From September’s Wired: Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe.
A fairly chilling account of internet vulnerability that reads more like one of William Gibson‘s or Bruce Sterling‘s fictions.
The ramifications of an attack such as this are reasonably severe — and yet this is the first I’d seen or read any news on the subject, even considering the number of tech.-related publications I regularly peruse.
Just got reminded of this nice article Adam Burke wrote about our little HV operation: High Country News, “Radio: Spice for the ears,” October 2, 2006.
Producers Kara Oehler and Ann Heppermann interview and inventively sound-portray Steve Quinn of NYC’s American Museum of Natural History interview w/ producers). From the Stories from the Heart of the Land series, in the episode The Nature of the Imagination, “A Window in Time” (4:12 mp3):
A couple recent StoryCorps intervus—
Antoinette Franklin (R) and her niece, Iriel Franklin, talk about relocating to Houston after Hurricane Katrina (2:40):
Peg Steinberg and her son, Dan, talk about Peg’s battle with cancer (2:07):
Goggles, GoogleMaps flash Flight Sim (beta)– tres kewl.
via some velvet blog.
Below. a few photos of Ron Mueck pieces, an Australian hyperrealist sculptor, sez Wikipedia. Sez Snopes, “Ron Mueck is a London-based photo-realist artist. Born in Melbourne , Australia , to parents who were toy makers… His work is lifelike but not life size.”
Two Women (2005)
In Bed (2005)
Boy (2000)
Mueck working on “In Bed”
More photos of Mueck scupltures: WA Post | Crazy Russian | James Cohan Gallery
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Digg turned this up today:
a collection of science- and engineering-related web comics.
I’m a bit partial to the form, my long-standing affair probably started about the time I got my first Dr. Seuss book. This struck me as particularly infectious — possibly because I’ve been re-immersing myself lately: novelized pastiches such as geoffrey woods’ Leaper and Austin Grossman’s Soon I Will Be Invincible; Moore and Gibson’s The Watchmen, Alex Ross and Mark Waid’s Kingdom Come, Frank Miller’s irrepressible Dark Knight and nearly everything Brian Woods has done; films such as Unbreakable, Sin City, Superman Returns, Batman Begins, and, of course Heroes.
What impresses me most, I suppose, is the resilience and versatility — how and why comics have persisted…
From Current TV, a four-part vid by TAL’s Ira Glass on Storytelling.
On the basics…
On finding great stories…
On great taste…
On two common pitfalls…
via Gregg McVicar- Undercurrents.
As the recent victim of a bike theft, this story in today’s Washington Post was particularly poignant:
As Web Fuels Bike Thefts, Victims Turn Vigilantes
Favourite Quote:
“You steal someone’s bike, and God have mercy on you if they ever find you,” he said. “It’s something so insanely personal. People have a more personal connection to their bikes than their iPod.”
and, this admittedly depressing closer:
“He posted to the site startlingly clear photos of a man riding what he said was his bike, and he filed a police report. Police have followed up on his tips to no avail, McKenna said.”
Exquisite field recordist (and ex-Cabaret Voltaire band member) Chris Watson has new site up with news, bio, and downloads.
Form Touch Sampler 3, Chris Watson, “Out of Our Sight” (2:59 mp3):
“Motionless anticipation, along the dry sandy banks of the Zambesi a Mozambique nightjar is sucking in all the remaining light.”
This week’s HV cast: The last half of A Hot & Dry Summer Special, hosted by Ben Adair of APM Weekend America: The Quiet American (Aaron Ximm) sound-captures the forbidding warning signs rattling in a harsh wind and “Desert Sun” outside the nuclear Nevada Test Site north of Las Vegas. Back in the early 1990s, SLC producer Scott Carrier found the Basin & Range, near Nevada’s “Battle Mountain,” beautiful, lonely, dreary, and full of sagebrush, solace and stories. And more of Bernie Krause’s Desert Solitudes. A special from Hearing Voices, “Desert Air 2- of 2” (29:00 mp3):
Remember when 4MB of RAM and an 80MB harddrive was bleedin’ edge? Here’s a WordPress theme with some history: Retro MacOS Theme.
via Josef.
I haven’t tried this, but if you have frequent ProTools probs, you might give this shareware a go: ProTools Prefs & Database Helper (Mac 10.4.x). It finds-&-deletes Digidesign databases (.ddb) and preference files (.plist) to help debug Pro Tools perturbations.
An Ars Technica article compiles the latest illegal music download research in “A $13 billion fantasy: latest music piracy study overstates effect of P2P.” These studies conclusively show P2P sharing nets cost the industry somewhere between $0 and $13B ($US) yearly. Doncha just love research?
Another band on the free net label Comfort Stand Recordings I’ve been playing lately (like The Coconut Monkeyrocket) with an affinity for audio appropriation is Martinibomb.
Martinibomb, “The Love God” (4:54 mp3):
Martinibomb, “cha l’ectro cha cha” (5:32 mp3):
In planning our next bike trip I stumbled upon Wikitravel, “a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide.” E.g., check Route 66 or Santa Fe Trail, nice play-by-play of the route for travelers.
This week’s HV cast: The first half of A Hot & Dry Summer Special, hosted by Ben Adair of APM Weekend America: Coyotes, owls, frogs and songbirds are part of Desert Solitudes, recorded by Bernie Krause and Ruth Happel in the Sonoran and Chihuauan deserts, part of New Mexico’s panhandle. Host Ben Adair heads down to the ghost towns, Opera Houses, century-old abandoned mines, and billion-year old boulders along Death Valley’s “Mojave Road.” And Kraut-rockers Faust dial in “Long Distance Calls in the Desert,” from their album Rien. A special from Hearing Voices, “Desert Air 1- of 2” (23:00 mp3):
Artist Jerry Iverson, a friend of HV (check his paintings for our “Counting Sheep” series), has new work at Portland OR’s Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery.
Nerve Block # 39, sumi ink on papers, 79″x78″ ©2007 Jerry Iverson
Jim Nayder’s The Annoying Music Show! presented an NPR Annoying Music Tribute to Elvis. Among the excrutiating impersonators and cringe-inducing covers, was this gem–
From his album Blowing Goats, the Pakistani-Chicagoan, Piranha Man, with “Viva Las Vegas” (1:57 mp3):
(Want more P-Man?: “Eye of the Tiger.”)
Elvis Aaron Presley, January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977. “Viva Las Vegas” Movie Trailer:
Mojo Nixon “Elvis Is Everywhere:”
Thanks to Some Velvet Blogspot.