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Out today: My Bloody Valentine EPs 1988-1991 2 cd set Disc 1: 01 You Made Me Realise (You Made Me Realise) 02 Slow (You Made Me Realise) 03 Thorn (You Made Me Realise) 04 Cigarette in Your Bed (You Made Me Realise) 05 Drive It All Over Me (You Made Me Realise) 06 Feed Me With Your Kiss (Feed Me With Your Kiss) 07 I Believe (Feed Me With Your Kiss) 08 Emptiness Inside (Feed Me With Your Kiss)

I really don't mind people selling bird plumes on Etsy but pigeon heads is something else completely.

Looking for an old cabinet to build an electric funhouse out of. Something spooking behind each drawer, cupboard or book. Haven't found anything yet but I've just started looking. I'm sure that I will have to build a full backend to house all of the animatronix.

Naomi Wolf has a powerful article in the Guardian today about the new US strip search law that really has me scared about the constant arsenal of law enforcement tools that are being stacked up to be used at anytime against activists. I'm not even talking about their non-lethal weapons. I'm just thinking about the intimidation and humiliation that can be used against someone that you can strip search for the smallest of crimes. Then hold the person indefinitely and jail them by proving there was a person of high security in the area.

It has been a while since we've seen any new comics from Douglas Rushkoff but the wait is over. Reviews are here, here, here, here and here.

A.D.D. Adolescent Demo Division (Vertigo Comics)
Written by Douglas Rushkoff
Art by Goran Sudzuka and Jose Marzan Jr.

I will have a review shortly.

Megalomania is a beautiful short film about an uninhabited city that is in a constant state of simultaneous construction and deconstruction.

The film was directed by Jonathan Gales as his final film for his Masters in Architecture program at Bartlett, UCL.

via deconcrete/////

Great short film on the infrastructure of the internet and more specifically one of the central hubs in Lower Manhattan.

Written and edited by Ben Mendelsohn
Shot and animated by Alex Chohlas-Wood

more info at benmendelsohn.com

A number of people have asked me questions about my implanted neurostimulator. Here is a story from ABC news on the device. This isn't 100% what I have but it is very close.

ABC News story on Neurostimulators

My headaches have always been on the left side of my head and so I only have the stimulation on that side. Before the implant my headaches started behind my left ear and would slowly move up to the front of my head. With the neurostimulator I still get headaches but I don't feel them behind my ear. I feel them starting at my left temple and they move into my forehead and face.

Even though I still get headaches I have no regrets about getting the implant. March will be the 2 year anniversary of the surgery. I don't have any pain or discomfort caused by the implant wire or the internal battery. I do need to charge the device every night with a wireless charger that I put on my chest with a harness or tape. If I forget to charge it then it just shuts off.

Dr Lawrence Bonassar and his team at Cornell University have used a 3D printer to create real cartilage that is alive and implantable into the human body.

I have had plastic cartilage in my nose ever since I was 16 years old. It would be amazing to have the real thing inside of me.

via Tristan Hambling's Future Link Digest

Very cool circuit tattoo that can measure and control biological functions.

 

via NSF and Tristan Hambling's Future Link Digest

Here is a picture of one of the sensors:

this week in links

• the Triggertrap: universal and opensource remote camera trigger
• The Transparent State Enemy: Western Surveillance Technology in the Hands of Despots
• george clooney becomes a spy on the side of good: this is not a film it is real life.
• ten things everyone should know about time: a nice refresher of late night stoner talk on physics
• New Christmas Catalog Price List - Anders Brekhus Nilsen
• My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan: how long will we condone the violence perpetrated by police.
• The Problem of Paint: Walker Art Center article about the restoration of art featuring my friend and neighbor Joe King.
• Longform's best of 2011: Who says journalism is dead?
• Retooling Libraries: Make magazine calls out to rethink libraries.
• NY Times Best Books of 2011
• LA Times domestic surveillance: Police use Predator Drone to aid in domestic arrest.
• Naomi Kline on Capitalism and Climate. Also, question and answers with her in the NY Times