thehumansarecoming

After the demise of my thinkingmachines blog, I thought I’d give the postalicious plugin a bash and post my delicious links here instead. Rather than just letting it run wild though, I’ll edit and post the list up every few days.

So here it is, hope you’ll find these interesting

• Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker - The Exploit: A Theory of Networks - Neural.it :: media culture, hacktivism - The Exploit thus offers a political theory of networks; how they are controlled and how they might be transformed. The book successfully combines precise ‘material’ analysis, broad theoretical engagement and speculative thought. Such breadth makes for hard going in some sections, as the authors move between cybernetics, political philosophy, bioinformatics, and technical descriptions of internet protocols to name a few. In the age of the network, however, these fields are increasingly aligned.
• AFP: Japan PM complains he’s too busy to read his comics - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso complained on Sunday he cannot find enough time to devote himself to his lifelong hobby — reading comics.
• AARON HUEY IS A PHOTOGRAPHER - He recently hitchiked across Siberia on a National Geographic Expedition Council Grant. Huey’s site is filled with stunning images, including a photo essay documenting the Afghanistan drug war
• Poladroid project : the easiest and funniest Polaroid Image Maker - Wait… wait…. wait again… or shake the picture.
  Then look at or print your POLADROID picture
• Disquiet » Images of the Week: Ikeda’s Mathic Region - sound artist Ryoji Ikeda’s exhibit V ≠ L, created with mathematician Benedict Gross at Le Laboratoire in Paris

• Ananova - Convict posts himself to freedom - The man packed himself up in a parcel, and other convicts loaded him onto a lorry. Once clear of the prison he broke out of the parcel, jumped off the back of the lorry and fled.
• Twitter: Now Even Thirsty Houseplants Demand Attention With DIY Twitter Kit - when its moisture sensors detect that you’ve been a bit lax in watering it’ll Twitter with a “water me please” prompt. Ignoring it won’t work as it’ll step up the game with an urgent Tweet, and over-watering’ll earn you a scolding.

• The School of Life : On the pleasure of talking to strangers - The School of Life provides diners with a specially designed conversation menu – containing tasks, pictures, quotes and questions to help stimulate conversations about things that really matter in life
• Cockos Reaper DAW - . Don’t be fooled by the tiny 2MB download: this is a powerful application that does a huge amount, is being improved on a daily basis, and already does some things better than most of the competition.
• This happened - 15th November 2008 - United Visual Artists are a collective whose current practice spans permanent architectural installation, live performance and responsive installation.

Royal Opera House: Audience. from rAndom International on Vimeo.

• Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: This post will self-destruct in five minutes - This was the founding meeting of Singularity University, an academic institution whose mission, as founder Dr. Peter Diamandis told the elite audience, would be “to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies (bio, nano, info, etc); and to apply, focus and guide these to the best benefit of humanity and its environment.”
• The New York Times > Magazine > Slide Show > - a slideshow of people shown with their avatars

• » Training Attention and Emotional Self-Regulation - Interview with Michael Posner   « Brain Fitness Revolution at SharpBrains - We can plan ahead, resist distractions, be goal-oriented. These human characteristics appear to depend upon what we often call “self-regulation.” What is exciting these days is that progress in neuroimaging and in genetics make it possible to think about self-regulation in terms of specific brain-based networks.
• Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy - Our past teaches us about the value in “remix.” We need to relearn the lesson. The present teaches us about the potential in a new “hybrid economy” — one where commercial entities leverage value from sharing economies. That future will benefit both commerce and community. If the lawyers could get out of the way, it could be a future we could celebrate.