caro does it with math and WoW!

Alex Dragulescu is a Romanian visual artist whose practice embraces both traditional and new media. His projects are experiments and explorations of algorithms, computational models, simulations and information visualizations that involve data derived from databases, spam emails, blogs and video game assets.

There is too much in this article to summarize, but you should read it if you make things, or want to.

Fluke is a small Mac OS X utility that lets you listen to your FLAC files right within iTunes without needing to convert anything. Simply feed your FLAC’s into it and watch the magic happen!

Agrippa (a book of the dead) appeared in 1992 as a collaboration between artist Dennis Ashbaugh, author William Gibson, and publisher Kevin Begos, Jr. The Agrippa Files is a scholarly site that presents selected pages from the original art book; a unique archive of materials dating from the book’s creation and early reception; an emulation of Gibson’s included poem in its original born-and-die-digital form (it ran from a diskette once before encrypting itself into oblivion); a simulation of what the book’s intended “fading images” might have looked like; a video of the 1992 “transmission” of the work; a “virtual lightbox” for comparing and studying pages; full-text scholarly essays and interviews; an annotated bibliography of scholarship, press coverage, interviews, and other material; a detailed bibliographic description of the book; and a discussion forum.

This is an amazing article. It discusses social orders, their drugs, and the music they spawned. It shows the beautiful feedback loop that results from all this. It lacks one critical piece of information: what's happening currently with experimental drugs whose names and natures aren't known outside of readers of Shulgin or Bluelight.

If you're one of the thousands of voters angry over the Democrats' cave on domestic spying and telecom amnesty, a new online grassroots movement is now making it easy to buy a local ad on MSNBC, CNN and several other networks, for less money.

The 22-letter alphabet did not lead to a society of literate Israelite readers, but a society of hearers, who would gather to hear the Torah scroll read to them by a priest.

A really beautiful article illuminating that which I've always thought: autism is not a disorder.

Awesome historical perspective on the logos of many successful tech companies of the twentieth century.

Who owns what major media outlets and the insane amount of conflict of interests involved.

The top 25 censored news items of the year. You need to be familiar with these.

WRC Coverage you can't see on American TV.

An article about the counter-intuitive properties of the Ultimatum game.

Finder alternative.

An excellent review of EyeTV Hybrid.

Slashdot reports that Warner is uploading it's entire music video library to YouTube. This is a change from the tide of copyright disputes between YouTube and Univseral, who is planning on suing them.

Yoga videos, daily.

These creatures were made with paper and a gigantic imagination.

How to pair your Apple remote with your Mac.