links for 2008-06-29

CONTACT au congrès ECAP et au FRUC
minimalistic telepresence
(tags: art net)

Fingerprints recovered from bullets after firing | Science | guardian.co.uk
Advanced methods in the surveillance society
(tags: hacking science)

links for 2008-06-28

Music Thing: The 100 most clichéd clichés in pop song titles
Tom Whitwell tag cloud obtained from the The Whitburn Project – a vast spreadsheet with data about the 37,000 songs that have been hits on the Billboard Chart since 1890.
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links for 2008-06-27

iDial turns iPhones retro – coin-operated »
iDial, software to use the latest phone as it used to be before the keyboards.
(tags: software mobile art hacking)

links for 2008-06-23

Kurt Cobain’s suicide letter VS. Google AdSense
Cory Arcangel’s style in comparative (software) literature.
(tags: art music hacking literature software net)

Facebook ‘dipping’ craze irks pool owners – Telegraph
Exploiting Google Earth revealing pools on the map for illegal parties
(tags: hacking mobile software net)

links for 2008-06-21

Kaspersky Lab reports a new and dangerous blackmailing virus
After Gpcode.ak encrypts files on the victim machine it adds ._CRYPT to the extension of the newly-created encrypted files and places a text file named !_READ_ME_!.txt in the same folder. In the

links for 2008-06-20

The Cloud
An organic sculptural landmark that responds to human interaction and expresses context awareness using hundreds of sensors and over 15,000 individually addressable optical fibers
(tags: art media)

links for 2008-06-19

WebCamTalk 1.0 Series
WebCamTalk 1.0 is a guest speaker series designed to invite dialogue and the sharing of ideas with
some twenty artists, experienced new-media educators and technologists.
(tags: hacking media net video)