Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 804

It's nice when pop music is still capable of surprising one

"Listen to Zomby tunes like Spaceman and Aquafresh (off his recent 7-track EP for Hyperdub) and it's like someone's taken the monochrome diagram that is dubstep's rhythmic grid and scrawled woozily all over it with fluorescent marker pens." -- Simon Reynolds (((who else)))

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/mar/05/wonky-ketamine-dubstep-zomby

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Carla and Michelle, together at last

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/03/nicolas-sarkozy-barack-obama

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*Can't help it, I'm rooting for the chick who married the weird foreigner.

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Protect European Cyberspace

*I'd love to see somebody sell a few metric tons of Brussels-approved
european cyberspace.

--EU Calls For Development of Strategy to Protect European Cyber Space
(31st March 2009)

The European Commission has called for the development of a strategy to
protect Europe from disruption to critical networks resulting from cyber
attacks or natural disasters. The EC highlights that the region is
becoming more and more dependent on the continuous availability of IT
and communications systems for s

Six Projects That Could Change Publishing For the Better

*I'd be a happy guy to see publishing changed for the better. Even if it
was a "worthwhile Canadian initiative."

*A long speech. Then again, reading books requires sitting still a long time,
even if you're got a Handheld Jesus Reader.

http://blip.tv/file/1894592/

*Electronic book readers still have "Date Repulsion Mode." Not
quite so bad as homemade Trek jewelry, but right on down there.

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Meanwhile, the Urban Theorists Gather in Glossy Los Angeles

http://www.flickr.com/groups/postopolis_la/pool/

*Worth it just to spot Regine Debatty's new hairdo.

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Our Immigration Lawyer Suggests This Template

AFFIDAVIT OF __________________

STATE OF _____________

COUNTY OF ___________

STATE OF ____________

NATION OF _____________

Before me, the undersigned notary public, (((if you happen to have one of these notary people around, they can be legally handy))) personally appeared ________________ and on his/her oath declared as follows:

1. My name is _______________________. I am over the age of 21 years and am fully competent to make this affidavit. I have personal knowledge

Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic Request Your Moral Support

The "Exotic Enemies Do Get Married" Campaign

by Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic

Surprising news has just arrived for us at our American home address. Although we have been married for four years now, the American Immigration services can't find any paper trail for the two of us.

We have no joint bank account, no insurance accounts and no joint children. The authorities therefore suspect that our marriage is a phony "Green Card marriage," and they would like to have Jasmina deported

Meanwhile, somewhere in the Canary Islands

Comunidad Autinoma #18, Ballenas Flotantes - with "Beluga Row"
Teatro del Circulo de Bellas Artes
C/Castillo 43 Santa Cruz de Tenerife,
Canary Islands

Solo exhibit by Jed Berk.

Dates: 04.05.2009 - 05.09.2009

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RubbleViewer

*What a great climate-crisis app! With this post-disaster infoviz program, future real-estate
agents will be able to fully annotate, describe and sell tomorrow's highly affordable "informal architecture"
(formally known as "urban rubble").

*I hope the crew at Postopolis Los Angeles have been informed.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/23257/

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Twitter Visualizations

*Wow...

http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/twitter-i-need-to-___

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