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‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your files and date. Each dead drop contains a readme.txt file explaining the project. (via “Dead Drops” preview at Aram Bartholl – Blog)

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This hearing aid consists of a round carbon microphone (with no volume control), and an earphone with a detachable metal headband and an on-off switch on the back. The model shown at the right is signed General Acoustic Co. and was made sometime after 1906. (via Acousticon Model “A” Carbon Hearing Aid)

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Chart of the Alaska Peninsula and North Pacific Ocean, ca. 1770, by Russian navigator Vasilii Fedorovich Lovtsov. Note that the correct positions of Kodiak Island and the Shumagin Islands have been transposed. During this exploratory period a condition for being licensed to harvest furs in Russian America was to submit charts of the new territory to the Russian crown. I believe the islands were deliberately misplaced to lead competitors astray. What deceptions similar to this 18th-century misrepresentation await us among the data being mapped in the 21st? (via Edge-Serpentine-MapsGallery – George Dyson – Science Historian; Author, Project Orion)

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