January 2011
5 posts
Daily Reading: The Blast Shack →
Wikileaks, neo-cypherpunks, and the death of diplomacy. Bruce Sterling deconstructs the whole sordid affair along with the philosophies and personalities behind it. And he gets it—this is about old-school hackers with views on privacy and freedom from 20 years ago (eons in Internet time) trying to hack society as if it were just a baroque, but poorly defended, computer system. And look what...
Ghosts in the Field →
Mapping RFID fields with light and stop-motion photography. Really quite lovely.
“Guard yourself at all times. A lot of people believe that beauty is some kind of...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, August 18, 1981
Superhero Dinosaurs →
Superhero dinosaurs. Iron Brontosaurus is my favorite, followed closely by AnklyoTHORus.