The continuous partial everywhere

"In a dramatic display of how threats from multinational corporations are driving down taxes across..."

viralradio — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:00:54 +0200

“In a dramatic display of how threats from multinational corporations are driving down taxes across the world, chief executive Tim Cook warned Congress that he would refuse to repatriate a total of $100bn stashed offshore unless it acted to slash the 35% US rate. He also revealed that Apple had struck a secret deal with the Irish government in 1980 to limit its domestic taxes there to 2%.”

- Apple chief calls for US corporate tax to be cut to single digits | Technology | The Guardian

"(…) in possibility everything is possible, and he who truly was brought up by possibility has..."

viralradio — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:12:14 +0200

“(…) in possibility everything is possible, and he who truly was brought up by possibility has comprehended the dreadful as well as the smiling. When such a person, therefore, goes out from the school of possibility, and knows more thoroughly than a child knows the alphabet that he can demand of life absolutely nothing, and that terror, perdition, annihilation, dwell next door to every man, and has learned the profitable lesson that every dread which alarms may the next instant become a fact, he will then interpret reality differently, he will extol reality, and even when it rests upon him heavily he will remember that after all it is far, far lighter than the possibility was.””

- Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Dread, page 140. (via thedreadexhibition)

johnlonsdale: 130519_Thought for the Day A floating drifting...

viralradio — Mon, 20 May 2013 09:15:51 +0200

johnlonsdale:

130519_Thought for the Day

A floating drifting walkway for the Waddenzee shifted and pulled by tides.

‘Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed’, Henri Bergson.

One of the people that make Helsinki so interesting at the...

viralradio — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:45:04 +0200

One of the people that make Helsinki so interesting at the moment is Kari Korkman, director of the Helsinki Design Week. Here is an interview with him in the incredible old and giant customs warehouse in the port of Helsinki.

"Even as I talk I am convincing myself that it is stronger than I thought when I first started saying..."

viralradio — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:15:39 +0200

“Even as I talk I am convincing myself that it is stronger than I thought when I first started saying this.”

- Just another lovely sentence by China Miéville.

"Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres."

viralradio — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:59:51 +0200

“Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres.”

- “In this country, it is wise to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.” Voltaire, Candide.

This Is the Most Detailed Picture of the Internet Ever (and...

viralradio — Wed, 15 May 2013 22:29:07 +0200

This Is the Most Detailed Picture of the Internet Ever (and Making it Was Very Illegal) | Motherboard

"There is something about the notion of being piloted by absence that is tremendously dread..."

viralradio — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:33:00 +0200

“There is something about the notion of being piloted by absence that is tremendously dread engendering.”

- China Miéville on drones in the forthcoming Dread book. (via thedreadexhibition)

Wrote a small, personal piece (in Dutch) about where to find new...

viralradio — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:13:00 +0200

Wrote a small, personal piece (in Dutch) about where to find new music online for the Vonk edition of the Volkskrant.

"It’s not quite as testerically overwrought as it was during 9/11…"

viralradio — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:47:07 +0200

“It’s not quite as testerically overwrought as it was during 9/11…”

- Transcribing a conversation with China Miéville is taking the English class I never had: “ineffable, ratiocination, testerical, hankering.”

Facebook Kills Social Roulette, The App With A 1/6 Chance Of...

viralradio — Tue, 14 May 2013 10:21:38 +0200

Facebook Kills Social Roulette, The App With A 1/6 Chance Of Deleting Your Facebook Account

If you want a digital detox, you’re going to have to pull the trigger yourself. Social Roulette is an app that would delete one in six users’ Facebook account data, but its founder confirms it’s been blocked by Facebook so it no longer functions. While there’s no specific policy prohibiting apps from deleting your data, Social Roulette is clearly counter to Facebook’s mission and business model.

Social Roulette launched on Saturday as an online version of Russian Roulette, the lethal real-life game where a player places one bullet in a six-chamber revolver pistol, spins the cylinder, and fires the gun at their head. You die, you lose. But on Social Roulette, it’s implied that having your Facebook account deleted means you won. If you’re hit that one in six chance, the site explains “we can completely remove all your posts, friends, apps, likes, photos, and games before completely deactivating it.” Otherwise, it just posts to Facebook saying you survived the game, and encouraging your friends to risk their digital lives.

Video

viralradio — Tue, 14 May 2013 08:32:43 +0200

The Genesis Block | Bitcoin Network Speed 8 Times Faster than...

viralradio — Tue, 14 May 2013 08:17:03 +0200

The Genesis Block | Bitcoin Network Speed 8 Times Faster than Top 500 Supercomputers Combined - The Genesis Block

thedreadexhibition: Henrik Håkansson – Aug. 11, 2012 The...

viralradio — Tue, 14 May 2013 08:14:18 +0200

thedreadexhibition:

Henrik Håkansson – Aug. 11, 2012 The Symptoms of the Universe Studies. (6 min 29 sec) – installation view. Courtesy Meyer Riegger, Berlin

Swedish artist Henrik Håkansson’s juxtaposition of nature and culture and his utilization of natural cycles as symbolic subjects are used to thrilling effect with Aug. 11, 2012 The Symptoms of the Universe Studies. (6 min 29 sec) at Meyer Riegger. Håkansson probes these relationships here through a sculptural and multi-part video installation, the length of which reflects a song by Black Sabbath (Symptom of the Universe). After the viewer has skirted the remnants of a tree that has been purposefully exploded, several screens provide documentation of the tree’s destruction. Running at different speeds, and from different perspectives, the videos abstract the action and reinforce the magnitude of the debris that is physically present in the gallery. The energy of the tree as a symbol of life intertwines with the energy of a (very man-made) act of destruction, resulting in a startlingly beautiful meditation on what we understand as nature.

(via Henrik Håkansson at Meyer Riegger | Blog | EYEOUT — the mobile art guide)

Tumblr highlighted this post last night. When I woke up this morning it had 1328 notes. And Dread had 300+ new followers. Thank you Tumblr.

Escalating the climate of fear

viralradio — Tue, 14 May 2013 01:37:35 +0200

Whatever else is true, this DOJ behavior will escalate the already intense climate of fear that prevails for journalists and their sources

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald)

May 13, 2013

Recorded at Club Hateiva (Jaffa, Israel) 19 January 2011 Iancu...

viralradio — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:05:10 +0200

Recorded at Club Hateiva (Jaffa, Israel) 19 January 2011

Iancu DUMITRESCU : conductor / computer
Stephen O’MALLEY: Guitar

Ollie Bown is a high-speed musical genius.

viralradio — Mon, 13 May 2013 23:20:00 +0200

Ollie Bown is a high-speed musical genius.

Writing a story on the American Forces Network at Soesterberg...

viralradio — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:29:37 +0200

Writing a story on the American Forces Network at Soesterberg Air Base. This is amazing footage from the early 90s.

"If I had a 3D printer, I’d mess with its mind by commanding it to print out nothing but a series of..."

viralradio — Mon, 13 May 2013 07:53:12 +0200

“If I had a 3D printer, I’d mess with its mind by commanding it to print out nothing but a series of precise replicas of a single sheet of paper. That’d show it.”

- Health and safety, eh? Eh? Health and safety! Health! And! Safety! Eh? Charlie Brooker

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/12/health-and-safety-eh

After edging Russia on Friday, host Finland qualified for the...

viralradio — Sun, 12 May 2013 18:38:03 +0200

After edging Russia on Friday, host Finland qualified for the quarter-finals with a 7-2 decision over the Austrians, whose chances of making the final eight are now very slim.