitis sur 5 ans du mur rue de Verneuil from Arnaud Jourdain on Vimeo.







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Published on November 04, 2009 10:54

The latest DOORS OF PERCEPTION report

*I keep thinking I'm not gonna post these on my blog, but man, not reading

DOORS OF PERCEPTION is like gluing your eyes shut.

Doors of Perception Report

November 2009

In Halifax with Antigonishts

This free monthly newsletter announces Doors of Perception events, and starts

conversations on issues to do with design for resilience. For back issues, or to

subscribe, visit: http://www.doorsofperception.com/mail...

**** **** **** **** ****THIS MONTH'S HIGHLIGHTS Four Days in...

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Published on November 04, 2009 09:42

Italian Futurist epic 'Thais' — film reviewed at Beyond the Beyond

From: Finn Brunton

Hey Bruce — (((yo!)))

I went to the showing last night here in NYC. I wouldn't have known

about it except for your post, so in return here's notes on the movie.

There's a torrent of the 34-minute *Thaïs* available, but it's

super-slow, only one seeder: http://www.greylodge.org/gpc/?p=364)

The original was 75 minutes or so; what we've got is a pretty good
stitched-together 25 minute print. The basic outlines of the story are
still discernible, and awesome: it's a madcap diva...

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Published on November 04, 2009 09:28

1989: The End of History or the Beginning of the Future?

*Twenty years, that's a good long time. For instance, the entire period Poland spent under Communism was only 45 years.

*If history ended in 1989, there are now 20 year old adults around who were born after the end of history and can probably kick the ass of any Marxists or any elderly triumphal liberal-capitalist historians.

*The distance between 1968 and 1989 was only 21 years. If we had another 1989 next year — after another economic shock, let's say — would that be a big miraculous s...

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Published on November 04, 2009 09:23

Dead Media Beat: Acid-Free Bits

*Hey, great, uh, pamphlet, guys. Yep, "now it belongs to the ages."


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Published on November 04, 2009 03:35

The Future of Interface Design

*Actually, this is more like the present of interface design, but it's pleasant to have all these options described in one spot.

*The take-away? We're approaching a glorious future where human beings can do useful, practical, data-intensive activities without having their asses go numb!

*If we only had some way to burn some workout calories-per-terabyte, America's morbidly obese population would be as lean and fast as whippets.

http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/the-future-of-interface-design/





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Published on November 04, 2009 03:32

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