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Feb 5th

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May 30th

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“These robots clearly never read Atlas Shrugged.” - from the Wired article Robots Evolve Altruism comments.

May 10th

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You do not need to be a data freak to know that data visualization is incredibly popular in this moment. As humans we like to upscale, and it seems that data is no outlier. Something like 1.2 trillion gigabytes of information will be created in 2010 alone. And as we create more data, it becomes more difficult to understand — hence visualization. ”Data is the new oil,” a...

Feb 3rd

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Jan 9th

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Speculative fabulations and the care of failures by none other than Donna Haraway. You can peruse more of Patricia Piccinini’s genius on her website, including The Long Awaited, seen below.

Nov 24th

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Nov 21st

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Tape Trees by the folks at Conditional Design INSTRUCTIONS Start with a branch. Tape an orange line ortogonal to the end of a branch, its length is one third of the branch. New branches emerge from the middle of a branch segment, and touch the orange line at its end points. The length of the brach is double the distance from its origin to the orange intersection. Now repeat the same...

Nov 19th

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Nov 12th

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in_relation@thistime promo

Oct 21st

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Oct 15th

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Oct 15th

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live @ monkeytown. Joshue Ott/superDraw + Ezekiel Honig = lessened insanity.

Oct 11th

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Sep 7th

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Jul 15th

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What Did She See in the Revolution? And, What...

Image Credit: Norman Jean Roy for Vogue Magazine I am finishing up my time at ROFLCon, and I have so much to say, mostly about gender and overarching claims about ‘internet culture.’ Once I get my thoughts together a bit more, I will articulate. In the meantime, I am reminded of this image of Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, from the April 2010 issue of Vogue Magazine. I love...

May 1st

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Headed to ROFLCon. Gonna Get Internet Cultured

I could not be more thrilled. Today, I am off to the well-endowed MIT Media Lab to attend the self-proclaimed most epic internet culture event of the year. What, you don’t know what I mean by internet culture? Well, neither do I. This is why I am going. Notable attendees include the creators of: LolCat, Stuff White People Like and Awkward Family Photos. I don’t know if I need to...

Apr 28th

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Responsible (In)Tensions for Said Blog

First off, blogging is completely ridiculous, and I am actually already horrible at it. I literally think too slowly or something. My brain does not compute quickly enough. This is why I have a computer — obviously. I have so many partially constructed posts that I keep mulling over, hoping to make sense of “it”. God dammit, “it” takes time to get. Or maybe, it is...

Apr 21st

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Apr 15th

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“Blogging is a broadcast. It has to change. It has to move or it dies.”

– Andrew Sullivan, Blogger for the Atlantic at the 2010 NTC Conference in Atlanta (Makes me think: Can your blog die before it ‘lives’?) *For the record: I am not quite sure why 1. NTEN brought THE conservative gay to the NTC conference and 2. why I am posting his musing on my blog, but...

Apr 9th

“Negative criticality… is rooted in a fear of embracing something with all...”

– Donna J. Haraway, Professor of History of Consciousness, UCSC Image: Lynn Randolph, amazing painter and artistic collaborator with DJ Haraway

Mar 31st

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Make Mine Yours →

Have you read David Shield’s new book Reality Hunger? I tore through it on the first day, and have yet to clearly understand whether I loved it OR I loved the idea of it.

Mar 30th

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Buses and Trains of San Francisco — Visualized. I know this is outdated in the realm of internet stories, but oh well. The incredibly cool, hip engineering and design firm Taco Lab posted this (gasp) over a year ago. It is so easy to get insanely negative and critical (rightly so, of course) about our decaying public transportation system. This well done and simple video reminds me of...

Mar 29th

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Mar 28th

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“One of the main (social) functions of a journal or diary is precisely to be read...”

– Susan Sontag, thanks and ouch. (Sontag explaining why she felt no guilt at having peeked at someone’s diary.)

Mar 28th

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I Don't Want to Be a Polywhore, But Maybe You Do →

I LOVE internet communities. And by this, I mean I love the strangeness with which we, as social beings, swarm internet spaces in somewhat sociologically predictable ways. Polyvore, a fashion-based internet community, is my newest fascination. From the article: Polyvore is a lot like playing paper dolls with pictures of real clothes. One user said, “It’s the ‘wow’ that’s the first...

Mar 28th

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Mar 27th

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Stop Colonizing My Time. Get Back on Your... →

Geert Lovink is incredibly smart, and he has his nose in the middle of our increasingly networked social webs. I have his 2002 book Uncanny Networks. I devoured it in college when I obsessed over anything discussing the highly romanticized interweb. I love his notion that as we are supposedly becoming more and more digitized, the virtual is simply becoming more and more “real.”...

Mar 27th