txt: The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
The Petabyte Age is different because more is different. Kilobytes were stored on floppy disks. Megabytes were stored on hard disks. Terabytes were stored in disk arrays. Petabytes are stored in the cloud. As we moved along that progression, we went from the [...]
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link: George Carlin 1937-2008, Farewell to the Class Clown
definition: consume on merriam-webster.com
Main Entry:
con·sume
transitive verb
1: to do away with completely : destroy: “fire consumed several buildings”
2 a: to spend wastefully : squander b: use up: “writing consumed much of his time”
3 a: to eat or drink especially in great [...]
txt: Serendipity - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely.
The word derives from Serendip, the old Persian name for Sri Lanka,[1] and was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend Horace [...]
txt: Muppets - Mahna Mahna - Hiraeth on youtube.com
Hi! This video always brings a smile to my face, so I hope it does the same for you. YouTube suggested “wisdom” as an appropriate tag for this video. I completely agree.
Yes, the subtitles are in Swedish. Why? I don’t know. This thing has been sitting [...]
txt: Is Google Making Us Stupid? - www.theatlantic.com
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death [...]
txt: Andy Warhol - Wikipedia
Warhol’s work from this period revolves around American Pop (Popular) culture. He painted dollar bills, celebrities, brand name products and images from newspaper clippings - many of the latter were iconic images from headline stories of the decade (e.g. photographs of mushroom clouds, and police dogs attacking civil rights protesters). His [...]
txt: Italian Hacktivism: Theory, Practice and History - blog.wired.com
Alessandro Ludovico has engaged in communication and media aesthetics as a practitioner, theorist and curator. Since 1993, he has been the editor-in-chief of Neural, an influential new media culture magazine published in both English and Italian www.neural.it. He is also one of the founding members of the [...]
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txt: Click here to disappear: thoughts on images and democracy
Has democracy increased with the growth of the internet? Obviously not. It has diminished significantly. Why? Because the desire for public, democratic participation has been displaced onto consumer goods and services and dispersed into isolated individual speech. Whatever else it is, the internet is primarily [...]
txt: Net Neutrality 101 - www.savetheinternet.com
Net Neutrality 101
When we log onto the Internet, we take lots of things for granted. We assume that we’ll be able to access whatever Web site we want, whenever we want to go there. We assume that we can use any feature we like — watching online video, listening to [...]
link: Ars Electronica 2008 - A New Cultural Economy: The Limits of Intellectual Property
LINZ 04-09 september 2008
txt: Curatorial Statement (Joichi Ito)
Computers and the Internet has lowered the cost of communication and the creation and distribution of information so much that many fundamental notions of organizations, economics and property have completely changed or require major [...]
txt: Mixed media - Wikipedia.org
Mixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed.
There is an important distinction between “mixed media” artworks and “multimedia art”. Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct visual art media. [...]
link: iGoogle - Introducing artist themes for iGoogle
Introducing artist themes for iGoogle: Now you can put the work of world-class artists and innovators on your personalized Google homepage.
txt: Google: art - www.artworldsalon.com
Most of the custom themes are from the hands and keypads of web designers and animators whose names few gallery-goers would recognize. Many are [...]
