links for 2008-12-26

HAR2009
International technology & security conference. Four days of technology, ideological debates and hands-on tinkering. On August 13-16, 2009 the 20th anniversary edition of the four-yearly Dutch outdoor technology-conference will take place near Vierhouten, NL
(tags: hacking hacktivism festival)

Holger Lippmann sculpture
3D 4

links for 2008-12-23

ISP Ad Snooper Phorm Loses Top Execs | Epicenter from Wired.com
Letterofresignation_timsnell Phorm, the controversial British concern that wants to spy on ISP customers in order to serve up highly targeted ads, lost two top executives
(tags: net hacktivism)

Slashdot | Using Speed

links for 2008-12-22

Access : Nanotube ‘shortcut ‘ boosts brain signals : Nature News
The work could one day lead to nanotube scaffolds being used as ‘bridges’ for spinal cord injury, or as highly conductive coatings for electrodes implanted into the brain for deep

links for 2008-12-20

The Unfinished Swan – Tech Demo 9/2008 on Vimeo
clear graphics, first person perspective and mazes.
(tags: visual, videogame, software)

Midas project on Vimeo
presented by Paul Thomas, nano art
(tags: art science music sound)

[KONTEJNER] – Touch Me Festival 2008 – Feel better!
Touch me festival

links for 2008-12-20

The Unfinished Swan – Tech Demo 9/2008 on Vimeo
clear graphics, first person perspective and mazes.
(tags: visual, videogame, software)

Midas project on Vimeo
presented by Paul Thomas, nano art
(tags: art science music sound)

[KONTEJNER] – Touch Me Festival 2008 – Feel better!
Touch me festival

links for 2008-12-18

Topless Robot – The 10 Types of Videos That Make Up 90% of YouTube
Ah, YouTube. One of the three most popular websites in the world, and probably the most dangerous, since the only thing you can do on YouTube is

links for 2008-12-16

Self Destructing Webpages: Coming Soon to a Browser Near You | Anything Tech

(tags: hacking net)

The jazz of animals: Musical collaboration between dolphins, humpback whales, sea lions and jazz guitarist Jim Nollman | Art Threat
An excerpt from one of Interspecies CD recordings of

links for 2008-12-14

Reviewing Fauxtography
A blog–driven challenge to mass media power without the promises of networked publicity
(tags: hacking hacktivism media visual)

BBC NEWS | England | West Midlands | ‘Lost’ Dad’s Army show back on TV
A vintage Dad’s Army episode, thought to have been

links for 2008-12-12

Distributed Squirrel Cage for Parallel Processing
Humans are invited to write obsessive thoughts on scraps of paper, deposit them in squirrel cages, and turn the crank, thus offloading the actual work of obsessing to the mechanism. This cutting-edge apparatus applies the