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Showtime: L’Uomo Meccanico, 1921
*”The Mechanical Man” is an Italian comedy-horror-sci-fi film made in Torino in 1921. The director was Andre Deed, an acrobat and silent comic, and the female lead was his steady comic sidekick and eventual wife, Valentina Frascaroli, in the sinister role of “Mado the adventuress.” *Only about forty percent of this film survives, as pieces [...] link
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We’re in the Deep Pink
http://xevents.fi/Xevents.pdf *Ballardian freeways littered with the grimy pop-tents of futurists who were insufficiently gonzo. http://www.thestate.ae/gonzo-futurist-manifesto-freeway/ link
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The Literary Equivalent of Code That Performs Nothing
*On the cogent subject of: http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/05/summary-of-rules-from-elements-of-programming-style-1974/ From: Miles Subject: information hiding Date: May 19, 2012 To: Bruce Sterling “Make sure every module hides something. (((I wonder what this means.)))” A module should wrap some complex process in an abstraction that’s mentally easier to deal with; e.g. the complexities of sending email become “send(subject, body, recipient)” [...] link
Amnesty International infested with Chinese Ghost RAT
*Pretty much defines modern culture-war. China China China hack hack hack via SANS –Amnesty International UK Hijacked to Share Malware (11th May 2012) For two days in May the UK website for Amnesty International was breached and used by the attackers to infect unsuspecting visitors to the site with the Ghost RAT Trojan. Malicious Java [...] link
The DIWire Bender, a wire-bending fabricator.
*Gosh, I love wire art. I bet there’s some way to mash-up an app for Calder-style mobiles to a gizmo like this, and go completely nuts. *That’s really a beautiful example of “cheap complexity” in 3d manufacturing. The DIWire Bender by PENSA! 2 weeks 3 days ago “The DIWire Bender is a rapid prototype machine [...] link
The Future Is Japanese, from Haikasoru
http://www.haikasoru.com/the-future-is-japanese/ *I’ve got a new science-fiction story in this collection of original stories set in Japanese futures. My story, “Goddess of Mercy,” is about an outbreak of Somali-style sea-piracy in Asia, after Japan becomes a failed state. *I hasten to assure my Japanese friends that — even though this story is horrifyingly plausible, and it’s [...] link
Farming with Robot-Vision Laser Extermination
*Nifty piece here. Ties in so obviously with other surveillance and warfare practices. Instead of breeding weeds to resist herbicides we’ll breeding them to become robot-camouflaged. Soon, New Aesthetic weeds of all kinds. http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-agriculture/star-wars-weeds-could-lasers-replace-herbicides.html (…) “The Leibniz team has worked to determine the optimum laser intensity to kill the weeds rather than encourage growth. “The [...] link
They’re Excited about the Filament
*I’m sure these European and Canadian astronomers are properly excited about their fine discovery and the proper functioning of their observation instruments and so forth, but I’m not sure that “excitement” is really the proper emotional reaction to a thing as astronomically colossal as a “filament.” I’m thinking maybe “sublime wonderment mixed with deep Lovecraftian [...] link
Summary of rules from “Elements of Programming Style,” 1974
*Our programming blogger here says that little of consequence has changed in “programming style” since 1974. In matters of “style,” that’s pretty interesting. *Then again, I’ve got the Strunk and White “Elements of Style,” originally written in 1918, and it has plenty of useful things to say about composition. *I’m always wondering about how to [...] link
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Blaftatronic Halwa
*I used to live in Madras, but in my wildest teenage dreams I wouldn’t have invented an enterprise this out-there. http://blaftblog.blogspot.it/ “BLAFT PUBLICATIONS is an independent publishing house based in Chennai, India. “Our list includes bestselling Indian crime novels, experimental fiction, pulp art, and graphic novels. “In the future, we plan to branch out into [...] link
Spime Watch: Spime Script
*I don’t have to believe it to admire it, folks. http://smartdisorganized.blogspot.com/2012/02/spimescript.html (…) “So, I want to return to one part of that 2006 presentation which I still find relevant – the formation of Spime Script. We’re entering a phase where hardware will become increasingly as malleable as software which leads to a problem of choice [...] link
Justin Pickard’s Gonzo Futurist Manifesto
*If I didn’t blog this, I’d have to be put out to pasture and shot as a mercy. http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14041 http://justinpickard.net/gonzo-futurist-manifesto.pdf (…) “The gonzo futurist is a super-empowered hopeful individual. She may have been a ‘graduate with no future’ (Mason, 2011), or the victim of public sector cuts, but has since grieved and moved on. She [...] link
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