Funeral Selfies… Joining Cop Selfies and Rich Kids on Instagram to form… something. The #idonteven genre?
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Read moreThe Russian press reports that local officials intercepted a shipment from China that contained home appliances with “spy” microchips capable of spreading malware to wi-fi enabled devices within 200 meters. Tea kettles were apparently the chief culprit.
Specific details of the dodgy shipments remain shady. It’s unclear, for example, if the chips were installed by the Chinese or by cyber criminals en route to Russia. It’s also unclear how Russian authorities spotted the contraband in the first place, although one report claims that the weight of some shipments were slightly off. Finally, the extent of the fiasco is also unclear, though limited press coverage suggests that it’s contained to a small shipment in St. Petersburg.
@stephaneintissar #Lego prototype for a customizable #oculusrift for Nexus 7 or iPad mini Photo by Laurent Bolli.
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Read more“Sonic Bloom,” a solar-powered art installation by artist Dan Corson stands in the Seattle Center’s festival grounds. The five solar flowers collect sunlight to power motion-sensor speakers, which play a chorus of interactive melodies when people walk by. The singing flowers also feature sun-powered LED lights that change colors and illuminate the sculptures at night.
Read moreThe Barge Mystery: Floating Data Centers or Google Store? | Data Center Knowledge
“The prototypes of the “Google Navy” have been discovered on both coasts. But are they floating data centers? Or some kind of marketing facility for Google Glass?”
“CNet reported Friday that a barge in San Francisco Bay stacked high with shipping containers may be a floating data center being built by Google. A nearly identical facility has appeared in a harbor in Portland, Maine, according to the Portland Press-Herald.”
Read moreSo, I was teaching my small class about mind-body dualism, and I was talking about Descartes’ reasoning for why we have we need both mental and physical substances—that is the need for base physicality to highlight and refine the pure mental/soul stuff of the “real us.”
Anyway, I was talking about this, and I said “For Descartes, we have to have the negative, so that we can see the positive,” and all of a sudden both of these scenes just popped into my head, and it CLICKED.
Top: Cassie Boyle’s body on a stag head, with ravens, from NBC’s Hannibal. Line from Will Graham, about how Cassie Boyle’s murder by a copycat helped him to understand the original Minnesota Shrike: “It’s like he had to show me a negative so that I could see the positive.”
Bottom: Eldon and Rachael Tyrell, from Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982). Line from Eldon Tyrell to Rick Deckard, about understanding the efficacy of the Voight-Kampf Test: “I want to see a negative before I provide you with a positive…Try her.”
Now, I don’t know if this was intentional, and the internals are really kind of intricate—Tyrell’s deception about Rachael being a “Negative” as correlated to Hannibal’s deception about the provenance of the actual negative, each used to guide the investigator down the road they want them to travel, fully knowing the nature of its end—but I do know that I can’t stop thinking about the really quite pleasant similarities between Hannibal and Blade Runner.
Good night.
Crawford/Bryant to Graham/Deckard: “You know the score, pal! If you’re not cop, you’re little people.”
Help I Can’t Stop.
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 