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IEEE releases wifi standard for cyborg implants

Mon, 28 May 2012 19:27:53 +0100

IEEE releases wifi standard for cyborg implants:

IEEE 802.15.6-2012 specifies a short range, low power, and reliable wireless communication protocol for use in close proximity to, or inside a human body. Data rates, up to 10 Mbps, are offered to serve a wide and evolutionary set of personal entertainment and healthcare services The standard helps support the combination of security, reliability quality of service, low power, data rate and interference protection needed to address the breadth of unique body area network applications not supplied by other wireless communications standards

"A house in Australia has been broken into in direct response to a photograph of “a large sum of..."

Mon, 28 May 2012 19:22:28 +0100

“A house in Australia has been broken into in direct response to a photograph of “a large sum of cash” being posted to a 17-year-old girl’s Facebook account. The teenager was assisting her grandmother in counting her savings and snapped a photo of the money all piled up, which she shared to her Facebook account around 4PM local time on Thursday. At about 11:30PM the same day, a pair of masked men forced their way into her mother’s home — likely the address the girl had listed on her Facebook profile — demanding the money they saw on her social page. After rifling through the home sufficiently to be convinced that it wasn’t there, they made off with a small sum of cash and other possessions.”

- Facebook photo of a pile of cash leads to home invasion | The Verge (via deltamualpha)

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Mon, 28 May 2012 17:53:39 +0100

vgjunk: Even More Licensed NES Games That Don’t Exist.

Mon, 28 May 2012 16:53:54 +0100

vgjunk:

Even More Licensed NES Games That Don’t Exist.

"Fear of crime is not linked to actual crime—fear of crime comes with distrust of strangers… . Are..."

Mon, 28 May 2012 16:20:00 +0100

“Fear of crime is not linked to actual crime—fear of crime comes with distrust of strangers… . Are the decisions we’re making about how to design our cities making us less happy and more fearful as a result?”

- Anna Minton, ‘Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-First-Century City’, 2009 (via thomasraukamp)

A key factor is the way in which cities are designed around the car - I’m fairly sure that the more people walk around their neighbourhood, getting used to the faces of the people they live around, the less they will become fearful. There will always be places that are best to avoid (especially at night) such as underpasses and poorly lit backstreets - but in the main there is less crime (and fear of crime) if there are more pedestrians.

Anti urban gentrification graffiti via Cabaret Voltaire

Mon, 28 May 2012 11:50:47 +0100

Anti urban gentrification graffiti via Cabaret Voltaire

odios: sciencefiction:These are fictional magazine covers from...

Mon, 28 May 2012 11:12:12 +0100

odios:

sciencefiction:These are fictional magazine covers from Blade Runner. They were created by production illustrator Tom Southwell in 1980-1981 and appeared in the background on a magazine stand in the city streets. (!!!!)

16-bit Time Capsule: SNES Emulator Makes a Case for Software Preservation - Tested

Fri, 25 May 2012 16:22:45 +0100

16-bit Time Capsule: SNES Emulator Makes a Case for Software Preservation - Tested:

And makes the interesting point that our current 19th Century copyright law could well be sounding the death knell for preserving the legacy of the past 20 years of video games and software that is gently bit-rotting away in our cupboards and attics.

"Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the..."

Fri, 25 May 2012 13:11:58 +0100

““Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Using the same term to describe a twelve-year-old swapping music with friends, even thousands of songs, is evidence of a loss of perspective so astounding that it invites and deserves the derision it receives.””

- The Blind Giant (via theblindgiant)

warrenellis: Screenshot, BBC Newsnight, 23 May 2012

Thu, 24 May 2012 20:28:52 +0100

warrenellis:

Screenshot, BBC Newsnight, 23 May 2012

cruisingwithgunhead: Thought this was a screencap from Blade...

Thu, 24 May 2012 17:32:13 +0100

cruisingwithgunhead:

Thought this was a screencap from Blade Runner or DXHR at first glance… No, it’s real life.

"The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it...."

Thu, 24 May 2012 17:31:09 +0100

“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create.”

- Chuck Palahniuk (via kadrey)

faradaycagefight: Michael Wolf’s photos of Hong Kong’s crowded...

Thu, 24 May 2012 17:22:32 +0100

faradaycagefight:

Michael Wolf’s photos of Hong Kong’s crowded apartment buildings look less like architectural photos and more like screencaps of cascading GPU glitches:

http://www.photomichaelwolf.com/hongkongarchitecture/

transceiverfreq: #Prometheus viral takes cues from 3D printing...

Thu, 24 May 2012 16:27:01 +0100

transceiverfreq:

#Prometheus viral takes cues from 3D printing sculptor Matthew Day Jackson’s work about Phineas Gage.

top. prometheus viral ‘happy birthday, david’

bottom. matthew day jacksons ‘the way we were.2010’ about Phineas P. Gage, an American railroad construction foreman now remembered for his improbable survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain’s left frontal lobe, and for that injury’s reported effects on his personality and behavior – effects so profound that friends saw him as “no longer Gage”.

Notice a similarity?

Jamais Cascio at Astana Economic Forum · eccalkins · Storify

Thu, 24 May 2012 16:03:00 +0100

Jamais Cascio at Astana Economic Forum · eccalkins · Storify:

A timeline of unsurprising despair. What you’ve always suspected is true: Morons lead us.

"Child pornography is great,” the man said enthusiastically. “Politicians do not understand file..."

Thu, 24 May 2012 12:15:53 +0100

““Child pornography is great,” the man said enthusiastically. “Politicians do not understand file sharing, but they understand child pornography, and they want to filter that to score points with the public. Once we get them to filter child pornography, we can get them to extend the block to file sharing.””

- Johan Schlüter, head of the Danish Anti-Piracy Group (Antipiratgruppen) May 2007.

Cynicism Redefined: Why The Copyright Lobby Loves Child Porn - Falkvinge on Infopolicy

"Whereas the Beijing Olympics represented an embracing of China into the coven of Westernism, the..."

Thu, 24 May 2012 11:47:14 +0100

“Whereas the Beijing Olympics represented an embracing of China into the coven of Westernism, the London Olympics will show us just how venal unfettered capitalism can be, how its default modus operandi is paranoia, and rather than a celebration of human endeavour and athleticism, it demonstrates more that the power of branding requires such strict parameters of control that nothing can be left to chance. Brand Exclusion Zones are just one manifestation of the privatisation of public space that London is fast-tracking.”

- Kosmograd: Olympics Brand Exclusion Zone

"This will be supported by preventing spectators from wearing clothing prominently displaying..."

Thu, 24 May 2012 11:45:32 +0100

“This will be supported by preventing spectators from wearing clothing prominently displaying competing brands, or from entering the exclusion zone with unofficial snack and beverage choices. Within the Zone, the world’s biggest McDonald’s will be the only branded food outlet, and Visa will be the only payment card accepted.”

- Kosmograd: Olympics Brand Exclusion Zone

"The collective false memory syndrome that the UK is being implanted with, in regard of the Jubilee..."

Thu, 24 May 2012 08:43:13 +0100

“The collective false memory syndrome that the UK is being implanted with, in regard of the Jubilee in particular, but everything from the Festival of Britain to “austerity”, is really weird and a little bit frightening; but imagine if we could invert it. Instead of falsifying the past to transform and rationalise the present, we could engineer the future in order to finally reach it. This is a pretty standard design fiction conjecture except I don’t care about design and people might actually get the idea if you explained in in terms of the Jubilee: the dark nostalgia mirror of empire that is eating the real. Eject! Eject!”

- James Bridle, Opinions are non-contemporary

Exploiting reality [WEYLAND CORP ON LINKEDIN?!?]

Wed, 23 May 2012 17:42:51 +0100

Exploiting reality [WEYLAND CORP ON LINKEDIN?!?]:

weylandinvestors:

What if you perform a search for Weyland Industries on there…