The nice people at Strata
have
released version three of Strata3D (nee StudioPro) for free; MacOS and Windows versions available.
Am I really supposed to get excited
at the prospect of
my cell phone running JavaScript? Toast haiku, on the other hand, is
an entirely different story.
Head hung in despair / Morning offering rises / I thank my toaster via
passerbyRachel Greene : Web Work, A History of Internet Art
I tend to distrust anything with paragraphs that begin "Not unlike the Surrealists and Situationists...", but I will slog my way through this anyway. Read it while you can; the URL suggests that the article will get blasted next month. I guess Artforum is still learning to walk the walk... Meanwhile. Morning Edition does
a short piece on eToy NYC. (real audio)
Wired
"[I]f every wired household will need to hire a network security consultant to keep their smart TV and intelligent toasters safe from viruses, implementing the "always connected" future will present some practical problems." Let's just hope that, as a society, we can be a bit more mature about this than children in a candy store. Personally, I loathe the idea of ever using a modem again, but I would manage. This is all cool stuff but if "network security" means giving up some of the fundementals that we rely on ( read: take for granted ) then I think we need to take a long hard look before we do anything. see also :
People for Internet Responsibility and
John Jannotti : Network Services in an Uncooperative Internet.
Buster H.
"With dot-coms, I used to lose sleep worrying about bad earnings reports. Dot-orgs may earn nothing, but when you've lost as much money as I have, nothing starts to look like something."
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