Post to Monitor 07/08/2011 (p.m.)

• White House: we "win the future" by making ISPs into copyright cops

  White House: we "win the future" by making ISPs into copyright cops

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• White House: we "win the future" by making ISPs into copyright cops

  White House: we "win the future" by making ISPs into copyright cops

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Post to Monitor 07/07/2011 (a.m.)

• E.U. Seeks to Resolve Conflict Between Its Privacy Law and U.S. Patriot Act

  E.U. Seeks to Resolve Conflict Between Its Privacy Law and U.S. Patriot Act

• BREAKING: Facebook Reveals Video Chat Powered by Skype

  BREAKING: Facebook Reveals Video Chat Powered by Skype

• ipad

  The Designer Pad - but where have I heard that name before?

• Control your home with thought alone - tech - 05 July 2011 - New Scientist

  Control your home with thought alone

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Post to Monitor 07/06/2011 (a.m.)

• UK Looks to US for Inspiration in Web Site Blocking Law | GamePolitics

  Quack Quack! UK Looks to US for Inspiration in Web Site Blocking Law

• Facebook blocks contact-exporting tool | Deep Tech - CNET News

  Facebook blocks contact-exporting tool

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Post to Monitor 07/05/2011 (a.m.)

• Review | Lady Mechanika #2 - Good Comic Books

  ADVANCED REVIEW | LADY MECHANIKA #2 = desn't mention "Steampunk" but ...

• Does privacy exist in a world of social networks and sharing? — Tech News and Analysis

  Thoughts on Google+ from Memolane

• Happy Fourth of July from Krypton Radio | KRYPTON RADIO

  Maybe more Americans should be reading comics instead of watched archaic TV. Not sure about reference to "be a man" though - sounds a bit sexist on that point!

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Post to Monitor 07/03/2011 (a.m.)

• HardlyWork.in

  Secret Facebook for work!

• This Fourth of July, Let's Stop Worrying What the Founders Would Think | Culture | AlterNet

  History bears little resemblance to the cartoonish view of the birth of the nation that most people hold.

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Post to Monitor 06/30/2011 (a.m.)

• News Corp. Selling Myspace to Specific Media - WSJ.com

  What Murdock touches ... News Corp. Sells Myspace for a Song!

• Google+ Hangout Is the Best Free Group Video Chat We've Seen

  Google+ Hangout Is the Best Free Group Video Chat We’ve Seen

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Post to Monitor 06/29/2011 (p.m.)

• Tech Weekly podcast: John Reid's cyber doctrine | Technology | guardian.co.uk

  Tech Weekly podcast: John Reid's cyber doctrine

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• Dangerous Minds | The Making of Primal Scream’s ‘Screamadelica’ album

  THE MAKING OF PRIMAL SCREAM’S ‘SCREAMADELICA’ ALBUM

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Post to Monitor 06/23/2011 (a.m.)

• The Internet Archive's Video Library Goes HTML5

  Internet Archive's Video Library Goes HTML5

• LEAKED: UK copyright lobby holds closed-door meetings with gov't to discuss national Web-censorship regime - Boing Boing

  LEAKED: UK copyright lobby holds closed-door meetings with gov't to discuss national Web-censorship regime

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Post to Monitor 06/22/2011 (a.m.)

• Google building Skype-alike software into Chrome | Deep Tech - CNET News

  Google building Skype-alike software into Chrome

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• ICANN Approves Generic Top-Level Domains: New Era of Innovation or A Flood of Spam?

  ICANN Approves Generic Top-Level Domains: New Era of Innovation or A Flood of Spam?

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Post to Monitor 06/20/2011 (a.m.)

• The Comix Reader 2 Mega-Launch - Good Comic Books

  COMIX READER #2 MEGA-LAUNCH

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• Coming to TV screens of the future: Smell-O-Vision | KurzweilAI

  Coming to TV screens of the future: Smell-O-Vision

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Post to Monitor 06/15/2011 (a.m.)

• Christian Renaud's Blog: Futurecasting

  Futurecasting

• OpenCulture Curates Original Audio & Video of Our Cultural Icons

  OpenCulture Curates Original Audio & Video of Our Cultural Icons

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Post to Monitor 06/11/2011 (a.m.)

• Apple Sued for Trademark Infringement by VOIP Company iCloud Communications - ReadWriteCloud

  Apple Sued for Trademark Infringement by VOIP Company iCloud Communications

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Post to Monitor 06/09/2011 (a.m.)

• CultureLab: Where's my Holodeck? The latest interactive movie news

  Where's my Holodeck? The latest interactive movie news

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Post to Monitor 06/08/2011 (a.m.)

• United Nations Proclaims Internet Access a Human Right

  United Nations Proclaims Internet Access a Human Right

• 10 physical gestures that have been patented - io9

  10 physical gestures that have been patented

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Post to Monitor 06/07/2011 (a.m.)

• Over 4,000 books now available as free PDF downloads | KurzweilAI

  Over 4,000 books now available as free PDF downloads

• Joe Sacco on Footnotes in Gaza | The Comics Journal

  Joe Sacco on Footnotes in Gaza

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Post to Monitor 06/05/2011 (a.m.)

• Terra Nova: The aesthetics of video games

  The aesthetics of video games

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Post to Monitor 06/02/2011 (a.m.)

• BBC News - UK beefs up cyber warfare plans

  UK beefs up cyber warfare plan

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Post to Monitor 06/01/2011 (a.m.)

• WMMNA: Virtual Identities - PSFK

  WMMNA: Virtual Identities

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Post to Monitor 05/31/2011 (a.m.)

• gulfnews : When second life comes first

  When second life comes first

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Post to Monitor 05/28/2011 (a.m.)

• MachStudio Pro goes free

  MachStudio Pro goes free

• Developer Creates Tool to Bring RSS Back to Twitter

  Developer Creates Tool to Bring RSS Back to Twitter

• Excellent: “Anglo-EU Translation Guide” : AlbertoAndreu.com - theanke's posterous

  Yo Ho Ho

• The Dance Of Life

  King Arthur's Summer Solstice

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Post to Monitor 05/26/2011 (a.m.)

• The seduction secrets of video game designers | Technology | The Observer

  The seduction secrets of video game designers

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Post to Monitor 05/25/2011 (a.m.)

• Report: Now Sony Music Japan, Sony Ericsson hacked | InSecurity Complex - CNET News

  Report: Sony Music Japan, Sony Ericsson hacked

• Co-Founder Of Reaganomics, Paul Craig Roberts,

  Co-Founder Of Reaganomics, Paul Craig Roberts, "There Is Probably More Democracy In China Than There Is In The West"

• World record in data transmission: 26 terabits per second on a single laser beam | KurzweilAI

  World record in data transmission: 26 terabits per second on a single laser beam

• Jeffrey Catherine Jones: A Life Lived Deeply | The Comics Journal

  Jeffrey Catherine Jones: A Life Lived Deeply

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Post to Monitor 05/24/2011 (a.m.)

• Another Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About (part 2) | freewaregenius.com

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• UK Government Report Calls For Changes in Copyrights Laws | GamePolitics

  UK Government Report Calls For Changes in Copyrights Laws

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Post to Monitor 05/16/2011 (p.m.)

• Stretching sensors may enable novel wearable electronics | KurzweilAI

  Stretching sensors may enable novel wearable electronics

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Post to Monitor 05/11/2011 (a.m.)

• HPC in the Cloud: Simulating Society at the Global Scale

  Simulating Society at the Global Scale

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Post to Monitor 05/10/2011 (a.m.)

• Complain About BT

  ... and more"

• BT Complaint - Share & Submit Complaints: Broadband

  Some of the worst nightmares you can imagine trying to stay online in the UK

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Post to Monitor 05/09/2011 (a.m.)

• Generative Art for Augmented Reality Environments « SL Art HUD Blog Thingie:

  Generative Art for Augmented Reality Environments

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Post to Monitor 05/04/2011 (a.m.)

• On Osama Bin Laden’s Death | Common Dreams

  On Osama Bin Laden’s Death by Chris Hedges

• Pepsi’s New Social Vending Machine Lets You Reach Out And Refresh Someone (video) | Singularity Hub

  Pepsi’s New Social Vending Machine Lets You Reach Out And Refresh Someone

• Shocking: 60% of US Teens Believe Torture Is OK | AlterNet

  Shocking: 60% of US Teens Believe Torture Is OK

• Which Is More Important: Truth or Happiness? | Psychology Today

  Which Is More Important: Truth or Happiness?

• OpEdNews - Article: Osama bin Laden's Useful Death

  Osama bin Laden's Useful Death

• TV Ownership Drops for the First Time Since 1992 [REPORT]

  TV Ownership Drops for the First Time Since 1992 [REPORT]

• BBC News - Augmented reality goes beyond gimmicks for business

  Augmented reality goes beyond gimmicks for business

• Doc 40: ARE WE FOSTERING A DANGEROUS ILLUSION?

  ARE WE FOSTERING A DANGEROUS ILLUSION?

• Forever online: Your digital legacy - New Scientist

  Forever online: Your digital legacy

• Experiencing History Through Twitter and Other Thoughts about the Death of bin Ladin | Fleep's Deep Thoughts

  Experiencing History Through Twitter and Other Thoughts about the Death of bin Ladin

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Post to Monitor 05/03/2011 (a.m.)

• Dangerous Minds | Eight mysteries about the killing of Osama Bin Laden

  EIGHT MYSTERIES ABOUT THE KILLING OF OSAMA BIN LADEN

• Emmanuel Goldstein

  Emmanuel Goldstein. Remind you of anyone? Tactical "information" release provides USA with a feel-good/distraction factor of their very own.

• Filing Kim Deitch | The Comics Journal

  Filing Kim Deitch

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Post to Monitor 05/02/2011 (a.m.)

• What will happen to us? - The Boston Globe

  What will happen to us? Forecasters tackle the extremely deep future

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• http://www.carolinecoon.com/news.htm - Page2RSS

  Caroline Coon: May & June

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Post to Monitor 04/30/2011 (a.m.)

• Doc 40: SUPERMAN RENOUNCES US CITIZENSHIP

  SUPERMAN RENOUNCES US CITIZENSHIP

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Post to Monitor 04/29/2011 (a.m.)

• Just Art: New Orleans, vampires, and debauchery

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Post to Monitor 04/27/2011 (a.m.)

• The Imagination Age: The Future of Facebook and Digital Graveyards

  The Future of Facebook and Digital Graveyards

• Second Life- a new frontier for artists « graphixreview

  Second Life- a new frontier for artists

• Black Heaven

  BLACK HEAVEN

• How TV & The Web Are Merging: Al Jazeera's New Show, The Stream

  How TV & The Web Are Merging: Al Jazeera's New Show, The Stream

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Post to Monitor 04/26/2011 (a.m.)

• WorldTV comes out of Beta next week

  MBTV's backend goes public in a few days.

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Post to Monitor 04/24/2011 (a.m.)

• Ronnie Wood: Second life | Music | The Guardian

  Ronnie Wood: Second life

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Post to Monitor 04/23/2011 (a.m.)

• Notes on S. Clay Wilson | The Comics Journal

  Notes on S. Clay Wilson

• The Nordic Charms of Naomi Nowak | The Comics Journal

  The Nordic Charms of Naomi Nowak

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Post to Monitor 04/22/2011 (a.m.)

• Ofcom | Most complained about major telecoms providers revealed

  UK: Most complained about major telecoms providers revealed

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Post to Monitor 04/21/2011 (a.m.)

• EU Commissioner Promises Public Shame to Naughty ISPs | GamePolitics

  EU Commissioner Promises Public Shame to Naughty ISPs

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Post to Monitor 04/20/2011 (a.m.)

• Here's What You Can Build With Kinect: Custom Statues, Training Simulations, Noise Ink & More

  Here's What You Can Build With Kinect: Custom Statues, Training Simulations, Noise Ink & More

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Post to Monitor 04/19/2011 (a.m.)

• Beam me up: quantum teleporter breakthrough | KurzweilAI

  Beam me up: quantum teleporter breakthrough

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Post to Monitor 04/15/2011 (a.m.)

• UKIE Calls on British Government to Include Computer Science in National Curriculum | GamePolitics

  UKIE Calls on British Government to Include Computer Science in National Curriculum

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Post to Monitor 04/14/2011 (p.m.)

• What’s killing your Wi-Fi? Wrapping your house in tin foil |

  What’s killing your Wi-Fi? Wrapping your house in tin foil!

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Post to Monitor 04/14/2011 (a.m.)

• Augmented Reality Event, 2011: Bruce Sterling, Vernor Vinge, Will Wright, and Jaron Lanier to Judge the “Auggies” | UgoTrade

  Augmented Reality Event, 2011: Bruce Sterling, Vernor Vinge, Will Wright, and Jaron Lanier to Judge the “Auggies”

• Berners-Lee: Web access is a 'human right'

  Berners-Lee: Web access is a 'human right'

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Post to Monitor 04/12/2011 (a.m.)

• Researchers Discover Way to Create True-Color 3D Holograms

  Researchers Discover Way to Create True-Color 3D Holograms

• Art, Meet Touch: Photoshop Reveals New iPad Apps

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Post to Monitor 04/07/2011 (a.m.)

• TweePlayer: Time-Shifted Tweets for Time-Shifted Television

  TweePlayer: Time-Shifted Tweets for Time-Shifted Television

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• Chris Hedges: This Is What Resistance Looks Like - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig

  This Is What Resistance Looks Like

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• Smartboards and catwalks at my fingertips S2Ep10 « Life at the Feeding Edge
  Smartboards and catwalks at my fingertips

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• Mollusks, Horses, and Nudes: Aquirax Uno in the Sixties | The Comics Journal

  Mollusks, Horses, and Nudes: Aquirax Uno in the 50s

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• CarolineCoon.com

  ‘Street Fighting: Fifty Years of Youth Protest’

• NeuroFocus Announces World's First Wireless Full-Brain EEG Measurement Headset: Mynd™ -- NEW YORK, March 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

  NeuroFocus Announces World's First Wireless Full-Brain EEG Measurement Headset: Mynd™

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Post to Monitor 03/24/2011 (a.m.)

• Hauntology and the Invisibles Part II | The Comics Journal

  Hauntology and the Invisibles Part II

• Switching device enables ultrafast quantum Internet | KurzweilAI

  Switching device enables ultrafast quantum Internet

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Post to Monitor 03/22/2011 (a.m.)

• Che | The Comics Journal

  Che

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Post to Monitor 03/18/2011 (a.m.)

• Wearable Scanner Opens New Frontier in Neuroscience - Technology Review

  Wearable Scanner Opens New Frontier in Neuroscience

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Post to Monitor 03/17/2011 (a.m.)

• Why Nokia failed: 'Wasted 2,000 man years' on UIs that didn't work • The Register

  Why Nokia failed: 'Wasted 2,000 man years' on UIs that didn't work

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Post to Monitor 03/16/2011 (a.m.)

• Switching Between Languages: An Interview with MariNaomi | The Comics Journal

  Switching Between Languages: An Interview with MariNaomi

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Post to Monitor 03/15/2011 (a.m.)

• Comics: Racism as a Stylistic Choice and other Notes

  Racism as a Stylistic Choice

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Post to Monitor 03/11/2011 (a.m.)

• Futurology (1): The new overlords | The Economist

  The new overlords - Man and technology are evolving together in radical new ways

• The Art of Jim Starlin: A Life in Words and Pictures | The Comics Journal

  The Art of Jim Starlin: A Life in Words and Pictures

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Post to Monitor 03/10/2011 (a.m.)

• Kinect Gets Into the Guinness Book of World Records

  Kinect Gets Into the Guinness Book of World Records

• Social intelligence for robots | KurzweilAI

  Social intelligence for robots

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Courtney Martin: Reinventing feminism

Post to Monitor 03/08/2011 (a.m.)

• Silicon Sisters: Games For Women, Made By Women | GamePolitics

  Silicon Sisters: Games For Women, Made By Women

• PLoS ONE: Redrawing the Map of Great Britain from a Network of Human Interactions

  Redrawing the Map of Great Britain from a Network of Human Interactions

• Why shades keep you cool | Education | The Guardian

  Why shades keep you cool

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• Kaleidoscope: A New Look At British Comics - Good Comic Books

  KALEIDOSCOPE: A NEW LOOK AT BRITISH COMICS

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Post to Monitor 03/05/2011 (a.m.)

• A set of ten free content creation tools

  A set of ten free content creation tools

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• Dangerous Minds | ‘San Francisco’: Anthony Stern’s 1960’s head film with music by Pink Floyd

  ‘SAN FRANCISCO’: ANTHONY STERN’S 1960’S HEAD FILM WITH MUSIC BY PINK FLOYD

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Post to Monitor 03/01/2011 (a.m.)

• Doc 40: FEBRUARY ON THE SUN

  FEBRUARY ON THE SUN

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• An Introduction to Virtual Worlds | Dijital Zamanlarda Pazarlama

  An Introduction to Virtual Worlds

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Post to Monitor 02/26/2011 (a.m.)

• 3D bio-printers to print skin and body parts

  3D bio-printers to print skin and body parts

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• Kinetica Art Fair, 2011, London | I love kittens…

  Kinetica Art Fair, 2011, London

• Study Finds the Internet Makes Youth More Engaged Citizens

  Study Finds the Internet Makes Youth More Engaged Citizens

• ‘Hack day’ creates a multimedia melting pot - Science & Technology - News - nebusiness.co.uk

  ‘Hack day’ creates a multimedia melting pot

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Post to Monitor 02/24/2011 (a.m.)

• Shadow Cities

  Conquer London

• David Robertson: An Interview with John Ridgway (Part Two of Two) « The Comics Journal

  David Robertson: An Interview with John Ridgway (Part Two of Two)

• Internet Archive Partners With 150 Libraries to Launch an E-Book Lending Program

  Internet Archive Partners With 150 Libraries to Launch an E-Book Lending Program

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• The Great Wen | A London blog

  London’s underground press: IT and OZ and the Psychedelic Left

• ‘Telecoupling’ describes how distance is shrinking and connections are strengthening between nature and humans | KurzweilAI

  ‘Telecoupling’ describes how distance is shrinking and connections are strengthening between nature and humans

• David Roberston: An Interview with John Ridgway (Part One of Two) « The Comics Journal

  David Roberston: An Interview with John Ridgway

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• How to mentally operate an autonomous robot | KurzweilAI

  How to mentally operate an autonomous robot

• US will no longer dominate science and research, says Penn State researcher | KurzweilAI

  US will no longer dominate science and research

• The Creative Web: Is SoundCloud the YouTube of Audio?

  The Creative Web: Is SoundCloud the YouTube of Audio?

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Post to Monitor 02/21/2011 (a.m.)

• Technologies of the Imagination-Rita J. King & Joshua S. Fouts » continent. - maps a topology of unstable confluences and ranges across new thinking, traversing interstices and alternate directions in culture, theory, biopolitics and art.

  Technologies of the Imagination-Rita J. King & Joshua S. Fouts

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Post to Monitor 02/19/2011 (a.m.)

• Embedded SIM Standard First Step to Building Internet of Things

  Embedded SIM Standard First Step to Building Internet of Things

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• Pooky Amsterdam's Blog: Live Online Virtual Entertainment

  Live Online Virtual Entertainment

• Watson On Jeopardy: One small step for AI – Hypergrid Business

  Watson On Jeopardy: One small step for AI

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• My Hero: that post-apocalyptic oracular penis book « The Hooded Utilitarian

  My Hero: that post-apocalyptic oracular penis book

• The cyberweapon that could take down the internet - tech - 11 February 2011 - New Scientist

  The cyberweapon that could take down the internet

• Moebius Above and Below « The Comics Journal

  Moebius Above and Below

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• February 10, 2011 Technology Roundup: Virtual Goods, Reality is Broken?, Body Rejects Camera in Head, Realistic Robot Child, Skynet, Simulated Mars Mission,10 Tech Breakthroughs & more! « Cybject

  February 10, 2011 Technology Roundup

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• ‘lightRadio’ to deliver universal broadband, replace cell towers | KurzweilAI

  ‘lightRadio’ to deliver universal broadband, replace cell towers

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• Good Comic Books, the UK’s Comic Book Website, Launches » Cyber Hermit

  Good Comic Books, the UK’s Comic Book Website, Launches

• AOL Buys Huffington Post For $315M; Arianna President, AOL Huff-Media Group - Tech Trader Daily - Barrons.com

  AOL Buys Huffington Post For $315M; Arianna President, AOL Huff-Media Group

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• Moebius exhibition in Paris « The Comics Journal

  Moebius exhibition in Paris

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• Honour's Post Menopausal View: Getting Started in Second Life - Some (potentially) Helpful Tips

  Getting Started in Second Life - Some (potentially) Helpful Tips

• Tim Pilcher Interview at The Comics Bureau

  Tim Pilcher Interview

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• Emergent systems: The forum at the end of the universe | The Economist

  The forum at the end of the universe

• Creator of Instant Messaging Protocol to Launch App Platform for Your Life

  Creator of Instant Messaging Protocol to Launch App Platform for Your Life

• More journeys into 3D « Life at the Feeding Edge

  More journeys into 3D

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Post to Monitor 02/04/2011 (a.m.)

• Texas Student Attends School as a Robot – A Sign of Things to Come | Singularity Hub

  Texas Student Attends School as a Robot – A Sign of Things to Come

• !Women Art Revolution Rekindles Feminist Art Movement

• Angoulême 2011: Aftermath « The Comics Journal

  Angoulême 2011: Aftermath

• 3 Mistakes to Avoid When Working Across Multiple Time Zones: Online Collaboration «

  3 Mistakes to Avoid When Working Across Multiple Time Zones

• OpEdNews - Article: The FBI

  FBI "Kamikaze Pilots" Case; Omitted From 911 Commission Report

• UK Arts Council cuts Animate

  UK Arts Council cuts Animate

• A ‘Storm’ of Controversy Surrounding Don Lawrence’ Legacy « The Comics Journal

  A ‘Storm’ of Controversy Surrounding Don Lawrence’ Legacy

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1940s AURORATONE PsychoTherapy

(Restored in HD!) "This is an AURORATONE produced and created by British filmmaker Cecil Stokes for use in the treatment of mental disorders - definitely a kinder, gentler alternative to the electric-shock treatments which were then in vogue! The soundtrack features Bing Crosby and organist Eddie Dunstedter. An online biography of Bing Crosby notes that he was a shareholder in Mr. Stokes' "Auroratone Foundation." It also notes that Mr. Crosby made exclusive recordings of "Ave Maria," "Home on the Range," and "When You Wish Upon a Star," for Auroratones, but there's no mention of this film's soundtrack "When the Organ Played Oh Promise Me." It's possible that Mr. Stokes used a recording that Bing and Mr. Dunstedter had made several years earlier.

This 16mm film print belonged to my grandfather, Gustave Martens of College Point, NY. He probably acquired it during the time he worked as a film projectionist at various psychiatric institutions in the New York-New Jersey area during the 1940's. Only once, during the 1960s, did Grandpa show the movie to us kids, and as you would expect we didn't know what to make of it. We asked him "What's this weird stuff, Grandpa?" and he himself wasn't sure!

In 2007 I put on YouTube an inferior, low-resolution video of the film and, still not knowing what it was, gave it the best descriptive title I could think of: "Psychedelic Bing Crosby Video". Many of the comments it received were along the lines of "What was Bing smoking in that pipe?" Only recently was I informed by Crosby afficiandoes that this was an "Auroratone."

Regarding the films themselves, I've found scant information other than a few mentions in psychiatric journals from the period. Several websites devoted to experimental film do mention Mr. Stokes and briefly describe his work and technique, but none of them offer any visual examples at all. One website promises to teach you how to create "The Auroratone Effect" for a fee - but its preview shows a modern re-creation only. It appears that my YouTube clip is currently the only example of an original Cecil Stokes Auroratone that exists on the internet anywhere.

If you've seen the earlier version, you'll no doubt find this restored version to be much richer in color, and more crystalline in detail (literally - Mr. Stokes created these films using crystallized chemicals and polarized light). Unfortunately, Der Bingle's song remains as corny as ever.

It's debatable if films like this really worked as visual therapy, but you need not be afflicted with mental disorders to appreciate them today. Enjoy!

Robert W. Martens
April, 2010"

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• Study shows map of brain connectivity changes during development

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• At the Mountains of Madness with H.P. Lovecraft « The Comics Journal

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• Real Time Big Data at Strata 2011: Ambient Findability, GeoMessaging, Augmented Data, and New Interfaces  | UgoTrade

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