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THIS IS SO TRUE OMG
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A giant “digital cloud” that would “float” above London’s skyline has been outlined by an international team of architects, artists and engineers.
The construction would include 120m- (400ft-) tall mesh towers and a series of interconnected plastic bubbles that can be used to display images and data. (via BBC NEWS | Technology | Digital cloud plan for city skies)
Even more boom box worship…
M-125 Fialka: Cold War-era Russian cipher machine (via sainz)
hmmm…
Oh dear.
the single wikipedian
“Wikipedians are 80 percent male, more than 65 percent single, more than 85 percent without children, and around 70 percent of them are under the age of 30.”
— from a Boston Review article on Andrew Lih’s The Wikipedia Revolution
You know, I was just going to throw up that quote and then link to the Wikipedia entry for “girlfriend,” which is actually really amusing. Not so much due to cheap-gag reasons about Wikipedia editors lacking dates, but because, if you’re going to talk about “courtship” and “dating” and “romantic relationships” on other pages, there’s really not a ton to say about “girlfriend” that’s not just semantic. But there is a pretty hilarious picture of a man and a woman standing together, captioned: “A young man with a possible romantic girlfriend.” Which does suggest that nobody could dig up a free-rights image of anyone with a girl they were sure he was going out with.
But no, I just want to sit and think about that quote in relation to another one the article pulls out:
“Why do Wikipedians spend countless hours improving the site, often doing mundane, repetitive tasks they would never do for money?”
Because the two things strike me as pretty obviously related, and having a hell of a lot to do with the ways young men are, well, gendered. I mean, geez: organizing information in order to acquire status and power in a rule-based community that treats procedural prowess as a form of social capital? It’s practically sexually exploitative.
Because your iPod isn’t spoiled enough.
A little hoodie to keep it warm and hip.
ho ho ho h-over here.
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“ My visit to Google? Despite the whimsical furniture and other toys, I felt I was entering a 14th-century cathedral — not in the 14th century but in the 12th century, while it was being built. Everyone was busy carving one stone here and another stone there, with some invisible architect getting everything to fit. The mood was playful, yet there was a palpable reverence in the air. “We are not scanning all those books to be read by people,” explained one of my hosts after my talk. “We are scanning them to be read by an AI.
Edge: TURING’S CATHEDRAL by George Dyson (via spaceweaver)
yeah, really surprised the body copy doesn’t have more Hulk references, like:
“your friends will be GREEN with envy.”
“it may not look like much on the outside, but there’s a monster on the inside just waiting to burst out.”
etc.
At night, the computer turns into the Hulk.
There’s a new virtual defender of evil in town and his name is Super Mortal Phil.
