Wikileaks co-founder on neo-censorship

We’ve been a bit remiss here in only sporadically covering the great work Wikileaks are doing. I promise you a more in-depth post on them in the future; the work they’re doing in Iceland in…

Wikileaks co-founder on neo-censorship

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Wireless in the world

A rather magical video, that’s really just a preview of things to come:

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Utopian and radical architects in the 1960s predicted that cities in the future…

Wireless in the world

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Watching Europe Drown

OK, enough with the Gulf of Mexico Oil Leak disaster pr0n (at least for the moment). After all, it’s not the only place with problems. Singapore also has had an oil slick hitting it’s shore.

Watching Europe Drown

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Delicate Patterns in the Sea

From the Guardian:

Delicate patterns in the sea

Delicate patterns in the sea breaking on Orange Beach, Alabama, more than 90 miles from the BP oil spill, cannot distract from the mess four to six inches…

Delicate Patterns in the Sea

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Faded dreams of Russian space shuttles

Once upon a time, in the dying days of the Soviet Empire, back in the grand ole 20th Century, when there was still something of a space-race going on, the USSR tried to construct it’s own space…

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Deus Ex: Human Revolution

A very nice polish on the cyberpunk genre.. which is, what?, nearly 30 years old now, and still seems just a few years away from being realized.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

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First human ‘infected’ with computer virus

via 80% of the humans I follow on Twitter.

First human ‘infected’ with computer virus

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Hong Kong’s rooftop shanty towns

From daily tonic:

In South America the slums are attached to the outskirts of mega-cities such as Caracas and Mexico City like wasps’ nests on a cliff face. In a hilly island city like Hong…

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mappeal: People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your…

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere…

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