July 15, 2008
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Houseplant Picture Studio
Found photos and other randomness.

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Last Breath in Alaska
A found netart work by Pascual Sisto.

July 14, 2008
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Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno
Lo-tech demonstrations of bug sex (safe for work).

The double slit experiment, from here. From what I’ve been told, they simplified some parts, but it’s still a pretty good visualization.

See also: Wave function collapse, many-worlds interpretation and quantum decoherence.

Graffitio: Really it’s not anonymity that’s the problem, it’s that individual users can’t be identified from each other. Without named handles it probably will never go beyond “yo yo yo.”
Graffitio: Really it’s not anonymity that’s the problem, it’s that individual users can’t be identified from each other. Without named handles it probably will never go beyond “yo yo yo.”
July 12, 2008
Was fixating so much on FISA’s telecom immunity, I’m unclear what will be legal going forward. Spying on me is ok if I talk to foreigners?
July 11, 2008
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Patton Oswalt's high school commencement speech
“Do not judge, and get outside yourself, and realize that everyone and everything has its own story, and something to teach you, and that they’re also trying to learn and grow from you and everything else around them … There Is No Them.”

July 9, 2008
The creepy pencil
Going to see Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World tonight at Film Forum, 8:10pm.
The first web server, a NeXT workstation used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. The sticker on it reads: “This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!” Found via Boing Boing

The first web server, a NeXT workstation used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. The sticker on it reads: “This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!”

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July 7, 2008
The cycle goes like this: beg, pull, fetch.
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Rebuttal to "Facebook is the new AOL"
Jason Kottke: “Facebook is a proprietary walled garden.” Facebook employee Yishan Wong: “No it’s not!” Unfortunately Wong’s rebuttal is on Facebook and is not accessible to the Internet public.

July 6, 2008
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'Public' online spaces don't carry speech, rights
From the AP: “As Internet companies continue to consolidate and Internet users spend more time using vendor-controlled platforms such as mobile devices or social-networking sites, the community’s…

July 1, 2008
There is no such thing as New Wave
“ There are two types of programming languages: the ones that people bitch about and the ones that no one uses.
— Bjarne Stroustrup via Gruber’s favorites