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The art of list-making

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What can lists tells us about the personality of the list-maker? An exhibition in Washington reveals the obsessive and controlling sides of some of the world’s greatest artists.

Adolf Ferdinand Konrad papers
  • Adolf Konrad’s packing list made up of illustrations of art materials and clothes he wanted to take to Rome and Egypt in 1962. He draws himself wearing nothing but his underwear.
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    Digital Remains

    Lately I was thinking about that but thought to send a list of my passwords and all to my brother.

    So who else minds about “Digital Remains”?

    Amplifyd from www.wired.com

    Scott Brown on Managing Your Digital Remains

    The aspects of life we archive online, be they valuable, heritable, or simply embarrassing, require posthumous management (and, in some cases, eradication) lest our friends and loved ones and executors be embarrassed or inconvenienced by our lingering digital detritus, a trash-strewn wake of left-behind liabilities. At least three companies — AssetLock.net, Legacy Locker, and the charmingly named Deathswitch.comRead more at www.wired.com
     

    Thought Update:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EZbZwU2TM0

    Don’t say “Like” say “Sorry”!

    I think it’s time (almost too late) for microbloggings in general start to have a Sorry button. Otherwise lots of people will feel bad to Like posts like that.
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    Thought Update:  I would like to find where is spam button, block user, ... something like that here on Amplify. Someone to help me?

    China closes down the Internet

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    Beijing issues rules to make the country more like North Korea.

    This week, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released regulations, dated Dec. 15, requiring the registration of all Web sites.

    MIIT’s justification was the need to eliminate sexual content. As a Ministry spokesman stated, “This is about mobile pornography, it’s not referring to any other issue.”

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    2010

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    2010 preview: Genome sequencing for all

    Fancy having your genome sequenced? It’s becoming affordable, and 2010 will see the launch of a wave of genetic discovery that could turn it into a purchase worth making.

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    The 5 Most Likely Ways Humans Will Become Obsolete

    “the future is now”

    Amplifyd from www.cracked.com

    The 5 Most Likely Ways Humans Will Become Obsolete

    And according to a growing number of science fiction authors and, more importantly, a few actual scientists, that bad habit may catch up with us, and soon. That moment–when technology renders humans obsolete–even has a name.

    It’s called the Technological Singularity, and it’s basically the point at which our toys start to consider us toys, and life as we know it starts losing its shit. Here are a few of the ways it could feasibly shake out.

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