Comics:
1. Inio Asano
2. Taiyo Matsumoto
3. Moebius
4. Ashley Wood
5. Phil Noto
Music:
1. Xiu Xiu
2. B. Dolan
3. Cocorosie
4. Killer Mike
5. EMA
Film:
1. Lars Von Trier
2. Ingmar Bergman
3. Wong Kar Wai
4. Andrei Tarkovsky
5. Robert Altman
So, apparently hacking a website, and not stealing any money or anything like that get’s you 15 years in jail, but most rapist only get 11 years. [“http://bit.ly/rcJslI 15 years for the Paypal attack? While 80% of rapists are sentenced to 11 years: http://bit.ly/rjvYLi YOU…
A DDoS attack takes a webserver offline for a while - there’s no physical damage, no loss of anything but uptime. It’s the digital equivalent of a sit-in. There’s no way this sort of low-level trespass should ever be anything worse than a misdemeanor.
But since the “victim” was a corporation, it’s somehow a felony. Annoying a corporation now carries more time than sexually assaulting an individual human being.
My post-internet thought:
Internet witches summoning and interacting with the vapors of a decades dead online worlds of the dead—via electromagnetic perception—like ghost hunters now—but instead of looking for like a dead relative’s ghost—they’d look for their great ancestor’s youtube.
New time bitches.
People in Kenya, Afghanistan and Pakistan are building their own wireless networks out of found materials.
It works like this: A single commercial wireless router is mounted on radio frequency reflectors and covered in a metal mesh. Another router/reflector pair is set up at a distance. The two routers establish a network that can be used by anybody with a reflector. To build a reflector, all you need is a material — wood, metal, plastic, stone or clay — that can mount the metal mesh. The system can be powered with an automobile battery, so it doesn’t have to rely on fickle developing-world power grids.
The goal is simply internet access for all. And, believe it or not, networks are up and running in Kenya, Jalalabad, Pakistan, and in various hospitals and clinics around Afghanistan. The project is supported by MIT’s Fab Lab. Some of the scientists involved in the project are paying for it out of pocket, with some help from the National Science Foundation.
It’s an open-source project, so if you’re interested in building a DYI network here in the shadow of Silicon Valley, just hit up the wiki.
I’m keeping this for the day when the regular internetz die.
