Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution said they detected a plume of hydrocarbons in June that was at least 22 miles long and more than 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, a residue of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. According to the institution, the 1.2-mile-wide, 650-foot-high plume of trapped … Read more
Daniel Roth’s article on the future of financial-data analysis in the latest Wired (Road Map for Financial Recovery: Radical Transparency Now!) is a must-read if only for the last few paragraphs, in which Christopher Cox, outgoing SEC chairman and a card-carrying Orange County Reagan Republican, starts getting all post-Marx/postmodern widdit like some kind of white-shoed … Read more
Der Schockwellenreiter schreibt: Brandneu hingegen ist das ZukunftsWebBuch 2010: Chancen und Risiken des Web 3.0, eine Sammlung von Essays mit Antworten, Ausblicken und Perspektiven von Autoren aus dem Umkreis der österreichischen Künstlergruppe monochrom und der Semantic Web Company (wenn ich das richtig verstanden habe). Ich bin mit der Lektüre noch nicht ganz durch, einige Aufsätze … Read more
Arse Elektronika 2010: SPACE RACY Konferenz, Maschinen, Workshops, Peformances… 30. September bis 3. Oktober 3, 2010 San Francisco, USA Love hotels. Swinger club design. Phallic architecture. The gentrification of Times Square, kicking out all the peep shows, and similar anti-sex gentrifications and battles. Kids making out in the back seats of cars, and people fucking … Read more
Arse Elektronika 2010: SPACE RACY Conference, machines, workshops and performances September 30 thru October 3, 2010 San Francisco, USA Love hotels. Swinger club design. Phallic architecture. The gentrification of Times Square, kicking out all the peep shows, and similar anti-sex gentrifications and battles. Kids making out in the back seats of cars, and people fucking … Read more
Arse Elektronika 2010: SPACE RACY Conference, machines, workshops and performances September 30 thru October 3, 2010 San Francisco, USA Love hotels. Swinger club design. Phallic architecture. The gentrification of Times Square, kicking out all the peep shows, and similar anti-sex gentrifications and battles. Kids making out in the back seats of cars, and people fucking … Read more
How about them political elites, huh? Five million bucks for Chelsea Clinton’s wedding, 15K just to rent the air-conditioned shitters — huge chrome and glass babies with hot water and everything. No gas masks and waxy little squares of toilet paper for those guys. Yes, it looks big time from the cheap seats. But the … Read more
By Damien Keown. This article raises concerns about the degree to which potential donors are aware that their layman’s understanding of death may not be the same as that enshrined in protocols employing the cri-terion of brain death. There would seem to be a need for greater public education of a kind which acknowledges the … Read more