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Links for June 19

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And Oranges (John Gruber, Daring Fireball)
A 26 seconds video clip of one of Daniel Menche’s live performances, date and venue unknown. (via YouTube)

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Links for June 16

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Among the Transhumanists: Cyborgs, self-mutilators, and the future of our race (William Saletan, Slate)
Why startups condense in America
Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks More Power (John Markoff, New York Times)

June 16, 2006 | In Regular Linklets | No Comments

Links for June 12

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Gee, the last post in “Regular Linklets” section was from April 19! Maybe I should change the name of the category into “Irregular Linklets”. :)

How Google is Killing the Internet (from The Motley Fool)
The Vintage Mac Museum
Cory Doctorow reviews Douglas Coupland’s novel JPod (from BoingBoing)
Julian Bleecker and Nicolas Nova’s presentation (PDF) about Blogject at Reboot 8.0, “a community event for the practical visionaries who are at the intersection of digital technology and change all around us”. Bleecker’s blog post about it, and Nova’s.

June 12, 2006 | In Regular Linklets | No Comments

Links for April 19

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Silicon Insider: Apple Lawsuit Could Define Cyber ‘Journalists’. (Michael S. Malone, ABC News)
Reader for RFID Workshop (Mediamatic.net)
Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing (Adam Greenfield, A List Apart)
Microcontent Design, part I, part II, part III, responses. (from Read/WriteWeb)
Steve Jobs’ Best Quotes (compiled by Wired)

April 19, 2006 | In Regular Linklets | No Comments

Links for March 25

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Firefox 2.0 exclusive screenshot! (even if you’ve already tried FF 2.0 alpha 1, this promises to be something you’ve never seen before.)
2020 - Future of Computing (from Nature)
Vlog Interview with Bruce Sterling (via BoingBoing)
10 Emerging Technologies (via BoingBoing, one thing strange: in “Cognitive Radio” section, why the Chinese first name of Heather Haitao WANG got quoted?)
Stephen Berkman’s photographs and installations (via BoingBoing, Xu Cheng and Zhang Jungang will love this.)
Old-school Japanese musicians protest against anti-vintage-instruments ban (from MusicThing)
Nanoblogger (small weblog engine written in Bash for Unix command line, man, I love ultra lightweight softwares, such as this 303KB BitTorrent client.)
Web 2.0 Baloney (by John C. Dvorak)

March 25, 2006 | In Regular Linklets | No Comments

Links for March 21

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时光乍现 (from ChineNoire)
Shakespeare’s sonnet coverted into ActionScript (via BoingBoing)
Documentary on the state of the Internet in 1972 (via BoingBoing. When will users located in China be able to use Google Video???)
Experimental Musical Instruments (via MAKE Magazine)
sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! (”Realtime-Mind-Music-Video-Re-De-Construction-Machine”)
Generative Art list
Contemporary Music Forum (journal in PDF format)
Recording of Bruce Sterling’s keynote at SXSW 06 conference (MP3 format, via BoingBoing)

March 21, 2006 | In Regular Linklets | No Comments

Links for March 14

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Dreamlines (generative art project by Leonardo Solaas, based on algorithm and the “subconscious of the Internet”. Thanks to YANG Tao)
How the Masses Will Innovate (interview with the head of the MIT Media Lab by Business Week)
Online/Offline: the way of the future (from Squash, also read his/her previous one: Google/Writely points to online/offline future.)
Viridian Note 00459: Emerging Technology 2006 (Bruce Sterling)

March 14, 2006 | In Regular Linklets | No Comments

Links for March 8

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高科技“污染” (by 老华)
Toplap.org
Hello Media! (Chinese)
黑泽明作品中的“声音” （文／Patricia Erens，劉小丘譯）
What Jobs Didn’t Say (by Eliot Van Buskirk, Wired) - “Although digital entertainment has its advantages, all of this almost makes me wish we were stuck with analog forever, because it was just about the music, rather than music plus a bunch of varying usage rules.”

March 8, 2006 | In Regular Linklets | No Comments

Links for March 5

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Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music (ongoing book project by Miller Puckette)
WRONG Browser (one of the “art browsers” out there)
Useless Utilities
organism: making art with living systems
The Next Net 25: 25 startups that are reinventing the web - Mar. 1, 2006 (from Business 2.0 Magazine)

March 5, 2006 | In Regular Linklets | No Comments

Links for Feb 25

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Democracy (Open source Internet TV Platform)
chaile.org Podcast no. 1 (featuring PK 14, Supermarket, Re-TROS, Panda Twin, Joyside, Dead J. download, subscribe)
Anatomy Of A Pornographic Movie (from EastSouthWestNorth)
The Future of the Blog (BusinessWeek interviews Six Apart’s Mena Trott, Slashdot’s dicussion)
Huge Anti-Piracy Push By MPAA (from Slyck)

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February 25, 2006 | In Regular Linklets | No Comments

Links for Feb 22

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Prediction: Voicemail for Gmail? (by Garett Rogers, ZDNet)
Can Surround Sound Save MP3? (by Eliot Van Buskirk, Wired)
Here Comes a Google for Coders (by Dylan Tweney, Wired)
Will Apple Adopt Windows? (by John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine. Slashdot’s discussions, Will Microsoft Adopt Darwin?, and a funny anti-Dvorak comic.)
Keitai Girl (body suit made with cellphone keypad) (via We Make Money Not Art)
Video explains the world’s most important 6-sec drum loop (via Boing Boing, direct link to the video)
Harry Porter’s Relay 8-bit Computer (via MAKE)
Photos of the First Few Microseconds of an Atomic Blast (Photos by Harold Edgerton)
FutureMe.org (send an email to your future ego)

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February 22, 2006 | In Regular Linklets | No Comments

Links for Feb 17

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Watch Modulation (the Documentary about electronica music) online: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4. Uploaded by shizentai to YouTube. (via 閉門造音)
Good Bye Reality! How Media Art Died But Nobody Noticed - Subjective notes about Transmediale 2006 (by Armin Medosch, via We Make Money Not Art)
(Google’s) Testimony: The Internet in China (from Official Google Blog)
A on-going grand discussion about the aesthetic of field-recording/Phonography (from Phonography.org mailing list, unfortunately this thread is huge and the web interface of its archive is user-unfriendly for thread-based browsing, but it’s worth the trouble.)

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February 17, 2006 | In Regular Linklets | No Comments

Links for Feb 10

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Discussion about Miles Davis: The Cellar Door Sessions (in Chinese)
Postmodernism Generator (every reload will produce a non-existence, computer-generated thesis written in the style of postmodernism at its worst.)
The successors of “Cyberspace” (the term)? (from Wired)
Sonic Youth’s Debut (as Ciccone Youth) to be reissued next month (for all the guitar noise freaks out there. Via Avant Music News)
YMO videos on YouTube (via 閉門造音)
Gaaagle.com

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February 10, 2006 | In Regular Linklets | 2 Comments

Links for Feb 7

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The Whisky PC
Ten Ways to Take Advantage of Web 2.0 (from Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog)
soundaXis - Architecture/Music/Acoustics (”In June 2006, New Music Arts Projects presents soundaXis, a city-wide festival celebrating architecture, music and acoustics that will transform Toronto into a playground of sound and space exploration.”)
Two more sites of Jean-Claude Eloy (different in content from the other two of him which I linked in this post): eloyjeanclaude.net, eloyjeanclaude.org (via Foretaste Cafe)