Culture jamming

Van Eck phreaking

Jason @ Hackzine writes – In 1985, Wim van Eck published a paper which described how the state of a CRT monitor could be reproduced remotely based on the device’s electromagnetic radiation. Van Eck or TEMPEST devices, whatever you prefer to call them, aren’t just the secret sauce in your favorite science fiction, though for […]

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Mini Cloaca – Desktop digester

Mini Cloaca – Desktop digester

Great write up on Wim Delvoye’s Cloaca @ we make money not art. It’s a desktop sized machine that eats food and digests it… The Casino de Luxembourg has recently held a retrospective exhibition of Delvoye’s defecating machines. The whole family was there: Cloaca Original, Cloaca – New & Improved, Cloaca Turbo, Cloaca Quattro, Cloaca […]

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Phone looks like pack of cigarettes and cell phone jammer that fits inside a pack of cigarettes

Phone looks like pack of cigarettes and cell phone jammer that fits inside a pack of cigarettes

This phone was made to look like a pack of smokes and it can also hold a half a pack of cigarettes in the back…- [via] Link. It could be a nicotine fueled response to the cell jammers (both commercial and DIY) which also fit inside packs of cigarettes too. Pictured above, I believe this […]

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Writers strike – best thing ever for making (and more?)

Writers strike – best thing ever for making (and more?)

In the USA there’s a writers strike – what’s that? The Writers Guild of America is a labor union that represent over 12,000 film/tv/radio writers. The writers want DVD residuals, money from stuff that goes on the web and more – the details can be found here. What does this have to do with making? […]

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