{"id":179,"date":"2007-06-20T11:53:49","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T15:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=179"},"modified":"2010-03-19T09:20:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T13:20:49","slug":"miscellaneous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/179","title":{"rendered":"Miscellanea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steampunk.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryjenkins.org\/2007\/06\/the_tomorrow_that_never_was_re.html\">&#8220;The Tomorrow That Never Was&#8221;: Retrofuturism in the Comics of Dean Motter<\/a> &#8211; good essay on (obviously) retrofuturism. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/06\/17\/what_steampunk_means.html\"><em>via BB<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_sGYULzoQCgA\/RnbBhWYnwzI\/AAAAAAAAAv4\/s5toWLb-MbI\/s1600-h\/robida+1882+full+paleo+future.jpg\">This<\/a> is my new desktop wallpaper. It&#8217;s a little busy, but I rarely see the desktop anyway&#8230; <em>via <a href=\"http:\/\/paleo-future.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/going-to-opera-in-year-2000-1882.html\">Paleo-Future<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Incredible <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.co.uk\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=190124463098&amp;indexURL=0&amp;photoDisplayType=2#ebayphotohosting\">eBay auction<\/a> (<em>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgets\/mods\/multimedia\/2007\/06\/gallery_steampunk?slide=15&amp;slideView=10\">Wired<\/a><\/em>). The artist&#8217;s website is <a href=\"http:\/\/manydeadthings.tk\/\">Many Dead Things<\/a> &#8211; warning: disturbingly gruesome in at least one instance. I will be keeping an eye peeled (hee, hee) &#8211; one of his upcoming projects? &#8220;<em>At the mountains of madness case (a lovecraft themed project)<\/em>&#8221; .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ink.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing I&#8217;ve seen that might redirect my desire for a Pazyryk bird head-antlered elk:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1354\/564474565_9d4c82b599.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Needs more Trieste!<\/p>\n<p>Privacy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you think the advice in an earlier post on maintaining anonymity online was tinfoil hat stuff, take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/legal\/cases\/att\/\">EFF&#8217;s suit against AT&amp;T<\/a>. (more info <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2007\/06\/att_spy_room_do.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/\/att_klein_wired.pdf\">here<\/a> &#8211; 2nd link is a PDF)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>In 2003 AT&amp;T built secret rooms\u009d hidden deep in the bowels of its central offices in various cities, housing computer gear for a government spy operation which taps into the company&#8217;s popular WorldNet service and the entire Internet. These installations enable the government to look at every individual message on the Internet and analyze exactly what people are doing. Documents showing the hardwire installation in San Francisco suggest that there are similar locations being installed in numerous other cities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/panopticon\/\">Panopticon<\/a> Flickr group (shudder).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ATT + NSA makes a pack of shoggoths look benign. A palate cleanser:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgets\/mods\/multimedia\/2007\/06\/gallery_steampunk?slide=15&amp;slideView=10\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/lovecraftBox4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2130\" title=\"lovecraftBox4\" src=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/lovecraftBox4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/lovecraftBox4.jpg 435w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/lovecraftBox4-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steampunk. &#8220;The Tomorrow That Never Was&#8221;: Retrofuturism in the Comics of Dean Motter &#8211; good essay on (obviously) retrofuturism. via BB This is my new desktop wallpaper. It&#8217;s a little busy, but I rarely see the desktop anyway&#8230; via Paleo-Future. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/179\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,20,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-privacy","category-wunderkammer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-2T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}