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Quantum teleportation has achieved a new milestone or, should we say, a new ten-milestone: scientists have recently had success teleporting information between photons over a free space distance of nearly ten miles, an unprecedented length. The researchers who have accomplished this feat note that this brings us closer to communicating information without needing a traditional signal, and that the ten miles they have reached could span the distance between the surface of the earth and space.
links for 2010-05-21
links for 2010-05-19
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"Vortexbox is an intriguing Linux distro that turns a PC into a music server, CD ripper and NAS device—pop a CD into the drive and it’s automatically ripped to MP3 and FLAC, and the system comes bundled with a wide array of open source music players/servers." (via onethingwell)
links for 2010-05-17
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"Vice: Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi seems to have been a big inspiration. Vincent: It very much was – I first watched it in 2006. The film presented the world in a way I never really looked at before and that captivated me. Moments like these compel me to physically express progressions in my thought, I have just happened to do that through the form of creating these cities in SimCity 3000. I could probably have done something similar – depicting the awesome regimentation and brutality of our society – with a series of paintings on a canvas, or through hideous architectural models. But it wouldn’t be the same as doing it in the game, for the reason that I wanted to magnify the unbelievably sick ambitions of egotistical political dictators, ruling elites and downright insane architects, urban planners and social engineers."
links for 2010-05-02
Making the Physical from the Digital
Ben O’Steen shares his fascination with what happens to information and content as we move it from the digital world to the physical and back again.
Naturally, this derailed my entire morning.
Running Cory Doctorow’s Makers through Tom Taylor’s Microprinter:

Using the microprinter and the Guardian’s data on MP expenses to print out all the MP’s receipts, with QRCodes linking back to the original data:

Printing information out like this seems to be an interesting way to visualise and perhaps understand any type of activity stream.

I won’t reproduce the whole thing here; instead, I urge you to read it yourself.
Finally, Ben announced TextCamp.
A day spent learning and playing with (electronic) texts, manuscript images, letters of correspondence, memoirs, and paper goods.
It’s supposed to be in September, in the UK. I wonder if I’d be able to make it…
(Via Infovore.)
Payment Mechanism Colour Coding

It might just look like rows of colourful folders – but this office cabinet provides at-a-glance understanding of the money flows through this dentists office.
Glance-able information as a side effect of physical data storage.

