Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 792
May 13, 2009
Commercial spy gear for modern civilians
*"All media is also surveillance."
* Some top-notch stuff here if you're into creating
centipede sex-scandal smears. If you're in the British Parliament, you
can write off a crate of these in your Parliamentary expenses. Not.
*I'm feeling partial to the 50,000-volt "stun pen." Disguised as the humble pen
of an unemployed journalist, it actually zaps public figures like a pole-ax,
instead of merely scribbling snarky,
May 12, 2009
A global flu epidemic this fall, about three times worse than usual
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/12/swine-flu-report-pandemic-predicted
*Back to the customary abject financial panic. *AH-CHOO!*
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1221/media-dumps-swine-flu-af-pack-coverage-up
“Le frontiere dell'interazione” 2009: Social Network, Internet degli Oggetti, Città Senzienti
(...)
"Con prestigiose presenze e interventi in video, si parlerà di architettura e della progettazione delle infrastrutture tecnologiche metropolitane (Keynote speaker: Adam Greenfield), degli spazi di comunicazione cittadini (Jeffrey Huang & Muriel Waldvogel), di design sostenibile (Fabio Sergio), di alleanze tra Green e Geek (Andrea Ga
Dead Media Beat: Reviving Polaroid
(...)
"We found that more and more young people are fascinated by the magic of Polaroid, and more and more people are looking for this analog characteristic that you cannot get with digital images," Kaps says of his endeavour. "This medium is too young and powerful and has too much potential just to die."
Instant photography first came to life in 1948 through Polaroid's complicated-looking Model 95. Despite its $95 price tag
Get ready to walk around with something fabbed inside of you
fabbed internal parts than anybody else alive.
http://www.sme.org/cgi-bin/get-evdoc.pl?&&001799&000007&workshops&&SME&
Workshops
Monday, May 11
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Medical Implant Scanning & Manufacturing
Workshop Leader: Karen Weissman, Materialise USA
Speakers include: Ola Harrysson, NC State University; Andy Christensen, Medical Modeling; Dr. Stephen Rouse, Walter Reed Medical Center; Koen Engelborghs, Mat
Jack Schulze describes his design work
*I never read a Jack Schulze interview before. Maybe because Schulze doesn't do a lot of interviews.
But this thing is amazing. All unemployable guys with hippie degrees should be reading this.
http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2009/05/six-questions-from-kicker-jack-schulze/
"5. What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned, and who taught it to you?
"No one cares about what you think, unless you do what you think. No one cares what you do, unless you think about what you do. No o
May 11, 2009
When You Let Gameplayers Design Their Own Gameplay
*They cheat themselves. No, really. They immediately ruin everything.
*You know what this reads like? Bankers in a finance crisis. Bloggers
during the death of journalism. British parliamentarians selling second homes
in a global real-estate crisis. The applications seem universal.
Via @AllenVarney on Twitter.
http://www.eldergame.com/2009/05/11/user-generated-quests-and-the-ruby-slippers/
(...)
"When City of Heroes released its user-created mission generator, it was mere hours b
IKEA Hacker
*The Long Tail enables all kinds of post-consumer alteration stuff nowadays.
But since IKEA stays very cheap by offshoring its assembly labor onto the consumer,
it makes especial sense that post-consumer IKEA hacks should flourish.
*And in a massive global depression, even more so.
"just create your ikea hack instructable on the instructables ikea hacks group and it will be automatically syndicated to this site to be enjoyed by ikeahacker readers. how cool
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