meanderings

2008-07-03T21:58:00.001-07:00

"I've discovered that the best way to protect your privacy is to give it away"

2008-07-03T20:38:00.001-07:00

2008-07-02T21:09:00.001-07:00

littleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together. With a growing number of available modules, littleBits aims to move electronics from late stages of the design process to its earliest ones, and from the hands of experts, to those of artists, makers and designers.

2008-07-02T20:51:00.001-07:00

The Wondering Minstrels

(Warm, fuzzy description)

2008-07-02T07:53:00.001-07:00

th_ gallo_s - H_NGM_N: an online journal of poetry, poetics &c.

2008-07-02T07:50:00.001-07:00

PAUL VERMEERSCH

Poetry and such.

2008-07-02T07:38:00.001-07:00

Catie Rosemurgy | New York | Kenyon Review Online

The people around us
sharpen slowly like teeth

in a mouth so crowded
it must remain open.

2008-07-02T07:17:00.001-07:00

PLoS Biology - Mapping the Structural Core of Human Cerebral Cortex

Structurally segregated and functionally specialized regions of the human cerebral cortex are interconnected by a dense network of cortico-cortical axonal pathways. By using diffusion spectrum imaging, we noninvasively mapped these pathways within and across cortical hemispheres in individual human participants. An analysis of the resulting large-scale structural brain networks reveals a structural core within posterior medial and parietal cerebral cortex, as well as several distinct temporal and frontal modules. Brain regions within the structural core share high degree, strength, and betweenness centrality, and they constitute connector hubs that link all major structural modules. The structural core contains brain regions that form the posterior components of the human default network. L

2008-06-29T10:09:00.001-07:00

How old is the Internet?

2008-06-29T09:14:00.001-07:00

George Carlin - Life is Worth Losing

2008-06-29T08:58:00.001-07:00

Stellet Licht

2008-06-20T08:06:00.001-07:00

Sarah Washington: Hearing in Tongues

An eight-part Radio Art series by Sarah Washington exploring the roots of language, communication and consciousness. The spoken text used as the basis for these pieces is the biblical story of The Tower of Babel from Genesis 11:1-9.

The series attempts to break down our understanding of language and challenge our relationship to meaning. The languages referenced include an array of tongues from Ancient Hebrew to Mandarin. Each episode is 3 minutes in length including a short introduction.

2008-06-16T17:33:00.001-07:00

EFF: Patent Busting Project

Tired of bogus software patents? So are we! To combat these annoying and often dangerous legal weapons, EFF has launched the Patent Busting Project to take down some of worst offenders.

2008-06-13T13:16:00.001-07:00

Lorenzo Oggiano - Quasi Objects

organic re-design intended as a whole to stimulate thought and dialogue about the progressive relativisation of natural forms of life as a result of techno-biological evolution.

2008-06-13T13:03:00.001-07:00

Delicate Boundaries

Delicate Boundaries from csugrue on Vimeo.

Delicate Boundaries imagines a space in which the worlds inside our digital devices can move into the physical world. Small bugs made of light, crawl out of the computer screen onto the human bodies that make contact with them. The system explores the subtle boundaries that exist between foreign systems and what it might mean to cross them.

2008-06-10T12:43:00.001-07:00

Use It Incorrectly | xoxo -- c 7 11 23 -- JK Keller

2008-06-09T10:21:00.001-07:00

Book/Shelf, March 26–July 7, 2008, MOMA

Featuring works that transform books through a variety of mediums, Book/Shelf stresses an expanded notion of the illustrated book. The exhibition begins with a documentation of Marcel Duchamp's Unhappy Readymade (1919)—a work created when the artist, while traveling, asked his sister back home to hang a geometry book on his balcony in order to let the wind flip and tear the pages. It continues with works in which artists appropriate books by others, such as a sculpture by Martin Kippenberger made partly of books, and a copy of Duchamp's catalogue raisonné rebound by David Hammons under the title Holy Bible. Artists who tackle the idea of books in film (William Wegman), sound works (On Kawara), prints (Edward Ruscha), and drawings (Steve Wolfe) are represented as well. Finally, the exhibition surveys a number of artists who have created installations that display books in public contexts, including Brian Belott, Allen Ruppersberg, Josh Smith, and Lawrence Weiner.

2008-06-08T12:07:00.001-07:00

Chris Harrison - Word Associations

2008-05-29T21:59:00.001-07:00

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror - Sam Harris

2008-05-27T21:02:00.001-07:00

BLU > NEWS

2008-05-19T16:15:00.001-07:00

UNICE - Universal Network of Intelligent Conscious Entities

1. UNICE: Etymology: An acronym for Universal Network of Intelligent Conscious Entities, the hive-like consciousness that is theorized to emerge from the interpenetration of computers, humans and advanced forms of the Internet. UNICE will be composed of a collective consciousness, or group mind, and numberless individuals. It will also be capable of producing any number of protean, non-biological entities.

2008-05-17T22:05:00.001-07:00

superfad / reel

2008-05-15T22:01:00.001-07:00

:: Film & Video : Artist Series/Design Matters Live : Lawrence Weiner ::

2008-05-13T20:10:00.001-07:00

My Damn Channel » Sn4tchbuckl3r's Second Chance » Sn4tchbuckl3r's Second Chance #2: Occupational Hazards

2008-05-12T17:54:00.001-07:00

Pangea Day: Encounter Point

directed by Ronit Avni and Julia Bacha