January 2012
““Ghost Rider was an entirely new experience, and he got me thinking about...”
– I kinda love you now Nic Cage
“In November, the SPHERES satellites were upgraded with “off-the-shelf”...”
“The blimp’s for the canaille. They don’t have any balloon-busters,...”
– http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/430/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page02.html#post43
More on Blue Devil http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/22/blue_devil_big_safari_adaptive_optics_tech/
printrbot (your first 3D Printer) →
So I might have been a bit off the mark when I said 3D-Printing would mainstream, back in 2010… BUT! LOOKEE at this, the printrbot:
From the tail end of 2011, a Kickstarter to produce…
December 2011
An Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology... →
Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist (who we’ve interviewed here) has produced this excellent dictionary of terms for her field.
For those who came in late…
Cyborg Anthropology is a way…
CultureLab: Superflies bred to be the first... →
arielwaldman:
Art + science mashup
Sorry! The lifestyle you ordered is currently out... →
photo from artofthestate, graffiti by BANKSY
“I can’t think of any reason why as a population we should be expected to...”
– ~ Alan Moore
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“There’s a photo of a guy who got tattoos to match those found on Otzi, aka The...”
– Boing Boing (via heterochronia)
“[T]he state never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral,...”
– Henry David Thoreau, from Civil Disobedience (via chileanstudentmovement)
Bruce Sterling @ Symposium Playful Post Digital... →
Here’s Chairman Bruce just a few days ago at the STRP Festival, once more describing our immediate situation and near-future in terms we can then build on and discuss with:
Click here…
November 2011
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seanbonner:
Twitter just throttled my account. Over the daily limit or something and won’t let me post via the web, SMS or any 3rd party. Nice. I have a few thousand followers there, at least some of which were following my tweets all night about the OccupyLA raid happening right now, but now I’m cut off. If Twitter really wants to be the source of breaking news, they need to work on that.
“Don’t become a well-rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and dull....”
– +10Gagillion, words to live forever by
Bruce Sterling. The Wonderful Power of Storytelling (via thisway)
heavy weather, it’s not just for Terra →
Behold the awesome storms of Saturn, shown here by NASA in false-colour rendering.
The head of the storm is beyond the horizon in this view. Saturn’s atmosphere and its rings…
Bangkok’s drownening (PIX) →
These four photos aren’t from a Worth1000 competition, they’re just some of the striking images of Thailands ongoing, slow-moving flood hitting Bangkok.
See if you…
MSFT’s hand-held AR demo →
Now this is WAY better than MSFT’s CorporateFuturist video:
Click here to view the embedded video.
via @th0ma5 | zenbullets
“The post-political information society does not operate on the basis of...”
– Tim Leary