congeries

Jul. 29th, 2003

Some of the approximately 200 members of the Mob Project chant and make bird-like sounds from a Central Park perch near the American Museum of Natural History in New York on July 24, 2003. The 'flash mob' was the fifth installment of the Mob Project, a Web-enabled movement in which a group of people show up at a place at an assigned time, act out a loose script, and then take off. The sudden mobs have so far targeted a Hyatt Hotel, the Macy's rug department, and a high-end shoe store in Soho.

новые формы социальности... дигитальной, как это модно называть... интересно, что все статьи про это явление по-прежнему идут под рубрикой oddly enough (New Yorkers become a mob for fun и другие)... ох, не понимают товарищи журналисты, о чём базар)

ещё несколько заметок:
Technology meets the mob
Shock tactics
It's not your party, but we'll come if we want to

Sen. Byron Dorgan and Sen. Ron Wyden appear at a news conference on Capitol Hill Monday, July 28, 2003, to call on the Pentagon to end a program aimed at predicting possible terrorist events. The Pentagon is setting up a commodity-market style trading system in which investors would be able to bet on political and economic events in the Middle East - including the likelihood of assassinations and terrorist attacks. Dorgan and Wyden said Monday they want the project stopped before investors begin registering this week.

а ещё демократы... просто-таки изо рта вырывают у людей базовый инструмент форекастеров. перепугавшись, вояки всё убрали с сайтов, так что теперь даже хвостов не найдешь :(

Pentagon's Futures Market Plan Condemned

поскольку статьи тоже потом трут, я выложил под катом полный ( текст )

upd: /., ясно дело, разразился полемикой по этому поводу. на ходу подменяя техническую сторону дела этической.

The color is red.
Red occupies a place in our senses
when we see something red.

The glow of a sunset can suffice us with joy.
A beautiful melody can fill us with emotion.
Silvery white and cold to the touch. Snow comes alive.
And the salty breeze of the summer sea. We have only
to imagine the heat reflecting off the sands
to smell it again.

Qualia
Qualia can be found in everyone.