Re: [monochrom] New monochrom shirt: "Freedom is a whore of a word"

ach, nostalgie ! kann sich noch jemand an den evoluten erinnern ? "too slow" :-) oh doch! vielleicht mal eine nostalgie-neuauflage...

[monochrom] subotron sucht stempelset

jogi von subotron sucht ein stempelset... diese alten teile wo man sich selbst mit plastiklettern einen stempel bauen konnte. hat sowas noch jemand? wenn ja, bitte mailt to jogi: s...@subotron.com danke!

[monochrom] New monochrom shirt: "Freedom is a whore of a word"

Our new shirt is available! Right on time! Cause everybody likes to talk about freedom. Freedom of speech, freedom of choice, freedom of religion, freedom freedom freedom. There is too much freedom or too less. But we say, please don't forget: Freedom is a whore of a word. Check out genderish

[monochrom] "Examiner" recommends Arse Elektronika

The sexiest event of the year - technologically speaking - is monochrom's Arse Elektronika. [...] Far beyond penis jokes and traditional dirty movies, Arse Elektronika is an orgy of big-time brains, deep thinkers, futurists, PhDs, hackers, artists, performers, scientists, experimental enginee

[monochrom] US: More prisons, but dropping crime rate? Huh?

One in 35 Americans are caught up in the corrections system and incarceration is on the rise. Why is this when the US crime rate has dropped so remarkably? Link -- Posted By johannes to

[monochrom] Radar Map Of Buried Mars Layers Matches Climate Cycles

New, three-dimensional imaging of Martian north-polar ice layers by a radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is consistent with theoretical models of Martian climate swings during the past few million years. Link -- Posted

[monochrom] Rally: Stop Ahmadinejad! Stop supporting the Iranian regime

Holocaust denier and President of the Iranian terror regime, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, announced his appearance at the UN General Assembly in New York set for 23 September, at a forum that has willingly offered a stage for anti-Semitic dictators in the past. On this occasion, we want to protest

[monochrom] Arse Elektronika 2009 on Boing Boing

Cory features Arse Elektronika 2009 on Boing Boing. Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 9/22/2009 06:22:00 PM

[monochrom] Curtis Ebbesmeyer, you are my hero

Curtis Charles Ebbesmeyer is an American oceanographer who, in retirement, has studied the movement of flotsam. He came to public attention through his interest in The First Years' rubber ducks (actually Friendly Floatees) a consignment of bath to

[monochrom] Arse Elektronika 2009: "Of Intercourse and Intracourse"

monochrom's ARSE ELEKTRONIKA 2009 "OF INTERCOURSE AND INTRACOURSE" + Conference, film festival, DIY workshops, performances. Oct 1-4, 2009. San Francisco. With talks, machines and performances by Allen Stein, R. U. Sirius, Noah Weinstein, Randy Sarafan, Uncle Abdul, Jonathon Keat

[monochrom] Arse Elektronika 2009 / Online ticket sales

Arse Elektronika 2009: Ticket Sale via brownpapertickets: Oct 1: Film Festival and Prixxx Arse Awards Ceremony @ Roxie Theater Oct 2: Seminar/Performance @ C

[monochrom] Sympathy for the Devil: Dorothy Sayers and the American Faust Film

How a British Detective Novelist Can Help Us Understand an American Film Obsession. The first and most theologically sophisticated tradition is the fallen angel motif that stretches back into pre-Christian Jewish antecedents. Sayers isolates the "dark angelic melancholy" as the primary quali

[monochrom] Obama, Labor And FDR

By Dick Meister. It's clear that Barack Obama is well on the way to becoming the most pro-labor president since Franklin D. Roosevelt - clear that he's firmly committed to strengthening the vital union rights that FDR secured for U.S. workers seven decades ago. Consider Obama's address to the A

[monochrom] Is Chronic Radiation an Effective Prophylaxis Against Cancer?

Chronic radiation is defined as the radiation received slowly or in a low-dose-rate from various sources. It is completely different in nature to the acute gamma or neutron radiation generated from the atomic bomb explosions that occurred in Japan at the end of World War II. Tantalizing insig

[monochrom] Arse Elektronika 2009: Schedule online

Finally, the schedule is online! Arse Elektronika 2009: "Of Intercourse and Intracourse"; October 1-4, 2009. San Francisco, USA (@ Roxie Theater, Center for Sex and Culture, Femina Potens Gallery, Noisebridge). Link -- Posted By johannes to

[monochrom] Harun Yahya: Muslim creationist, cult leader, Dawkins' nemesis, messiah

Inspired by the high profile of its Christian American counterpart, Muslim creationism is becoming increasingly visible and confident. On scores of websites and in dozens of books with titles like The Evolution Deceit and The Dark Face of Darwinism, a new and well-funded version of evolution-

[monochrom] Government Urges Changes to Google Books Deal

In the latest challenge to Google's plan to establish the world's largest digital library and bookstore, the Justice Department said late Friday that a proposed legal settlement between Google and book authors and publishers should not be approved by the court without modifications. The Justi

[monochrom] The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Eastern Garbage Patch or the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a gyre of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135° to 155°W and 35° to 42°N and estimated to be twice the size of Texas. The patch is characteriz

[monochrom] Gesellschaftsspiele im Web 2.0: Der Medienjongleur Johannes Grenzfurthner

Eine BR-Zündfunk-Sendung von Judith Schnaubelt. Zu hören am Sonntag, den 20. September 2009, 22.05-23.00 Uhr. "Viele Leute verstehen nicht, dass das Internet ein Lebensraum ist; eine Multitude von neuen Medien und Mikromedien, in der ich mich täglich aufhalte, arbeite und lebe", sagt Johannes

[monochrom] monochrom presents: Krach der Roboter / "Hello World!" / Release party

Beloved Krach der Roboter will release his first Solo-CD (released by monochrom). CD Release Party / Vienna: "Fluc", September 17, 2009, 10 PM. CD info (order etc.) -- Posted By johannes to

[monochrom] monochrom's Taugshow #19 / Today

monochrom presents: ++TAUGSHOW #19++ Paraflows Special Tuesday, September 15, 2009 / 8:00 PM @ Metalab, Vienna (presented by Johannes Grenzfurthner and Roland Gratzer; twitter slave: Lorenz Seidler) But who are our guests? #

[monochrom] Paraflows 2009: MP3 Experiment / Video

And here it is. A full length video of the MP3 Experiment that took place September 12, 2009 @ Museumsquartier Vienna / Paraflows. Improv Everywhere Mp3 Experiment, Vienna 09/12/09 from exiledsur

[monochrom] Paraflows 2009 / Conference "Urban Hacking" / Live Stream

paraflows 09 – Festival foor Digital Art and Cultures Conference: September 11-13, 2009 (2 PM - 9 PM, Central European Time). Symposium URBAN HACKING Cultural Jamming Strategies in the Risky Spaces of Modernity. The three-day program of the symposium

[monochrom] Sowjet-Unterzögersdorfer Nachrichtendienst veröffentlicht österreichische Flugfunkfrequenzen!

Informationen für die Berichterstattung am 11. September 2009. An den Pressepöbel der so genannten "Republik Österreich" und generell an jene unfreie "Freie Welt", auf die wir so großflächig spucken! Unsere Stärke ist unsere Entschlusskraft. Und unsere Entschlusskraft heißt Ätherwellendominan

[monochrom] Parasitic worms as therapy

It appears that certain autoimmune diseases such as asthma, arthritis, MS, and Chron's are more prevalent in modern industrialized nations. According to the hygiene hypothesis , our bodies are ecosystems that have been damaged by a rapid reduction in number a

[monochrom] The YouTube war is over – but at what cost ?

After long, drawn-out negotiations, PRS for Music and YouTube have finally come to an agreement over rates. It's good news for British music fans, since YouTube's blocking of premium music videos on their site will now be lifted. What it means for songwriters financially is still a mystery

[monochrom] The Science and Ethics of Cooperation: Neuro-economics?

The cooperative system is fundamental to the organization and structure of a Prout (the Progressive Utilization Theory) economy. It is an expression of economic democracy in action - cooperative enterprises give workers the right of capital ownership, collective management and all the associa

[monochrom] 35 versions of Little Red Riding Hood

Popular fairy tales and folk stories are more ancient than was previously thought, according research by biologists. Dr Jamie Tehrani, a cultural anthropologist at Durham University, studied 35 versions of Little Red Riding Hood from around the world.

[monochrom] Downloader Links To '$675K Mixtape'

The songs Joel Tenenbaum was fined $675,000 for illegally downloading are now available on Pirate Bay as "The $675,000 Mixtape." "Although there is no evidence that Tenenbaum was responsible for putting the playlist" there, "the record companies have accused him of defiantly encouraging further

[monochrom] Human Brain Could Be Replicated In 10 Years

The apparent complexity of the human mind is not a barrier to building a 'replica' brain claims Professor Markram. "The brain is of course extremely complex because it has trillions of synapses, billions of neurons, millions of proteins, and thousands of genes. But they are still finite in nu

[monochrom] A Different Perspective on the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal

The U.S.-India nuclear deal was initiated through a framework agreement signed by India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and U.S. President Bush in July 2005. India, at the instigation of Washington, agreed to separate its civilian and military nuclear production facilities, and place all civi

[monochrom] US healthcare sham

A Republican Congress and President Bill Clinton abolished a welfare programme in 1996 under the (largely fallacious) pretext that it bred fraud, waste and abuse. Thirteen years on, the reforms that Barack Obama is proposing will not fundamentally change the United States' abysmal healthcar

[monochrom] Yip yips meet the telephone

Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 9/04/2009 01:52:00 PM

[monochrom] dies ist die erste...

..."lowest priority" mail, die ich je in meinem leben verschickt habe. V V

[monochrom] monochrom presents: Krach der Roboter / Hello World!

Beloved Krach der Roboter will release his first Solo-CD (released by monochrom). CD Release Party / Berlin: "Madame Claude", September 12, 2009, 8 PM. CD Release Party / Vienna: "Fluc", September 17, 20

[monochrom] Mitch Heinrich: new paraflows/monochrom artist in residence

Our new artist in residence arrived! Yeah! Mitch Heinrich is a hacker, builder and designer based out of San Francisco. Previous exploits involve a giant mobius strip made of one-way street signs and a fairy juicing absinthe robot. He got his start working for Squid Labs where he helped design

[monochrom] Wow... High-Speed Robot Hand

Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 9/02/2009 07:57:00 PM

[monochrom] heute mitternacht: grenzfurthner und gratzer live, der computer und die popmusik

heute wird das monochrom'sche duo grenzfurthner und gratzer der alten frage nach computer und populärer musik nachgehen. basierend auf dem monochrom-vortrag, der für den 24c3 in berlin geschrieben wurde, werden wir heute (2. September 2009) um mitt

[monochrom] Tarantino's Top 20 Movies Since 1992

Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 9/02/2009 11:54:00 AM

[monochrom] The rise of European Bobo politics

Cohn-Bendit's Europe Ecologie victory in France emboldens the Green right across Europe but does it also mean the death of traditional green principles? The success of Europe Ecologie in France and moderate advances elsewhere in the June European elections have emboldened the green right but di

[monochrom] AI is the science of illusion

Interview with Robotics expert Noel Sharkey. You describe AI as the science of illusion. It is my contention that AI, and particularly robotics, exploits natural human zoomorphism. We want robots to appear like humans or animals, and this is assisted by cultural myths about AI and a willing su

[monochrom] The Memory That Will Not Die: Exhuming the Spanish Civil War

Last September Spain's homegrown "super-judge" Baltasar Garzón—best-known for his dramatic 1998 effort to arrest the late Chiilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London— announced that he was investigating not only the whereabouts of the remains of the "disappeared" of the Spanish Civil War (

[monochrom] Stray dogs master the subway

Scientists in Moscow say stray dogs have learnt to use the subway to travel to the city centre in search of food. Biology professor Andrew Poyarkov said he had seen several dogs unaccompanied on the city's underground rail system, reports rupor.org. He claims the dogs travel into the city c

[monochrom] Laughing Squid announces Arse Elektronika 2009

monochrom has just announced Arse Elektronika 2009: "Of Intercourse & Intracourse", their annual conference on sex, technology and the future, which takes place October 1-4 in San Francisco, kicking off with the Prixxx Arse Elektronika 2009 Awards Ceremony on October 1st at the Roxie Theater.

[monochrom] Wanted: Interrogation that works and isn't torture

In a fight against terrorism, information is everything. The White House attempted to draw a line under the dubious intelligence-gathering practices of the Bush administration last week by announcing the creation of a special interrogation group that will use "scientifically proven means" to

[monochrom] Actor, Director Tim Robbins Takes Up Historic Vietnam War Protest in Production of "The Trial of the Catonsville Nine"

We end today's show with the Academy Award-winning actor, director and writer Tim Robbins. Tim is involved in a new production of Father Daniel Berrigan's acclaimed play The Trial of the Catonsville Nine. The play centers on the events of May 17th, 1968, when nine Catholic peace activists, i

[monochrom] Britain and the Second World War: A long story

Cran admits that the wartime mentality lingered in other strange ways. "I used to say, 'I'm not going to go on holiday to Germany.' Italy and France, yes, but Germany, no. My big thing was not buying a German car. When I finally bought an Audi a few years ago, I had to think about it very har

[monochrom] That Picasso Recovered In Iraq? A Fake With Spelling Mistakes

Officers had said that the painting was stolen during Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, but a source at the museum in the emirate said they had never housed such a work. "The National Museum had no Picasso paintings before the Iraqi invasion," the official said on cond

[monochrom] die apokalypse...

...faengt ja echt schon an. es beginnt mit verschwindenden baeumen... http://diepresse.com/home/panorama/wien/504917/index.do?_vl_backlink=/home/index.do

[monochrom] apokalypsenfestspiele lindabrunn 2009: erste fotos

links zu den photosets hier http://www.monochrom.at/apokalypsenfestspiele/

[monochrom] neue ortos und toyps sind da

http://www.monochrom.at/orto http://www.monochrom.at/toyps

Re: [monochrom] Apokalypsenfestspiele Lindabrunn

fuck! das mus natuerlich august heissen... At 15:00 28.08.2009, das ende der nahrungskette wrote: Sonntag, 30. April 2009 ab 14 Uhr. http://www.monochrom.at/apokalypsenfestspiele (mit Google Maps Link, Facebook Event Link) http://fm4.orf.at/stories/1625536/

[monochrom] Apokalypsenfestspiele Lindabrunn

Sonntag, 30. April 2009 ab 14 Uhr. http://www.monochrom.at/apokalypsenfestspiele (mit Google Maps Link, Facebook Event Link) http://fm4.orf.at/stories/1625536/

[monochrom] Media Multitaskers: Fail!

People who are regularly bombarded with several streams of electronic information do not pay attention, control their memory or switch from one job to another as well as those who prefer to complete one task at a time, a group of Stanford researchers has found. High-tech jugglers are everyw

[monochrom] We Are As Gods And Have To Get Good At It

The shift that has happened in 40 years which mainly has to do with climate change. Forty years ago, I could say in the Whole Earth Catalog, "we are as gods, we might as well get good at it". Photographs of earth from space had that god-like perspective. What I'm saying now is we are as gods

[monochrom] Computing climate change: How much carbon dioxide do computers emit?

Aviation has long been blamed for its share of anthropogenic global warming. Indeed, some travellers now ask themselves whether their flight is strictly necessary and, if they decide it is, salve their consciences by paying for the planting of trees. These, so they hope, will absorb the equiv

[monochrom] Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep? Arse Elektronika Anthology

Our new Arse Elektronika Anthology will be released in October/November 2009: "Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep? Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Fiction"... Pre-order via RE

[monochrom] Unbelieveable! Artist Management According To Flo & Eddie

Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 8/25/2009 04:04:00 PM

[monochrom] Steely-Eyed Hydronauts of the Mariana

On 21 December 1872, the British naval corvette HMS Challenger sailed from Portsmouth, England on an historic endeavor. Although the sophisticated steam-assisted sailing vessel had been originally constructed as a combat ship, her instruments of war had been recently removed to make room for

[monochrom] Rajeshree Sisodia on why Burma is a failed state

George Miller talks to journalist Rajeshree Sisodia about her article "Mae Sot's unsung heroes" in the July issue of Le Monde diplomatique. They discuss the Orwellian climate of fear which prevails in the country and life in the refugee camps across the border in Thailand, home to thousands of

[monochrom] Ministry of Defeat. The British War in Iraq 2003-2009

After co-authoring four books with the Sunday Telegraph's Christopher Booker, Dr Richard North - the defence analyst behind the Defence of the Realm blog - has written a blow-by-blow account of Britain's disastrous occupation of southern Iraq, from the April 2003 invasion to the withdrawal of

[monochrom] The New-Media Crisis of 1949

The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executives and newspaper publishers, all of whom are scrambling to figure out how to reconfigure their business models in such a way as to allow them to make an honest buck. They're trying to second

[monochrom] Unhappy Together: The Wittgenstein Family Feud

They were raised in a vast marble palace in Vienna, with liveried servants, seven grand pianos, a Rodin sculpture, and frescoes depicting scenes from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Their father, a self-made millionaire and one of the leading industrialists of the Habsburg Empire, was also a deepl

[monochrom] georg seesslen ueber "inglorious basterds"

lesenswert http://bit.ly/10QOgE

[monochrom] apokalypsenfestspiele lindabrunn

hallo leute! wer von der bagasch wird denn am sonntag kommen? ist nur wegen ungefaehrer planung der grillage. liebe gruesse johannes

[monochrom] Close Encounters of the Facial Kind: Are UFO Alien Faces an Inborn Facial Recognition Template?

In vol. 11 issue 4 of Skeptic magazine, Frederick V. Malmstrom presents his hypothesis that Greys are actually residual memories of early childhood development. Malmstrom reconstructs the face of a Grey through transformation of a mother's face based on our best understanding of early childhood

[monochrom] The Origin of Zero

The number zero as we know it arrived in the West circa 1200, most famously delivered by Italian mathematician Fibonacci (aka Leonardo of Pisa), who brought it, along with the rest of the Arabic numerals, back from his travels to north Africa. But the history of zero, both as a concept and a

[monochrom] Ira Glass discloses the mysteries of good storytelling

Why Watch "House"? And how is The Arabian Nights like Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 3? Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 8/21/2009 12:30:00 PM

[monochrom] We Are the Martians: Why we've never lost our enthusiasm for space travel

It was exactly 10 years ago, 1999, that the heat of a rocket ship on its way to Mars turned the dark Ohio winter into summer. The First Expedition landed men on Mars but it would be three expeditions later before the men of Earth would fully inhabit the red planet and make it their own. Event

[monochrom] Inside the DSM: The Drug Barons' Campaign to Make Us All Crazy

Some years ago, a friend told me that he had been diagnosed with a major depressive disorder and that his psychiatrist had given him a prescription for Forest Laboratories' popular SSRI antidepressant Celexa (chemical name, citalopram hydrobromide; $1.5 billion in sales in 2003). Knowing hi

[monochrom] "Off The Hook"/Toorcamp Special with J. Scott, Johannes G., Eddie C.

"Off the Hook" is a hacker-oriented weekly talk radio program hosted by Emmanuel Goldstein. Emmanuel recorded a nice little lunchtime chitchat with Jason Scott, Eddie Codel, Johannes Grenzfurthner (monochrom) at Toorcamp 2009. Check it

[monochrom] Fwd: flamethrower anyone? - für Apokalypsenfestspiele Lindabrunn 30.8.

Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:23:35 +0200 From: Leo Sauermann Organization: gnowsis.com Subject: flamethrower anyone? - für Apokalypsenfestspiele Lindabrunn 30.8. Ho lab, wer kommt mit auf (monochrom's) Apokalypsenfestspiele Lindabrunn am 30.8.? http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=116445683847 I

[monochrom] What Your Choice of Words Says about Your Personality

A language analysis program reveals personality, mental health and intent by counting and categorizing words. Link -- Posted By johannes to mo

[monochrom] It's....! Monty Python Reunion Set For This Fall

"The Pythons will meet again to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the creation of the troupe on Oct. 15 at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City. While the event will feature no cows being flung by catapult ... the reunion will involve the complete troupe" - including, we are told, the late G

[monochrom] There's more to Calvin than dourness and asceticism?

This year is the five-hundredth anniversary of John Calvin's birth, but while the occasion is being marked by his followers, in the wider world the Protestant reformer is remembered with little affection. 'Calvinism' is regarded as a harsh and humourless creed, whose founder lacks even the

[monochrom] 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Intriguing Scientific M...

Good piece of popular science. Will we ever find the ninety-six percent of the universe that is missing? Will tomorrow bring an answer to the scientific mysteries of today? While taking readers on an entertaining tour d'horizon of today's strangest scientific findings, Michael Brooks argues th

[monochrom] Internet 'immune system' could block viruses

It is 0530 UTC, 25 January 2003. A computer worm named Slammer has just unleashed one of the most devastating attacks on the internet ever. Within minutes, it infects nearly 90 per cent of vulnerable computers. Major net links break down, ATM machines fail and airlines have to cancel flights.

[monochrom] Why Yale Press Shouldn't Self-Censor Mohammed Images

Why did Yale University Press remove images of Mohammed from a book about the Danish cartoons? The Cartoons That Shook the World by Jytte Klausen.The capitulation of Yale University Press to threats that hadn't even been made yet is the latest and perhaps the worst episode in the steady surren

[monochrom] How a Basic Income Program Saved a Namibian Village

It sounds like a communist utopia, but a basic income program pioneered by German aid workers has helped alleviate poverty in a Nambian village. Crime is down and children can finally attend school. Only the local white farmers are unhappy.

[monochrom] Fwd: Radio ORANGE 94.0 MEDIENKUNSTPROJEKTWOC HE und anschließendes GEBURTSTAGSFEST

From: Doris Miyung Brady Radio ORANGE 94.0 feiert am 29.08.09 ihr 11-jähriges Bestehen und nicht nur das In der Woche davor, von 24. bis 28.8.09, findet im Rahmen des Medienkunstprojektes „BROADCAST MEDIA SCULPTURES” von ORANGE 94.0 eine Projektwoche rund um das Thema „Zukunft der Mas

Re: [monochrom] Ein Auffall

seconded. At 09:31 18.08.2009, you wrote: Mir fällt auf, dass Adolf Hitler gerade gleich zweimal auf der ORF-News-Startpage vorkommt. Einmal in Form eines "Obama als Hitler"-Fotos mit einem Artikel, der von rechtsextremen Untrieben in den USA berichtet. Und einmal in Form von Nazi-Bashing in Fo

[monochrom] Apokalypsenfestspiele Lindabrunn

Geschätzte Überlebende der eher großen Katastrophe! Am 30. August 2009 werden wir uns um 14 Uhr auf dem dystopischen Gelände des VSL Lindabrunn einfinden um die ersten Apokalypsenfestspiele der Neuzeit abzuhalten. Mitmachen können alle strahlengestählten

[monochrom] What do flocks of birds have in common with trust, monogamy, and even breast milk?

According to a new report in the journal Science, they are regulated by virtually identical neurochemicals in the brain, known as oxytocin in mammals and mesotocin in birds. Neurobiologists at Indiana University showed that if the actions of mesotocin are blocked in the brains of zebra finch

[monochrom] Monsanto's Man in the Obama Administration?

Michael R. Taylor's appointment by the Obama administration to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on July 7th sparked immediate debate and even outrage among many food and agriculture researchers, NGOs and activists. The Vice President for Public Policy at Monsanto Corp. from 1998 until 2

[monochrom] China's wild west: Ethnic conflict erupts in Beijing's 'new frontier'

With July's violence in Urumqi following last year's riots in Tibet, is China under threat in its frontier provinces? Xinjiang's minorities, the Muslim Uyghurs in particular, face discrimination. Though their dislocation is more social and cultural than religious, without real autonomy Islamic

[monochrom] Soviet Unterzoegersdorf Embassy @ HAR2009: Erected!

A great success of solidarity! Soviet Unterzoegersdorf's ebassy at HAR2009 is finished. The confederation is proud and wants to thank its international supporters! Link (Flickr) -- Posted By johannes to

[monochrom] monochrom @ Hacking at Random 2009

International technology & security conference. Four days of technology, ideological debates and hands-on tinkering. And we will not deny any rumors about a Soviet Unterzoegersdorf military intervention. ugust 13-16, 2009; Vierhouten, NL.

[monochrom] Schoene neue "Zeigerpointer" eingelangt! Point! Zeig! Point!

Wunderbare neue Zeigerpointer wurden eingereicht! Aber bist du mit dem Prinzip des Zeigerpointers überhaupt schon vertraut? Der Zeigerpointer (eine tautologische deutsch-englische Wortschöpfungsfreiheit, die wir uns erlauben) ist die kärgste Form der printmedialen Kapitulation. Verschiedene P

[monochrom] monochrom #26-34: Wir suchen LayouterInnen!

Ja, heute gehen wir in die offizielle Layout-Phase für unser neues Jahrbuch über. Wir haben bemerkenswerte Essays, Berichte, Kurzgeschichten und Rezensionen gesammelt und nun gilt es diese Blei(resp. ASCII)-Wüste zur Blüte zu bringen. Wärst du in

[monochrom] Reimagining A Global Law

International law in a new society wouldn't exist. Allow me to explain. Let's say the goal of reimagining society is to create something that is more participatory: self managed in line with the values of parecon and parpolity. The hyperlinked writings are worth reading in their entirety to g

[monochrom] Miniature gravity detector could peer inside planets

Peering beneath the surface of Mars and other planets to reveal buried geological features could get easier, thanks to a nifty new silicon gadget. The device, called a gravity gradiometer, has been designed to measure how much the force of gravity changes from place to place, enabling it to

[monochrom] Tough times in the porn industry

The adult entertainment business, centered in the San Fernando Valley, has weathered several recessions since it took off with the advent of home video in the 1980s. But this time the industry is not dealing with just a weakened economy. A growing abundance of free content on the Internet is

[monochrom] Is the egg is the ultimate currency of Darwinian success?

It is particularly ironic that the critics have hurled all the conventional accusations at Miller, since his version of evolutionary psychology is so different from that of Steven Pinker and other key thinkers in the field. His theory, eloquently advanced in The Mating Mind (2000), that the e

[monochrom] Fake Histories Of The World (And Who Reads Them)

How to fake science, history and religion. An investigation into the invented histories of Atlantis, pre-Ice Age civilizations and cosmic catastrophes. What is striking about pseudo-histories and sciences is how repetitive they are and, despite their extravagant speculations, how limited their

[monochrom] 1.6 per cent? Restating the case for human uniqueness

A brilliant new book cuts through all the media-oriented research about 'clever chimps' using tools, doing maths and feeling emotions, and reminds us that, in truth, there is nothing remotely human about primates. Not a Chimp: The Hunt to Find the Genes That Make Us Human is a refreshing defence

[monochrom] Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

It was a hot August day in Detroit. I was standing on a street corner downtown, looking at the front page of The Detroit News in a news rack. I remember a streetcar rattling by on the tracks as I read the headline: A single American bomb had destroyed a Japanese city. My first thought was t

[monochrom] Reducing Energy Inputs in the Agricultural Production System

Oil, natural gas, coal, and other mined fuels provide the United States with nearly all of its energy needs at a cost $700 billion per year. Since more than 90 percent of its oil deposits have been depleted, the United States now imports over 70 percent of its oil at an annual cost of $400

[monochrom] John Hughes, 'The Steven Spielberg Of Youth Comedy,' Dies At 59

Richard Corliss: "Hughes generated successful movie-comedy franchises as fast as other people wrote postcards. First the National Lampoon Vacation films ... Then the teen movies" - Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off - "not strictly a series but with

[monochrom] Winning the ultimate battle: How humans could end war

Optimists called the first world war "the war to end all wars". Philosopher George Santayana demurred. In its aftermath he declared: "Only the dead have seen the end of war". History has proved him right, of course. What's more, today virtually nobody believes that humankind will ever transce

[monochrom] Out-of-body experiences help bring avatars to life

The dream of many of paralysed people, computer-game designers – and pornographers – is one step closer to reality with th the demonstration of a technique that allows people to physically identify with a virtual body. The achievement builds on previous work in which neuroscientists create

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