Got more money than you know what to do with? Um…than you know what with to do? Still searching for that perfect gift for the tactisexual in your life? How about a complete set of all 58 IntelCenter Counterterrorism… Read More ›
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Geek Gifts for Cyber Monday!
Happy Cyber Monday, kittens! We’ve scoured the depths of the Internet (or at least those parts of it that will give us a kickback) for the finest in geek gift items. Let no man say we are not servicey at… Read More ›
Watch David Bowie’s Darkly Beautiful 10-Minute “Blackstar” Short Film
Basically everything David Bowie does belongs here, he’s just so freakishly awesome, and his new short sci-fi film Blackstar is no exception. Rumours have been swirling about it for a year. Expectations are high for the man who is the… Read More ›
Crypto-Affirmations: Werner Herzog’s Guide to Life
Brace yourself. This is weird, even for The Cryptosphere: legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog has released a book called Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin, and on the back cover he has outlined 24 points that… Read More ›
Blackhat: a Hacker’s Movie Review
Today’s review of Michael Mann’s “Blackhat” is by well-known activist and actor/producer Joe Fionda. Welcome to the Cryptosphere, Joe; I knew I’d break you eventually! “Blackhat” is an international hacker caper directed by Michael Mann, centering around a federally convicted hacker… Read More ›
Teaching Decentralization in a Centralized Era
This article was written by Manuel Beltrán, Luis Rodil-Fernández and Pawel Pokutycki of the Alternative Learning Tank in the Netherlands; it originally appeared on their site. We are grateful to them and to ALT for allowing us to share it with our readers. In… Read More ›
From the Vault: The Real CEO Letters
From time to time we receive missives of particular interest in our unencrypted public email or our Contact Form. We’d like to share one with you now. Pour yourself a double and use the washroom before reading; this is going… Read More ›
Crypto-Affirmations: Airport Edition
Reality hacking via Mary Balogh on Facebook
Numbers: The Comment Field
“I simply hold that it is difficult to make oneself understood, not absolutely impossible.” – Eugene Ionesco The Comment Field By Curt Hopkins We find salvation in this: Vulgarity as a right, A colonizing meme, which Finds our souls then… Read More ›
Future’s Past: How the Theban Mapping Project’s Effort to Document Ancient Egypt Has Also Documented the Contemporary History of Technological Innovation
The dominant picture of an archaeologist is that of a khaki-clad explorer, probably “intrepid,” outlined in the setting sun of an exotic local, patiently brushing the dust away from a pot partially embedded in a grid of stakes and strings, occasionally… Read More ›
Mondo 2014: An Interview with Ken “RU Sirius” Goffman
I know, I know, you don’t have to tell me every journalist from Wired to ArsTechnica has used that headline construction. But it works, because when your accomplishments personified, furthered, documented, and disseminated the defining cultural movement of an age, you just… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 21
Happy Tuesday, kittens, and welcome to your favoritest link roundup of the day! We’ve been a little heavy on the war and a little light on the cyber lately, but we’re going to be very firm with ourselves from now… Read More ›
Review: Hot Art: Chasing thieves and detectives through the secret world of stolen art
What do you mean? It is TOO hacking-related. Wait till you learn how great art is used to launder drug money, how it’s exchanged for illegal weapons, how it’s sanitized as it travels up the chain from B&E artiste to… Read More ›
Pic o’ the Day: Che Malkovich!
Now THAT is a face that I would wear on a t-shirt! It’s from a great Sandro Miller series of portraits of actor and icon John Malkovich in costume as various famous portrait subjects. No Queen Elizabeth, but there is… Read More ›
Sparked: A Drone Ballet from Cirque du Soleil
And now, as they say, for something completely different. Quebec entertainment billion-dollar behemoth Cirque du Soleil has broken out of the three ring ghetto with Sparked, a five minute performance video depicting an old-timey lamp maker and his enchanted lampshades. We’re… Read More ›
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