Flecks of Identity

myblackbook.com allows to track your sexual life and to create...

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:55:00 -0500

myblackbook.com allows to track your sexual life and to create an entry (with picture) for each of your one night stands.. I guess the ten partners reported correspond to a value extracted from the service database

Web2.0 personal biopolitics

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:54:23 -0500

Web2.0 personal biopolitics

Twin pics, An Access Guide to the Town..

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:13:00 -0400

Twin pics, An Access Guide to the Town..

"One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control,” he..."

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:51:52 -0400

““One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control,” he said. “It’s just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else’s web server, you’re defenceless. You’re putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.””

- Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology | guardian.co.uk (via anaulin, software engineer at google )

Electrolux internet enabled toast-printer… can’t...

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:19:00 -0400

Electrolux internet enabled toast-printer… can’t live without it

Surveillance is not just repression of deviant behaviors, but...

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:42:14 -0400

Surveillance is not just repression of deviant behaviors, but also just-in time rational allocation of resources

Choice Tweets

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:43:33 -0400

nostrich:

ChoiceTweets launched on September 12th. Today, the Internet found out, and it wasn’t impressed.

Briefly: ChoiceTweets make t-shirts with with tweets printed on them — here’s one example, and there’s a whole collection of shirts with Merlin Mann’s tweets on.

As far as I can tell, this is probably illegal. But I’m not a lawyer. At the very least, none of the Twitterers in question were asked for permission to repurpose their tweets.

I didn’t fall into the “not happy” crowd — unethical as it is, my tweets are hardly great works of literature — but I was curious about how they were getting away with it. The answer is that they’re not, it seems. There are numerous complaints in their support forum.

Because I’m a jackass, I sent them this e-mail:

I noticed that some of your t-shirts are using tweets of mine (@nostrich). Who should I speak to about arranging payment details for my commission?

To their credit (what little they have), their reply was very nice. They say they’re working to solve ownership issues — probably should have done that before opening the site, oops — and this:

we can look through our sales record and, if any shirts have been sold from your tweets, and if so, we can have you sign up for our affiliate program and append any tweets with your username. Unfortunately, we need to do this manually right now, so we’ll need some patience and understanding from you.

So if you’re one of those with their tweets being repurposed without permission, there’s your answer. There’s also this:

if you’re really worried about us profiting from your content without you seeing a cut in the mean time, we can remove your tweets from the timeline as well.

So there you have it.

tecnoetica: Twitter come strumento da associare ad una diretta...

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:34:42 -0400

tecnoetica:

Twitter come strumento da associare ad una diretta tv per rendere effettiva la partecipazione dei cittadini. La sinergia verrà sperimentata da Current Tv – la rete televisiva che fa capo ad Al Gore e di cui da qualche mese è in funzione l’ edizione italiana – in occasione dei 4 dibattiti finali fra i due contendenti alla Casa Bianca, McCain/Obama, e i due aspiranti vicepresidenti. (via LSDI : Elezioni Usa: con Twitter esperimenti di nuova tv

)

via anaulin: Obama McCain Donor Occupation Analysis

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:30:34 -0400

via anaulin:

Obama McCain Donor Occupation Analysis

Best twitter exchange of the day

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:57:39 -0400

or why use a mobile phone when you have twitter..

via mikehudack:

brady: @fredwilson Nyt reporter is waiting for u at the front of the expo floor
fredwilson: @brady tell her i’ll be there in five mins. i’ve yet to post a song to tumblr today and i don’t feel right until i’ve done that.

Class Library

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:17:00 -0400

use Poetic::Violence; 

# Software for the aggressive assault on society. 
#Thank GOD It's alright now - we all want equality - 

use constant EQUALITY_FOR_ALL => “the money to be in the right place at the right time”; 
use constant NEVER = 'for;;'; 
use constant SATISFIED => NEVER; 

# It's time to liposuck the Fat from the thighs of the bloated bloke society - smear it on 
# ourselves and become invisible. 
# We are left with no option but to construct code that concretises its opposition to this 
# meagre lifestyle. 

   package DONT::CARE; 
   use strict; use warnings; 

   sub aspire { 
       my $class          = POOR; 
       my $requested_type = GET_RICHER; 
       my $aspiration     = "$requested_type.pm"; 
       my $class          = "POOR::$requested_type"; 
       require $aspiration; 
       return $class->new(@_); 
   } 


sub bought_off{ 
   my $self = shift; 
   $self->{gain} = shift; 

   for($me = 0;$me <= SATISFIED; $me += EQUALITY_FOR_ALL ){ 
       $Exploit = push(@poverty_on_someone_else,$self->{gain}); 
       die “ poor ” if $Exploit =~ m/'I feel better about $me'/g; 
   } 

   foreach my $self_worth ( @poverty_on_someone_else ){ 
     wait 10; 
     &Environmental_catastophe(CHINA,$self_worth) 
   } 

}

Class Library,

perl code poetry form Grahm Harwhood, in Software Studies, MIT Press 2008

reblogs of the obama elections: almost a case study of why you...

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:52:00 -0400

reblogs of the obama elections: almost a case study of why you don’t really need comments on tumblr..

btw: forza obama!

mikehudack:

imkevin:

soupsoup:

chuckmore:robot-heart:squashed:

I just criticized McCain for airing an ad about reforming Wall Street without having any concrete plans. Here’s an Obama plan to contrast it with. Notice three things:

He references and encourages people to read a longer plan for those who are interested in more detail than offered in the ad. (Note the presence of an actual plan.)

There is enough detail in the spot that somebody could concievably disagree with some of Obama’s proposals. It goes beyond the mere puff of the McCain ad.

Rather than criticizing his opponent and his opponent’s supporters, Obama emphasizes working together in this ad.

“Talk and taxes,” eh?

This ad left me with a big smile on my face. A plan is what we need. A plan is what Barack Obama is offering.

I’d obvoiusly rather watch this than the McCain ad, but McCain’s ‘solutions’ to the enormous economic problem America is facing are too rich to pass up. “I’ll reform Wall Street and fix Washington.” Comprehensive! Just like ‘victory’ and ‘honor’, McCain has yet to give a definition of what ‘reform’ means. And if you haven’t doen it in a quarter century, why would you start now? Also, “I’ve taken on tougher guys than this before.” Like the Viet Cong? Is that what you’re really inferring? That Wall Street will be a cake walk because you were a POW? That’s the implication, right? And then that picture at the end talking on a cell phone? Aaahahaha!

Damn he is good.

via GRL The Graffiti Research Lab has officially renamed The...

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:02:00 -0400

via GRL

The Graffiti Research Lab has officially renamed The Verizon Communications Corporation in a ceremony supervised by the U.S. Department of Homeland Graffiti to celebrate the July 9th FISA Legislation granting telecommunication companies retroactive immunity from legal action in cases of warrantless and unconstitutional wiretapping

nezmar: » Memento #4: the message will get you » A...

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:14:11 -0400

nezmar:

» Memento #4: the message will get you » A totanus in the net

Unprotected surveillance cameras viewable over the internet

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:01:29 -0400

via icantbecool:

Unprotected surveillance cameras viewable over the Internet

Here a few insecure security cameras I found using Google. You simply put the IP address in the URL and you have instant access to them. There are literally thousands of unprotected surveillance cameras viewable over the Internet from around the world. Some cameras are movable and have audio.

http://70.89.99.165/# office
http://68.47.144.142:8001/# naples
http://62.29.136.162:82/# train station
http://65.60.86.226:8025/#
http://65.60.86.226:8010
http://70.168.37.6:81/#

Insert in Google
Thousands of webcams used for surveillance:
intitle:”toshiba network camera - User Login”
inurl:”ViewerFrame?Mode=”
inurl:”MultiCameraFrame?Mode=”
inurl:”view/index.shtml”
inurl:”axis-cgi/mjpg”
intitle:”NetCam Live Image” -.edu -.gov
camera linksys inurl:main.cgi

The fact that the Amsterdam public library does not include good...

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:43:00 -0400

The fact that the Amsterdam public library does not include good new media books in its collection is already quite bad for me. But when you see their AquaBrowser search and discovery tool insulting a respectable scholar… you fill it’s really outrageous ;)

Why Twitter Hasn’t Failed: The Power Of Audience

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:07:21 -0400

Why Twitter Hasn’t Failed: The Power Of Audience:

What explains the Twitter phenomenon then? What produces the positive feeling and the strong attachment among those who tweet? And moreover: How can other systems learn from this?

Ambient awareness in facebook news feed

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:44:09 -0400

Ambient awareness in facebook news feed

boston.com - Ideas - Globe via technoetica

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:41:41 -0400

boston.com - Ideas - Globe

via technoetica

"Ambient awareness.” It is, they say, very much like being physically near someone and picking up on..."

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:26:00 -0400

““Ambient awareness.” It is, they say, very much like being physically near someone and picking up on his mood through the little things he does — body language, sighs, stray comments — out of the corner of your eye. Facebook is no longer alone in offering this sort of interaction online. In the last year, there has been a boom in tools for “microblogging”: posting frequent tiny updates on what you’re doing.”

- I am so totally, digitally close to you - clive Thompson - NYTIMES.com