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Honey Pie from California is a place. on Vimeo.
This map shows all trains on the London Underground network in approximately real timeLive train map for the London Underground
HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites.
HTTPS Everywhere | Electronic Frontier Foundation
→ Note: it crashes Firefox when visiting identi.ca.
(11) Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and
a different presentation, regardless of whether it works.
(11a) (corollary). See rule 6a.RFC1925 - The Twelve Networking Truths
This is a homemade 12 x CD-R (!) compilation of punk bands fronted by female vocalists from 1977 to 1989. You may notice that some of the bands didn't have a steady female vocalist (The Lewd, etc.) but he still included songs that were sung by another member of the band. This is as international as it gets, with stuff ranging from world famous Blondie or Crass to the most obscure Eastern European cassette compilation veterans.Kängnäve: A Reference Of Female-Fronted Punk Rock: 1977-89. See also part 2 & 3
We love cool gadgets as much as anybody else. We just want to be thoughtful about the stuff we've bought. Even the most cutting-edge, tech-savvy geeks in the world are choosing to hang on to their phones or their iPods that still work just fine.lastyearsmodel.org
Open source - the once and future dreamSo where does the chain-reaction go from here and where will FOSS be in the next 10 years? The challenges are significant, and they're largely issues unresolved from the previous 10 years: intellectual property, companies' struggle to make money on a decent scale, tensions between the idealists and the more commercially minded members of the community, and the struggle to convince corporate users to participate and actually give back.
They are challenges that, if solved, could see FOSS and Linux hit a whole new level in the next 10 years, but if unresolved permit uncertainty to fester in a way that ultimately limits their business and technological growth.
Officially there is no rss-feed available of your friends status updates on Facebook, but luckily there is a way around this. Because I wanted to get the status to appear in Gwibber, I did a search and came across a comment on techlifeweb.com.
The basics, taken from the comment:
The basics, taken from the comment:
- Go to http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?friends
- Copy the link to "My Friends' Notes"
- Replace "friends_notes" with "friends_status"
N Building from Alexander Reeder on Vimeo.
By reading the QR Code with your mobile device you will be taken to a site which includes up to date shop information. In this manner we envision a cityscape unhindered by ubiquitous signage and also an improvement to the quality and accuracy of the information itself.[via]
If a QR Code is static, what could we do with a dynamic device like the iPhone? Our proposed vision of the future is one where the facade of the building disappears, showing those inside who want to be seen. As you press on the characters their comments made on online appear in speech bubbles. You can also browse shop information, make reservations and download coupons. Rather than broadly tagging, we display information specific to the building in a manner in which the virtual (iPhone) serves to enhance the physical (N Building). Our goal is to provide an incentive to visit the space and a virtual connection to space without necessarily being present.
Interesting, I might order one: http://open-pc.com/
This is the introduction to The Virtual Revolution, an open source documentary, due for transmission on BBC Two next week, that will take stock of 20 years of change brought about by the World Wide Web. Only about 25% of the world population uses the Web today, however more than 70% of people have access to mobile or fixed communication devices capable of displaying Web content. The World Wide Web Foundation [prev] exists to bridge the 'digital divide' in Internet usage.[via]
Het concept is eenvoudig en toch doet niemand het: ik geef een schilderij aan iemand die ik ken. Hij krijgt het, voor niks, voor een maand, om ervan te genieten, zich te verwonderen, erbij weg te dromen... In ruil schrijft hij online, op deze site, regelmatig over zijn ervaringen met het schilderij: ideeën, interpretaties, verhalen, reacties van bezoekers, ...http://kunstopreis.blogspot.com/
Liberate your newbie friends with a Web2.0 suicide! This machine lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 alterego.http://suicidemachine.org
The blog format has devolved. Once a simple gateway to self-publishing, today the blog format is responsible for a thousand tawdry tablogs: hideous half-breeds of tabloid and blog built around odeous content, cluttered site designs, and optimised for pageviews alone.Rise of the Tablog → Put Things Off
They make such great stuff, but they're such assholes. Do I really want to support this company?
I know, it's a shameless plug. Stop whining, just get it.
Dream Surfer Theory: This man is a real person, who can enter people's dreams by means of specific psychological skills. Some believe that in real life this man looks like the man in the dreams. Others think that the man in the dreams looks completely different from his real life counterpart. Some people seem to believe that behind this man there is a mental conditioning plan developed by a major corporation.Ever dream this man?
Werner Van Reck: Stadsmussen
Antwerpen is meer dan een verzameling straten, pleinen en gebouwen. De stad heeft haar uniek gezicht in de eerste plaats te danken aan haar bewoners, de mensen van Antwerpen. Gepassioneerd door fotografie startte Werner Van Reck na een reclamecarriere van 25 jaar een fotoproject over mensen van Antwerpen. Anderhalf jaar lang doorkruiste hij de binnen- en de buitenstad op zoek naar echte stadsmussen. Dit boek bevat dan ook meer dan honderd integere portretten van bekende en vooral minder bekende Antwerpenaren in hun persoonlijke habitat. Mensen die door datgene wat hen bezighoudt niet alleen bewijzen wat er leeft in hun stad, maar vooral wiè er leeft.Dit resulteerde in een enthousiast fotoboek vol inspirerende mensen van Antwerpen, elk met een eigen verhaal, die hun stad in hun hart dragen.
Red Dust - a gallery on Flickr curated by Tom Coates
See also the entry on the Flickr Blog
As I write this, there's an insane dust storm that's sweeping over Sydney. I found out about it by seeing a Twitter post from Dan Hill. I'm based in San Francisco but found it so extraordinary I decided to go and see if I could spot pictures coming in and make a little gallery out of them.[via MetaFilter]
See also the entry on the Flickr Blog
Through the lens of time - The Boston Globe
In the late 1960s, the Polaroid Corp. had an interesting idea. The company recruited the world's best-known photographers, such as Ansel Adams, William Wegman, and Andy Warhol, provided them with free film and studio space, and said: Have a ball. When you are finished, please give us a few prints, which we will include in our corporate collection.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html
Information moves, or we move to it. Moving to it has rarely been popular and is growing unfashionable; nowadays we demand that the information come to us. This can be accomplished in three basic ways: moving physical media around, broadcasting radiation through space, and sending signals through wires. This article is about what will, for a short time anyway, be the biggest and best wire ever made. -- Neal Stephenson
http://www.timezone.com/library/cjrml/cjrml631728462093125000
G-Shocks have become semi-mythological cultural icons with a life independent of the Casio brand. While it will likely be mostly known among the masses for the brightly coloured and largely disposable plastic watches born of the 1990s G-Shock boom, it is the original genius which remains its soul. This small delving hopefully shines some light on the essence of this idea, an idea infused with purpose and made real by it. The heavy-duty digital sports watch in its most quintessential form is something which we as enthusiasts of horology often take for granted and overlook - just like the aforementioned masses. Unlike most watches made today, digital or analogue, it is not a celebration banner of the wearer's ego, but as a tool it serves silently and reliably, without fanfare or special attention. It is this authenticity which prevents its exclusion from the class of "real" wristwatches, indeed perhaps being the most real of them all. -- by Carlos Perez August 30, 2002
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