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When you want to make a private picture or note available only to your friends, why do you hand it over to a multi-national corporation first?
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So here’s the question: how much of our life that we share with the Web 2.0 giants do we really *need* to share? How much of these services can and should we be running from the comfort of our own homes?
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This Saturday, about 35 people, some with giant fake cameras on their heads, will take photographs around Cal Anderson Park from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. to protest the city’s video surveillance program.
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Illegal downloaders can be detected easily by an enforcement team set up by the BPI, the music trade body. Its monitors log on to websites where music is available to copy, such as LimeWire and BitTorrent, and note the IP addresses of those who use these
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Photographer Phillip Todelano has put up “Days With My Father,” a haunting and beautiful photo-essay about his relationship with his elderly father, who has no short-term memory
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In the above clip, a completely shitfaced woman really, really wants to know just when the internet started. What’s amazing is how polite the 999 operator was. Awesome stuff
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He suggests that there isn’t a single thing that is consciousness, just a collection of mental components, but the fact we’ve named it as a single thing fools us.
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This is what most impresses me about professional magicians. The slight of hand and the perceptual tricks are cool, but its the cognitive magic, the shaping of expectancies through narrative, that makes them seem so wondrous.
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My weekly “keep local systems in line” reminder just popped up on my iPhone. Bringing order to the galaxy can be such a chore sometimes
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Ingenious hackers and productivity thinkers, however, have taken paper to the next level in a huge variety of ways, creating templates for pocket organizers, super-handy calendars, thoughtful gifts, and even makeshift tools.
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Designers of digital experiences should rejoice when an articulate critic comes along, because that’s a crucial step in making digital stuff better.
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