Static and Bad Radio.Tumblr (3.0; @alasdair)http://www.dead-air.org/<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/07/the-end-of-men/8135/">The End of Men [longform.org]</a>: <blockquote> <p>Earlier this year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first time in U.S. history. Most managers are now women too. And for every two men who get a college degree this year, three women will do the same. For years, women’s progress has been cast as a struggle for equality. But what if equality isn’t the end point? What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to women? A report on the unprecedented role reversal now under way— and its vast cultural consequences</p> </blockquote>http://www.dead-air.org/post/1243606061http://www.dead-air.org/post/1243606061Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:40:44 +0100<a href="http://nicksweeney.com/2010/09/10/what-bagpuss-can-teach-us-about-the-internet/">Nick Sweeney · what Bagpuss can teach us about the internet</a>: <p>Need to think about this a bit…</p> <p>(via <a href="http://www.instapaper.com/" target="_blank">Instapaper</a>)</p>http://www.dead-air.org/post/1156309719http://www.dead-air.org/post/1156309719Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:52:52 +0100“If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you are the product being sold.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#3256046" target="_blank">http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#3256046</a></em>http://www.dead-air.org/post/1149029852http://www.dead-air.org/post/1149029852Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:20:07 +0100<a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387">The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism, By Jonathan Lethem (Harper's Magazine)</a>: <p>Utterly brilliant on so many levels. One to Reread blog about and generally dwell on.</p> <p>(via <a href="http://www.instapaper.com/" target="_blank">Instapaper</a>)</p>http://www.dead-air.org/post/1102419106http://www.dead-air.org/post/1102419106Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:28:39 +0100“Gaming is the lens that focused my imagination into a tool that I could use”<br/><br/> - <em>Will Wheaton, PAX East Keynote 2010</em>http://www.dead-air.org/post/1080284077http://www.dead-air.org/post/1080284077Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:18:33 +0100<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703467304575383131592767868.html?mod=WSJEUROPE_hpp_MIDDLETopNews#printMode">Does Language Influence Culture? - WSJ.com</a>: <blockquote> <p>The Tower of Babel’ by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Do the languages we speak shape the way we think? Do they merely express thoughts, or do the structures in languages (without our knowledge or consent) shape the very thoughts we wish to express? Take “Humpty Dumpty sat on a…” Even this snippet of a nursery rhyme reveals how much languages can differ from one another. In English, we have to mark the verb for tense; in this case, we say “sat” rather than “sit.” In Indonesian you need not (in fact,…</p> </blockquote>http://www.dead-air.org/post/917979513http://www.dead-air.org/post/917979513Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:26:39 +0100<a href="http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/magazine/17-04/mf_settlers?currentPage=all">Monopoly Killer: Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre</a>: <blockquote> <p>In 1991, Klaus Teuber was well on his way to becoming one of the planet’s hottest board game designers. Teuber (pronounced “TOY-burr”), a dental technician living with his wife and three kids in a white row house in Rossdorf, Germany, had created a game a few years earlier called Barbarossa and the Riddlemaster, a sort of ur-Cranium in which players mold figures out of modeling clay while their opponents try to guess what the sculptures represent. The game was a hit, and in 1988 it won the Spiel des Jahres…</p> </blockquote>http://www.dead-air.org/post/881834294http://www.dead-air.org/post/881834294Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:11:12 +0100“experiments about the “decay time” and the relative weight of good and bad information — in other words, whether people discount positive information about you more quickly and heavily than they discount negative information about you. His research group’s preliminary results suggest that if rumors spread about something good you did 10 years ago, like winning a prize, they will be discounted; but if rumors spread about something bad that you did 10 years ago, like driving drunk, that information has staying power.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25privacy-t2.html" target="_blank">The Web Means the End of Forgetting - NYTimes.com</a></em>http://www.dead-air.org/post/881833972http://www.dead-air.org/post/881833972Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:11:07 +0100<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/06/the-enemy-within/8098/">The Atlantic :: Magazine :: The Enemy Within</a>: <blockquote> <p>When the Conficker computer “worm” was unleashed on the world in November 2008, cyber-security experts didn’t know what to make of it. It infiltrated millions of computers around the globe. It constantly checks in with its unknown creators. It uses an encryption code so sophisticated that only a very few people could have deployed it. For the first time ever, the cyber-security elites of the world have joined forces in a high-tech game of cops and robbers, trying to find Conficker’s creators and defeat…</p> </blockquote>http://www.dead-air.org/post/879453376http://www.dead-air.org/post/879453376Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:07:35 +0100“You’re a thousand times more likely to die because of what some urban banker did in 2008 than from what some Afghan-based terrorist did in 2001.”<br/><br/> - <em>[Bruce Sterling Interview: Cities - Boing Boing]</em>http://www.dead-air.org/post/701938466http://www.dead-air.org/post/701938466Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:08:52 +0100<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/garden/10childtech.html?pagewanted=all">Your Brain on Computers - Plugged-In Parents - NYTimes.com</a>http://www.dead-air.org/post/689986895http://www.dead-air.org/post/689986895Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:42:03 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3rg6iGTq71qz57pxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.dead-air.org/post/680893719http://www.dead-air.org/post/680893719Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:46:50 +0100“It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity. We are now witnessing the rapid stress of older institutions accompanied by the slow and fitful development of cultural alternatives. Just as required education was a response to print, using the Internet well will require new cultural institutions as well, not just new technologies.”<br/><br/> - <em>[Does the Internet Make You Smarter? - Clay Shirky (<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704025304575284973472694334.html" target="_blank">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704025304575284973472694334.html</a>)</em>http://www.dead-air.org/post/675960089http://www.dead-air.org/post/675960089Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:17:12 +0100<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3jj9id5Ix1qz57pxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.dead-air.org/post/666302334http://www.dead-air.org/post/666302334Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:12:32 +0100“What gives humans access to the symbolic domain of value and meaning is the fact that we die.”<br/><br/> - <em>Regis Debray, Wired 3.01, Jan 1995, p. 162</em>http://www.dead-air.org/post/644890810http://www.dead-air.org/post/644890810Sat, 29 May 2010 23:40:34 +0100“It is the arrogance of every age to believe that yesterday was calm.”<br/><br/> - <em>Tom Peters, Wired 5.12, Dec 1997</em>http://www.dead-air.org/post/644888162http://www.dead-air.org/post/644888162Sat, 29 May 2010 23:39:25 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw6iphyEup1qz57pxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.dead-air.org/post/332136686http://www.dead-air.org/post/332136686Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:36:26 +0000<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kun9xgANsU1qz57pxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.dead-air.org/post/283188227http://www.dead-air.org/post/283188227Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:38:48 +0000<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kujwriPJRb1qz57pxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.dead-air.org/post/280479297http://www.dead-air.org/post/280479297Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:01:46 +0000<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kubxwbj7o91qz57pxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.dead-air.org/post/274528192http://www.dead-air.org/post/274528192Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:45:34 +0000