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Bamboo is of the world’s most prolific and fastest-growing plants, and is able to reach maturity in about four years, compared to the typical 25 to 70 years for commercial tree species in the U.S. Though most people are generally familiar with this beautiful and graceful plant, the average person is usually astounded when learning that there are more than 1000 documented uses of bamboo.

Bamboosa

Bamboo Textile

r a d i o q u a l i a: “r a d i o q u a l i a is a new online electronic portal into the eccentricities of antipodean radio space.

r a d i o q u a l i a is an online art collaboration by New Zealanders, Adam Hyde and Honor Harger. It was founded in 1998 in Australia.

Using various streaming media softwares, r a d i o q u a l i a experiments with the concept of artistic broadcasting, using the internet and traditional media forms, such as radio and television, as primary tools. We work in gallery, performance, broadcast and publishing contexts. r a d i o q u a l i a creates the latitude for musicians and visual artists to explore distances between cultural understandings. “

Liquid_Light Fixtures: “

GNR8 shows off the Liquid_Light series of lamps, presenting a drop of light in a ‘fluid’ form. Designers Büro Für Form explain:

A product needs more than perfect function and ergonomics. A product needs spirit, emotion, and poetry!

For between $360-$400, spirit, emotion and poetry come at something of a premium, to be sure. Available now.

Liquid_Light [GNR8]

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(Via Gizmodo.)

MacZealots.com - Tutorials - Complete Mac Security, Part 1: “This is the first in a series on Mac OS X security. The purpose of the series is to modify and create settings such that your personal data is completely protected every second of the day, and how to accomplish that with tools built into Mac OS X.”

MacZealots.com - Tutorials - Complete Mac Security, Part 2: “In Part 1 of the Complete Mac Security series, we discussed physical security of your Mac, as well as Open Firmware and how you can utilize it to safeguard your system. Unfortunately, this is but a part of the steps everyone needs to take to completely safeguard your Mac against information (or physical) theft. This week, we’ll discuss login security in all its forms, and how you can be completely sure that no one can login to your Mac except you.”

MacZealots.com - Tutorials - Complete Mac Security, Part 3: “This third article in the Complete Mac Security series expands upon the first and second installments. We’ve already covered physical security, Open Firmware, LoginWindow, Fast User Switching, and Screen Effects, and how they can be used to secure your Mac. This installment will focus on file security and encryption.”

If you’re run an Apple X-Serve, then you won’t need it ’cause of the really good Server Monitor Application which checks all services and the physical elements (fans, temperature, disks etc) of the server. On the otherhand, if not, you may be interested in this little application.

Simple Server Sentry: “Simple Server Sentry is, as described by the name, a simple application that can check on your servers at specified intervals to see if they respond. It was developed for our own in-house use to keep tabs on our own servers, and we thought it was handy enough to share with others.”

It could do with a total GUI overhaul, but it does what it says on the tin.

FLOATING POINTS: networked art in public spaces: “Emerson College and New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA) announce a new speaker series that will explore ways that artists use wireless technologies to transform our interactions with one another and our urban and natural environments. This is the second (see Floating Points: Net Art Now) of a number of planned collaborations between NRPA and its world-renowned web site, Turbulence.org and Emerson College.”

Check out the video of Anne Galloway’s keynote talk (26th Jan 2005 or 20050126 for those Geeks out there): Anne Galloway

Picture this: You have a mac, connected to broadband with outside access to it (maybe you have a web server or are using SSH / SFTP / SCP for remote file access) or maybe you have a server running OS X. How do you check that no-else has gained access and is snooping around (apart from all the obvious security stuff like firewalls and decent passwords and not using FTP and so on)? You use a trip wire! (more…)

Old hat? It seems like is that the ‘bootlegging craze’ has passed by (thankfully) leaving the guys and gals who are really good! Maybe what is left is just superb remixes that happen to mix a few other tracks in? So without further ado … (more…)

sketchel: “A sketchel is a new shoulder satchel concept that

houses original, one-off art on flexible canvas panels by leading

international artists and designers, and amazing up and coming artists

and designers too.

This makes each sketchel a unique art work, while still being a

functional product, and the canvas panel is protected behind a thick,

clear PVC cover. The sketchel is made of black vinyl, with metal

fasteners and rivets, adjustible shoulder strap, and internal pockets.

Sketchel is something very personal, and one of a kind. It is not

a mass market or mass produced product at all… but rather, the

opposite of that.

No one in the world will have the same sketchel as you. “

Silicon, Not Just Software, Key To Pervasive Media > Silicon, Not Just Software, Key To Pervasive Media > January 15, 2004: “Pervasive media refers to the electronic extension and expansion of the human senses through the ubiquitous presence of intelligent software and silicon systems. The concept relies on a mix of technologies, from digital signal processing to computer networks and information management. Its adherents envision, and in some cases are beginning to deliver, a spectrum of content, applications and services that enable improved information access and communications across a range of rich interfaces, displays, smart output devices and terminals.”