terça-feira, 10 de agosto de 2004

Guerilla protest tech at Republican Convention. Flash radiojacking, Bikes Against Bush, Backpack broadcast, and WiFi on Wheels are some of the geek power tools that protesters plan to use at the upcoming Republican convention in NYC. Link [Boing Boing] 7:21:35 PM    comment []

Alice in Wonderland staged by Japanese cosplayers. These Japanese cosplayers have staged and photographed an elaborate series of outdoor set-pieces from Alice in Wonderland. Their stylised costumes are quite grim and sinister in a Dave McKean sort of way. Link (via Waxy) [Boing Boing] 7:19:44 PM    comment []

Porn-mail-art. French blogger Philippe De Jonckeere created this online chronicle of his quest to successfully transmit porn-themed mail-art using the US postal system. The images you see on his website are original snapshots of the real envelopes that were sent from a post office in Chicago. Each of the collages were cut-and-pasted from wank mags, inserted into translucent envelopes, then sent with 25-cent American flag stamps. Link (Thanks, Jean-luc) [Boing Boing] 7:17:55 PM    comment []

SIGGRAPHblogging. The 2004 ACM SIGGRAPH conference is taking place in Los Angeles this week. Among the highlights -- what promises to be a fine, fine keynote from the inimitable Bruce Sterling. There are more wikis and event weblogs and organizer weblogs and photo share services set up around the event than you can shake a mouse at. [Boing Boing] 7:15:59 PM    comment []

eboy's updated website. eboy, those wizards of unaliased, no-dither pixel illustrations, have updated their website with a bunch of new stuff. How do they work their magic? I'd love to sit down next to these guys and watch them draw something from scratch. Link UPDATE Harry sez: I just wanted to point out your most recent boingboing post about the eboy icons is not quite correct in terminology. You're looking for "aliased" as the description for the icon style, not "unaliased". "Anti-aliased" is the opposing term, which describes an image where colors blend together as a result of supersampling the image. "Aliased" is the term to describe the stair-stepped pixel style used in the eboy icons. It's a common mistake; I think it stems from the fact that people regard the term "anti-aliased" as a negative term, where something is not done, and think of it in relation to "smoothed" versus "not smoothed". If it's "anti-", it must be the "not smoothed" state. So folks often flip the terms, and don't want to use the more positive-sounding "aliased" for what they often see as the less sophisticated computer graphic style. [Boing Boing] 7:12:38 PM    comment []

Jim Munroe's new novel in 88 blog entries. Jim Munroe -- the author of the wonderful anarcho-science-fiction novels Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask, Angry Young Spaceman, Everyone in Silico and others; and a former managing editor of AdBusters -- has a new novel out, whose premise is that it is the blog of the roommate of a demonness. He is posting the novel one blog-entry at a time for the next 88 days: When Kate discovers that her roommate identifies as a demoness, she figures it's too sacrilicious a secret to keep to herself: she tells all on her blog, roommatefromhell.com. This is the basic gist of my new book, An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil, a tale of the urban occult told entirely through Kate's entries. Starting today, I'll be posting one a day to the faux roommatefromhell.com blog until all 88 entries (the whole book) are up. After that I'll be writing a spinoff story based on how the poll on the site goes. Link [Boing Boing] 7:10:36 PM    comment []

Computer Couture. My latest article for TheFeature.com is about electronic textiles: "In the future, we'll all dress smartly. Well, sort of. Advances in electronic textiles promise evening wear that changes color based on mood, undershirts that dispense medicine, and wirelessly-enabled coats that forecast the weather. While the science fiction vision of electrified clothing is not new, the enabling technologies are only now beginning to emerge from university and industrial laboratories. Far from the catwalk, researchers at the intersection of materials science, electrical engineering and fashion design are designing the computer couture of tomorrow." Link [Boing Boing] 7:07:59 PM    comment []

Web Zen: No Work Zen. london tube race | waste paper basket toss | unstoppable filing | crunchtime | super pet | bowman | pinball | hoverbumps | bubbles | don't let go | imagination web zen home, web zen store, (Thanks, Frank). [Boing Boing] 7:03:39 PM    comment []

Doom 3 set to shake up UK charts. Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] 7:01:29 PM    comment []

iTunes Music Store tops a million songs in US (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday announced that the US version of its iTunes Music Store now has over one million songs in its download catalog. Apple said that it's the first commercial online music download service to offer a million song catalog. That catalog includes offerings from all five major commercial record labels and more than 600 independent labels. Apple claims more than 70 percent market share of legal downloads for singles and albums. [Yahoo! News - Technology] 6:59:22 PM    comment []

Chinese people to send 550 billion text messages this year (AFP). AFP - Chinese people are expected to send 550 billion text messages this year, doubling mobile phone operators' revenues to some 6.7 billion dollars, state press reported. [Yahoo! News - Technology] 6:55:59 PM    comment []

Chinese try out text msg novel. If you are a Chinese mobile user, you will be able to read an entire novel via text messages. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] 6:54:11 PM    comment []

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