January 2012
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December 2011
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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)
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If Facebook, Google Plus, and YouTube Were Built... →
Three important contemporary web sites,
recreated with technology and spirit of late 1997,
according to our memories.
Best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.03 and a screen resolution of 1024×768 pixels, running under Windows 95. We recommend using a Virtual Machine or appropriate hardware, connected to a CRT monitor. If such an environment unachievable, it should be possible to experience the...
April 2010
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Play it Again, Corb
It’s rather tragic that the Fondation Le Corbusier insisted that this replica of Ronchamp in Zhengzhou be destroyed. It would have been his most important work, and a great example of atemporailty today. Via Zoohaus.
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A Small World
Models by Michael Paul Smith. See his Flickr Stream.
March 2010
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Star Wars on Earth
More atemporality. This time Star Wars characters in appropriate real world situations. See here.
February 2010
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on digital photography
The role of the family photo changed at a glacial pace over its first hundred years. Initially they emulated paintings, the subjects formally posing for long exposure times. The Kodak Brownie and Instamatic made photography portable, allowing for more casual photographs to be taken. Still, a degree of formality was necessary and photographs were expensive objects, largely serving to mark...
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Todd Baxter Photography
The work of Todd Baxter. Atemporal art often demonstrates a collision of past visions of other times.
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Todd Baxter
Cell phones show human movement predictable 93% of... →
Researchers use cell phone data to suggest that human movement is predictable up to 93% of the time.
How to be a Retronaut
There’s some good material for the #atemporality project over at How to be a Retronaut.
Why People Use Pay Phones
The New York Times looks at the remaining pay phones in the city and why people use them: read here.
Accidental Flickr maps
A New Scientist article looks at a data visualization project that used Flickr tags and images to produce maps of the world.
January 2010
6 posts
Cyberwar on Critical Infrastructure
Wired tells us that McAfee just issued a report indicating that critical infrastructures worldwide are under near constant attack from nations like the United States and China. Is it just a matter of time before this Cold War surfaces? Read more here.
Google Knows Where You Are
Google recently applied for a patent to sniff out where wireless users are located based on the packets they send. See here. Via Slashdot.
Project Alpha
The Wall Street Journal reports on the NYSE’s Project Alpha, its new high-speed trading hub being built in New Jersey. While I blog this, I’m listening to a fascinating lecture by Kevin Slavin on high-frequency trading. The transition of M-C-M’ to M-M’ that Jeffrey Nealon suggests operates at the base of capital today is not only free of commodities it is free of any kind...
On the iPad and Networked Books
My friend and next-door neighbor Frank Lyman put this video up at the blog for Coursesmart, his start-up specializing in digital textbooks.
This is a much smarter version of Apple’s book reader and really seems to work as a textbook-replacement app.
As I watched it, I realized something else which I hadn’t thought of. When used as a networked book, the iPad may well be on at the...
DHS Page on Fusion Centers →
What sort of response should the Netlab have to fusion centers?
On Bloomberg Terminals
“11. Bloomberg Terminals. Because they led Wall Street to believe it was invincible. If you wanted to play the futures market on the commodity price of bulk clams in Manila, the Bloomberg machines could do it. If you wanted to leverage egg prices in Bulgaria against the long bond in Brazil, and pay for it in yen, they could do that, too. Hell, if you wanted to eventually self-finance a run...
December 2009
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Some Background on MP3s
Eric Harvey’s Social History of MP3s.
An article on how young people have been conditioned to prefer the low audio quality of MP3s.
Jansport Heritage →
The last few years have been marked by a burst of interest in heritage brands. Authenticity as the final simulation?