Media
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The Poet as Pinup
Wild Women Press just wrapped a photo shoot for a 2012 calendar featuring a new nude poet for every month of the year, with proceeds from sales going to type one diabetes research. To top it off, all of the…
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Tweet for Public Health
Social media is breaking new ground—it is now a tool that aids in the tracking down of public health crises. Researchers can use twitter to follow the spread of disease, at a much more efficient speed than formerly used surveillance…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Sweden spaces out. A space port with tourism as a central focus. Soldering made comical. An easy to follow, informative soldering guide. How to blow up anything, anywhere, in an hour. The U.S. prepares to launch fastest plane ever. Thirteen…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Scientists have developed a straw that detects the date rape drug in yr drink. All’s fair in tech and war: Apple has gotten the Samsung Galaxy Tab blocked in Europe. Yep, the building blocks of DNA probably came from space.…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Is there one hacker culture, or many? Here’s a a photo comparison of the Black Hat and Defcon conventions. Some tech folks are on edge today, with an eye on the stock markets following last week’s debt deal and downgrade…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Not a good day for Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg: he’s been declared worst dressed of Silicon Valley by GQ, and his sister quit his company. In the “creepy” department, unborn children can now be part of the family on Facebook. Google…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Some shady rats have been hacking into the UN, governments, major companies, and other organizations & stealing sensitive info for the past 5 years and no one noticed til now. Crucial: How to remove yourself from background check sites. I…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Adobe seems to be edging toward HTML5, potentially preparing to leave Flash behind. A new patent infringement suit is adding to Hulu’s recent acquisition woes. Meet one of the not-so-threatening faces behind LulzSec. Your future iPad will be made by robots,…
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A Internet-Based Literary Performance Piece
Do you know about the Precession? Judd Morrissey and Mark Jeffrey’s project is pioneering new digital landscape, making the act of writing into a visually-stimulating performance piece, combined with the personal act of reading work on the Internet. It is…
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Ruminating on Murdoch’s Influence
This is a comprehensive roundup on the ways in which Rupert Murdoch’s handling of his media empire has impacted your life—via journalism, via politics, via the relationship of the public and the press. The phone-hacking scandal has prompted revelations about…
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Take A Break For Some Tabloid History
The philosophy guiding a great deal of mainstream media, that the public “likes entertainment better than it likes information,” is something I hear people gripe over when forced to watch CNN at the gym. But this isn’t an observation unique…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Contrary to popular memory, Netflix has committed several gaffes along its way to movie rental domination. Fans of the dungeon hack genre ought to be looking forward to the Diablo 3 release later this year. Anonymous is planning to spread…