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HTML Patchwork
The Open Source Embroidery project brings together programming for embroidery and computing. It's based on the common characteristics of needlework crafts and open source computer programming: gendered obsessive attention to detail; shared social process of development; and a transparency of process and product. Here for
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TheMotionBrigades
Dedicated to showcasing stop motion animation from the masters of the genre, with focus on rare and hard to find titles. featuring: Jiri Barta, Jan Svankmajer, Brothers Quay, Ladislaw Starewicz, Aurel Klimt, Karel Zeman, Jiri Trnka, Bretislav Pojar, Miroslav Stepanek, Vlasta Pospíšilová, Kihachiro Kawamoto, Gebruder Diehl, Stanislav Sokolov, Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk, Pavel Arsyonov, Suzan Pitt, Chris Marker, Ewa Bibanska, Piotr Kamler, Cosgrove Hall Films, Kratky Films Praha, The Motion Brigades are searching for a copy of Jan Lenica's "Ubu and the Great Gidouille." Here for
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10 Conspiracies To Be Weary Of (from disinfo.com)
10. US concentration camps
9. Lunargate
8. The Face on Mars
7. 9/11 controlled demolitions
6. Missing or dead conspiracy writers
5. The Nazi Occult subculture
4. JFK
3. Chris Carter's X-Files re-release DVDs
2. Alan Greenspan is a robot
1. The Federal Reserve
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Function of Dysfunction
"Can artists refigure the world by altering the way users engage with equipment? Clearly, the functional objects we users engage with on a daily basis have social values imbedded within their design.Cutlery, for instance, presumes a certain distance and civility between a diner and her meal; handkerchiefs rest on the assumption that bodily fluids are unsightly and are best disposed of in a decorative fashion; picnic benches encourage a communal sort of outdoor gathering and privilege the family-unit. Toothpicks, coin-pouches, bucket seats, light switches, mailboxes, all have a social function... and the list goes on..." Here for
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Stimulus/response
The Viennese Media Artist Carlos Katastrofsky (a.k.a. Michael Kargl) presents his solo show "stimulus/response." The exhibited works comprise his artistic creation dating from 2004 up to the present day. Including Net Art, Software Art and interactive installations Katastrofsky deals with New Media Art as well as with the pure conceptual analysis of contemporary forms of communication and interaction and thereby scrutinises its contributions to current cultural productions. Projektraum Sonnensegel, Pressgasse 28, 1040 Vienna, Austria. Oct. 6-19, 2007. Here for
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Mass Damper
To mark the completion of his ten-week residency, S1 Artspace (Sheffield, UK United Kingdom) is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by George Henry Longly. A 'tuned mass damper' is a highly engineered structural object or harmonic absorber that is mounted into structures to absorb external vibrations such as noise, high winds and movement. It moves in opposition to resonant frequency oscillations and as a result retains the structural balance and formal order. Here for
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Timelines: Transparencies in a Dark Room
Jonas's innovative explorations using 'new media' and the works she made in the late 1960s and early 70s played an essential part in the development of performance as an artistic genre. Her influence has been crucial to the emergence of numerous art forms today associated with video, conceptual art and theatre, and younger generations of artists, such as Cindy Sherman and Matthew Barney, are indebted to her. Here for
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Life Size Paper Boat
Frank Boelter fulfilled a childhood fantasy by constructing a 27 foot boat out of paper. The vessel is made from a 1884 sq. ft. sheet of Tetrapak (the stuff milk cartons are made of) and weighs in at 55 lbs. It cost $217 and only took two hours to construct, leading me to believe that if I was $211 richer, I could build one too. It's cool, but not as cool (or big) as mine, which I built using a single one of my used prophylactics. Here for
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High-Heeled Shoes with GPS for Prostitutes
The workers of the oldest profession in history will be able to wear high-heeled shoes equipped with Global Positioning System, emergency alarm and liquid-crystal display. Women who offer sex for money in brothels, cabarets or just in the streets have been exposed to a great quantity of dangerous situations that have put their own lives in danger since medieval times. Here for
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Adopt The Sky
Facts: 4.5 million kids have asthma. 14 million school days are missed each year because the air is so bad kids can't go outside. Thousands of people die from asthma-related causes each year. Adopt the sky. Adopt a square mile of sky over the US and sign the petition for cleaner air. You can even add a comment to tell others why you adopted the sky. Here for
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Gay By Choice? The Science of Sexual Identity
If science proves sexual orientation is more fluid than we've been led to believe, can homosexuality still be a protected right? Here for
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Netslang on Wiki
A list of both complete and abbreviated internet slang phrases. Some of the abbreviations listed are not confined to the Internet, but are used in shorthand as well. Many come from specialized types of shorthand, such as military activities, scientific work, or medical terminology. Here for
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Climate Camp 2007: Another End of the World is Possible
Now that environmentalists and government ostensibly have the same interests at heart one might expect a bit of collusion. But the Climate Camp at London's Heathrow Airport last month saw protesters, media and the police co-produce an event of extraordinary restraint, reports Damian Abbott. While the Met made the protesters' lives as difficult as possible, the campers seemed to be doing a pretty good job of this on their own. Here for
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Superfund365
"Superfund365, A Site-A-Day" is an online data visualization application with an accompanying RSS-feed and email alert system. Each day for a year "Superfund365" will visit one toxic site currently active in the Superfund program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Here for
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Lindas Pesadillas (Pretty Nightmares)
With an aesthetic formed in the crucible of Lima's chaotic and multi-cultural streets, bars and beaches, Peruvian artist Alvaro Perez del Solar's innovative work uses pop iconography and an essentially naďve approach to express the darker side of the human experience. Here for
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Computer Lib/Dream Machines
This astonishingly prescient book originally written and published by by Theodor H. Nelson in 1974 in a glorious oversized format is one of the "tap roots" of the soon to be born microcomputer and "cyber" cultures. The following pages provide a retrospecitve of this work and Ted's current projects and vision. Here for
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World Car-free Day
Every September 22, people across the globe get together to swear off their cars - if only for one day - in a collective reminder that we don't have to accept car-dominated societies, cities, or personal lives. Since its earliest incarnations in the 1970s and '80s, World car-free day has grown into a massive global celebration of human-centric communities and people-powered transportation. Car-Free Day 2007 could turn out to be the biggest yet. For the first time, China's government is hopping on board, with official events talking place in more than 100 cities, including Beijing and Shanghai. Officials will reportedly be trading in their famed black sedans for public transportation, and some roads will be closed to private cars. As the world tunes in to the fact that the climate is heating up, this is the perfect opportunity to take the heat off the planet, and put it on city planners and politicians to give priority to cycling, walking and public transport, instead of oil-hungry automobiles. Let World Car-Free Day be a showcase for just how our cities might look, feel, and sound without cars - 365 days a year. Here for
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Forensic Dictionary
(over 100 terms as of 18-2-99)
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How do you build a new internet?
Researchers believe it could be time to build a successor to the internet. How do you cut online crime, tackle child pornography, halt crippling viruses and get rid of spam? The answers could lie in a Ł200m successor to the internet that computer experts are already referring to as the next rendition of the virtual world. Here for
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CIA's Black Sites
In the war on terror, one historian says, the C.I.A. "didn't just bring back the old psychological techniques-- they perfected them." Mohammed's interrogation was part of a secret C.I.A. program, initiated after September 11th, in which terrorist suspects such as Mohammed were detained in "black sites"--secret prisons outside the United States--and subjected to unusually harsh treatment. Here for
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Rope Magician
Watch this guy perform some creative rope tricks, karate-style. Weirdly fake but an amusing try, though. Here for
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