Aram Bartholl’s “Dead Drops” Preview

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31 October 2010
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“Dead Drops” preview at Aram Bartholl

I am pleased to preview ‘Dead Drops’ a new project which I started off as part of my ongoing EYEBEAM residency in NYC the last couple weeks. Dead Drops is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am injecting USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your files and date. Each dead drop contains a readme.txt file explaining the project. Dead Drops is still in progress, to be continued here and in more cities. Full documentation, movie, map and How to make your own dead drop manual coming soon! Stay tuned — via Aram Bartholl’s Blog

Move folders that are expected in specific locations

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30 October 2010
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Quite a few badly written apps like to create folders in specific locations, and expect them to be there and nowhere else. For example, my ~/Documents folder contains items such as ‘Microsoft User Data’, ‘Steam Content’, ‘TomTom’, etc. Some even create folders in your home directory or worse, at the root level of the hard disk!

Sometimes you can set a different location in the preferences of the application, but sometimes there’s just no way. If you move the folder, the application will become hopelessly confused and/or create a new copy where it expects it. You can make these folders invisible, but then you can’t easily access them anymore — via Mac OSX Hints

Thomas Young Accused of Killing Puppies Because He Didn’t Want to Pay Vet Bills

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29 October 2010
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Thomas Young doesn’t like barking dogs. He hates them so much, in fact, that Stanwood Police say he came home drunk on Wednesday night and killed his roommate’s three mixed-breed puppies. Though Young, 56, is claiming he doesn’t know how the puppies died, the cops say they found him with blood on his hands and shirt and three no-longer-barking-dogs in his living room — via redwolf.newsvine.com

MI6 chief Sawers: we have nothing to do with torture and rights abuses

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29 October 2010
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MI6 has declined to pass on information about individuals to foreign countries if it could lead to torture even though terrorist activity could be the end result, the head of the agency said.

Sir John Sawers, responding to persistent allegations of collusion in torture by the security and intelligence agencies, described the potential to save lives but said the risk of human rights abuse threw up real, constant, operational dilemmas — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Clerc Odyssey S Watch

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28 October 2010
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Clerc Odyssey S Watch

At 44mm wide, the titanium case, DLC titanium case, or titanium case with 18k rose gold bezel models of the watch will all be pretty neat. The Odyssey S has a rotating diver’s bezel and some crazy stuff going on with the crown and pushers. Scaled back in design, the watch feels more live-with-able than other Clerc pieces. Still, it is anything but a normal watch. It comes with a rubber or alligator strap, and a whole lot of conversation starting abilities — via A Blog to Read

Walt Siegl Ducati Custom

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28 October 2010
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Walt Siegl Ducati Custom

If there’s a middle ground between the reliability of a modern bike and the charisma of a classic motorcycle, it’s occupied by guys like Walt Siegl. Walt is a master craftsman who gives vintage machinery a new lease of life, and if something isn’t quite the way he wants it, he’s got the skills to make it himself in his New Hampshire workshop — via Bike EXIF

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