NFCs, tikitags; the Future is looking very Spimey

As the news out of Japan hinted, they’re already moving beyond the world of QRCodes. Just as the rest of us are starting to explore it with what we like to think of as ‘futurephones’ (or is it…

NFCs, tikitags; the Future is looking very Spimey

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Panchparagana: Piercing for Mansa

From Reuters:

People from a village in India’s eastern Jharkhand pierce their bodies in a bid to please the goddess ‘Mansa’.

They believe that by piercing their bodies they will please their…

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Shares of United plummeted 75 percent on the Nasdaq exchange today before trading was manually halted. All of this because of a chain of events that started when a link to an old story from 2002 on the air carrier’s bankruptcy appeared as a link on the website of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, was picked up by Google News, got written up by a newsletter produced by Income Securities Advisor, which in turn was distributed on the Bloomberg wire.

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Gilberto Esparza’s Urban Parasites art-bots

From Scott Burnham’s write-up of Esparza’s appearance in the upcoming Urban Play project, Urban Parasites:

[Gilbert] Esparza has emerged as something of a game-changer. His Urban…

Gilberto Esparza’s Urban Parasites art-bots

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