Brazilian Roots

This is the Spanish flu virus in 3D. Spanish? It was a Brazil fan?

Revelation

Daler Mehndi could be Dr Wickramasinghe's proof of concept...

From Kottke to SoAP

Anti-Semite and Control Freak

You are a new Latin American leftist? Then you better to recheck some of your myths. Begin with Salvador Allende, who was accused of being anti-Semite, mainly due to the fact of not taking in a famous Nazi. Thanks to Matt Webb, I’ve discovered that Allende was also a control freak, to the point of call Stratford Beer to develop the spurious Project Cybersyn.

This post is part of my new project: BLOG EVENTUALLY, DIE RESPECTABLY.

VW Bug is a Blobject!

Don Stewart, a visual artist, received a cease and desist letter from a law firm claiming to represent Volkswagen of America. You know why? He has made the following art over a VW Bug.


The VW Bug is an icon of America culture - it is an object. More precisely, it is a blobject. Here is a case of Copyright claim gone too far. Tooooooo far!

Toad Prince

Hey Mom! I'm inside a DECsystem-10, thanks to the PDP Planet, a Paul Allen project. The OS? It is a Tops-20 (Toad-1). It is very cool be personally inside of one of the machines described in the book "Hackers", by Steven Levy.