CryptoKids: Mark Cooley (on Rhizome Raw): >Check out CryptoKids, the National Security Administration's attempt at recruiting "America's future codemakers and codebreakers." I thought that military recruiting was sleazy going after teens - the NSA seems to be interested in elementary schoolers. You can't go wrong with trademarked characters like "Decipher Dog (D-Dog), Crypto Cat (C-Cat) and Rosetta Stone (you guessed it - language analyst) and more.< Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]