NY in New Orleans
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Rage Against the Machine via Chris Goggans on Facebook… hadn’t thought about these guys in a while. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
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Stumbled onto this great psychedelic (“mind manifesting” – or sound manifesting) track… (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
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http://boingboing.net/2013/01/17/velvet-underground-nico-lost.html “Heroin,” from a rare acetate of the Velvet Underground’s first album. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Culture
Grave Digger Blues
Jesse Sublett is a rock and roll veteran as well as a novelist, i.e. a multimediast, and he’s blowing into
News
Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013
Update: Statement from Aaron’s family: Our beloved brother, son, friend, and partner Aaron Swartz hanged himself on Friday in his
Culture, Futures
State of the World 2013: read the conversation
Bruce Sterling and I (with substantial contributions from others) conversed online for two weeks about the state of the world,
Culture, Futures, Technology
Robots
My favorite-so-far Bruce Sterling post in the State of the World conversation: “Following on from John Payne’s comments in ,
Augmented Reality, Culture
State of the World 2013
Bruce Sterling and I are holding forth on the State of the World in our annual conversation on the WELL,
Culture
He bought his guns on the Internet
In casual conversations, we often hear someone say “I read blah blah on the Internet,” and if you ask for
Events, Futures
John Shirley: “empathy may be a precious commodity in the future”
In the wake of the Connecticut shootings, John Shirley posted on Facebook this excerpt from a text he wrote as
Community
Just another post about a tragedy
[Don’t waste your time reading my hasty post before you read Ethan Zuckerman’s take: “Mourn, and take action on guns.”]
Sustainability
Landfill Harmonics: rethinking/reusing what we’re throwing away…
Transforming garbage into good-quality musical instruments – forget flying cars, this is the more relevant future. Thanks to Joseph Rowe