No Data Source

Looks like there are plans to remake Peter Chung’s AEON FLUX. I haven’t seen Monster yet, but if she’s as talented as they say, it may turn out as good as Matrix first round…

Gorgeous site, both from the main preview page, and each of the very cool FLASH games. They’re more like works of great artistic creation in their own right.

IRC back in the day was text only, but as many of you know, that’s not true today. Like AOL IM, and other messangers, your chat sessions can include a lot more. This site really illustrates the colorful strangeness of the internet. Updated automatically, and all the time, you’ll go back tomorrow, and find different content. Very voyeuristic, and surreal.

[MEFI]

I like to see debates turn on their end. So to watch the RIAA strong arm with huge lawsuits all those evil fileswappers, it’s a good sign to see a lawsuit like this.

This one for converting morse code when you’re in doubt of that incoming transmission from the stars…

Another shocking bit of news. New technology is being contested, but also developed and promoted which is scary enough. This technology called brain fingerprinting monitors brain activity for recognition of an image or scene from pictures shown to a defendent.

[Mefi]

Wow, I had heard about the various ATM scams but these close up pictures really bring the idea home. Be careful with your card, as the banks may not be watching as closely as we might hope.

New York subways are hard to keep track of. But with NYPIRG’s site Straphangers you can find last minute change info, and promote MTA accountability through petitions, and letters.

[Thanks Irene]

This site can unscramble words which I thought was so cool because I needed to unscramble NINAGTRAE to become a friend of BURNING MAN on Friendster.

Talked about it but now we can do something about it.

[Thanks Mighty D]

Why is Larry Flynt compelling?

For all you freaks out there who enjoy these kind of tests, I present to you a PORNOGRAPHIC test, so you’ve been forwarned!! Funnel or Tunnel. This follows in our long tradition here at NDS.

[The great Geisha Asobi]

Funny site of folded paper animals that perform various gymnastics!

Many of you have heard this news. I’m not going to toe the line and argue what you’ve already considered, or heard argued, that we’re eroding away privacy, though this certainly is, because I think everyone else covers all that well. What I will say is that “drowning in information” is exactly the situation we were in before 9/11. Too much intelligence, as in the gathered kind, can be a bad thing, as any database administrator knows…

The earth just burped, no really…

What I mean is this. Lately in the news there’s all this rhetoric
about global climate change, and how we have to turn around now,
or we’re all dead. Huh? Who’s at the controls?

I got into Enki Bilal’s comics in 1999 with The Nikopol Trilogy on Humanoids Publishing. An upcoming movie called Immortal is sure to be great.

[MetaFilter]

In today’s world it no wonder why children care more about being famous and making money then getting their education. It makes me laugh when I hear that a movie star won’t do a film because 1 million is too little. It makes me think how American culture, and others view on celebreties salaries. The 3 most important jobs in the world don’t come close to making that amount. A doctor , a fire fighter and a teacher are the most important roles and yet celebrities complain they have no privacy, well when you put a price on a job anyone can take up, well they shouldn’t complain.

Rorschach like art of Pallalink.

Many of you laptop WIFI users probably already know about NYC Wireless and how many of the cities parks, as well as cafes like alt.coffee offer free wireless access.

Add the public libraries to your list of WIFI friendly destinations.

A new study says that people who exhibit Synesthesia may be able to pick out certain patterns better than “normal” people without this “condition”.

Apparently Penguins can not only be gay, which raises plenty of feathers these days with all the debate over gay marriage. But they also have prostitution. No, not with cash, mastercard, or check, but by trading for nest-building rocks.

Ever wondered if those how to survive x, y or z books are worth anything. You probably didn’t have to wonder, they’re just for fun. But it’s possible to learn this kind of seemingly ancient wisdom in current times.

An amazing half of all human languages face extinction this century. Interestingly enough, computer scientists are finding a link between this, and the way programming languages work.

[Slashdot]

Ever wonder if we’re becoming the kind of place where citizens are required to show your papers when asked? So did Dudley Hiibel, a 59 year old cowboy, when he was asked to show his paper after committing no crime. He was arrested, and has appealed, and is in the process of taking it all the way to the Supreme Court. Good thing we have people like Hiibel in this world, who stand up for our rights…

The recent MyDoom virus is a reminder to the M$ world that things never get boring. And the recently leaked source code has got everybody flipped out and worrying.

This article over at ZDNet talks of various VoIP providers who would gladly help law enforcement with wiretap, if it were only possible.

All you Temporary Autonymous Zone and/or Robert Anton Wilson lovers will be dancing in your skivvies at this site of MP3 downloads from the TAZ conference.

[Disinfo]

My old buddy Bruce Schneier is on the horn again, talking in straight terms about the changes happening all around us.

If you’ve ever been lost in the web of a corporate automated assistent, whether it be Verizon, your bank or credit card, or perhaps your insurance company, you’ll be happy to read about how to quickly get out, by swearing on the phone!!!

I confess, I never really understood the appeal of the Turing Machine but I *DO* understand the appeal of this turing machine.