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Gary's Social Media Count

*A bit of infoviz sleight-of-hand from Gary Hayes here: it's not like some AugmentoPanopticon actually COUNTS the people breaking open their iPhones, second by second.

*At least -I hope not.

http://www.personalizemedia.com/garys-mobile-industry-count/

Architectural VJset

*A new high in the literally Gothic repurposed as Favela Chic.

Architectural VJset / Gesus Church / Brussels from lego_man on Vimeo.

Scintillation on YouTube

*Trying some vernacular-video experiments on the blog here, bear with me please.

The Strange Plea of Judy from Trap 17

*Speaking of rampant computer crime, this is definitely the weirdest 419-spam I've gotten for a while. It would appear to be some eerie hybrid of advance fee fraud, a foreign-bride scam, and live phone sex.

*For one terrible moment I thought "Judy" from "trap 17″ was also going to advertise herself as underage, which would have thrown some kidporn into the mix.

*Presumably, somewhere at the end of a phone line, (+221 771 615 661 ), is a live woman willing to pretend to be a tender-hearted...

Grum, Bobax, Rustock, Maazben, and their friends

*Haven't heard much out of "Storm" lately. I wonder what gives with that.

Hi Bruce (((Oh boy, anti-botnet security firm PR here…. okay, bring the noise,
I read about bots with a volatile mix of fascination and disgust))):
 
Over 150 BILLION unsolicited e-mail messages ((((aieeeee))) are being distributed by compromised computers every day, which means that botnets are responsible for approximately 88 percent of all spam out there today. Symantec's latest MessageLabs Intelligence Report –...

Modern French Radical Philosophers

*It's kinda like swallowing a kilo of putty, but it probably does the rest of

us good to stop every once in a while, and check out what's hoppin' with the

French philosophes. Ignore 'em at your peril; every couple of

centuries or so, these guys haul out the Molotovs and guillotines.

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Stewart Brand, Ecopragmatist

*I'd go:

Hello,

On Friday October 9th, 02009 Green pioneer Stewart Brand is revealing his new book, Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto.

The Long Now Foundation is presenting this lecture by Brand which will cover the issues many environmentalists will to need to reconsider, like nuclear power, GMO's and the benefits of urbanization, if they are going to effectively fight climate change.

Please feel welcome to contact me for press passes and more info; more details on the event in ...

Bruce Sterling et al at Dani Strane Knjige 2009

http://www.tportal.hr/kultura/knjizevnost/38233/Dani-strane-knjige-2009.html

U zagrebačkoj knjižari Profil Megastore u Bogovićevoj ulici od 5. do 17. listopada održavaju se Dani strane knjige na kojima će gostovati bračni par pisaca Jasmina Tešanović i Bruce Sterling, a putem Skypea bit će organiziran razgovor s dobitnikom Bookera Yannom Martellom
Dani stane knjige održavaju se četvrtu godinu zaredom, a riječ je događanju koje podupire čitanje na stranim jezicima, praćenje literature na...

Polemics of a Cybernetic Future

*Nobody does cyber-polemics quite like cyber-architects.

" It was a lattice of tongues, whiskers, and tendons made of wire, acrylic, vinyl, and mylar – over 50,000 components in all –- suspended from a cable structure. As visitors moved around and through the installation, tiny motors meant for cell phone vibrators brought it to 'life' with an animal-like awareness…."

http://www.digitalfutures.info/1/polemics-of-a-cybernetic-future%20/

Yet Another Pirate Manifesto

*Okay, it's great that you dudes have advanced from the state of petty thieves to political agitation, but you're gonna have to try harder.

*You get an A for the multinational translation effort. Borderless. Yeah man: no borders left, and pirates won't even have to smash the states. They'll drown in the bathtub of black globalization.

Piracy Manifesto, Latest version (English, Italian, Sept 09)
The manifesto can be found here: http://piracymanifesto.com
It will be read and discussed in...