Johannes Grenzfurthner from Austrian mad arts collective Monochrom
closed out this year's HOPE conference in NYC with a dramatic
presentation about, um, Wikileaks. And unicorns.
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(Boing Boing)
Biologists at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences studying
crawling caterpillars have reported a unique two-body system of
locomotion that has not previously been reported in any animal.
In an article published online July 22 in the journal Current
Biology, the Tufts-led team
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From the design duo Chambers Judd:
Developed as a protection against dust which was particularly
threatening to early microprocessors, the Gesundheit Radio sneezes
every six months to expel potentially damaging material from it's
interior. A bellows system extracts the dust from inside the
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Yesterday at http://thenexthope.org/The Next Hope in NYC,
http://twitter.com/johannes_monoJohannes Grenzfurthner of
http://www.monochrom.at/english/monochrom announced
http://hackbus.info/Hackbus, a community wiki for mobile hack
vehicles around the world. Here's more on the
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We at monochrom are launching a http://hackbus.infocommunity site
for the evergrowing armada of hackbusses.
We need a root movement of doing strange things with hardware which
was not intended (aka hacking) because only when we use things in
ways other than they were planned can something new
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Here's a link to a commentary by April Michelle Herndon. She is an
assistant professor of English who also teaches in the Women's and
Gender Studies department at Winona State University in Minnesota.
Would you take a magic pill to make yourself straight? That
question came from an audience
In a desertifying world short of water, the
utilitarian camel, and the ancient cultures that
depend on it, offer a way to use land too poor to sustain anything else.
The camel has long had a special place in the
imagination of the West, from the Greek historian
Herodotus telling a story
BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling operation may have triggered an
irreversible, cascading geological Apocalypse that will culminate
with the first mass extinction of life on Earth in many millions of years.
The oil giant drilled down miles into a geologically unstable region
and may have set
Raymond Tallis reveals the philosophical
connection between medical ethics and hair loss.
Photographic evidence shows that in 1980 I had a
full head of hair, while in 1990 I was bald. It
follows from this that some time in the 1980s I
became bald. However, it seems impossible or
daft to
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Oh really?
The advertisement warns of speculative financial bubbles. It mocks a
group of gullible Frenchmen seduced into a silly, 18th-century
investment scheme, noting that the modern shareholder, armed with
superior information, can avoid the pitfalls of the past. How
different the position
Die Bagasch wird scho ned aufmucken.
wer muckt, spuckt.
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How Google's open-ended maps are embroiling the
company in some of the worlds touchiest geopolitical disputes.
One fateful day in early August, Google Maps
turned Arunachal Pradesh Chinese. It happened
without warning. One minute, the mountainous
border state adjacent to Tibet was labeled
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Languagehat on America:
I presume we all know about the first appearance
of the word America on the
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map of 1507; what I, at any rate, didn't know was
that the text of the map and accompanying
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FAT LAB's SPEED SHOW Vol. 2: Who the fuck do you think you are talking to?
One night group show.
Participating artists: Margarete Jahrmann
Renate Christian, JODI, Greg Leuch, JK Keller,
Michael Marcovici, Will Moffat Peter Burns,
monochrom, Evan Roth, Sakrowski, Gordan Savicic,
Michael
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Subjects.
That's what Thomas Jefferson first wrote in an early draft of the
Declaration of Independence to describe the people of the 13 colonies.
But in a moment when history took a sharp turn, Jefferson sought
quite methodically to expunge the word, to wipe it out of existence
and write
Was genau ist das ZukunftsWeb? Welche Chancen
und Risiken birgt das Web von morgen für
Individuum, Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft?
Stichworte lauten etwa Digital Citizen, Web of
Data, Web of Things, Open Government Data
und mehr. Internationale Medien identifizierten
vielerorts unabhängig
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My ideas evolved from long hours in local bars,
talking, talking, talking, always about morality.
People were always asking 'Who do you think you
are, Socrates?' They said it with contempt, but I
would smile and say, 'Thank you.' Tim Cooney
The television show Sesame Street recently
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alles llliebe, gratzer!
und jeden tag einen bagger von jesus!
William Jacques, nicknamed 'Tome Raider' after stealing hundreds of
rare books in the late 1990s, drew up a 'thief's shopping list',
targeting the most expensive books that he could access. He used a
false name to sign in to the Royal Horticultural Society's Lindley
library in London before
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Simone de Beauvoirs translators and the many
critics have turned their disputes into a play
where each acts the role assigned by theatrical cliché...
As translation contretemps go, the one
surrounding French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir
(1908-86) and her foundational work of modern
Can Science Capture the Complexity of Human Pleasures?
I'm a practicing psychiatrist, not a research psychologist, but as
someone who follows the literature on happiness, I'm convinced that
The remarkable ability of an electron to exist in two places at once
has been controlled in the most common electronic material -- silicon
-- for the first time. The research findings -- published in Nature
by a UK-Dutch team from the University of Surrey, UCL (University
College) London,
In the late 1970s, the historian Christopher Lasch famously described
America as a culture of narcissism. Today we might well be called a
nation of dysregulation. The signs that something is amiss in our
inner mechanisms of control and restraint are everywhere.
You gotta love evolution.
Japanese people have special tools that let them
get more out of eating sushi than Americans can.
They are probably raised with these utensils from
an early age and each person wields millions of
them. By now, you've probably worked out that I'm not talking about
In terms of the great implosion of the global economy which began on
Wall Street in late 2008, the Greek financial collapse is a storm in
a retsina glass. The sums concerned are trivial by the standards of
modern multitrillion-dollar high finance, or indeed by the standards
of the
Great CfP by Eleanor Saitta (Structure Light Design Research Collective).
It is now evident that postmodernism is dead. It
has not ceased to function, exactly. The tools it
gave us for the analysis of culture still work to
the same degree they did previously. It remains a
functional
The Industrial Revolution is the inflection point
of economic history. During all the millennia
before that revolution, incomes were static and
humans were pooroften hungry, inadequately
clothed, ill-housed. But somehow, in the
two-and-a-half centuries since humanity learned
to mass
...hab in den letzten tagen vergessen meine
bagasch-beitraege abzuschicken... deswegen jetzt
der ganze schwall auf einmal...
wird sogar schon auf twitter bemerkt:
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http://twitter.com/moritzmoritz der
@http://twitter.com/johannes_monojohannes_mono
spammt mir gerade mit 13 (!)
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monochrom's Raw Image Formats
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At 11:49 23.06.2010, you wrote:
MRIF - What does MRIF stand for?
q: http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/MRIF
The objectives of the MRIF are to improve community infrastructure,
the quality of the environment and citizens quality of
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On June 10, 2010 we caught up with Gustavo
Martinez, a union leader in the
worker-controlled, nationalized coffee company,
Fama de América, in Caracas, Venezuela. The
company has 350 workers at the national level,
with two separate plants one in Caracas and one
in Valencia. We sat down
Dienstag, 22. Juni, 20:00
ELIMIR ILNIK: THE OLD SCOOL OF CAPITALISM
Serbien in der Zeit der postkommunistischen
Transformation. Der durch die kriminellen
Privatisierungen verwüstete Mikrokosmos des
globalen Kapitalismus. Die Überreste des
zerschlagenen Proletariats versuchen, ihre
Rechte
The word processor is a stupid and grossly inefficient tool for
preparing text for communication with others. That is the claim I
shall defend below. It will probably strike you as bizarre at first
sight. If I am against word processors, what do I propose: that we
write in longhand, or use a
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Essay by Michael Betancourt.
The collapse of the United States' Housing Bubble in 2008 is the
logical and inevitable result of the illusion of production without
consumption; however, in spite of the financial collapse, and the
bailouts of insolvent financial institutions and the on-going
If you're one of the millions of Americans who use broadband Internet
at home, you probably take for granted how deeply it's woven into
your life. It has transformed the way we pay our bills, seek romance,
procrastinate, and keep abreast of politics and the lives of friends.
The pre-Google
The vampire story as we know it was born in the
early 19th century, as the wicked love child of
rural folklore and urban decadence. But in
writing these depraved tales, Byron and Polidori
and company were refining the raw ore of peasant
superstition. And the peasant brain had simply
been
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Not Even Wrong reports:
Science news in the media today is full of stories about Fermilab
finding no less than five Higgs particles:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/15/higgs_bosons/God Particles
Breeding Like Bosons,
Hell yeah!
Chances are you probably didn't like Star Wars:
Episode I - The Phantom Menace. You might be a
Star Wars fan, or at least a fan of the original
trilogy. After waiting in line for hours, days,
weeks, you may have even written a mini 200-400
word review on an internet message board
Which came first: The chicken or the egg?
This is a factual, rather than a philosophical question. However, it
is a legitimate task for philosophy to analyse the conditions under
which it would be correct to say that the chicken came first, as well
as the conditions under which it would be
Thursday, June 24, 2010
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Thalia Wien Mariahilferstr. 99
In Anwesenheit von Regisseur Arash T. Riahi,
Schauspieler Navid Akhavan Filmmusiker Karuan. Moderation Dominik Kamalzadeh
DVD bereits jetzt online bestellbar:
This is Matt Joyce's notice to the DHS that they are fired.
Dear Dept of Homeland Security (and associated agencies),
As a citizen of the United States, I am entitled to life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. And you as a federally funded arm of
... something... you are charged with the
Emanuel Derman, a former managing director and head of the
Quantitative Strategies Group at Goldman Sachs Co, is a professor
in Columbia University's Industrial Engineering and Operations
Research Department, as well as a partner at Prisma Capital Partners.
He is the author of My Life As A
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For the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have
been developing what they expect will be the
world's most advanced question answering
machine, able to understand a question posed in
everyday human elocution natural language, as
computer scientists call it - and respond with a
precise,
Getting to play one of the nastiest little girls to ever make people
want to hurl things at their televisions wasn't just fun, it was
therapy for Alison Arngrim, who channeled the anger and hurt she felt
at being physically and sexually abused into playing Nellie Oleson,
the villainous rival
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Peter Tyack of Woods Hole talks about a hidden wonder of the sea:
underwater sound. Onstage at Mission Blue, he explains the amazing
ways whales use sound and song to communicate across hundreds of
miles of ocean.
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It's a simple test for the presence of women in movies, and it's
really remarkable how many movies fail.
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http://monochrom.at/blog/index.php?op=ViewArticlearticleId=118blogId=1
Even before they learn to speak, babies are organizing information
about numbers, space and time in more complex ways than previously
realized, a study led by Emory University psychologist Stella Lourenco finds.
We've shown that 9-month-olds are sensitive to 'more than' or 'less
than'
By Mark Weisbrot
The U.S. and European Union together make up about half of the global
economy, and recovery is quite uncertain in both of these big
economies. Contrary to a lot of folk wisdom and political posturing,
the problem is not irresponsible government spending in either case,
but a
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You may have already seen mention of this in our various forums. Please
forgive any repetition but this is a really important story that needs to
be known worldwide. If you have any questions, right now the quickest way
to get an answer
Ab sofort gibts eine neue monochrom Online-Rubrik...
monochrom's Raw Image Format
Hier der Link zur Blog-Kategorie:
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A postmodern morality play is unfolding online. We are still
struggling to figure out what it means to be a human being on the
internet. Anonymity makes communication easier, but it also makes it
less meaningful. Can 30,000 strangers on the internet convince an
anonymous person about which
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whales feed mainly on krill but also small fish and squid, that swim
inside their enormous mouths. The blue whale has thousands of
extremely fine teeth that allow water to filter out of the whales
mouth, without
also
a) bei uns im buero
und
b) natuerlich online. hier sind die links:
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der verkaufsleiter
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