Boston operator (to Portland operator): Please cut off your battery [power source] entirely for fifteen minutes.
Portland operator: Will do so. It is now disconnected.
Boston: Mine is disconnected, and we are working with the auroral current. How do you receive my writing?
Portland: Better than with our batteries on. - Current comes and goes gradually.
Boston: My current is very strong at times, and we can work better without the batteries, as the aurora seems to neutralize and augment our batteries alternately, making current too strong at times for our relay magnets. Suppose we work without batteries while we are affected by this trouble.
Portland: Very well. Shall I go ahead with business?
Boston: Yes. Go ahead.
--Eyewitness reports of the great auroral storm of 1859 [Science Direct]Portland operator: Will do so. It is now disconnected.
Boston: Mine is disconnected, and we are working with the auroral current. How do you receive my writing?
Portland: Better than with our batteries on. - Current comes and goes gradually.
Boston: My current is very strong at times, and we can work better without the batteries, as the aurora seems to neutralize and augment our batteries alternately, making current too strong at times for our relay magnets. Suppose we work without batteries while we are affected by this trouble.
Portland: Very well. Shall I go ahead with business?
Boston: Yes. Go ahead.
--image: Distant Writing
ALSOK unveils its giant, ultra-cute and friendly security bot, An9-PR --via Engadget
The Searchamaton (Satchi) anti-virus software bot from the award-winning, AR-packing Anime series, Denno Coil
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has unveiled a new search tool to sift through their collection of documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. "Until recently, documents obtained under FOIA often gathered dust in filing cabinets," said David Sobel, EFF Senior Counsel and director of the organization's FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government (FLAG) Project. "We believe that government information should be widely available and easy to research, and our new search engine makes that a reality."
I recommend the material on the FBI's Investigative Data Warehouse and DCS 3000 surveillance program, and the Department of Homeland Security's Automated Targeting System and ADVISE data-mining project.
Try it here... [press release]
-- via Slashdot
Be sure to catch Jenny Holzer's new retrospective at the Whitney, and next week get off at Grand Central and take in three gas-guzzling canvases by Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg.
While I've Never Played Braid before, after this glowing recommendation from Grammy-nominated goofball, Soulja Boy, I can't wait to get back to NYC next week and get downloadin'.
Until then, I'm entertaining myself with Everyday Shooter, a game that is truly for game designers. All sorts of addictive, chain-driven gameplay. The game changes every level, and is maddeningly difficult. Don't download from the Playstation store (PS3/PSP) if you plan to get any sleep tonight.
George Lois, the great art director behind some of Esquire's most iconic covers calls the October Cover of Esquire, that featured a blinking E-Ink display "A Mickey Mouse Light clicking on and off... it's not an idea." Gawker responds with "PWND!!1!" while Boing Boing Gadgets really hit the nail on the head after getting a first look with this line:
"The future of print journalism is the tag, apparently."
A Conversation with George Lois -- Advertising Age
A Gentle Critique Of Esquire -- Gawker
Esquire e-ink cover a pathetic disappointment -- Boing Boing Gadgets"The future of print journalism is the tag, apparently."
A Conversation with George Lois -- Advertising Age
A Gentle Critique Of Esquire -- Gawker
A 1,600 part Electromechanical Computer built inside the nifty physics-engine-tastic PS3 game, Little Big Planet. Simulacrum!
--via [Opposable Thumbs]
