Marks Pesce talks about internet, media, bittorrent, wikipedia, ipod, web 2.0 and other technological viral social networking swarm innovations in this lecture at Mind States ‘05 in such a way that it’s actually really trippy to listen to regardless of the trippy visuals in the video.

Spoken word/Music/Video Art from MINDSTATES 2005

Visuals by Chris Barnaby Music by Kevin Whitesides Modulated Throat Sounds by Mark Pesce

Links:
www.mindstates.org/
http://www.cjbarnaby.com/ - Chris Barnaby
http://www.playfulworld.com/ - Mark Pesce
Playful World Entertainment

A 14 year old boy from Utah got a little surprise recently when he popped what he thought to be a copy of Madden NFL 2007 into his Xbox360. Instead of the game, it turns out the disc contained porn.

The game was bought by the kids uncle from a CircuitCity in California and was complete with the factory seal and an embossed Madden NFL 07 label on the disc. Both EA and a spokeswoman for that particular store said they have not received any other such complaints. Still, the spokeswoman promised to look into the matter further.

According to next-gen.biz, Utah’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, Layton police and California authorities have also taken interest and are investigating the case.

Source
CircuitCity

On the heels of announcing our mobile search partnership with KDDI, some Google engineers got to visit KDDI’s Designing Studio in Harajuku, Tokyo. Here we have a video clip of this dancing robot being controlled live using a phone with bluetooth technology. The possibilities that this video suggests are pretty scary when used against the common person.

KDDI Online

Watch a quality documentary about hacking from the 1960s to date. Takes a historical approach, looking at the role of the hacker during that time. Features Steve Wozniak, Capt. Crunch, and Kevin Mitnick.

 
If you like this documentary you should check out the movie:
“Pirates of Silicon Valley“

Watching liquids boil in low gravity is an out-of-this-world experience. It has plenty of entertainment value, but it’s teaching scientists some important physics lessons, too. - NASA

Without buoyancy or convection, boiling fluids behave quite differently in space. Click here to watch a QuickTime movie (400 kB) comparing boiling in space and on Earth. Also available in high resolution (4.3 MB). Image courtesy NASA Glenn Research Center.

Source:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast07sep_2.htm

Avis, a car renting company says they will be offering a Wi-Fi connection for motorist in their cars by March. For a Whoppin’ $10.95 a day and plus a service fee of $49.00 a month, who wouldn’t want to surf the net while driving?

Read the entire article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/technology/02avis.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin

Watch Nintendo Wii demo videos from the Electronic Entertainment Expo 3