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22 Nov

Cartoons for Knitters

It Itches by Franklin Habit. Interweave Press. I have been reading and enjoying Franklin Habit's blog, The Panopticon, for several years, and I was excited to learn he was publishing a... ...

Bury About.com Knitting October 31

Sarkozy's Panopticon

(((Looks like a nice fuss here, but Sarko will be back for a counterattack from some other angle.))) (((From EDRI.))) ============================================================ 5. French file EDVIGE revised after huge civil society mobilization =======================================...

Bury Beyond the Beyond September 30

Video: Chris Barber's 'Petite Fleur' Panopticon

It's cool to be reminded that videos go back farther than MTV. That said, I'm not sure where this Saturday morning standout came from. But it's creepy fun, full of drunk jazz ants stuck in a farm televised by faceless humans. What would Jeremy Bentham think? The clip is matched with Chris Barber's ...

0 Comments Bury Listening Post September 13

Dangers of a giant national database -- article from 1967 was eerily prescient

"The National Data Center and Personal Privacy," an article published in the Atlantic in November, 1967, was eerily prescient in its predictions of the coming data-mining panopticon and the resulting loss of civil liberties. It was written by Arthur Miller, but not the guy who wrote The...

Bury Boing Boing April 01

Google Street a Slice of Dystopian Future?

An anonymous reader writes "According to a recent CNET article, Google Street View 'is just wrong'. The short piece which makes up part of a larger feature about 'technology that's just wrong' goes on to explain that Google Street View is like a scene from George Orwell's terrifying dystopia...

Bury Slashdot March 04

Wired News from the Past

Wired News from the Past

By Dale Dougherty "The telegraph made it possible for people in different places to read the same news." -- Valerie Komor We take news for granted. At the Money:Tech Conference today, speakers were talking about how to deal with real-time newsfeeds, which continues to drive...

Bury O'Reilly Radar February 07

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