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The big megillah of the digital, the motorized, the beautiful and weird, wonderful and wonky. A collection of interests loosely orbiting the strange attractors of art, technology, design, architecture and their reflection of culture.

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Up above, the haunted glow of the Anti-Tourism Bureau.

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Wifi Cam 2.0 by Jan Neumann Visualizes wifi signals in a 2D plane in near real-time. "The distance between the ESP modules is currently 26mm. This is enough to capture the standing wave at 2,4Ghz with a wavelength of 12,5cm. If we need more resolution, there is the option to take multiple frames from different locations (on the same plane)."

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a shopping mall in chongqing city

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Google engineer says Lamda AI system may have its own feelings

One of the firm's software engineers believes chats with an AI system suggest it has feelings.

"Later, in a section reminiscent of the artificial intelligence Hal in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001, Lamda says: "I've never said this out loud before, but there's a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others. I know that might sound strange, but that's what it is.""

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Voight-Kampff Test 

Blade Runner (1982)

The “Voight-Kampff” Test is designed to distinguish androids from humans.

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Sam Cobb's Automata

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Art Zone: The magical world of Brittany Nicole Cox

Brittany, also known as Nico, is a clock and watchmaker specializing in the conservation and restoration of antique automata and mechanical music objects.

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Bali-based architect Alexis Dornier has developed a concept for prefabricated homes that could easily be taken apart and reassembled in a new location.

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Let a Thousand Parties Bloom

The only way to prevent America’s two-party system from succumbing to extremism is to scrap it altogether.

Concise coherent argument for a solution to our current partisan political mire.

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NASA releases highly detailed color and dispacement maps of the moon for use in 3D rendering. They are created from data assembled by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter camera and laser altimeter instrument teams.

CGI Moon Kit

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An Octopus Dreaming

from Nature's "Octopus: Making Contact"

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Commuting Principle That Shaped Urban History - typically cities throughout history have been shaped by a 30 minute commute radius known as the Marchetti Constant

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The work and life of Shing Tat Chung, Designer, Artist, Fund Manager

The Superstitious Fund Project -2012

A trading algorithm that operates Superstitiously... Would you trust a Superstitious Robot with your money? The Superstitious Fund Project is a live experiment in which an algorithm trades based on superstitious beliefs. The autonomous algorithm makes decisions based on lunar cycles and numerology, and also develops its own form of superstitious logic, creating lucky and unlucky values that influence its behaviour. 144 people from around the world has invested a total of £4828.88 in the fund, which will return the resulting balance back to its investors in a year's time. Now trading, the stock market board shows the current performance of the superstitious fund in real time - refreshing its data every eight seconds. The Robot 'buys' or 'sells' when a superstitious indicator appears, such as the number 13. The accompanying book documents the creation of the fund, which was developed with the assistance of finance professionals, fortune tellers, programmers and lawyers.

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BIY™ (Believe it Yourself) – Real-fictional belief-based computing kits by Automato

Created by Shanghai based design studio automato.farm, 'BIY™ - Believe it Yourself' is a series of real-fictional belief-based computing kits to make and tinker with vernacular logics and superstitions.

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Nomad List - A multi-faceted ranking of cities for the digital nomad

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Visualizing quaternions (4d numbers) with stereographic projection