Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 813

If Federal Agents Arrest You For Playing Reality Games, Don't Come Crying to Me

http://community.akoha.com/help/learn/

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The Catalog of Exoplanets

http://www.planetary.org/exoplanets/

Ever since the first exoplanet was discovered in the mid-1990s, we’ve had an explosion of discoveries, revealing hundreds of strange worlds orbiting faraway stars. Slowly but surely, as detection techniques improve, scientists are closing in on the exoplanet we are all waiting for: a world like our own, a distant "Earth" orbiting an alien star.

In order to share with you all that has been found to date, The Planetary Society -- with support from our membe

Paneuropean Biosyndicate

*One can expect to hear a great deal more rhetoric like this, and it is
going to get weirder and less comprehensible rather than more so.

"Opening Exhortation

"To All Those Who Fight 4: Anarchy, Autonomy, Ecology, Queerness

To all media activists, creative workers, radical artists, union
organizers, immigrant and precarious youth

In 2009, as millions are made unemployed by the bankruptcy of
neoliberalism, hopefully all insurgent people and networks out there
will unite on the 1st of

I Feel Your Pain

*But I just looked into your brain with this scanner, and you don't
have any pain. So no insurance payoff for you, you goldbricker.

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dl...

"STOCKTON - Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Robert England has received a U.S. patent for a process he developed to objectively determine the presence of chronic pain.

England's process involves the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to capture an image of the brain

Blacken the planet for climate enlightenment

http://www.earthhour.org/about/

VOTE EARTH

YOUR LIGHT SWITCH IS YOUR VOTE

This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming.

For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming. WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH and reach the target

Alexandra's subjective history of the Internet-of-Things

http://www.slideshare.net/designswarm/test-1070422?type=presentation

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The Charles and Ray Eames Solar Do-Nothing Machine, 1957

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Web Semantics: the Depletist Project

*Really interesting to see a political neologism being so entirely
branded and semantically engineered.

*I could be wrong, but I don't think this term is going to work;
it lacks poetry.

http://tankofthinkers.wordpress.com/about/

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World Builder

World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

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Bruce Sterling in the new INTERZONE

*I used to be a columnist for INTERZONE. This story appearance gives

me a warm, affirmative feeling.

*Even though it's by no means a warm, affirmative story.

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