delicious images, exemplary website

from Making Light, and NB that this was written in 2002… "One of the odd things about confidence games is that, structurally speaking, there are so few of them –only about as many as there are simple machines. What looks like their near-infinite multiplicity is just a lot of variations on a small number of forms. .."

"…an online spying operation that has infiltrated in excess of 1,200 computers in over 100 countries…" Sterling and Gibson must be congratulating each other on prescience

(the word 'tumbril' is definitely in the air, and next we'll be hearing about modern incarnations of Madame Defarge, so my advice is to buy knitting needle futures)

neighbour Donny Crowell's wonderful site brings Nova Scotia alive with video (don't miss St. Croix Cove Waterfall, now playing on the page) and images. And there's a blog too: http://scotianhiker.wordpress.com

what a collection! Bet you can't eat just one.

38-minute streaming video, beautifully done image context for the gripping a capella singing, and some gritty realism on Depression times

the Equipment Fallacy keeps raising its Gorgon visage, tempting the susceptible… not that I _am_ among the susceptible, but I'm just saying…

from airform archives, and fits with thoughts thunk lately about photography

good for a quick glance, anyway

Really worth a read, especially for those who still harbor gristly bits (tending to lodge in back teeth) about their own educations and the choices offered and actually made.

money quote: "Though the bailout plan seems complex, simple examples demonstrate that it is a sucker's bet. But for some reason you won't see this kind of critical analysis on the front page of the New York Times. Instead, today's paper has headlines about A.I.G. returning $50 million in bonuses (one ten-thousandth of the bank bailout cost), along with a People-style front-page article focusing on Geithner's struggle to convince Wall Street plutocrats to take more free money…"

Metzger is right…

from the British Library, pretty ethnomusicological, but nicely distributed

so it's possible to summon up Hope via technological history, maybe…

You've never seen it better. The MPEG downloads take a while, but the quality is amazing, and the how-and-why is clearer in these films than in anything else in my experience.

ooooh, new on Crammed Disks! check out the video at http://aduna.free.fr/aduna.blog/blog.htm

genius, I tell you

…though why I'd care (having no cell phone) I dunno. Wait, yes, I do: it's a continuing fascination with technologies even when I don't participate in their mysteries myself

via Xeni Jardin …how many times have I LOOKED at jerricans and not SEEN the potential faces?

with some videos too!

global eloquence