Violinist and DJ bring the noise.
Some interesting basic kanjis
“One of the coolest things about an image-sign language […] is that it encourages making new words by combining simpler ones.”
Why I Copyfight
“Why does all this copyright reform stuff matter, anyway? What’s at stake? Everything. […]
There’s a word for all the stuff we do with creative works — all the conversing, retelling, singing, acting out, drawing, and thinking: we call it culture. […]
[I]f copying on the Internet were ended tomorrow, it would be the end of culture on the Internet too. “ -Cory Doctorow
Tom Sawyer Whitewashing the Fence, Tom Sawyer
— “Like it? Well, I don’t see why I oughtn’t to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?”
— “Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little.”
CryptoPhone
“If you ever have talked on the phone and thought ‘lets hope that this call has not been intercepted by someone’, the CryptoPhone is right for you.”
MP3 Download: Amon Tobin - Foley Room Recorded Live in Brussels
Length of mix: 1:17:00
Available as 320 kbps MP3
Shit: Help the American Department of Defense create a pack of robots that hunt humans.
The US DoD is looking for proposals for the design of Terminators, or in their words, robots to “search for and detect a non-cooperative human subject.”
This is the URL http://stungeye.com encoded as a QR-Code using the Kaywa QR-Code Generator.
QR-Codes are a type of 2-dimensional barcode that can be used to encode text or raw data.
QR code can be read by most modern camera phones with the appropriate software.
QR graffiti anyone?
More info: (re)Discovering the 2nd Dimension
This post was inspired by: Tender Lovemaking
Manitoba History: If Day 1942
On February 19th 1942 a fake Nazi invasion was staged in Winnipeg to rally support for the war effort and to promote the purchase of Victory bonds.
“In front of the Main library, all books relating to liberty, democracy, freedom […] were burned.
Reichmarks were given out as change, and were to replace the dollar. One group of Nazis burst into the cafeteria at Great-West Life. Employees were kicked out and some jailed, while the Nazis grabbed all the food.”
As Slow As Possible
In 2001 a 639 year long organ performance began in a German church.
Exterminating Zombies with Jean Baudrillard
An obsession with zombies and the “loss of the real.”
I ♥ apod.
(orion nebula, btw)
Our Betta fish has a Labyrinth organ, meaning it can breath air from the surface of the water.
“When they gulp air from the surface it gets forced into the labyrinth organ. In the labyrinth there are lots of small maze-like compartments of thin boney plates called lamellae.
The lamellae are covered with membranes. Blood passes through the membranes and the oxygen is absorbed into the bloodstream.
If a labyrinth fish ends up out of the water it can stay alive for a long time if it stays moist. In fact they can even crawl across land to a different body of water if they have to.” -source