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Sourcecode interview with Gibson.

James Bridle

What it says on the tin

10 badass moments in girl scout history

Anti-teacher flier distributed in Gazette delivery tubes after FOI request for teacher's salaries. Accuses Janesville school district of union thuggery, teaching a marxist agenda, sexualizing children,etc.

London PsychoGeographic Association

Syllabus for a freshman comp course at Duke.

Counterpoint to the oatmeal comic

Bruno Latour

German Vogue list of instagrammers to follow.

Look at some instagram ph00ts.

In about a year, we'll drop the "new" from new media.

Paul Ford is interesting

The central question of writing about the web is WWIC, Why Wasn't I consulted. Customer service is the internet's nice, like distraction at home is TV's niche and Movies serve the "I want to see something with elves and bombs" niche. From DF

What will remain other than coffee shops? Upscale retail will remain – people paying as much for the experience as for the goods purchased. Restaurants remain. Grocery stores remain.

Brick and mortar retail stores will be converted to public spaces. Multi-use space will be in increasing demand as connectivity tools allow easy coordination of impromptu events. Some large retail stores will be converted to industrial 3D printer factories. These heavy-duty fab labs will fabricate products that are too big or complicated to fabricate at home.

Soc perspective treating networks as made up of both material and semiotic elements. Also insists on the agency of nonhuman actors

Put sharemenot on every copy of firefox you run.

Simple yet featured online notepad. Like Jottit and the rest.

Host your own pastebin

Presented in collaboration with the Poetry Society of America, this program features poet Kenny Goldsmith, who will read from his work and discuss the interchange of ideas between the visual arts and the written word in New York City during 1978–1982, in homage to Keith Haring.

Good web cartoon.

Random follow on @twitter

Because VLC is a French company and subject to French laws that state no software is patentable.

The Python Paradox

August 2004

In a recent talk I said something that upset a lot of people: that you could get smarter programmers to work on a Python project than you could to work on a Java project.

I didn't mean by this that Java programmers are dumb. I meant that Python programmers are smart. It's a lot of work to learn a new programming language. And people don't learn Python because it will get them a job; they learn it because they genuinely like to program and aren't satisfied with the languages they already know.

Which makes them exactly the kind of programmers companies should want to hire. Hence what, for lack of a better name, I'll call the Python paradox: if a company chooses to write its software in a comparatively esoteric language, they'll be able to hire better programmers, because they'll attract only those who cared enough to learn it. And for programmers the paradox is even more pronounced: the language to learn, if you want to get a good job, is a language that people don't learn merely to get a job.

Best blog design ever.

Simple web design. Descriptions of pictures never taken, or almost taken.

Taking field notes to increase your ability to observe; take notes on salient things around you; make hypotheses; review and analysze

Marketing meets culture

I have a simple challenge for you.

In the month of February, mail at least one item through the post every day it runs. Write a postcard, a letter, send a picture, or a cutting from a newspaper, or a fabric swatch.
Write back to everyone who writes to you. This can count as one of your mailed items.

Melvin Kranzberg's six laws of technology state:

Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.
Invention is the mother of necessity.
Technology comes in packages, big and small.
Although technology might be a prime element in many public issues, nontechnical factors take precedence in technology-policy decisions.
All history is relevant, but the history of technology is the most relevant.
Technology is a very human activity - and so is the history of technology.

Social media is here to stay. We need to get past the point in which we celebrate it or lament it in order to figure out how to live productively with it. We need people engaging critically with the dynamics that unfold as a result of a new structure of connecting people. The values of technologists have been baked into the infrastructure, but it's also possible to change the ecosystem through cultural practices. One thing's clear: it's high time we examined the values that are propagated through our tools. We all need to think critically about the information we create, consume and share. We all need to take responsibility for helping shape the world around us.

Interesting compilation of pages. Old.

Another occupy news site

Occupy-oriented news site

Download site for DOS tetris games

CGI on nginx

Ars Technica on archiving tweets.

Ars Technica piece on HavenCo, the colocation service located on the sealand platform. Long

by NY Review of Books at 3/26/12 4:45 PM

Redmonk piece on very interesting, novel, and curious writing models on the web

Cote's handwritten blog

Paul Kedroskey

by erin kissane at 3/23/12 5:59 PM

Tycho Garen's website--a hyperlinked anthology on some interesting things.

Has a linkblog

Batelle article on openness.

Online data base of 37,000 fairly notable people. Good for celeb tracking

Neal Stephenson's big boosterism project for SF. Be more optimistic to encourage a new generation to accomplish big things

SF writers, and other genre writers, don't create the zeitgeist so much as they reflect the zeitgeist.

Critique of Coupland's Times review of Kunzru's new book.

Fractal filter fir photoshop.

Socially aggressive narcissism.

Tutorial on text utilities.

List of sites

Howard Rheingold's syllabus

Mozilla's etherpad clone

KQED review of Houdini Art and Magic

Another contemporary piece that is easy to overlook is the paper printout by Allen Ruppersberg. The artist framed an overdue notice for a book checked out of a local library with the title Houdini Escapes. With the aid of Ruppersberg, Houdini lives on to perform one more escape act.

Frieze article on Ruppersberg.

Start out and go in.

Critical piece on Ruppersberg's work

JAR's bottom-up, non-peer-reviewed partner project

Open Access Journal:

With the aim of displaying practice in a manner that respects artists'

modes of presentation, JAR abandons the traditional journal article format and offers its contributors a dynamic online canvas where text can be woven together with image, audio and video. These research documents called ‘expositions’ provide a unique reading experience while

fulfilling the expectations of scholarly dissemination.