*Okay, first, just have a look at THIS: “Tears of the Black Tiger,” a modern Thai cinema effort: http://henryjenkins.org/2009/11/on_the_pleasures_of_not_belong_1.html (…” “Paradoxically, though, genres have had a tighter hold on our imagination in recent years as the range of cultural choice has broadened ...

Avatar Machine (LONDON) 2008 from MARC OWENS on Vimeo. http://www.marcowens.co.uk/index_frame.htm “Avatar Machine is a system which replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in real space via a head mounted interface. “The ...

*American pop music used to be full of white middle-class Anglo kids who had taken some LSD and gotten all “weird.” Nowadays we’ve got pop music by extremely dissociative, utterly globalized networked kids who enjoy backpacking in the Hindu Kush while contemplating Italian Futurism. With ProTools. And ...

*Hey wow! Neat surveillance hack! *Can’t wait to see the law and order surge as girlfriends of prominent Tory politicians are marked “of interest.” That would sure make great fodder for another anti-Tory “desperate housewives” sex blog. *In fact, given the fact that “mission creep” in this system is ...

*I consider myself fairly hip about Italian futurismo, but I never before heard a whisper about a futurist space-travel novel in 1921 involving a genocide on Jupiter. http://www2.hum.uu.nl/congres/futurisms/abstracts.htm Kyle M. Hall (Harvard University): Poetics, Politics and ‘La fine del mondo’: Volt’s ...

*ProFORMA: Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition.” It’s generating 3D models from real objects, live, with just a webcam. http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~qp202/ Via Fabbaloo.

*Okay, these Seattle venture-capital guys are blowing smoke, but I like it that they’re blowing such specific smoke. It’s like they’re blowing smoke-rings. http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/11/predictions_2010_twitter_netflix_and_more_from_the_crystal_ball.html On the panel were Kelly Smith, founding ...

*That ought to prove interesting, if there’s anything to it. *Inevitable peak-uranium pro-nuke / anti-nuke cranks are invited to go comment on the Technology Review blog, where you’ll find plenty of flame-flinging company to assure you that you have no idea what you are talking about, because any five-year-old ...

*via EDRI. *Y’know, it’s the donkey angle that really makes this all-too-common story. The “violence” angle is neither here nor there, as the secret police send plainclothes goons to publicly wallop people, and then accuse them of violent hooliganism when they get off the ground. *A situation like this ...

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