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Kultplay reports about Paraflows and Taugshow 
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Hungarian media blog Kultplay reports about our Paraflows conference and the recording of Taugshow #14.



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Johannes, monochrom: Twitter! 
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Yes, indeed. Microblogging thru the universe.
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Arse Elektronika on Fleshbot 

Arse Elektronika on Suicidebots 

Arse Elektronika on Laughing Squid 
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Looking for volunteers.



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Arse Elektronika on Pownce 

Arse Elektronika on Adult Video News 

Arse Elektronika 2007: Press meeting 
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Press meeting for Arse Elektronika 2007 will be held at Ritual Roasters @ Flora Grubbs Gardens, San Francisco, September 28, 11 AM. Table reserved for "Arse Elektronika".


(Picture by Stefan Lutschinger)

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Taugshow #14: Photoset 
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Angelo posted some great pictures of Taugshow #14 on Flickr. Enjoy.



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Pangea Ultima 
At long last! Cheap rail travel to anywhere on the planet!
"The surface of the Earth is broken up into several large plates that are slowly shifting. About 250 million years ago, the plates on which the present-day continents rest were positioned quite differently, so that all the landmasses were clustered together in one supercontinent now dubbed Pangea. About 250 million years from now, the plates are again projected to reposition themselves so that a single landmass dominates."

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2600's Off The Hook: Interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner/monochrom 
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2600's Emmanuel Goldstein interviewed monochrom's Johannes Grenzfurthner for the radio show "Off The Hook" (Show: September 19, 2007). Topics: Paraflows, digital cultures funding in Vienna and the hackspace Metalab.

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Re: Ice caps 
Just one paragraph in an article about last year's record decrease in Arctic ice:

Some see benefits. The Northwest Passage stays open longer to vessel traffic between Europe and Asia, cutting the voyage from London to Tokyo to 9,950 miles. That voyage via the Suez Canal is 13,000 miles; the Panama Canal route is 14,300 miles. Also, less ice over the Arctic land means more space exposed for oil and gas extraction.


-- Jane Kay, Chronicle



Spoofing the over-spoofed: office art 
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Between a million other things, I made this dumb spoof of the Homeland Security threat chart for my office door. I intend to make a pointer and actually use it. Click to download the full resolution.



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monochrom's Taugshow #14 
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The flat hierarchies of talk shows are about as subversive as NYC Democrats smoking dope. But count us out! We won't produce a talk show. Nope. We produce a TAUGSHOW! Which means: we dig it. Our guests are geeks, heretics, and other coevals. A joyful bucket full of good clean fanaticism, crisis, language, culture, self-content, identity, utopia, mania and despair, condensed into the well known cultural technique of a prime time TV show.

[taugen; Viennese slang: to dig/love/adore something]

Special Guest Hosts: Nikita Chrusov and Gennadyi Moloshnikov (from Soviet Unterzoegersdorf)
Special Guests: c-base team, Emmanuel Goldstein, Jason Brown, Evelyn Fürlinger and many more.



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Paraflows 2007: Discreet Amusement With Blinking Things 
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Paraflows workshop.

The electronics hackers at the Metalab love blinking things, something that's reflected in the majority of ongoing and past projects. They will present and demo a selection of projects, as well as giving them a thorough technical dissection.

Examples of projects that might be presented are:
o Large FPGA based LED matrix
o The Metasign
o DMX-based RGB ceiling illumination
o Misc. magic POV-based (Persistance of Vision) LED shifters
o Blitzenlights
o LED wall clock

For more information on ongoing electronics projects at the Metalab, see http://metalab.at/wiki/Kategorie:WhateverLab.

Hands on! The photons are yours!



Thursday, September 20. 3 PM @ Metalab, Vienna.



Paraflows 2007: Paranoid Machines with Jason Brown 
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Paraflows talk.

Modern techno-mythologies assume that more information and more connections will literally make more sense, extending all the way to the post-human desire to transcend the meat entirely and evolve into pure code. But even before porn and spam turned obfuscation into a profitable business model, the noise and bugs of the meat were already embedded in the code. From the supernatural mass murder which inspired the Arts of Memory to the atomic alien conspiracies that spawned the Web, information technology has always been paranoid.
This talk covers several thousand years of information technology, focusing on strange threads of symptom and haunting woven into the history of mnemotechnics. How does ancient gnostic cosmology influence the way we use computers? How did magicians, junkies and sexual deviants give us computers, programming and rocket science? How did a cave in Kentucky became the blueprint of cyberspace? How did a moth presage y2k and terrorist paranoia? How is the crashed flying saucer at Roswell tied to the origins of hypertext?
These weird errors and coincidences cannot be cleansed from the history of our memory machines, because memory itself is buggy. It operates by associative logic, making unexpected squirms and jumps, revealing poetic truths about the world without concern for linear reason. We cannot escape into the clean world of information and code because the messy conspiratorial logic of sex-dirt is in fact the paranoid logic of code.
All of this will be examined through the gnostic allegory of the 1983 Disney movie, Tron.

Jason Brown (from Los Angeles) is an ambient noisemaker, constellation manipulator, and paranoid historiographer.



Wednesday, September 19. 8 PM @ Metalab, Vienna.



Paraflows 2007: Circuit Bending with Jörg Piringer 
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Paraflows workshop.

Circuit bending is the creative short-circuiting of low voltage, battery-powered electronic audio devices such as guitar effects, children's toys and small synthesizers to create new musical instruments and sound generators. Emphasizing spontaneity and randomness, the techniques of circuit bending have been commonly associated with noise music, though many more conventional contemporary musicians and musical groups have been known to experiment with "bent" instruments.

Jörg Piringer currently lives in Vienna, Austria. Member of the Institute For Transacoustic Research. Member of the Vegetable Orchestra (Das Erste Wiener Gemüseorchester). Radio artist. Sound and Visual Poet. Musician. Computer science.



Wednesday, September 19. 3 PM @ Metalab, Vienna.



Paraflows 2007: Emmanuel Goldstein 
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Paraflows film screening and talk.

"Freedom Downtime" is a 2001 documentary film sympathetic to the convicted computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, directed by Emmanuel Goldstein and produced by 2600 Films.

After the screening there will be a public discussion with Emmanuel Goldstein.

Emmanuel Goldstein is the editor and cofounder of 2600, which has been publishing since 1984. He traces his hacker roots to his college days at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in the late 1970s. His passions include urban exploration, mind exploration, and space exploration.



Tuesday, September 18. 8 PM @ Metalab, Vienna.



Paraflows 2007: The Multitouch Console 
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Paraflows workshop.

A workshop with members of the c-base crew.

For more than twelve years, a diverse community of artists, hackers and generally crazy people have been excavating and reconstructing artefacts of the crashed space station c-base. We will give a short introduction to the history of the reconstruction project, highlight experiences gained and then exhibit the latest result of our archeological work: the famous multi-touch console MTC. Using the MTC as an example, we will talk about the process of reconstruction, the technologies discovered and future possible excavation plans. The second part of the workshop will offer the opportunity to play with the artefact and write your own application or demo for it.

More information about the c-base can be found at www.c-base.org. You can find a description of the MTC here: www.multitouch.de.



Tuesday, September 18. 3 PM @ Metalab, Vienna.



Paraflows 2007: Opening / photo documentation 
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Great HDR photo documentation by Lorenz "Esel" Seidler of the Paraflows exhibition opening.



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U.S. Dollar Falling 
When the Euro first appeared I told everyone I'd sooner hoard Euros under my mattress than play the stock market. At one point I followed through and stashed a lot of them under a carpet- but then I needed money and spent them. This article confirms that my idea for an investment strategy was not all that crazy.
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When Soldiers Mutiny... Only Those Fighting the War Can End It 
Okay, Bush ain't gonna get out of Iraq no matter what anyone says or does short of a)impeachment, b) a lobotomy, or c) one of his daughters setting herself afire in the Oval Office as a war protest. A few days ago, upon arriving in Australia, "in a chipper mood", he was asked by the Deputy Prime Minister about his stopover in Iraq. "We're kicking ass," replied the idiot king, as reported in the Sydney Morning Herald. Another epigram for his tombstone.

And the Democrats ain't gonna end the war. Ninety-nine percent of the American people protesting on the same day ain't gonna do it either, in this democracy. (No, I'm sorry to say that I don't think the Vietnam protesters ended the war. There were nine years of protest -- 1964 to 1973 -- before the US military left Vietnam. It's a stretch to ascribe a cause and effect to that. The United States, after all, had to leave sometime.)

Only those fighting the war can end it. By laying down their arms and refusing to kill anymore, including themselves. Some American soldiers in Iraq have already refused to go on very dangerous combat missions. Iraq Veterans Against the War, last month at their annual meeting, in St. Louis, voted to launch a campaign encouraging American troops to refuse to fight. "Iraq Veterans Against the War decided to make support of war resisters a major part of what we do," said Garrett Rappenhagen, a former U.S. Army sniper who served in Iraq from February 2004 to February 2005.
The veterans’ group has begun organizing among active duty soldiers on military bases. Veterans have toured the country in busses holding barbeques outside the base gates. They also plan to step up efforts to undermine military recruiting efforts. [...]
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Enormous Spider Web Found In Texas 
An arachnaphobe's worst nightmare, the gauzy, insect-laden web drew more than 3,300 curious visitors over the three-day holiday to this 376-acre park on the shore of Lake Tawakoni, 50 miles east of Dallas. On Labor Day, the park recorded 1,275 people visiting just to see the web.
"When I first saw it," said Park Superintendent Donna Garde, "I was totally amazed. What ran through my mind was that this looked like something out of a low-budget horror movie, but I was looking at something five times as big as what you’d see on a Hollywood set."


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Arse Elektronika @ sexuality.about.com 
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Cory Silverberg recommends "Arse Elektronika".
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Concerning 9/11: "When you" 
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A short film.
"We were on vacation in Central Florida from the 10th to the 25th of September in 2001. After intensive tele-visual disaster consumption (shared with the world, no less), we decided for a visit to Walt Disney World (to be more precise, we were mainly concerned with the Magic Kingdom) on 15 September 2001. We entered the premises and strolled along "Main Street USA", when we heard a Disney tune, well-known to us. And as it is usual for a chain-reaction of associations, a strange video-like sequence emerged in our subconsciousness..."


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60th Party Convention of the CPSUZöD 
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The Communist Party of Soviet Unterzögersdorf celebrates its 60th anniversary.

Comrades, join the festivities! Even radical tele-presence is possible!



September 14, 2007. 6 PM @ Quartier21, Museumsquartier, Vienna.

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Paraflows 2007: Opening 
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Paraflows 2007 will be opening on Thursday, September 13 (MAK-Gegenwartskunstdepot Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark, Vienna).

UN_SPACE is the title of this year's festival. The topic is the exploration of inaccessible, invisible, theoretical, and immaterial spaces.



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Zeigerpointer: New entries! 
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Great new Zeigerpointers have been added to our collection!
But what's a Zeigerpointer?
The Zeigerpointer (a German-English word-mix tautology that we feel free to give birth to) is the most penurious form of capitulation in the print media. Various people, predominantly in local newspapers or magazines of regional interest, are forced by photographers armed with Zeiss-lenses to indicate occurrences. These people have to point at things. With their bare hands! They have to present occurrences that withdraw themselves through their absence, through optical expiration or simply the course of time. Like car wrecks that have already been recovered, asylum seekers that have fled, or burnt down buildings that were entirely consumed by the fire. Occurrences that elude the media machinery because of visual boredom or a state of simply-not-there-anymore. Well, then let's give our readers a Zeigerpointer! The Zeigerpointer shall zeigerpoint it out!


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Universal Rights and Wrongs 
Michael E. Tigar, Research Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, delivered the following address at the dedication of the capital defense center at the University of Texas in April 2006.
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Close Encounters with Alien Abductions 
Review of Susan A. Clancy's Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens.
Susan Clancy, the author of Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens, has probably gotten more personally involved with alien abductees than any other skeptic. Clancy is frank in her belief that extraterrestrial visitation is exceedingly unlikely and that the alien-abduction experience can be explained more plausibly in terms of sleep paralysis with hallucinations, the availability of cultural scripts, and the development of false memories through hypnosis and other guided imagery techniques. Nevertheless, Clancy is not out to debunk the alien abduction myth, nor does she try to disabuse her interviewees of their delusions. Rather, her purpose, as the title of her book indicates, is to probe the psychological and cultural factors that lead some people to believe they have had encounters with extraterrestrials.


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A Question of Identity 
Bob Harrison questions his identity.
Hello, you, this is me – and that's him. But what are you? And what am I? And what is he? Three questions, and in each case the answer is philosophically interesting. The interest turns on the further question: "What is a person?"
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Adult brain can change, study confirms 
It is well established that a child's brain has a remarkable capacity for change, but controversy continues about the extent to which such plasticity exists in the adult human primary sensory cortex.
Now, neuroscientists from MIT and Johns Hopkins University have used converging evidence from brain imaging and behavioral studies to show that the adult visual cortex does indeed reorganize--and that the change affects visual perception.
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The mother of modern corporatism 
Karl Marx described how the East India Company 'conquered India to make money out of it'. Sixty years after the end of the Raj, Nick Robins dusts off its history and finds lessons for today in the birth of corporate globalisation.



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Education for sale in the land of the free 
The US GI bill gave a whole generation free tertiary education – and the generation after that, which came of age in the 1960s, also benefited from free or cheap admission to colleges that stood in opposition to the system. That world has gone.
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Sometimes a fish 

Arse Elektronika 2007: Porn Tub Punch 
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We are currently organizing Arse Elektronika, a conference about pornography and technological innovation. The conference will be held in San Francisco (Oct 5-7, 2007 @ Kink.com's Porn Palace)

The first day of the conference will be dedicated to performative approaches.

Our very own approach is called...
monochrom's Porn Tub Punch: Drinking The Essence Of Technology Away. Pretty Good Performance, Featuring YOU, My Friend.

If you can say that porn is what drives technology to our households again and again, and if you can say further that most porn is simply about "putting sperm" on a female's body in a more or less Jackson Pollock-esque way ... why not try to come to the somewhat wacky but nice and handy conclusion that the very essence of this fucking stupid game can be calculated by a quite arbitrary method of counting porn movies at a randomly chosen video rental store somewhere in this post-free-love-San-Francisco-town. The number of films available there is to be multiplied with the number of cumshots on an average porn DVD (that we found through an empirically correct but gruelling field trial watching a great number of porn movies in fast forward mode). This number again is to be multiplied with the amount of sperm a male body (within the age and health parameters for acting in porn movies) produces, as it is (probably) contained here: www.wikipedia.org. Thus we get a basic unit (liquid) of what people call "technological advance". This unit can then be filled in a bowl, which is then going to be served at the opening party. Of course the bowl will only contain fake sperm just as it is in most of the earlier porn movies because we couldn't "come up" with such an amount of real sperm just by ourselves. Please apologize. But that's your luck, because now you can drink it. And be (probably) sure: We'll (probably) mingle some liquor in it to get you partying (probably) really good. We hope in the end we all will feel a little gender-troubled but proud of gulping down technological advance in this highly concentrated form and maybe you have some real sex with somebody in the end. P.S.: A highly theoretical lecture comes along with it as if this was the serious part of a serious event to be remembered... Cheers!
Felix and Moritz -- two enthusiastic food re-designers from Hamburg (Germany) -- are doing the first experiments. It is not an easy task to create the perfect texture, viscosity, color and taste for the "Porn Tub Punch".
A first picture from the lab...



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monochrom: Gang photo 
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We have a new press photo.



Photographer: Katrin Guttenberger.
From left to right: Günther Friesinger, Evelyn Fürlinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner (with spray can), Franz Ablinger.
Press pictures (hi-res)



One-Child Foreign Policy 
Lower birth rates will alter both society and strategy.
By James Kurth.
Military analysts are always talking about strategy. Often they are proposing one that they have just invented and naturally think will be the solution to the nation's security problems. The present time, filled as it is with the threat of Islamist terrorism and with the debacle of the Iraq War, is especially marked by the proliferation of strategic proposals.

More seasoned analysts know, however, that if any strategy is to prove effective, it must fit social and structural realities, including the state of technology, the economy, and the political system. Less noted is the role of demography.

Until recently, demographic changes were so slow that they hardly seemed to be a variable effecting strategic challenges. But today, many major nations are undergoing rapid and evident changes in their demographic structure. This is most obvious in Europe, but it is also the case in the United States, Russia, China, and Japan. Demographic disruption is impacting America, all of its major allies, and all of its traditional or potential adversaries. [...]
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The Dictator And The Movies 
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is obsessed with movies. He's taken personal interest in production, and there's even a museum dedicated to his movie activities. "His infatuation with film is obvious from the museum's first room, where an entire wall is covered with a massive list of every occasion when Mr. Kim gave an order to North Korean movie producers. It turns out Mr. Kim has issued an incredible total of 11,890 instructions to North Korean filmmakers since the 1960s."
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Eels imitate 'Alien' 
Fearsome fish have protruding jaws in their throats to grab prey.



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Arse Elektronika 2007: The poster 
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Today the poster for "Arse Elektronika 2007" was sent to the printer.



There is also a hi-res PDF version.

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Panspermia 
Panspermia is a controversial theory that life on Earth originated… out there. Maybe it started out in a cosmic dust cloud or originated from another planet, but somehow the very first lifeforms made the trip through the vacuum of space and colonized our home planet.



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The Right to Unionize: Key to Democracy 
For the last quarter century, corporate America has been at war against the labor movement. After a long period in which unions were an accepted part of the economic and political landscape, most corporations adopted a much more hostile attitude toward unions. Where unions already were present, employers sought to weaken or break them. In workplaces without unions, employers were prepared to do whatever was necessary to prevent workers from organizing.
This anti-union drive has largely enjoyed the support of the government. For example, it is now a standard practice for employers to fire workers engaged in an organizing drive. A study by John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, found one in five organizers will be fired during an average organizing drive. [...]
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New Individual Human Diploid Genome 
Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), along with collaborators at The Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids) in Toronto and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), have published a genome sequence of an individual, J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., that covers both of his chromosome pairs (or diploid genome), one set being inherited from each of his parents.
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Le Musée du Fumeur 
Smoking will soon be banned from indoor public spaces in Paris. Is a museum dedicated to the classic French habit a celebration or eulogy?



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Copy Protection: Pushing The Impossible 
"There are some fundamental truths in the universe. We cannot travel faster than light, and we cannot make a copy protection system that is uncrackable."
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Mr. Stephen Hawking 

The Seven Sins of "The God Delusion" 
Mark Vernon questions Richard Dawkins' state of self-delusion.
There is, I think, one good thing about The God Delusion. Read as a catalogue of religious excess and abuse and pulling no punches, it serves a purpose. Too often today, religionists of various persuasions get away with advocating everything from a literal six days of creation to violence against gay women and men. However, any good Dawkins’ reportage might have done is massively eclipsed by a book that is ultimately as blinkered, biased and, yes, deluded as the targets of his ire.

It can be said that he commits all seven of the deadly sins – and it is right to call them deadly. Originally these sins were to be feared because perpetrators risked being separated eternally from the source of all truth. In the same way, this book appears to separate Dawkins from the scientific approach he has at other times so brilliantly espoused. [...]
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When Musicians Play Interactive Fiction 
Leonard Cohen

Manhattan: Taken.
Berlin: Taken.

The Rolling Stones

Satisfaction: That's fixed in place.

John Lennon

The word 'imagine' isn't in your vocabulary.
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Ars Electronica vs. Paraflows? 
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Hungarian media blog Kultplay reports about Ars Electronica and Paraflows.
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Hollywood's Anti-Piracy Fight Gets Smaller 
"Forever on the prowl for the next big thing in movie piracy, the motion picture industry is zeroing in on small and increasingly-powerful mobile-phone cameras that might be trained on theater screens... Hollywood is also watching for digital cameras capable of taking video. Last week a Virginia teenager pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unlawfully filming a motion picture after being nabbed capturing 20 seconds of Transformers with a Canon Powershot camera. She'd recorded the brief action scene to show her little brother later."
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Whatever Happend To The Anti-War Movement? 
Neither rising domestic opposition to the Iraq war, nor discussions of withdrawal in Congress, can be ascribed to pressure from mass mobilizations against the occupation. Alexander Cockburn investigates the disappearance of the anti-war movement: co-opted by the Democrats, captive to the logic of the War on Terror.
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Divorce Moroccan-style 
A crucial test case for Arab democracy.
Article by Wendy Kristianasen.
Morocco made a landmark reform to its family code (moudawana) in 2004; it is only the second Arab country (after Tunisia) to have introduced such progressive measures for women. Led by their own vigorous movement and supported by the king, women won greater equality – notably the right to marry without the permission of a male family member and to initiate divorce on a fairer basis.
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How Did We Get Into This Neoliberal Mess? 
For the first time, the United Kingdom’s consumer debt now exceeds our gross national product: a new report shows that we owe £1.35 trillion. Inspectors in the United States have discovered that 77,000 road bridges are in the same perilous state as the one which collapsed into the Mississippi. Two years after Hurricane Katrina struck, 120,000 people from New Orleans are still living in trailer homes and temporary lodgings. As runaway climate change approaches, governments refuse to take the necessary action. Booming inequality threatens to create the most divided societies the world has seen since before the first world war. Now a financial crisis caused by unregulated lending could turf hundreds of thousands out of their homes and trigger a cascade of economic troubles. [...]
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IBM Nanotech Breakthroughs Point To Tech's Future Building Blocks 
IBM researchers this week announced they've made major strides in nanotechnology by studying how to build storage and other computing devices out of components no bigger than a few atoms or molecules.
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Paraflows 2007: Display installation 
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Our 3d display @ Museumsquartier Vienna... maybe a nice way to promote the Paraflows festival, but I'm not sure the effect works on a picture.





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Soviet Unterzoegersdorf / Sector 2 / The Adventure Game

Climate Training Camp

Krach der Roboter: Hello World!

Slacking is killing the DIY industry (T-Shirt)

Carefully Selected Moments / CD, LP

Freedom is a whore of a word (T-Shirt)

#fullboycott

International Year of Polytheism 2007

Santa Claus Vs. Christkindl: A Mobster Battle

Could It Be (Video clip)

Pot Tin God

Hacking the Spaces

Kiki and Bubu and The Shift / Short film

Kiki and Bubu and The Privilege / Short film

Kiki and Bubu and The Self / Short film

Kiki and Bubu and The Good Plan / Short film

Kiki and Bubu and The Feelings / Short film / Short film

Sculpture Mobs

Nazi Petting Zoo / Short film

The Great Firewall of China

KPMG / Short film

The BRAICIN / Short film

Soviet Unterzoegersdorf / Sector 1 / The Adventure Game

I was a copyright infringement in a previous life (T-Shirt)

Brave New Pong

Leben ist LARPen e.V.

One Minute / Short film

Firing Squad Euro2008 Intervention

RFID Song

A tribute to Honzo

Lessig ist lässig

I can count every star in the heavens above -- The image of computers in popular music

All Tomorrow's Condensations / Puppet show

Bye Bye / Short film

Revaluation

PC/DC patch

Proto-Melodic Comment Squad

myfacespace.com

The Redro Loitzl Story / Short film

Hax0rcise SCO

Law and Second Order (T-Shirt)

They really kicked you out of the Situationist International?

Death Special: Falco

Applicant Fisch / Short film

When I was asked to write about new economy

Taugshow #6

Taugshow #7

Taugshow #9

Taugshow #10

Taugshow #11

Taugshow #14

Taugshow #15

Campfire at Will

Arse Elektronika 2007, 2008, 2009 etc.

The Void's Foaming Ebb / Short film

Remoting Future

When you / Short film

Elf

Free Bariumnitrate

Toyps / Typing Errors

ARAD-II Miami Beach Crisis

The Charcoal Burner / Short film

Digital Culture In Brazil

Hegemonchhichi

Nation of Zombia

Lonely Planet Guide action

CSI Oven Cloth

Dept. of Applied Office Arts

Farewell to Overhead

Google Buttplug

Fieldrecording in Sankt Wechselberg / Short film

Dark Dune Spots

Campaign For The Abolition Of Personal Pronouns

Zeigerpointer

Space Tourism

In the Head of the Gardener

Entertainment (Unterhaltung) / Short film

Cthulhu Goatse

Nicholas Negroponte Memorial Cable

Coke Light Art Edition 06

Experience the Experience! (West Coast USA/Canada Tour 2005)

April 23

Overhead Cumshot

Irark / Short film

Wart

Instant Blitz Copy Fight

A Patriotic Fireman

A Micro Graphic Novel Project

Noise and Talk

The Exhilarator

H&M

SUZOeG Training / Short film

The Flower Currency

Gastro-Art/Gastrokunst

A Holiday in Soviet Unterzoegersdorf

How does the Internet work?

Paraflows 2006 and up

Special Forces

Coca Cola

About Work

Turing Train Terminal

Me / Short Film

Massive Multiplayer Thumb-Wrestling Network

Doormat

Some Code To Die For

The Year Wrap-up

Soviet Unterzoegersdorf Metroblogging

Project Mendel

Display, Retry, Fail

Manifesto of Ignorantism

Actionfilm

Towers of Hanoi

Heisenberg

Opto-Hedonism

Every Five Seconds an Inkjet Printer Dies Somewhere

Milk

Mobutobe

Brandmarker

We know apocalypses

452 x 157 cm² global durability

A Good Haul

Blattoptera / Art for Cockroaches

Minus 24x

Gladiator / Short Film

Eden

An attempt to emulate an attempt

Paschal Duct-Taping

Laptop Crochetication

Russka

Somewhere in the 1930s

Soul Sale

The Department for Criticism against Globalisation

Dot Smoke

Georg Paul Thomann

Nurgel Staring

War On

Let's network it out

Nude

Mackerel Fiddlers

Whales

Disney vs. Chrusov / Short film

Bulk Mail

Easter Celebrations

Mouse Over Matter

Condolence for a Crab

Force Sting

Turning Threshold Countries Into Plows

System

A Noise

A. C. A.

Hopping Overland

Achy Breaky Heart Campaign

Hermeneutic Imperative III

Holy Water / Franchise

Roböxotica // Festival for Cocktail-Robotics

Spears

Engine Hood Cookies

Ikea

The Watch

Creative Industry 2003

This World

Cracked Foundation For The Fine Arts

Sometimes I feel

Fit with INRI

Growing Money

Catapulting Wireless Devices

Buried Alive

Illegal Space Race

Magnetism Party

Brick of Coke

1 Baud

Scrota Contra Vota

Direct Intervention Engine

Oh my God, they use a history which repeats itself! (T-Shirt)

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