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“Wij vinden dat verkiezingsuitslagen gecontroleerd moeten kunnen worden. We accepteren niet dat een handjevol techneuten stilletjes de plek van vele tienduizenden stemburoleden heeft ingenomen.”
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“Richard Dorment is surprised - and captivated - by a heartbreaking exhibition of works by conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who was mysteriously lost at sea”
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“Verkoopshow content 2006: bestikkerde genummerde en gesigneerde eurobiljetten tijdens champagnetherapie @ Het Wilde Weten. Prijzen varierende van 2 tot 75 euro.”
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“I have already explained why NSA-style wholesale surveillance data-mining systems are useless for finding terrorists. Here’s a more formal explanation: (…)”
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“TWO years ago, the world’s leading dramatic soprano, Deborah Voigt, was sacked by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from her role in Richard Strauss’s opera Ariadne on Naxos.”
links for 2006-07-10
July 10th, 2006 · Comments Off
Comments OffTags: art,bas jan ader,covent garden,data mining,deborah voigt,elections,jeroen bosch,nl,nsa,opera,security,voting
links for 2006-06-23
June 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off
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“While tight controls are in place, the official added, “the potential for abuse is enormous.”"
Comments OffTags: data mining,europe,privacy,usa
links for 2006-06-10
June 10th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima.” - Nooit meer slapen.
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“Italian artist Marco Boggio Sella travelled to Burkina Faso in search of people who had never heard about the moon landing. “
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“The rainmaking army uses rockets, artillery and aircraft to sow chemicals and artificially induce rain in times of need, said an official with the bureau’s Department of Forecasting Services and Disaster Mitigation.”
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“Rockets launched with chemicals to trigger rain after huge storm”
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“Contextual integrity ties adequate protection for privacy to norms of specific contexts, demanding that information gathering and dissemination be appropriate to that context and obey the governing norms of distribution within it.”
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“New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon’s National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks.”
Comments OffTags: burkina faso,china,cloud seeding,culture,data mining,literature,marco boggio sella,meteorite,moon landing,norway,nsa,privacy,space,w.f. hermans,weather
links for 2006-05-19
May 19th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“outstanding recursive photo mosaic browser” - (Waxy)
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“It’s been about 75 days since we released Getting Real, the book, in PDF format” “The revenue generated so far is a hair under $175,000.”
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“Los 80s: a gigantic list of 80s videos on YouTube.”
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“It is totally windowless and stretches for at least a mile, although it seems to defy laws of space-time so it may be longer or shorter than that. “
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“Another art market world record is expected to be broken when one of David Hockney’s most significant works comes to auction.”
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“The most common retort against privacy advocates — by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures — is this line: “If you aren’t doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?”"
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“Never before have two pieces of bread been simultaneously placed on the ground directly opposite each other on the globe, thus making an EARTH SANDWICH. The fact that the earth has never been a sandwich is probably why things are so f*cked up”
Comments OffTags: 80s,art,art market,books,data mining,david hockney,music,photography,privacy,publishing,security,video,web
links for 2006-01-30
January 30th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“It is Google’s policy not to censor search results. However, in response to local laws, regulations, or policies, we may do so. “
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“Given the recent fuss about the government asking for search terms and what qualifies as personally identifiable information, I want to explain why IP address logging is a big deal.”
Comments OffTags: censorship,china,data mining,google,ip-adress,privacy
