My del.icio.us links: 27th June to 8th July
- Designing for David Foster Wallace – Maria Mundaca on art directing David Foster Wallace books.
- WWIII Propaganda Posters – 'Loose Tweets Costs Lives' and other 21st century war posters
- Stephen Hawking: "Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution" –
- Angel of New York City – NYNEX isn't a phone system at all: it's the embedded nervous system of an angel – a fallen angel – and all those phone calls and dial-up modems in college dorm rooms and public pay phones are actually connected into the fiber-optic anatomy of a vast, ethereal organism that preceded the architectural build-up of Manhattan.
Manhattan came afterwards, that is: NYNEX was here first. - The Vindication And Refutation Of Neoconservatism – Iran's green awakening may end awfully. But if it succeeds, it will be everything the neocons had hoped to achieve in Iraq – and also a demonstration of neoconservatism's core fallacy, which is that freedom can be forced on anyone; or somehow force-fed into maturity. It thus vindicates and refutes neoconservatism at the same time.
- OpenStego – A tool for encrypting information within images, useful for correspondence where Internet communications are under surveillance.
- Like teenagers, computers are built to hook up – Cory Doctorow: Leave 'should' at the door.
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