A 1,600 part Electromechanical Computer built inside the nifty physics-engine-tastic PS3 game, Little Big Planet. Simulacrum!
--via [Opposable Thumbs]
--Link [boingboing]Before literacy, we were mere listeners. We heard stories read to us as a group. After the printing press, we were elevating to individuals, each with our own, acknowledged perspective on what we read. (The Renaissance, if anything, was a celebration of individual perspective - just like the paintings.) This reading phase took us right through the reading equivalent of cheating: postmodernism, cut-and-paste, and other personal deconstruction of the author's original intent.
Finally, computers have changed our relationship to the text again. Instead of just reading the publications of others, we are free to write and distribute our own - on a relatively level playing field. We become authors.
Okay It's no Montauk Monster, or Frozen Yeti corpse, but it sure did give me a case of the LOLz.
-hack
--via [MYSTARBUCKS]
Overdrive, the company serving up e-books for New York's public libraries drives across the country in a big Semi, uses a variety of DRM, primarily Windows Media. In Central Park on Sunday, a rep. told me "they are working on getting Windows Media DRM working on Macs." (wtf?)
Continue reading Digital DRM-mobile and Open Source Digital Rights.
TELESURGERY!
My personal best:
- TailFucking
- NastyAssPics
- SickAssOnline
- BadAssWarez
- WhoopAssOnline
- WapYourAss
- DryAssFuck
- PaulTheAss (my favorite)
--Leroy
