Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 784
June 10, 2009
Dead Media Beat: Italian dead multimedia
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
The New Technology Art School of The Academy of
Fine Arts of Carrara, the UCAN research center and Neural magazine present,
“What if the only legacy of new media is a static image?”
The curatorial struggle in preserving new media’s
aesthetics and art practices.”
A lecture by
Lanfranco Aceti
Associate Professor at Sabanci University (Istanbul)
Thrusday 11 June
10 a.m.
at the The Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, Via
Michelangelo Buonarroti 1, Carrara, Italy
The preservation and exhibitio
Gadget Watch: the Fujitsu FLEPia
*Okay, it’s a fullcolor e-ink platform… Wait a second, Fujitsu called this thing
the “Flepia”?! What, even for the internal Japanese market? Why? How do they pronounce
that, for heaven’s sake? FREEPIA? It costs a thousand dollars! Freppia, like
a frappe’? And it has four acronym initials, too?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/fujitsu-melts-faces-and-wallets-with-flepia-the-first-color-e-b/
*”Hey man… the Kindle just died… pass me that FLEPPY-uh.” Oh lordy.
Matt Jones, Designer for the Internet of Things
*Internet-of-things fan? I strongly urge a look at this.
http://schulzeandwebb.com/blog/2009/06/09/the-new-negroponte-switch/
Troubleshooting your jammed Difference Engine
*Okay: how can I not post this?
http://ed-thelen.org/bab/bab_inst.html
6. Trouble Shooting
a) Engine Jamming b) Calculation Errors c) Removal of Axes
a) Engine Jamming
1) Jamming of the phasing gear to the register pinion on the carry drive.
This is due to erratic turning of the handle or turning the handle too fast, giving rise to an over-run of the register pinion. This prevents the phasing gear from meshing at the next commencement of the intermittent drive cycle. To clear the jam a large screwdriv
Normal People Hate Being Consumers and Despise Brands
http://www.bubblegeneration.com/2007/11/research-note-on-selling-out-so-called.cfm
Umair Haque:
“The word consumer is nasty enough - with all the implications of helplessness and the assumption of stupidity it carries.
“Fansumer, I think, is even worse - as this commenter points out.
“It utterly - and completely - misses the point of connected consumption.
“Consumers connect with each other - not with brands.
“Which brings us to a set of deeper issues. There are foundational problems with the concep
June 9, 2009
War of Looks, June 2009
*Hmmm. Looks like the Premiere Dame and First Lady are coordinated allies of looks.
*Michelle ventured out and bought the kids French gear. Gosh.
Grab the whole ISP by the back of the neck
*I’m not saying they’re a crooked ISP. I’m just saying it’s awesome
to see feds fall like a ton of bricks on an entire Internet service provider.
Via SANS.
–Judge Grants FTC Request for Temporary Restraining Order to
Shut Down ISP
(June 4, 2009)
A federal judge has issued a restraining order that shut down an
Internet service provider (ISP) suspected of hosting spammers and other
cyber criminals. Pricewert, also known as Triple Fiber Network
(3FN.net), APS Telecom and APX Telecom, allegedly solicited
Another currency hacker in every kind of trouble
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/06/e-gold/
MELBOURNE, Florida — In a sparsely decorated office suite two floors above a neighborhood of strip malls and car dealerships, former oncologist Douglas Jackson is struggling to resuscitate a dying dream.
Jackson, 51, is the maverick founder of E-Gold, the first-of-its-kind digital currency that was once used by millions of people in more than a hundred countries. Today the currency is barely alive.
Stacks of cardboard evidence boxes in the office, ma
Your Basic Template for a Fake Online Death
*Gosh, Wired UK is kinda rocking it. Glad I took the time to limp by on my last legs (coughing uncontrollably).
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-03/24/reports-of-my-death.aspx
(…)
“In two investigations between 2007 and 2009, I encountered countless examples of fake deaths in all corners of the online world. A contributor to a knitting forum, for instance, faked her death rather than provide patterns she had been commissioned to design. A member of an online art gallery discovered that the
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