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New Aesthetic King is Machine-Readable Monarch
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The Window Socket offers a neat way to harness solar energy and use it as a plug socket. So far we have seen solutions that act as a solar battery backup, but none as a direct plug-in. Simple in design, the plug just attaches to any window and does its job intuitively.
(via Window Socket – Solar Energy Powered Socket by Kyuho Song & Boa Oh » Yanko Design)
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“A funny thing just happened: virtual currency bitcoin has now passed the first round of approval required to become a standard for the web, alongside other familiar “schemes” which allow elements on a webpage to, for example, open your email application when you click on an email address on a webpage. This is the first time a payment system has ever been legitimized in this way.”
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Gert Jan Kocken, New York Times, Tuesday, September 11, 2001 (Microfilm, National Library NY, 2004) 59 x 67 cm
A photo of the New York Times from 11 September 2001. The attacks had not happened yet when the newspaper was printed. Once you see this your eyes will start looking for clues nevertheless.
(via Gert Jan Kocken)
One of the works that will be in the Dread exhibition.
“Crucially, if CISPA passes, the immunity letters may no longer even be necessary — preexisting wiretap laws will be overridden and the ability for the private sector and government to share citizens’ data will be close to unbridled. As such, in light of EPIC’s findings, CISPA, like the NDAA, can be seen to retroactively inscribe into law activity the government has already been carrying out in secret.”
We are in Berlin at the incredible Next Berlin conference, hosting the workshop Internet of Ships. This is a heads up for anyone who is in the city who’d like to hang out and talk ship.
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According to the International Maritime Organization, about 90% of all world trade is carried by sea. Inspired by the seas of data shipping generates, Shippr iwill become a general-purpose maritime datastore. We intend to fully open up the store for anyone to use, and to build applications on top through the Shippr app which will follow soon after. We will also develop a ‘Foursquare for ships’. And AIS transponders will allow to check-in ships automatically into locations like ports, locks, repair-docks, oil platforms and off-shore anchor places, and into events e.g. like bunkering, storm, sale, collision and piracy. By looking at ships as individuals with their own timelines and using the logic of checking into locations and events, we hope to build a meaningful interface for exploring the hidden world of the seas.
Our workshop is directly related to Shippr. Our key findings and / or questions are:
* Can maritime data be used as monitor to expose economic mechanisms?
* What models can be used to recognise patterns, make predictions and find anomalies?
* How can social media be used to connect ships, (port) authorities and the public at large?Our maritime datastore is currently holding location data and specifications (size, type, etc…) of ships in the Port of Rotterdam. The aim of the workshop is to find methods to transform this set into information and or to relate it to external resources. Ideally we could establish a(n) (concept of an) application within this short period of time. During the workshop participants will get access to our database trough an API.
This is the shipping project I am working on with Maurits de Bruijn and Jonas Lund. It is a lot of fun…
“Het museum wil het verhaal vertellen van de vaderlandse geschiedenis aan de hand van de kunst door de eeuwen heen. Maar wat is nu eigenlijk het verhaal dat dit museum vertelt over het Nederland van vandaag en zijn huidige omgang met cultuur?”
Metropolis M » Opinion » Wim, Wij, het Rijks & ING
Sinds de cynische bezuinigingen - want politiek, niet economisch - op de cultuur in Nederland ben ik het niet altijd eens geweest met de toon van Domeniek Ruyters van Metropolis M. Hier ben ik het echter volkomen met hem eens. Het Rijksmuseum kan hier zijn verantwoordelijkheid als rijksmuseum nemen en de huidige situatie in perspectief plaatsen. Als meest bezochte museum van het land zou het zo een constructieve bijdrage kunnen leveren aan de bewustwording van de gevolgen van het huidige beleid, niet alleen onder Nederlanders, maar ook onder internationale bezoekers.
(via viralradio)“Het moet toch vreemd zijn geweest voor de koningin om zich terug te zien in een grote reclamespot van een bank, terwijl ze dacht het belangrijkste museum van het land te openen.”
“So for those of you keeping score at home – locking down an American city: a proper reaction to the threat from one terrorist. A background check to prevent criminals or those with mental illness from purchasing guns: a dastardly attack on civil liberties. All of this would be almost darkly comic if not for the fact that more Americans will die needlessly as a result. Already, more than 30,000 Americans die in gun violence every year (compared to the 17 who died last year in terrorist attacks).”
“It’s true that Boston never leaves you. It is indeed a city where one comes of age. But it’s scrubby, it’s nasty, it must be possessed. Boylston Street is mine. That shithole in Allston that we almost burned down is mine. The parties and the schizophrenic weather, the cheap cigarettes and the cheap beer, the townie mean girls, the shitty relationships, the shitty flavored coffee, the shitty martinis. And The Marathon. Of course the Marathon. The Marathon is mine.
Boston is mine the way that my tendons and kneecaps are mine.
Boston is not in my blood. It is under my fingernails.”
My experience of Boston lacks just about all of this, except shitty relationships and shitty coffee.
But I appreciate this lovely little piece, which to my mind is not about Boston, but rather about cities and youth. Which I mean as a compliment.
To my mind, it’s how cities and the late-adolescent mind rhyme in some way. They are messy, they are still plastic and they are not-fully-grown by definition. In an adult’s body, but growing still, and the mean girls and the shitty martinis (I had my fill of both): these are not just events but conditions, metabolic conditions through which growth takes place. At the urban scale, and for everyone embedded in it.
If you lived here, you’d be home now — This Happened to Me — Medium
I am happy Kevin Slavin exists.
(via slavin)
“In fact, less than 48 hours after the bombings, police said, Dzhokar was back on campus at UMass, working out in the gym on Wednesday and sleeping at his dorm. “I’m a stress-free kind of guy,” he wrote on Twitter, as investigators furiously worked to track him down.”
Two brothers, two paths - Metro - The Boston Globe
A long and good profile of the Tsarnaev brothers.
“It is bizarre indeed to watch Democrats act as though Graham’s theories are exotic or repellent. This is, after all, the same faction that insists that Obama has the power to target even US citizens for execution without charges, lawyers, or any due process, on the ground that anyone the president accuses of Terrorism forfeits those rights.”
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8-year-old Boston Bombing victim Martin Richard earlier this month.
Heartbreaking.
(via Reddit Photo Might Show Suspect 2 and Victim - Business Insider)
