Electrons composing signals representing bits abstracted into data presented as visual and aural stimuli intended to convey meaningTumblr (3.0; @dphiffer)http://blog.phiffer.org/<a href="http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/truth_commission.php">Truth Commission</a>: “Are we going to need a South Africa-style truth commission to find the facts and clear the air after Bush-era war crimes? I’m basically pessimistic that anyone will be held accountable for anything…http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42915112http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42915112Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:46:27 -0400Conflux Festival will be in Manhattan this year? Unpossible!http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42739636http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42739636Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:37:26 -0400First comment on <a href="http://is.gd/X67">http://is.gd/X67</a> hits it, I think. Twitter isn’t all we have, and nobody is saying that. Haven’t yet read Clay’s follow-up.http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42739635http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42739635Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:37:25 -0400<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/GXcjc7XP0bjif6g9FljpSkuA_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>Photograph of a turtle consuming a strawberryhttp://blog.phiffer.org/post/42638293http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42638293Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:54:29 -0400<a href="http://www.tfr.org/wiki/index.php?title=Technical_Proposal_(IPETEE)">Transparent end-to-end encryption for the internets</a>: A proposal from the creators of the Pirate Bay to encrypt the entire Internet(s).http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42613347http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42613347Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:33:10 -0400The McCain campaign has discovered teh Interwebs: <a href="http://gotham.wecanbelievein.com/">http://gotham.wecanbelievein.com/</a>http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42485722http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42485722Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:48:37 -0400Give this man $8.34: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6gqfor">http://tinyurl.com/6gqfor</a>http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42476658http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42476658Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:36:40 -0400<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/GXcjc7XP0bhl8bgbErW62Bin_500.png"/><br/><br/><a href="http://seantevis.com/kansas/3000/running-for-office-xkcd-style/">Sean Tevis</a> could be the first True Internet Candidate.http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42463099http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42463099Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:37:31 -0400Very grateful to the me of yesteryear for having the sense to back up That One File.http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42421630http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42421630Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:21:54 -0400<a href="http://www.houseplantpicturestudio.com/">Houseplant Picture Studio</a>: Found photos and other randomness.http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42385369http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42385369Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:40:47 -0400<a href="http://www.lastbreathinalaska.com/">Last Breath in Alaska</a>: A found netart work by Pascual Sisto.http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42379434http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42379434Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:34:56 -0400<a href="http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno">Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno</a>: Lo-tech demonstrations of bug sex (safe for work).http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42222689http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42222689Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:59:04 -0400<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wEzRdZGYNvA&ap=%2526fmt%3D18"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wEzRdZGYNvA&ap=%2526fmt%3D18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>The double slit experiment, from <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399877/">here</a>. From what I’ve been told, they simplified some parts, but it’s still a pretty good visualization.</p> <p>See also: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_function_collapse">Wave function collapse</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation">many-worlds interpretation</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence">quantum decoherence</a>.</p>http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42195287http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42195287Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:45:00 -0400<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/GXcjc7XP0bekxxo2wfEesp5s_500.png"/><br/><br/><b>Graffitio:</b> 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.”http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42191965http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42191965Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:06:15 -0400Was 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?http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42012290http://blog.phiffer.org/post/42012290Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:52:07 -0400<a href="http://www.pattonoswalt.com/index.cfm?page=spew&id=83">Patton Oswalt's high school commencement speech</a>: “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.”http://blog.phiffer.org/post/41914282http://blog.phiffer.org/post/41914282Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:20:00 -0400<object width="400" height="328"><param name="movie" value="http://www.liveleak.com/e/04e_1211518104" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed src="http://www.liveleak.com/e/04e_1211518104" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="400" height="328"></embed></object><br/><br/>The creepy pencilhttp://blog.phiffer.org/post/41694659http://blog.phiffer.org/post/41694659Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:27:53 -0400Going to see Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World tonight at Film Forum, 8:10pm.http://blog.phiffer.org/post/41623210http://blog.phiffer.org/post/41623210Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:44:13 -0400<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/GXcjc7XP0b7kj0mi1PQZlJaW_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:FirstWebServer.jpg">The first web server</a>, 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!!”</p> <p>Found via <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/09/firstever-web-server.html">Boing Boing</a></p>http://blog.phiffer.org/post/41612806http://blog.phiffer.org/post/41612806Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:20:00 -0400<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="302" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1297297&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1297297&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1297297&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="302"></embed></object><br/><br/>The cycle goes like this: beg, pull, fetch.http://blog.phiffer.org/post/41348931http://blog.phiffer.org/post/41348931Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:10:21 -0400