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  • DESIGN IN FILM: THE MODERN HOUSE

    DESIGN IN FILM: THE MODERN HOUSE from James Munn on Vimeo. via DESIGN IN FILM: THE MODERN HOUSE.

  • Thunderstruck

    Thunderstruck

    Thunderstruck is a fun read, and satisfying in it’s interconnectedness in a way that The Devil in the White City (the other book by Larson which I’ve read) is not

  • The Heart of the Matter: David Miranda and the Preclusion of Privacy, Part 2

    More than anything, if you’re the National Surveillance State right now, you crave a bloody shirt you might wave to try to blow back the tide of thoughtfulness and rationality precipitated by Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing, and by the extremely careful reporting accompanying it thus far.via The Heart of the Matter: David Miranda and the Preclusion…

  • Schneier on Security: Protecting Against Leakers

    A public or private organization’s best defense against whistle-blowers is to refrain from doing things it doesn’t want to read about on the front page of the newspaper. via Schneier on Security: Protecting Against Leakers.

  • BKLYNR | Block by Block, Brooklyn’s Past and Present

    BKLYNR | Block by Block, Brooklyn’s Past and Present

    This house-by-house map of when each building in Brooklyn was built is amazing.

  • Bradley Manning and the Two Americas

    If you see America as a place within borders, a bureaucratic and imperial government that acts on behalf of its 350 million people, if you see America as its edifices, its mandarins, the careful and massive institutions that have built our cities and vast physical culture, the harsh treatment of Manning for defying that institution…

  • Ministry of Space

    Ministry Of SpaceWarren Ellis; Image Comics 2005  

  • Gun Machine

    Gun Machine

    Gun machineWarren Ellis; Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co. 2013  

  • The Ghost Map

    The Ghost Map

    The Ghost MapSteven Johnson; Riverhead Hardcover 2006    But Engels and Dickens suggested a new twist: that the advance of civilization produced barbarity as an unavoidable waste product, as essential to its metabolism as the gleaming spires and cultivated thought of polite society. The barbarians weren’t storming the gates. They were being bred from within.…

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