“The Day Against DRM will unite a wide range of projects, public interest organizations, web sites and individuals in an effort to raise public awareness to the danger of technology that restricts users’ access to movies, music, literature and software; indeed, all forms of digital data. Many DRM schemes monitor a user’s activities and report [...]
The IMA is like the Apolo Ohno of the museum technology world. They can’t stop winning awards: Best of the Webs, Muse Golds, even a Webby. ArtBabble is awesome, now that we’re in there. The jury’s out as to whether Rob Stein has been cloned, he’s everywhere, maybe he just never sleeps. Daniel’s definitely been [...]
via Brass Goggles International Obscura Day. Atlas Obscura , a compendium of this age’s wonders, curiosities, and esoterica is holding an International Obscura Day. “The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloging all of the singular, eccentric, bizarre, fantastical, and strange out-of-the-way places that get left out of traditional travel guidebooks [...]
In 1943 Hermann Hesse’s book, The Glass Bead Game (Das Glasperlinspiel) was published in Switzerland. In 1946 Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature. I read a lot of Hesse in college and, as an art history major, Narcissus and Goldmund, a coming of age novel set in the middle ages, was a favorite. Never [...]
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