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Wired.com Photo Contest: Motion
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 11:00pm CDT by Wired.com Photo Department
This week's photo contest topic is Motion. We want you to cram as much action as you can into the stillness of a frame Use the Reddit widget below to submit your best Motion photo and vote for your favorite among the other submissions. The 10 highest-ranked photos will appear in a gallery on the Wired.com homepage. Nothing we can say will hold back the deluge of streaky, unintelligible photos, we know, but motion blur is only a small part of capturing the action. Show us bucking bulls at rodeos, sparring swashbucklers and collapsing buildings. We want to see arrows in mid-flight, jumping kangaroos and rockets blasting into the air. Capture the beauty of a single frame of action that the human eye can't catch, and we will be forever grateful. The photo must be your own, and by submitting it you are giving us permission to use it on Wired.com and in Wired magazine. Please submit images that are relatively large, the ideal size being 800 to 1200 pixels or larger on the longest side. Please include a description of your photo, which may include exposure information, equipment used, etc. We don't host the photos, so you'll have to upload it somewhere else and submit a link to it. If you're using Flickr, Picasa or another photo-sharing site to host your image, please provide a link to the image directly and not just to the photo page where it's displayed. Using an online photo service that requires that you login will not work. If your photo doesn't show up, it's because the...
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Top 10 Wired.com Fall Photos, Decided by You
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 11:00pm CDT by Wired.com Photo Department
: Being based in San Francisco has its advantages, but having seasons is not one of them. Our readers were kind enough to share their fantastic fall photos with those of us who are seasonally challenged. These are the top 10 photos, according to your votes. Javier Echaiz takes home the gold with his photo "Gate to the fall" at left. Mr. Echaiz will be receiving a subscription to Wired magazine and a digital picture frame for his desk. Since we had so many great photos that we thought should've received more votes, we've also compiled a Wired.com Editor's Choice Fall Photo Gallery. Our next twice-monthly photo contest theme is motion. We want you to take dynamic movement, and make it still. Check out the contest page for more information. Left: Gate to the fall Submitted by Javier Echaiz Photographer's comment: "This image comes from a rural area somewhere in the south of Argentina.” : shadows on yellow Submitted by Javier Echaiz Photographer's comment: "Magic carpet made by thousands of yellow leaves and beautiful shades." : Wipperwill Drive Submitted by Anonymous Photographer's comment: "…" : Floating Submitted by Patrice Peyre Photographer's comment: "HEC Campus - Jouys en Josas, France." : Fall Elements Submitted by Gregory Tapler Photographer's comment: "The fall elements as seen at the Monocacy Creek in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania." : Fall in Paris Submitted by Tyler Photographer's comment: "Fall in Paris. Was walking through a...
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Top 10 Wired.com Fall Photos, Decided by Us
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 11:00pm CDT by Wired.com Photo Department
: Though Wired.com readers selected 10 excellent photos in our fall photo contest, we here at the photo department like to fight for the underdog. Here are our 10 favorite submissions that we think deserved more attention. Our next twice-monthly photo contest theme is motion. We want you to take dynamic movement, and make it still. Check out the contest page for more information. Left: A dry flower head Submitted by Marty Mignard Photographer's comment: "Shot with my trusty old 4x5 Crown Graphic.” : Halloween Submitted by Tyler Klemp Photographer's comment: "Crows in the sky, taken on Halloween." : Watch the Grass Glow Submitted by Anonymous Photographer's comment: "Evening sunlight." : Fading Light Submitted by Brian Cooper Photographer's comment: "Australian autumn light in a monastery crypt." : Mist Returns to the Moors Submitted by Kerrigan Swan-Garcia Photographer's comment: "This time of year the days begin with a blanket of hazy, ethereal fog, giving everything ordinary a mysterious, melancholy air." : Nightfall Submitted by Scott Photographer's comment: "The leaves are just starting to turn." : Sleeping Golden Retriever in the fall afternoon ... Submitted by Vladimir Sterkin Photographer's comment: "The adorable old three-pawed Golden Retriever from the pumpkin farm in August, Missouri." : Slow Submitted by Brian Cooper Photographer's comment: "Fall slips it into a lower gear." : Solo Bench Submitted by Dave...
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Oct. 6, 1956: Sabin Polio Vaccine Ready to Test
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 11:00pm CDT by Randy Alfred
1956: Dr. Albert Sabin announces that his live-virus, oral polio vaccine is ready for mass testing. It will soon supplant the Salk vaccine. Poliomyelitis is an infectious disease caused by viruses. Its effects range from complete recovery to death. Intermediate possibilities are mild after-effects, moderate to severe paralysis of a limb or limbs, or paralyzed chest muscles, necessitating the confining but lifesaving use of an iron lung. Polio epidemics periodically ravaged American cities in the first half of the 20th century. Children were especially vulnerable, but the disease also struck adults, most notably former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1921. Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, and he founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (as the disease was then often called) in 1938. The foundation conducted a huge annual fundraising campaign called the March of Dimes. The polio epidemics of the early 1950s terrified American parents and their children. Between 1950 and 1952, the number of severe or fatal U.S. cases doubled to 55,000. Authorities closed swimming pools during the warm months when new polio infections peaked. Parents kept kids at home instead of exposing them to possible contagion at summer camps. If you didn't know someone who had been stricken (though most recovered), you knew about a kid at your cousin's school, or the cousin of some kid at your school. So, America breathed a sigh of...
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Convert Your Car to a Plug-in Hybrid
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 11:00pm CDT by Stuart Schwartzapfel
If you really wanted to go green with your hybrid, you'd be plugging into the power grid. Furthering your fossil fuel independence is possible by converting your Prius to a plug-in. Whether you have the cash to pay someone to do it or are doing it yourself, there are several conversion packages available and we have a list.
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Games Without Frontiers: 'Pure' Shows Off Fun of 'Artistic' Physics
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 8:00pm CDT by Clive Thompson
"The tricks in this game are pure fantasy. Do not attempt them in real life." That's the warning that flashes when you first boot up Pure, the giddily awesome new ATV-racing game. And no wonder: Pure sends you driving around mudsplacked tracks with furious velocity, racing up steep hills and then -- woo hoo! -- launching yourself with escape-trajectory speed into the air. The goal is to pull off stunts -- 720s, forward rolls, one-armed handstands -- so you can earn "boost," which lets you go higher and, of course, pull off even crazier stunts. After about 15 minutes, I was scraping the bottom edge of the ionosphere. Man, I had enough hang time to wander over to the fridge and grab a beer before I landed. So in one sense, yes, Pure is unadulterated fantasy: These sorts of tricks aren't remotely possible under the normal rules of gravity. But the game isn't completely divorced from reality, either. The control scheme for the ATVs is forgiving, but only so much: You can survive a slightly sloppy landing, but not one that is one notch more careless. And when you first take off from a jump, you have only milliseconds to deduce whether you're going to go high enough to pull off a lengthy stunt. The upshot is that the physics in Pure encourages you to take crazy risks -- while still requiring you to think carefully about what you're doing. In essence, the in-game physics cooked up by Pure's designers isn't merely a matter of being realistic or unrealistic. The...
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Weird Al: Forefather of the YouTube Spoof
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 12:33pm CDT by Brian Raftery
When "Weird Al" Yankovic packs for the road, he brings the following items: One red leather Michael Jackson jacket, one foam-rubber double chin, one Segway, one garden hoe, one silver dress suit, five Amish beards, five Jedi robes, and two accordions. That's actually just a partial inventory, as Yankovic employs so many costumes and hairpieces during his shows that a makeshift dressing room must be set up directly behind the stage—a sort of musical-parody triage unit. His performances usually last two and a half hours, and between each song he slips back to this space, where a wardrobe assistant affixes whatever wig or fake appendage he needs for the next number. When he reemerges, he'll have morphed into one of his countless music-video personas: There's Yankovic as the bearded laborer from "Amish Paradise" (a riff on Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise"), as the marble-mouthed grunge singer from "Smells Like Nirvana" (a satire of "Smells Like Teen Spirit"), and as the diet-obsessed nag from "Eat It" (a parody of Michael Jackson's "Beat It"). At some point, Yankovic will switch into an old bowling shirt or thick, aviator-style glasses, his standard uniform in the '80s and '90s: Yankovic has been imitating others for so long that nowadays he occasionally has to imitate himself. Weird Al Yankovich "Hey Ricky" This year marks the 25th anniversary of Yankovic's first music video, "Ricky," in which he reimagined Toni Basil's "Mickey" as an ode to I Love Lucy....
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Plug-In Hybrids Aren't Coming They're Here
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 10:00am CDT by Stuart Schwartzapfel
A small but vocal -- and growing -- number of people aren't waiting for automakers to deliver plug-in hybrids. They're shelling out big money to have already thrifty cars converted into full-on plug-in hybrids capable of triple-digit fuel economy.
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'Truthiness' Could Swing Stephen Colbert Into Marvel White House
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 8:49am CDT by Scott Thill
Is loving America a superpower? Faux newscaster Stephen Colbert saves Spidey and makes a bid for the Oval Office in an upcoming issue of The Amazing Spider-Man. Marvel's wisecracking comic book honchos are tickled red, white and blue.
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Supremes Mull Whether Bad Databases Make for Illegal Searches
Posted: October 4th, 2008, 4:26pm CDT by Ryan Singel
If a false entry in a database leads to an unconstitutional police search that reveals illegal drugs, does the government get to hold it against you? That's the question the Supreme Court will tackle on Tuesday.
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'Macbooks krijgen Nvidia-chipset'
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 6:58am CDT
De nieuwe Macbooks die mogelijk op 14 oktober door Apple uitgebracht zullen worden, hebben hoogstwaarschijnlijk een chipset van Nvidia aan boord, zo heeft Tuaw vernomen. Intel zou wel de leverancier zijn van de cpu. Al eerder deed het gerucht de ronde dat Apple de chipsets voor de nieuwe Macbooks zou betrekken bij een andere leverancier dan Intel. Verschillende bronnen van Tuaw en ook Macins... -
Anope 1.7.23
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 6:10am CDT
Gisteren is versie 1.7.23 van Anope uitgebracht. Anope is een verzameling van irc-services die aan een irc-daemon kunnen worden gehangen. De services die gebruikt kunnen worden bestaan onder meer uit een 'nickserv' en 'chanserv', waarmee respectievelijk gebruikers en kanalen te beheren zijn door zowel de users als de operators. De irc-server van Tweakers.net maakt ook gebruik van Anope waardoor g... -
Mmo All Points Bulletin gebruikt Facebook als 'community tool'
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 6:04am CDT
Realtime Worlds, de Schotse ontwikkelaar van de mmo-game All Points Bulletin, wil het sociale netwerk Facebook gebruiken als 'major community tool'. Het spel is bijna toe aan een gesloten bètatest. Hoe Realtime Worlds precies gebruik wil gaan maken van Facebook, liet Chris Dye, de community relations manager van de ontwikkelaar, niet weten. Het sociale netwerk is vooral populair in Noord-Amerik... -
Eerste prijzen X58-moederborden opgedoken
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 5:56am CDT
De eerste X58-moederborden, geschikt voor Intels nieuwe Core i7-processors, zijn van een prijskaartje voorzien. Een Britse onlineshop maakte zijn X58-prijzen alvast bekend, ook al zijn de borden pas vanaf eind oktober verkrijgbaar. Het Britse Overclockers UK heeft drie X58-moederborden als pre-order beschikbaar: de shop biedt keuze uit twee Asus-borden en één Intel-moederbord. Het basismodel va... -
ADV: Altran >> ICT vormt een onneembare barrière voor echte innovatie
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 5:56am CDT
Wat innovatie betreft zitten bedrijven tegenwoordig in een spagaat. Enerzijds voelen ze de noodzaak om flexibel in te spelen op veranderingen. Veranderingen die hoe langer hoe sneller gaan : klanten willen steeds wat nieuws, regelgeving wordt hoe langer hoe stringenter... Lees het artikel >>> -
Eerste uitbreiding Spore duikt op bij webwinkels
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 4:55am CDT
Op de sites van de webwinkels Gamestop en Amazon staat de eerste uitbreiding van het evolutiespel Spore aangekondigd. Het Spore Cute & Creepy Parts Pack zou op 18 november verschijnen. Zowel bij Amazon als bij de webwinkel van Gamestop staat de Spore Cute & Creepy Parts Pack aangekondigd. De uitbreiding zou volgens beide webwinkels vanaf 18 november leverbaar zijn. Gamestop weet er nog bij te v... -
Onderzoekers ontwikkelen flexibele, transparante zonnecellen
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 4:43am CDT
Onderzoekers van de universiteit van Illinois zijn erin geslaagd om efficiënte zonnecellen te fabriceren die als bijzondere eigenschap hebben dat ze flexibel en transparant zijn. De bevindingen zijn gepubliceerd in het vakblad Nature Materials. Om de dunne zonnecellen te produceren maken de onderzoekers gebruik van conventionele single crystal siliciumwafers, waar met een speciale etstechniek ... -
IBM combineert collaboratie en sociaal netwerk in nieuwe dienst
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 4:27am CDT
IBM breidt de bèta van Bluehouse, een online-dienst waarmee bedrijven een sociaal netwerk kunnen combineren met zakelijke collaboratietools, verder uit. De dienst kan nu door iedereen gratis worden gebruikt. Bluehouse is een combinatie van zakelijke collaboratietools, zoals instant messaging, webconferencing en het delen van documenten, en een sociale-netwerkdienst die is gebaseerd op zijn Lotu... -
Realnetworks maakt casual game voor Wii-platform
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 3:51am CDT
Het Amerikaanse bedrijf Realnetworks werkt aan een spel voor de Nintendo Wii. Boingz, zoals de game heet, moet binnenkort op het Wiiware-kanaal verschijnen, het Wii-platform voor laagdrempelige games. Met Boingz maakt Realnetworks zijn debuut op de consolemarkt, waarmee het bedrijf ook meteen de positie van Wiiware als ideaal instapplatform bevestigt. Speltechnisch doet Boingz vooral denken aan... -
Fusion-io ontwikkelt 80GB-ssd via pci-e voor consumentenmarkt
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 3:29am CDT
Hardwarefabrikant Fusion-io heeft de ioXtreme aangekondigd: een solid state drive voor consumentenproducten. Tot op heden maakte het bedrijf voornamelijk opslagproducten voor servers en hpc's. Fusion-io produceerde eerder onder meer ssd's voor IBM's Quicksilver-project, waarmee Big Blue een miljoen iops realiseerde. De solid state drives van Fusion-io werden voor dit project via de pci-expressb... -
'Netbooks met Linux worden vier keer zo vaak teruggebracht'
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 3:06am CDT
Netbooks waarop een variant van Linux staat voorgeïnstalleerd, worden minstens vier keer zo vaak naar de winkel teruggebracht als exemplaren met Windows XP, claimt MSI. Netbooks worden vaker teruggebracht dan reguliere notebooks, zo verklaart Andy Tung, die leiding geeft aan de sales-afdeling van de Amerikaanse tak van MSI. De reden is volgens hem Linux: "Mensen worden aangetrokken door de lag... -
ADV: Kortingsactie HP Notebook PC met Vista® Business!
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 3:06am CDT
Ondernemers opgelet! Nu tijdelijk de HP Compaq 6530b Notebook PC mét Windows Vista® Business van € 819 voor € 739 excl. BTW! Een compacte 14" notebook om gemakkelijk overal te kunnen werken ! Krijg meer werk gedaan met Vista® Business, zowel onderweg als op kantoor! Profiteer nu! -
Rechter verbiedt verkoop Realdvd voorlopig
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 2:30am CDT
Een rechter in de Verenigde Staten heeft Realnetworks voorlopig verboden om het dvd-kopieerprogramma Realdvd nog langer op de markt te brengen. Volgens de filmstudio's, die een klacht indienden, is het programma illegaal. De applicatie Realdvd kan dvd's naar de harde schijf kopiëren, waarbij de css-beveiliging intact blijft en er zelfs nog een andere beveiligingslaag overheen komt die voorkomt ... -
'AT&T vertraagt introductie Blackberry Bold'
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 2:07am CDT
Hoewel de eerder door RIM aangekondigde Blackberry Bold al in de zomer in de Verenigde Staten op de markt had moeten komen, is de smartphone nog nergens te bekennen. Volgens de fabrikant gooit de testprocedure van AT&T roet in het eten. In mei maakte RIM bekend dat de Bold 9000 al in de zomermaanden in de VS verkrijgbaar zou zijn. De provider is volgens RIM echter nog steeds aan het testen, waa... -
Kubuntu 8.10 bèta 1
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 1:40pm CDT
De ontwikkelaars van Kubuntu hebben de eerste bètaversie van de 8.10-tak beschikbaar gesteld. De nieuwe versie kan vanaf deze pagina via http en bittorrent gedownload worden. Kubuntu is een derivaat van Ubuntu Linux, met als enige verschil dat Kubuntu van KDE gebruikmaakt als desktopomgeving - vandaar ook de k voor de naam. Nieuw in versie 8.10 is het gebruik van KDE 4.1, evenals verbeteringen in ... -
Onderzoeker vindt beveiligingslek in versleutelde backups van afbeeldingen
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 10:53am CDT
De Duitse beveiligingsexpert Bernd Roellgen heeft een manier gevonden om de encryptiesleutel te vinden van een geëncrypte verzameling afbeeldingen door deze te vergelijken met een versie waaraan nieuwe zijn toegevoegd. De hack van Roellgen, beveiligingsexpert bij PMC Ciphers, gaat uit van het feit dat bitmaps vaak lage entropieniveaus vertonen. Hierdoor kan bij het vergelijken van twee ver... -
Eerste details Deus Ex 3 verschenen
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 8:49am CDT
In de 200ste editie van de PC Zone zijn de eerste details te lezen van Deus Ex 3 en is de eerste screenshot te zien. Het blad zou eigenlijk pas over enkele dagen verschijnen, maar sommige abonnees hebben de editite nu al binnengekregen. Deus Ex 3 is een prequel van de eerste twee games en speelt zich af in het jaar 2027. De stijl van de graphics zijn volgens Computer and Video Games een meng... -
Cern neemt grootste computergrid ter wereld in gebruik
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 6:50am CDT
Cern heeft het grootste computergrid ter wereld in gebruik genomen. De gedistribueerde rekencapaciteit is nodig voor de verwerking van de ongeveer 15 miljoen gigabyte aan gegevens die de LHC-deeltjesversneller per jaar produceert. De in bedrijf genomen Worldwide LHC Computing Grid, zoals het door Cern ontworpen computernetwerk heet, verbindt ongeveer 100.000 computers met elkaar waardoor om en ... -
Opvolger Amazon Kindle gespot
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 5:15am CDT
Boy Genius Report heeft de hand weten te leggen op de nieuwe e-reader van Amazon. De Kindle 2 is ronder van vorm en dunner, en maakt voor het opladen gebruik van een standaard mini-usb-aansluiting. De drie meest gehoorde kritiekpunten op de Kindle-e-reader waren het hoekige ontwerp, het feit dat bij het vasthouden te makkelijk de knop om de pagina 'om te slaan' kon worden ingedrukt en de grote ... -
Burnaware Free 2.1.4
Posted: October 4th, 2008, 4:25pm CDT
Burnaware Technologies heeft zaterdag versie 2.1.4 uitgebracht van zijn gratis cd- en dvd-brandprogramma Burnaware. Dit programma is beschikbaar in drie verschillende uitvoeringen. De Free-versie is uiteraard gratis, maar kan geen zelfstartende schijfjes bakken en ook geen schijfjes kopiëren. De Home-versie kan dat wel en kost dertig dollar. De Professional-versie kan voor tien dollar meer met me...
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Keep COSI in Toledo
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 6:58pm CDT by Raman
A lot of Director developers do work for museums ranging from creating kiosks to designing programs that would allow you to control robots that dig around in a big pile of sand (a virtual Mars).
When I lived in Michigan I would occasionally help out at COSI Science Museum in Toledo. It was always great to see kids learning a wealth of science in a true hands-on fashion. Unfortunately, COSI had to close its doors to the public at the end of 2007.
They are currently trying to get a levy passed in Toledo (Lucas County) this November so that the museum can be reopened. A number of people have been working nonstop for the past year in this effort. If you live in the area I hope you will help out and Keep COSI going with your vote.
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Old-school Bluegrass godfather Dr. Ralph Stanley cuts radio ad for Barack Obama
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 12:05am CDT by Xeni Jardin
The Barack Obama endorsement ad here [direct mp3 link, and alternate link] featuring Dr. Ralph Stanley is currently running on radio stations in Southwest Virginia. That's about 900 kinds of wow, and I say this as someone born and raised in this part of the country, familiar with the social fabric. Blogger NMC at folo.us explains:[Ralph] Stanley is the survivor of the Stanley Brothers, one of the few remaining figures of the first generation of bluegrass musicians. He’s from the part of the mountains the Carter Family came from, and has had a recent career revival for his part in the Oh Brother Where Art Thou music.
Ralph Stanley cuts the best radio ad of the cycle (folo.us via Ned Sublette, via TPM)They've embedded a classic Dr. Stanley television performance clip at folo.us, below is another -- they're playing the Clinch Mountain Backstep, on an old television show with Pete Seeger. This is my favorite Stanley Brothers song ever, "Little Maggie," but I can't embed it. I know all the lyrics, and sometimes sing it to myself (and anyone in earshot unable to run screaming) on long car trips along old American roads. Whenever I hear this old-time music, I feel really proud to come from Virginia.
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Bible as Glossy
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 8:00pm CDT by rushkoff
So I thought I was breaking some new ground in Testament by interpreting the Bible through the comics medium. It gave me the chance to play with a near-future frighteningly like the deep past being described in the ancient mythical stories.
Now, a Swedish adman and former CEO Dag Soderberg is leading a team called Illuminated World that's reinterpreting the Bible as a magazine - complete with sidebars, coverlines, and subheads. He's using the straight text, for the most part, but embellishing it with Bennetton-style photos and pull quotes.
On the one hand, I feel like objecting to the project outright. Something about the combination of an advertising perspective with the Bible feels like a contradiction. This project is provocative, but it's also oh-so slick, and comes off a bit like what happens when an adman hires a team of people to manifest his vision for selling the Bible to a new generation. The Illumination is there to make the Bible easier and trendier, not truer. On the other hand, I tend to feel about St. Paul's modifications on Judaism much the same way.
As someone who reworked Bible stories to promote my own cultural agendas, I'm in no position to criticize someone else for doing the same - even if the agendas are a bit different than my own. Plus, it's only the New Testament Soderberg has reworked (in English) so far. And the message there is a bit different than the one in the Hebrew Bible - which he's releasing shortly.
This is an interesting object to peruse, and it does make you consider both the Bible - and efforts to illuminate it - in a new light.
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Beatbox Rave Oonsk-Oonsking with a Jaw Harp
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 7:04pm CDT by Xeni Jardin
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Sarah Palin in 30 seconds
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 5:56pm CDT by Mark Frauenfelder
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Annual Alfred Korzybski Lecture
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 8:51am CDT by rushkoff
About ten years ago, Genesis P-Orridge, Richard Metzger, Parker Posey, and I hopped in a cab to see Robert Anton Wilson give the Annual Alfred Korzybski Lecture in New York on behalf of the Institute for General Semantics. None of us knew much about general semantics at the time, but it was a fun talk in a swank location, completely free, and decidedly mind opening.General Semantics spawned everything from cognitive psychology to NLP, and informed everyone from William Burroughs to Richard Bandler.
This year, I was invited to present the 56th Annual Alfred Korzybski Lecture. Besides being a tremendous honor, it's also an opportunity for me to take everything I've been talking about and rethink it in the context of general semantics - which might really mean beyond any context at all.
In any case, the talk itself is free, it's an important annual event even if I'm not as important as the usual annual speaker, and you're all invited. It's followed by a one-day symposium that I plan on attending as well. Here's the way they described my talk after I described it to them - as well as the details.
We are in the midst of a new renaissance fostered largely by a revolution in the way that we relate to our symbols and symbol systems. The new media of computers and computer networks invites an ethos of interactivity that empowers users and invites creativity, an ethos that might best be characterized as playfulness.
Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger.With our newfound access to participation and collective authorship, we now have the potential to gain control over our symbolic communication and semantic environment, and thereby promote true agency and more responsive social and public institutions. To do so requires that we become conscious of the biases of the languages and technologies through which we choose to perceive and create, and that we ask ourselves the question: Are we willing to play the future?
$90 per person for dinner and lecture
Lecture alone, free.
Friday, November 14, 2008, 6PM at the Princeton Club
15 West 43rd Street, NYC
(A Symposium titled Creating the Future: Conscious Time-Binding for a Better Tomorrow will be held on Nov. 15 and Nov. 16 at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus. Admission is free.)
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Round Up
Posted: October 4th, 2008, 8:05pm CDT by rushkoff
My time is almost over and there's still gobs of stuff I wanted to share with you. So here's a brief list of things I would feel just terrible if I didn't let you know about.1. Robots and Monsters: A Charitable Menagerie, is back. They launched in 2007 to fundraise for SF AIDS Foundation, and now they're relaunching to support the EFF. For fifty dollars, Joe Alterio or another fabulous artist will pen a custom robot or monster for you - defined by three words you supply - and send it to your door. You get a cool picture and the EFF gets fifty bucks to help keep the net a happy and good place.
2. Scott Draves Software Artworks, 1992-2008. This short film chronicles the work of software artist Scott Draves. And it's pretty cool. Dreams in High Fidelity.
3. Consumatron. Do you know this guy? He writes down and reviews everything he buys. It's kind of obsessive, but tells a story.
4. Trajal Harrell Dance Style is a totally different approach to dance - an effort to rewrite the language of dance by using real world movement (from fashion show walks to bar room swagger) instead of whatever that stuff is we usually think of as "dance." His performances are infrequent, but there's one coming up this month at DanceTheater Workshop and if you're near NYC I'd suggest you be there.
5. The Atheon: A Temple of Science for Rational Belief. If I were going to join a church, this would probably be it. It's like a church for brights, but it's not as serious or anti-God as Richard Dawkins. Just an effort to make faith rational - but still fun and inspiring.
Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger.
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If McLuhan Were Alive
Posted: October 4th, 2008, 10:27am CDT by rushkoff
...he'd be a member of the Media Ecology Association. Marshall actually came up with the term Media Ecology, and worked with Neil Postman to create the Media Ecology program at NYU. While the program went to the great beyond with Postman's passing, it has morphed into an international organization of people from a wide range of fields who look at the way media and culture influence one another.Their conferences fall somewhere between a traditional academic conference and a DisinfoCon. And, best of all, they're open to papers and presentations from anyone. My favorites of the past few years were one by Lian Amaris on the World of Warcraft funeral raid, and Corey Anton on the Tao and media.
I just received the call for submissions for the next conference, and I encourage anyone with interesting ideas about any aspect of media to make a submission. This isn't one of those stodgy academic groups, so you don't have to present in any officially recognized format. Just tell them what you want to talk about, or do. I can promise you'll have an audience of smart, weird, and friendly people giving feedback you can use. In the flesh.
Call for papers Media Ecology Association 2009 Annual Convention June 18-21, 2009 Saint Louis University St. Louis, Missouri
"Ecology" a word derived from the Greek words meaning "household knowledge." For the 2009 MEA convention, we seek papers on any aspect of media ecology. Special interest in the places and spaces of media interactions: Silicon Valley or St. Louis; screen, studio, library, or street. Does place matter? Local systems, larger systems, and changing relationships in the ecology of media. The role(s) of media in different ecological systems. The changing geography of media: Why do some forms emerge and others recede? The ethics of (not) setting boundaries. Living in information systems: Are we the center, the web, the flaneur? What is the I in the culture of iPods, iPhones, and iGames? Because the 2009 MEA Convention will meet at Saint Louis University, where Walter J. Ong was a faculty member, papers on any aspect of his work are especially welcome. Papers and session proposals should be sent by January 15 to Prof. Sara van den Berg, Dept. of English, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63108-3414. Electronic submissions (preferred) to vandens@slu.edu. All submissions will be acknowledged.
This meeting will be sponsored by the Walter J. Ong Center for Language and Culture, the Department of English, and the Department of Communication at Saint Louis University. This conference will feature special exhibits and tours of the Walter J. Ong Archives and a reception at the Pius XII Library. Housing (single rooms/private bath) will be available at Reinert Hall ($44/night) or the Water Tower Inn ($85/night).
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Wonderful Non-skid Sticker Things
Posted: October 3rd, 2008, 2:42pm CDT by rushkoff
My two-weeks is almost up (I heard that), but not before I post my first actual wonderful thing to this blog of wonderful things. Graphic designer Jesse Milden's Subhead Premium Grip Anti-Slip Stickers!
These are the flat black things you'd usually see applied to an outdoor deck or staircase - someplace that might get wet and become dangerous. Even the edge of a subway platform. Seeing an opportunity for graphical treatment where none was envisioned before, Milden designed some cool and retro patterns, making these stickers suitable as a functional decor statement - or even a customized skateboard grip.
I'm using them in strategic locations for toddler traction.
Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger.
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Trip with Rick
Posted: October 3rd, 2008, 2:32pm CDT by rushkoff
Rick Veitch is the comics writer and artist who got famous for the Swamp Thing issues he drew for Alan Moore, and is probably still best known for a later issue he planned (the infamous cancelled #88) in which Swamp Thing went back in time, met Jesus and served as the cross on which the messiah was crucified. Although Moore resurrected Swamp Thing, it was Veitch who wrote that story about a hippy actually eating one of the monster's tubers and tripping Veitch continued the series' psychedelic path and took it in some even more dangerous directions.
Veitch split from DC for many years, and became a sensation on his own, publishing extremely bizarre yet resonant psychedelic fables. Psychedelic being the operative word.
Now they're back - bigger and brighter than ever before. And in my experience, it's the first time a second dose has packed more wallop than the first. His seminal 1980's graphic novel Brat Pack which will finally be republished in a deluxe edition in spring 2009, read like Teen Titans on crank, and served as a template for those super-bad-ass do-gooders in The Boys, Authority, and Kick Ass. He's also reprinting very high quality editions of his classics The Maximortal (free preview) and my personal favorite, Heartburst (which includes a reprint of the almost forgotten “Mirror Of Love” with Alan Moore and S.R. Bissette).
Veitch also drew a story for Harvey Pekar in Smith's fabulous ongoing Next Door Neighbor series (disclosure, my wife has one coming up, as well), and is starting his second year of a disturbingly entertaining war comedy-horror series for Vertigo called Army @ Love.
Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger.
Sonicstate.com News
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Sonic TALK Records Live This Week
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 11:37pm CDT
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Parallel Compression Plug-In
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 11:10pm CDT
de la mancha release Boost -
New loops for Sequel and Cubase
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 11:02pm CDT
Steinberg introduces new Sequel Funky and Elektro Content Sets -
The Ultimate Multiband Dynamic Processor?
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 10:52pm CDT
Flux releases Alchemist plug-in -
AES08SF: Surround Version Of Lexicon Effects Processor
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 10:48pm CDT
PCM96 Surround Reverb/Effects Processor launched -
New Oberhiem SEM Rumour?
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 9:35pm CDT
Tom himself is remaking it
DJBroadcast news
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news - Deze week op DJBroadcast.fm
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 4:00am CDT
Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules and Love Affair), Martin Eyerer en Jean Claude Ades namens Great Stuff en Plaid voor de Red Bull Music Academy sleuren door de week op DJBroadcast.fm. -
news - DJB Nazit: Wie rockte er wel, wie rockte er niet?
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 4:00am CDT
Kerri Chandler en James Pants in Paradiso, Apparat in Doornroosje en Awakenings in de Westergas. Was het wat?
DJBroadcast djsets
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audio - Aron Friedman - Aron Friedman DJ-set @ Planet Rose 13-8-2008
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 4:25am CDT
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audio - Alex Under - Alex Under Live @ Voltt 30-08-2008
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 4:20am CDT
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audio - Mathias Kaden - Mathias Kaden DJ-set @ BLA BLA 27-09-2008
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 4:19am CDT
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audio - Newworldaquarium - Ra.h vs Newworldaquarium DJ-set @ Dekmantel Studio 80 17-05-2008
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 4:19am CDT
audio - Newworldaquarium - Ra.h vs Newworldaquarium DJ-set @ Dekmantel Studio 80 17-05-2008
MAKE Magazine
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Typewriter robots get a facelift
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 7:00am CDT
We've written about Jeremy Mayer's typewriter robots before here on Make, but here are a couple new ones he has built that make interesting use of the keys as teeth and the innards as legs on this spider-like bot. He's also bent the body to add more expressive features to the "face" of this bot. Check out the link to his portfolio site for a tour of the rest of the bots.
Jeremy Mayer's Portfolio via Technabob
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ReleShield for Arduino
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 6:00am CDT
You might remember Mau and his Flush-O-Matic that I wrote about a while back. He sent me his latest work called the ReleShield. It's a relay shield for the Arduino that allows you to control high voltage appliances. No word on kits yet.This is a prototype for use Arduino protoshield and a few other components, the purpose is simple but very useful. Ever wanted to control the lights from your home computer? Or perhaps some other appliance in the house.
More about the ReleShield
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How To: Breakable Tombstone
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 5:00am CDT
This is a great instructable on making a breakable tombstone. The end result is a tombstone that explodes when you punch it. This is a great prop for your next zombie movie.So Halloween is coming up and you need to put your neighbor to shame. Well I am going to show you how to make a tombstone that not only is a good yard decoration but can be made into a breakaway tombstone for your movies.
More about making a Breakable Tombstone
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Review: Rovio by WowWee
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 4:00am CDT
Robert sent in this review of the Rovio robot by WowWee. The new Rovio can be controlled via WiFi, and has a built in Web Cam. Somebody please hack this thing ASAP!Check out the detailed Review of Rovio
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Hacking the Esquire cover e-ink screen with an Arduino
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 3:00am CDT
Matt hacked around with the Esquire cover e-ink screen (see our past posts) and did a cool Knight Rider type pulse... Source included. He writes-Last month, Esquire magazine published a cover that contained an E-ink screen. I was really looking forward to it, actually... so much so that I marked it in my calendar to make sure I picked one up around the corner. There was quite a bit of hype about it, and a lot of people wrote about it on their blogs and websites, and Esquire even encouraged hackers (does that include me?) to play around with the screen. The local store had a couple of copies left over this past week, so I grabbed one, and decided to see what I could do in a couple hours of playing around.
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Best of CRAFT
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 4:00pm CDT
Here are some of my favorite posts from the CRAFT blog this week:- HOW TO - "Happy Flappy" Bats
- Halloween Costumes for Kids
- HOW TO - Little Paper Houses
- Laura Marsden's Knitted Street Signs
- HOW TO - Recover a Lampshade
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Not so lazy Sunday... Weekend Project - Ultimate LED fan sign
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 3:00pm CDT
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There's still time to start making or just watch this week's Weekend Project: Ultimate LED Fan Sign. You can view the video here, grab the PDF here and subscribe in iTunes to get all our Weekend Projects and PDFs delivered each week.
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Making Austin Weird: LED Bling
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 2:10pm CDT
From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I'll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here; see you there!
You know you've got a geektastic event when even the fashion accessories start sporting LEDs. From Jared's project page at Inventgeek:
With the maker faire this month I decided to make some bling to bring. Having made 80 of these necklaces in august that I brought with me to burning man this year, the process is now super refined and easy. The cost to make one of these is very cheap, bordering on about 1.50 each. But the coolness factor is off the charts. At burning man I had a box of several colors of LED's as well as some color fading ones. The color fading ones were by far the most popular. Anyway here is the how to...
You can see Jared, and hundreds of other Makers, 10/18.
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Brush knuckles
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 4:00am CDT
Brush knuckles designed by Ken Goldman - for the toughest cleanings via BoJ.
Wooden knuckles.
Cupcake Knuckles.
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Brass knuckle cup & purse.
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Found object robot sculptures
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 4:00am CDT
Nerdbots, ound object robot sculptures for your "inner nerd" via NOTCOT.Oddly obsessed with all things robot, married couple Nicholas and Angela from Kansas City, Missouri, decided on a whim one day to do nothing other than to build one themselves.
After piecing together parts found at their favorite antique and thrift stores, they created their first robot friend. Since that first day, Nicholas and Angela have added many fabulously geeky robots to their beloved robotic collection.
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Blob Mentality
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 3:00am CDT
Blob Mentality A home-improvement project by Greg Lynn evolves into the Blobwall, a modular wall system produced by Panelite... via Beyond the Beyond.Its name may reek of science fiction, but Greg Lynn's Blobwall was conceived under pretty prosaic circumstances. Inspired by kids' outdoor toys and 1970s Italian interiors, Lynn had the idea to put a colorful plastic wall inside the home he is building for his family in Venice Beach, California. He designed a hollow plastic form--a blob, as it were--that could function as a whimsical alternative to bricks, with heat-welding replacing mortar. The commercial applications quickly became apparent. "A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic," he says. "But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood. I thought, Well, why not tackle this big chunk of the environment that, really, nobody designs?"
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