Links for August 11th through August 18th

August 18th, 2008 - web | 3 comments

blackaller on deviantART Luis Blackaller's deviantART page. Includes some of his OPENSTUDIO drawings. blackaller drawing art store

Dead Man Eating…Last Meals on Death Row a history of last meal requests of executed prisoners in the US. fascinating but sad. weird depressing prison food humor data

Mind Hacks: Digital drugs emergency – paging Dr. Beat hacking the brain into altered states. reminds me of the goggles/headphone setup kevin let me try way back when. potentially interesting medium to explore. drugs brain perception vision

http://thisisharrington.com/projects/nasa/index.html interesting, nostalgic photos of retro, decaying nasa jpl trailer equipment. i love the type. photos retro nasa space science design technology nostalgia

Escape to Detroit | Laughing Squid fascinating take on the emerging detroit renaissance, in particular the greening and gentrification of detroit. another sign of the urban/suburban shift? green detroit culture urban city future

Urban flight from Los Angeles | Straight outta Compton | Economist.com another article on the changing of suburbia, focusing on black flight. suburbia urban culture future

America’s suburbs | An age of transformation | Economist.com "America's suburbs are coming to resemble its city centres." Interesting economist article on the shift of suburbia. urban suburbia culture future

Software Studies social "control, communication, representation, simulation, analysis, decision-making, memory, vision, writing, and interaction" understood via study of software theory culture software code research programming design art blog ucsd

CultureVis received an email about this via swivel feedback. interesting new initiative by Lev Manovich at UCSD. visualization culture data graphics design

THE ORWELL PRIZE orwell's diary republished 70 years later as a blog. great project. orwell writer blogging

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3 Responses to “Links for August 11th through August 18th”

  1. black Says:
    August 18th, 2008 at 10:32 pm

    One of my reads this summer was Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia”, featuring his take on his own experience as a correspondent in the spanish civil war, back when he was still a romantic communist… perhaps his finest book.

  2. mans Says:
    August 30th, 2008 at 3:29 am

    i’m sick of hearing about orwell.why can’t anyone talk more about the non anglo-american imperialistic viewpoint?

  3. mariks Says:
    September 3rd, 2008 at 1:38 pm

    The mind hacking article reminded me of the Cory Doctorow short story, “0wnz0red, about programmers who hack their own bodies and don’t need exercise and never get sick: http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2002/08/28/0wnz0red/

    upon re-reading it, it’s SO 2002.

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