One Saturday morning at 7 o’clock on a blind wall in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. The façade, using the local architectural codes, occupying 10 cm of public space, is mounted and glued on in thirty minutes. Almost 4 years later, the adress still exists. Regularly graffittied, it is cleaned out by the city service.

"working out how to hide malware within English-language sentences" ... "In machine code – the raw code that microprocessor chips understand – combinations of characters not seen in plain text, such as strings of mostly capital letters, are required."

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"the former landmass in the southern North Sea that connected the island of Great Britain to mainland Europe during the last ice age"

typology of outdoor store speakers in Little Haiti (Miami): "This is why a snapshot of a milk crate at the moment in its life-cycle when it transitions from one use to another—when it is stolen from the supermarket and used as the leg of a display table for pirated DVDs—can be a better model for urban reconfiguration than a Herzog & de Meuron building caught in a sweeping shot from a helicopter or in a vertiginous 3D zoom. This snapshot neatly captures the fact that a city's morphology is as prone to alteration by small and repetitive gestures as it is by megaprojects."

encoding data into vestigial dna in cockroaches to serve as a persistent archive

"The Centex company has hired four actors to play a family "living" in one of their model homes -- a performance called Homelife."

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floating within architecture

abandoned but so far preserved in perfect condition

photos from fake towns and buildings used for police/fire training