This is insane! A subway-bus hybrid that goes over traffic, not around it – Core77
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The Yes Men want you to steal their movie
Haven’t seen The Yes Men Fix The World? It’s “a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business…
The Yes Men want you to steal their movie
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Read moreKMNDZ. Couple weeks ago I posted a series of pictures from Art From The New World exhibit, which was on in Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. These are more of the photos from my visit.
Space, Alien life, environmentalism and our posthuman future
The UK’s Astronomer Royal, Baron Martin Rees, recently gave a fascinating lecture as part of the Seminars of Long-term Thinking series, put on by the Long Now Foundation.
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Space, Alien life, environmentalism and our posthuman future
Read more "Space, Alien life, environmentalism and our posthuman future"Read moreFreelancing means walking from the West Village to the Upper East Side and back because you don’t have enough money for the subway. Freelancing means being so poor and so hungry for so long that you “eat” a bowl of soup that’s just hot water, crushed-up multivitamins and half your spice rack (mostly garlic salt).
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Freelancing is that remarkable stretch from February to December 2009, where I wrote entire features… using only my phone, a first-generation iPhone jailbroken for T-mobile, bought for $100 from a friend at Mac Week. That was because my computer had broken and I couldn’t afford a replacement.
Read moreJoss Whedon’s Dr Horrible internet show got watched by a minimum of 2.2 million people in the five days it ran on the American iPlayer-ish Hulu service. For much of that time, the stream was locked to US-only computers. After that, you could only get it on iTunes for $3.99 a pop – and it sat at the top of the iTunes charts for some time. It didn’t go anywhere near a TV screen until the DVD release.
The inspiration for doing Dr Horrible as television-not-for-television was Felicia Day’s The Guild, a sitcom about online game-players, now shooting its fourth season. The first episode was “broadcast” by YouTube, where it has a current tally of over four million plays. Now you can find it on iTunes and Xbox Live.
There’s money out there. This was the same money given to Radiohead and Trent Reznor for music, to Wil Wheaton for e-books. People are more comfortable with buying or renting digital goods – and they’re certainly fine with streaming it for free and spending attention-economy currency on spreading the word and supporting the work.
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 