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Atomic town family pre-detonation (via thesoftanonymous). (via...

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:49:25 +0100

Atomic town family pre-detonation (via thesoftanonymous).

(via ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Ruins of Super Science | Atlas Obscura)

(via Hypercube)

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:16:08 +0100

(via Hypercube)

slavin: “DELIVERY workers tramp through tunnels under Gaza —...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:39:18 +0100

slavin:

“DELIVERY workers tramp through tunnels under Gaza — carrying bags and buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

The famous fast food has gone underground as Palestinians order the takeaways from Egypt.

Boxes and bags emblazoned with Colonel Sanders famous red and white logo move swiftly through the smuggling tunnels that run beneath the border.

The fried food has to make its subterranean journey across as there is no KFC restaurant in the Palestinian region.

Israeli restrictions on Gaza crossings make it difficult to open an international fast food branch in the area.”

taylorholland: La Photo du Jour 2065 : Paris, France

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:38:51 +0100

taylorholland:

La Photo du Jour 2065 : Paris, France

defencehq: 58 Territorial Army soldiers of 4 MERCIAN are...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:33:57 +0100

defencehq:

58 Territorial Army soldiers of 4 MERCIAN are training in Cyprus for United Nations peacekeeping duties.

Major Paul Walkley said: “Our primary role is to provide the public order capability. Although disorder is unlikely, we need to train for that eventuality.”

Read more: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/reservists-train-for-un-cyprus-mission

"The animated GIF, meanwhile—whose origins go back to the antediluvian age of dial-up modems and..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:48:57 +0100

“The animated GIF, meanwhile—whose origins go back to the antediluvian age of dial-up modems and whose natural home is the resolutely non-artistic bottom-feed of Internet image production—rudely interrupts the unbroken sheen of all the slick shit, since to GIF an image is not only to create a loop, but—in very literal terms pertaining to the effects of LZW compression—to apply a verfremdungseffekt, or distancing effect. The shiny mirror finish of HD video is dithered to dust, dots and dashes, and all the smoothing of Photoshop reduced to a crude cartography of color. The v-effekt was one of political playwright Brecht’s theatrical techniques to ensure an audience never get too comfortable: a device to make the abstract immediate and the political relatable. Here, the distancing effect allows the moving image to circulate widely on low-bandwidth connections, bringing it closer to home. To GIF is to reduce a picture to the “poor image” defended by Hito Steyerl; the conditions of its own circulation made visible. “The poor image is no longer about the real thing—the originary original. Instead, it is about its own real conditions of existence: about swarm circulation, digital dispersion, fractured and flexible temporalities… In short: it is about reality.””

- Rhizome | Performance GIFs 1: Curator’s Introduction

Photo

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:49:35 +0100

Space Situational Awareness (SSA) (by AstriumTV)

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:38:55 +0100

Space Situational Awareness (SSA) (by AstriumTV)

Photo

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:30:47 +0100

kid by facemassage - Artem Shumnik - CGHUB, via @tobias_revell

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:19:33 +0100

kid by facemassage - Artem Shumnik - CGHUB, via @tobias_revell

algopop: A Quiet Disposition by James Bridle is a “weak...

Fri, 10 May 2013 15:24:56 +0100

algopop:

A Quiet Disposition by James Bridle is a “weak artificial intelligence or naive neural network” that searches the internet, catalogs and analyses articles about drones, drone technology and the Disposition Matrix to identify relationships between names associated with the articles.

For Coded Conduct, an exhibition currently at Pilar Corrias gallery, London, Bridle presents a set of books, each containing a snapshot of 250 paired names identified by the database, dated to their production, together with the linking terms and texts generated automatically by the system.

I CAN'T SLEEP / Kio Stark: A manifesto of manifestos

Fri, 10 May 2013 15:18:51 +0100

I CAN'T SLEEP / Kio Stark: A manifesto of manifestos:

Wherein I enumerate the elusive qualities of brilliant manifestos.

1. They are clarifying and mysterious at the same time.

2. They are inconclusive.

3. They leave thready holes into which the reader’s imagination can spin its own connections. Like good fiction, they leave much unstated. Like…

Aecom floats ambitious £14bn mega-canal idea to ministers...

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:33:53 +0100

Aecom floats ambitious £14bn mega-canal idea to ministers - Construction Manager - News

"The group uses multiple tactics in its attacks, but according to security researchers who have..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:42:38 +0100

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The group uses multiple tactics in its attacks, but according to security researchers who have investigated the break-ins, the hackers send employees at each organization an e-mail with a link that redirects them to a fake Gmail or Microsoft Outlook log-in page, where they are asked to enter in their username and password. The hackers then use those passwords, to break into e-mail in-boxes, where they can search for the password to a Twitter account or reset the site’s Twitter password themselves.

In the case of the Associated Press, the hackers sent a link disguised as a Washington Post article. S.E.A. hackers claim that more than 50 A.P. employees fell for the hoax, including several of the A.P.’s social media editors.

”

- No Joke: Syrians Hack The Onion - NYTimes.com

Twitter / acton: ”The fame of Silicon Roundabout is...

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:51:16 +0100

Twitter / acton: ”The fame of Silicon Roundabout is growing but we didn’t expect to find this in an Ethiopian village today”

“A man poses for the camera next to a military object washed up on the beach on the Isle of...

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:05:22 +0100

“A man poses for the camera next to a military object washed up on the beach on the Isle of Harris, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland October 19, 2008. The object, which has Mirach 100/5 stencilled on the side, was washed up on the beach on Sunday, the UK Coastguard and Maritime agency said. According to the manufacturer’s web-site, the Mirach 100/5 is a target drone. Photograph taken on October 19, 2008” [Source]

bravenewwhat: sleepingupright.com JD #takeover

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:23:01 +0100

bravenewwhat:

sleepingupright.com JD #takeover

prostheticknowledge: The Art of Nandan Ghiya Artist creates...

Wed, 08 May 2013 08:00:14 +0100

prostheticknowledge:

The Art of Nandan Ghiya

Artist creates works using vintage portraits with physical modern-day digital distortions.

More info and examples of the artist’s work can be found at Ocular here and Galerie Paris-Beijing here

Vivienne Westwood Was Denied Her Punk Moment at Met Gala - The...

Tue, 07 May 2013 23:15:00 +0100

Vivienne Westwood Was Denied Her Punk Moment at Met Gala - The Cut

“Monday night at the Met Gala, Vivienne Westwood took her turn on the Vogue livestream and wouldn’t answer Billy Norwich’s question about what designer she was wearing. Instead, she wanted to talk about her jewelry: A laminated photo of the Wikileaks revolutionary Bradley Manning, attached by safety pins to her pastel robes. ”When I did punk all those years ago, [it was about the same thing]: Justice and [trying to] have a better world,” she explained. “I’ve got different methods nowadays.” Then she wanted to keep going – “I’ve got one more thing to say,” she added, gesturing to the guy beside her – before she got cut-off/interrupted as the camera panned over to co-host Hilary Rhoda’s introduction to a video piece on Andrew Bolton, the exhibit’s curator. No matter that Westwood donated a bunch of her pieces to the exhibition and that many on that red carpet (Marc Jacobs included) call her the cornerstone, style-wise, of the whole punk movement in London: Vogue’s got to keep this carefully-curated punk manifestation moving right along.”

Katharine Hamnett! But still.

"As Nestor played in Pennsylvania, Kane continued to work Vegas, until the Silverton incident put the..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:21:38 +0100

“As Nestor played in Pennsylvania, Kane continued to work Vegas, until the Silverton incident put the bug in front of the Gaming Control Board’s 25-person Technology Division. Formed in the mid-1980s as video gambling began its Las Vegas ascent, the Technology Division is the center of a vast software integrity operation: its computer and electrical engineers maintain a database of about 300,000 approved program variations, says its director. Over the course of three years, every location in Las Vegas with a gaming machine gets a visit from a GCB inspector, who cracks open the machines and checks the SHA-1 hashes against the database, to ensure that only approved code is taking money from the tourists.”

- Use a Software Bug to Win Video Poker? That’s a Federal Hacking Case | Threat Level | Wired.com