Michel Foucault impersonator

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Boredom Studies

In John Eastwood's subterranean lab at York University in Ontario, Canada, young adults sit watching video clips: They are part of a test to see just how deeply bored they can get. Dr. Eastwood, a Canadian psychology professor, is one of a growing number of researchers in what is becoming an exciting field of inquiry: boredom studies. The young adults in his lab watch dry instructional videos all in an effort to help researchers understand how we experience boredom, what causes it, and eventually, how to relieve it.

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MANIFESTO FOR A THEORY OF THE ‘NEW AESTHETIC - Curt Cloninger

Image: Image enacting the uncanny valley. This image is a New Aesthetic image. (Clement Valla, from Postcards from Google Earth, 2011)

The New Aesthetic is not new (or it has always already been perpetually new). The fact that the NA has recently hit some sort of pop-meme coagulation tipping point (and acquired an ontological name) is merely evidence that technology has finally accumulated to the point of being easily and widely recognised as a collection of Tumblr images without needing to be supported or explained by any underlying theory whatsoever. (Indeed, James Bridle's Tumblr launched the New Aesthetic meme, and Bruce Sterling's journalistic blog dispersed it.) The New Aesthetic has been intuited by hands-on coders for decades (perhaps centuries). It has been discussed by media theorists for at least as long. This is why old school media artists like Mez Breeze and old school media theorists like Simon Biggs (on old school listservs like NetBehaviour) are left fairly unimpressed with the current ‘gee whiz’ enthusiasm about the New Aesthetic. ‘The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed’ (William Gibson, in some places as early as 1993). The future is (always already) in the process of becoming ever more evenly distributed.

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Adobe releases third security update this month for Flash Player

Adobe has released an emergency security update for its widely used Flash media player to patch a vulnerability being actively exploited on the Internet. The company is advising Windows and Mac users to install it in the next 72 hours.

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Biosphere: Tornerai?

Slovenian Philosopher Slavoj Zizek Hosts Most Stressful Oscar Ceremony in Decades

When Seth MacFarlane, creator of The Cleveland Show and director of the “Pitch” segment of Movie 43, had to bow out of his Oscar-hosting duties at the last minute as a result of a mild case of whooping cough, ABC and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences raised eyebrows when they chose Slovenian philosopher Slovoj Zizek at the last minute to sub in as host of the annual ceremony regularly watched by over 40 million Americans. - See more at: HERE

USB-SHUFFLE-SHOW (ONE)

THE FIRST „USB-SHUFFLE-SHOW“ WILL BE A 3-DAY DIGITAL GROUP-SHOW. WE WILL PRESENT WORKS ON USB FLASH DRIVES THAT ARE SENT TO US UNTIL MARCH 31ST 2013. THE EXHIBITION IS NOT CURATED AND TOTALLY FREE OF CHARGE. IT TAKES PLACE APRIL 4TH – 6TH 2013 AT INSTITUT FÜR ALLES MÖGLICHE / ABTEILUNG FÜR ALLES ANDERE IN BERLIN-MITTE. EVERY USB FLASH DRIVE SHALL CONTAIN ONE PIECE OF ART. EVERY PIECE THAT IS SENT TO US WILL BE PRESENTED. EACH PIECE THAT IS SENT TO US WILL BE KEPT IN OUR ARCHIVES AND FOR UPCOMING SHOWS AND WILL NOT BE RETURNED.

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I have an usb. If you have an idea.

Revolver Cannabis-Brazo Armado Caido (Video Oficial)

A Narcocorrido (Spanish pronunciation: [narkokoˈriðo], Drug Ballad) is a type of Mexican music and song tradition which evolved out of the norteño folk corrido tradition. This type of music is heard on both sides of the US–Mexican border. It uses a danceable, accordion-based polka as a rhythmic base. The first corridos that focus on drug smugglers—the narco comes from "narcotics"—have been dated by Juan Ramírez-Pimienta to the 1930s. Early corridos (non-narco) go back as far to the Mexican Revolution of 1910, telling the stories of revolutionary fighters. Music critics have also compared narcocorrido music to gangster rap. VIA

Jeremy Deller - Acid Brass - Ludovic Cantais

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Amazing Anti-Thief Security Case!

Adventure Call

Happy Dragobete Day!

The nuclear reactor in your basement

How would you like to replace your water heater with a nuclear reactor? That's what Joseph Zawodny, a senior scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center, hopes to help bring about. It would tap the enormous power of the atom to provide hot water for your bath, warm air for your furnace system, and more than enough electricity to run your house and, of course, your electric car.

If your thoughts have raced to Fukushima or Three Mile Island or Chernobyl, let me reassure you. Zawodny is not suggesting that you put that kind of reactor in your house. What he has in mind is a generator that employs a process called Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions. (The same process is sometimes called Lattice Energy Nuclear Reactions. We'll just call it LENR.)

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Acrobats strip for Pope Benedict XVI, perform topless in Vatican

Truckload of Art - Terry Allen

Inequality begins at home

Stedelijk

Stedelijk was so impressed by Matthijs Munnik's 'Citadels: Common Structures' that they wouldn't let it leave. So not only today but the whole weekend, Common Structures on show at Stedelijk! Where was that?

Encapsulated Universes

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Preface- Thesis: Trying to fit into the context ...!

Préface

Self Critique 

First

Writing in english gives me the creeps. I do it though because i think that it is more direct than a translation. I refuse translators because they are people too. Their secret intention is to leave a mark as well. Which would be no problem but i want things to be raw. I hope that my intellectual sperm will hit you right in your face. How macho of me!

Second 

I have no time for you, i have to deal with my own illusions. "Trying to fit into the context …" is the work of a wannabe. A guy who's work is unfinished. In his illusions he strives for perfection. He can become part of this and/or that. A perfect postmodern soul who's aspirations will maybe become true, only if, complicated…. A fantastic, real existing man, who is no other, no better, not more what Peter Sloterdijk described as a soul who wants to immerse, to dive into radical mediocrity. 

Yeah partner thats me! 

Third

All researches are unfinished. That's how they appear in my head right now.I know and feel that i need three lives to get down all constructed, discovered and directed lines. I write the thesis in flight mode, which is a nice misunderstanding of mine. Because its a 'stand alone' mode. While on plane your mobile device allows you to use basic operations. Most important stuff you get when you're done. Landing! 

Fourth

Drugs, influences are here, there and everywhere.They come and go nothing remains, but things fly in and out while writing. I will try to write this thing in sober mode. No alcohol, maybe a joint not abused but convincing. I will not become the victim of my writings! 

Fifth

A method and there are others. Check your Facebook - Gmail conversations. People do not communicate, they use messages to make up their mind, nothing else! 

Hindu Temple in India

Coldcut's Solid Steel radio show + Chris Carter of Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey mix

Harlem Shake

observation

I hear the birds singing outside. tuesday 19. Feb . 2013

Loophole for All – Loophole4All.com

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Drivers stoned on marijuana test their driving skills

FRENCH STREET ARTIST SHOWS YOU HOW TO NOT GIVE A FUCK

Dj Ugene

My Promo account 4 the benefit of getin' deejay jobs 
and free dinnerx.

in Amsterdam
or
in Berlin
or
pass it on from 


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Real Dollism Part 3

Isao Tomita - Arabesque No. 1

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Follow @endexAmen

Account dedicated to the final countdown at the Rietveld Academie 2013 ! Nd_x A-Men !

EMILE RATELBAND HELP ! 

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN !

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http://dabblet.com

dabblet is an interactive playground for quickly testing snippets of CSS and HTML code. It uses -prefix-free, so that you won't have to add any prefixes in your CSS code. You can save your work in Github gists, embed it in other websites and share it with others. It currently only supports modern versions of Chrome, Safari and Firefox but I'm hoping to expand browser support soon. It’s handcoded by Lea Verou with care but some other nice folks helped too. Special thanks go to Roman Komarov who helped tremendously with his tips & thorough QA and to David Storey that came up with the name “dabblet”.

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Completely silent and powerful workstation, spring 2013

Someone in my close family needed a update for a workstation primarily used for emailing, browsing, audio and light video editing. The computer was never used for any 3D demanding games, so no separate GPU was needed, provided that I could find a CPU with a on-die GPU. Furthermore a recently bought NAS took care of all the large files, so the objectives for the build was to create a silent, very fast booting computer that could also handle heavier problems as audio and video editing. MORE

Munchausen by Internet

The first academic review article on ‘Munchausen by Internet‘ – where people fake the identity of an ill person online – has just been published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Munchausen syndrome is a common name forfacticious disorder where people consciously fake illnesses for their own gain.

This is distinguished from malingering – where the gain would be something obvious like money, drugs or missing military service – and instead the gain from factitious illness typically includes the indirect benefits of faking – like being cared for, avoiding family conflict and so on.

The person is deliberately faking but they may not be fully conscious of all the emotional benefits – they might just say ‘it feels right’ or ‘it helps me’.

Obviously, this has been a problem for millennia but there has been an increasing recognition that the phenomenon happens online. People take up the identity of someone with an illness that gives them a special place in an online community.

This could be a standard online community where their ‘illness’ becomes a point of social concern, or their pretence could allow them to participate in an online community for people with certain disorders or conditions.

The article gives lots of example and some ways of spotting Munchausen fakers that also gives an insight into their thinking:

Posts consistently duplicating material in other posts, books, or health-related websites.

Characteristics of the supposed illness emerging as caricatures.

Near-fatal bouts of illness alternating with miraculous recoveries.

Fantastical claims, contradicted by subsequent posts, or flatly disproved.

Continual dramatic events in the person’s life, especially when other group members have become the focus of attention.

Feigned blitheness about crises that will predictably attract immediate attention.

Others apparently posting on behalf of the individual having identical patterns of writing.

The piece gets quite wordy at times (well, it is an academic article) but it’s an interesting insight into a motivations of people who ‘fake sick’ on the internet.

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Cavemen Used ‘Facebook’ Already

Scientists claim to have discovered a “prehistoric version of Facebook” used by ancient tribes to communicate with each other. After analyzing over 3000 rock art images in Sweden and Russia, Mark Sapwell and his team from Cambridge University concluded that the sites functioned like an “archaic related stories version” of social networks where users shared thoughts and emotions and gave stamps of approval to other contributions – very similar to today’s Facebook like.


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Tank Riot

Tank Riot is a never dull audio podcast that digs deep into the minds of Viktor, Sputnik, and Tor. Each podcast starts you on a winding audio journey with destinations such as Punk Rock, China, Eugene V. Debs, Vincent Price, Gerry Anderson, Motorcycle Movies, Frank Lloyd Wright, Howard Hughes, Open Source Software, Alan Turing, Ancient Aliens, Dr. Seuss, 120 Film, North Korea, The Marx Brothers, The War on Drugs, Albert Einstein, professional wrestling, The Space Race, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Link Wray, Nazi UFOs, George Orwell, Irwin Allen, Doctor Who, Scott Walker, Think Tanks, Jack the Ripper, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Daniel Ellsberg, Wikileaks, Mad Magazine, Harry Houdini, Lizard People, The Brady Bunch, Ronald Reagan, Carl Sagan, Gilligan's Island, Mother Teresa, Robber Barons, Les Paul, Howard Zinn, Hanna-Barbera, Joe McCarthy, Post-Apocalypse Cinema, Walt Disney, Charles Fort, Ayn Rand, Rachel Carson, beer, Holocaust denial, Time Travel, Emma Goldman, Pirates, Zombies, Jim Henson, Urban Legends, Friedrich Nietzsche, Watchmen, Richard Feynman, Mister Rogers, the presidents, James Bond, Henry Kissinger, The Business Plot, Tron, Fighting Bob Fest, Errol Morris, Tropic Thunder, the Olympics, Devo, Akira Kurosawa, Henry Ford, Iron Man vs. Zombie Strippers, Rod Serling, Cryptozoology, Leon Theremin, Stanley Kubrick, Nikola Tesla, Roger Corman, Douglas Adams, Iran, Godzilla, The Simpsons Movie, Sicko, Hunter S. Thompson, Mike Judge, Kurt Vonnegut, Grindhouse, 300, Conspiracies, Religion, Scientology, Tom Waits, Christmas, Sid and Marty Krofft, Elections, The Departed vs. Infernal Affairs, 40 Years of Star Trek, Philip K. Dick, Recumbent Bicycles, Roky Erickson, Jerry Lewis, Hugo Chavez, X-Men, Energy, The Neocons, The World's Fastest Indian, V for Vendetta, Studio Ghibli, and Star Trek Fan Films; or the occasional quagmire. So secure your helmet, close the hatch, and by all means turn up the volume!
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Chuck Norris vs Communism

THE FUTURE

THE FUTURE from Alex Goddard on Vimeo.

Radar

DO SOME WEB MUSIC HERE

The Shooter

Bin Laden was... The number-one celebrity of evil. And the man in my backyard blew his lights out.

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Anti - Social

Anti-Social is a productivity application for Macs that turns off the social parts of the internet. When Anti-Social is running, you’re locked away from distracting social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter and other sites you specify. With Anti-Social, you’ll be amazed how much you get done when you turn off your friends. http://anti-social.cc

Harlem Shake

 MOOOOOOoOOoooooooooRE 

Diogenes and others

Same night lightning strikes St Peter's Basilica

The art of boredom

Boredom is an emotional state experienced when an individual is left without anything in particular to do, and not interested in their surroundings. (Quote: Wikipedia) The Basic Income Earth Network is a network of academics and activists interested in the idea of a universal basic income, i.e. a guaranteed minimum income based solely on citizenship and not on work requirement or charity. It serves as a link between individuals and groups committed to or interested in basic income, and fosters informed discussion on this topic throughout the world. (Quote: Wikipedia) See the cloud of boredom Here

List of serial killers by the number of victims

Le Mepris

Comment from youtube on a godard song... "This music equals my life in a nutshell :( I always end up right back where i started. I can't find people to talk to. Can't find my true love. I don't have that many friends. I just sit at that one little desk. and that's that"

Winter song

DRM makes products less valuable AND less real (and sucks)

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MakerLove figures out how to get smooth and safe surface for sex toys

MakerLove which offers free sex toy designs for 3D printers, has announced on their blog that they have successfully come up with two different methods to get a smooth an safe finish.
Until now, you could print a personalized sex toy, but not actually use it. Jagged an unsafe, it needed to be be replicated in silicon form as a second step.
Obviously getting a smooth surface is good news for sex toys, but these methods could be applied to other products. 

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The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard

BangWithFriends +

One of the three BangWithFriends developers, who wish to remain anonymous, says the app came about because they were "lamenting the dishonesty of online dating and how people like us wanted to be less ashamed to look for what we want. We think that sex shouldn't be taboo and that it's awesome to be more honest and safe with our pursuit of sex." The app creator, whose name on email is "Online Pimp", says BangWithFriends will "add more dimensions to relationships. And we recognise that plenty of relationships are created from sexual desires and that's not a bad thing."

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Pussy Riot Appeals Convictions for ‘Hooliganism’ to European Human Rights Court

Attorneys for three members of the feminist punk group Pussy Riot are taking the group’s “hooliganism” convictions to a human rights court, alleging the Russian government’s actions against them for performing a protest song in a Moscow church violate the European Convention on Human Rights. In a complaint filed on Wednesday, lawyers for the Pussy Riot members claim the convictions violated the convention’s rights to liberty and security, the prohibition of torture, guarantees of freedom of speech and the right to a fair trial, according to the Associated Press.

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Dr. Nakamats

EARTHQUAKE button, Sheraton, Seattle

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"augmented reality for cattle"

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Don't "File:///"

Open Radar Community today reported a bug in Apple's Mac systems. According to a post, a eight characters text will crash almost any application on your Mac. When you type "File:///" (The capital 'F' is important) in some Mac application like TextEdit, it will crash the screen. It is figured out that, the bug is inside Data Detectors, a feature that lets apps recognize dates, locations, and contact data, making it easy for you to save this information in your address book and calendar. Since the bug has been reported to Apple, it will likely be patched at some point. A reader copy posted the crash dump at Pastebin.

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Centrifuge Brain Project

Anonymous posts over 4000 U.S. bank executive credentials

Summary: Anonymous appears to have published login and private information from over 4000 American bank executive credentials its Operation Last Resort, demanding US computer crime law reform.

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Take a ride

Euthanasia Coaster from Julijonas Urbonas on Vimeo.

Pussy Riot Is Not Doing Well in Prison

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, one of the members of Pussy Riot, has been hospitalized in her prison colony in Mordovia, for what the Associated Press is calling a "full medical check-up." Tolokonnikova was one of two members of the band sent to prison colonies with reportedly terrible conditions back in October.

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People Are Now Reviewing North Korean Gulags On Google Maps

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Archeologists