February 15th, 2008 · Comments Off
PopSci, The Anonymity Experiment:
“(…) Pay for everything in cash. Don’t use my regular cellphone, landline or e-mail account. Use an anonymizing service to mask my Web surfing. Stay away from government buildings and airports (too many surveillance cameras), and wear a hat and sunglasses to foil cameras I can’t avoid. Don’t use automatic toll lanes. Get a confetti-cut paper shredder for sensitive documents and junk mail. Sign up for the national do-not-call registry (ignoring, if you can, the irony of revealing your phone number and e-mail address to prevent people from contacting you), and opt out of prescreened credit offers. Don’t buy a plane ticket, rent a car, get married, have a baby, purchase land, start a business, go to a casino, use a supermarket loyalty card, or buy nasal decongestant.”
Tags: privacy,technology
May 4th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“… He partitions space with curtains made of drops of water frozen by strobe lights… or he converts fog into a building material, neatly carving a cubic meter of emptiness by slicing through a foggy room with spotlights.”"
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“The Times Book Review ran an essay this weekend on the problem this poses for literary historians, biographers and archivists, who long have relied on collected letters and papers to fill in the gaps between a writer’s published work. “
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“Reinhold and Klein were inspired to start the label after a trip to Buenos Aires organised by the Goethe Institute in 1998 where the pair acted as ambassadors for German electronic music.”
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“Eri Matsui (…) designed a wedding dress which looks beatiful both under gravity and zero-gravity”
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“Sell Your Place In Line” Sic!
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“When technology serves its owners, it is liberating. When it is designed to serve others, over the owner’s objection, it is oppressive. “
Tags: art,dave eggers,design,dominik eulberg,economics,email,fashion,literature,minimal house,music,security,space,technology
