Intel’s Dominance Is Challenged by a Low-Power Upstart
(tags: tech)
The Next Slum?
(tags: urban suburban)
The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran.
(tags: iraq media politics war)
abu muqawama
(tags: war security politics global)
Q&A: 90 Minutes With Miyamoto, Nintendo’s Master of Amusement | Game | Life from Wired.com
(tags: games gamedesign)
Sony mylo 2 (COM-2) vs. Nokia N810
(tags: mobile mobiletech)
Ayiti: The Cost of Life | Gamelab
(tags: games global activism)
Oil Price Fallout: Jobs Coming Home?
(tags: business economics)
Create Digital Music » generative
(tags: music generative tech)
English-language paper closes because of state harassment
(tags: media censorship russia global)
Why No Right to Machine Guns?
(tags: guns politics)
YouTube - Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
(tags: life lifehacks video)
Feds raid Blackwater’s armory in firearms probe
(tags: guns policestate blackwater war)
80-storey building where each floor rotates, giving 360-degree views of the world and constantly changing the […]
Full Story: Subtopia
(via Tomorrow Museum
“Spaced Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties” explores the crash pads, hippie communes, infinity machines and other far-out dwellings of the time period. Author Alastair Gordon, whose other works have dealt primarily with the clean modernism of airports and mid-century Hamptons homes, turned his attention to the design, architecture and visual culture of LSD-inspired […]
Myth No. 1: This bill is a compromise.
Myth No. 2: We need the bill to intercept our enemies abroad.
Myth No. 3: The courts will still review the telecom cases.
Myth No. 4: The Democrats must fold because of the November election.
Myth No. 5: The law will be the “exclusive means” for surveillance.
Full Story: Slate
(via Cryptogon)
How the front page of today’s New York Times “perfectly encapsulates” Zimbabwe’s horror
(tags: photography media africa global)
SSL Encrpytion Coming to The Pirate Bay
(tags: privacy security surveillance policestate littlebrothervsbigbrother)
Romenesko and the Dawning of Gossip Journalism
(tags: journalism media blogs internet)
Brian Eno and Kevin Kelly’s Unthinkable Futures
stick figure comics
(tags: comics)
Phil Thompson - fractal music
(tags: generative music games)
Picbreeder
a collaborative art application based on an idea called evolutionary art
(tags: games art web2.0 generative)
Evolvotron
(tags: generative art opensource)
Introduction to Programming in Java: An Interdisciplinary Approach
(tags: opensource education programming)
Kepler’s Orrery
(tags: generative music opensource)
Toshio Iwai - Wikipedia
(tags: art generative music mobile mobiletech interaction)
Loving John McCain
(tags: media politics 2008 mccain)
White House […]
Australia’s National Trust and Heritage Victoria are both supporting a move to protect the city’s graffiti, but some local council groups say this would just give a green light to vandals.
With the idea of graffiti as an art form in its own right gaining momentum locally and abroad, the National Trust has been considering its […]
When Tech Innovation Has a Social Mission
(tags: tech global)
Lebanese food served with a bang
(tags: war global)
Sun goes longer than normal without producing sunspots
But it’s the sun that causes global warming, right?
(tags: globalwarming)
François Schuiten - Wikipedia
(tags: architecture art comics)
Homesite of Les Cités Obscures
(tags: architecture art comics)
François Schuiten fan site
(tags: architecture art comics)
Jan Chipchase interview in New Scientist
(tags: design economics mobile mobiletech tech)
Obama has caved on the FISA bill. Full details at TPM Election Central. Very sad.
An eight-month McClatchy investigation in 11 countries on three continents has found that Akhtiar was one of dozens of men — and, according to several officials, perhaps hundreds — whom the U.S. has wrongfully imprisoned in Afghanistan, Cuba and elsewhere on the basis of flimsy or fabricated evidence, old personal scores or bounty payments.
McClatchy interviewed […]
“Socialist” Republican Wins in Montana
(tags: politics 2008)
Powerpoint By Pissed Comcast Employee Reveals They Know Exactly How Much They Suck
(tags: business)
The MPG Illusion
Strange as it may sound, rating cars at gallons-per-mile may be more useful, say a pair of university researchers.
(tags: energy environment)
Troy Molde awoke at 3 a.m. Thursday to police flashlights shining in his face. Two uniformed Lakeville officers were in his bedroom, knocking on the wall to wake him up.
They were there, they said, to warn him to keep his doors closed and locked.
Their surprise visit was part of a public service campaign. Officers had […]
CIA encouraged waterboarding and other torture techniques
(tags: torture war politics)
Make a Presentation Like Al Gore - Wired How-To Wiki
(tags: design marketing)
Mississippi Floodwaters in Iowa - The Big Picture
(tags: photography)
Fabbing more likely to be cottage industry rather than common household practice
(tags: fabbing tech)
Kudzu: Potential Biofuel?
(tags: energy environment)
The Wonderful World of Early Computing
(tags: history tech)
Walking: Still Better Than Driving
(tags: environment energy food)
Architecture of Africa - Wikipedia
(tags: architecture africa global)
NYT article on the capital of Eritrea
(tags: urban global africa)
How we read online
(tags: attention design internet journalism […]