{"id":365,"date":"2008-06-24T09:47:40","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T13:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/365"},"modified":"2008-06-24T09:47:40","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T13:47:40","slug":"conspiracy-mashups-and-correlation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/365","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy, mashups and correlation"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/sterling\/2008\/06\/what-the-hipste.html\">Bruce Sterling<\/a>, a great series of <a href=\"http:\/\/roychristopher.com\/summer-reading-list-2008\">summer reading lists<\/a>.Lots of interesting books &#8211; two that I&#8217;m going to put in my queue: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FResurrectionist-Jack-OConnell%2Fdp%2F1565125762%2F&amp;tag=hawkdog-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">The Resurrectionist<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=hawkdog-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" \/> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDark-Mission-Secret-History-NASA%2Fdp%2F1932595260%2F&amp;tag=hawkdog-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Dark Mission.<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=hawkdog-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" \/> Feral House, publishers of Dark Mission, print some wild stuff &#8211; this looks to be no exception.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>This weird yet well-researched book by a former science advisor to Walter Cronkite argues that NASA is an occult control system, created by Nazi SS officers and high-ranking U.S. Free Masons, that discovered alien technological artifacts on the moon. Hoagland believes the \u201csecret government\u201d has been reverse-engineering alien technology for decades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>One of the folks tapped for summer reading materials in the link above is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djspooky.com\/\">Paul D. Miller, DJ Spooky :: That Subliminal Kid<\/a>. I heard an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhpr.org\/node\/16388\">interview<\/a> with him a few days ago &#8211; I especially like his notion of &#8220;artist as search engine&#8221;. I think there&#8217;s a sense where this has always been true &#8211; part of the artist&#8217;s job is pattern recognition &#8211; pulling something (at best, something unexpected) out of the ground. An MP3 of the interview is <a href=\"http:\/\/skydeviler.hawkdog.net\/pub\/wom-2008-06-18-vp3.mp3\">here<\/a> and you can click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djspooky.com\/articles\/blue_lotus_mix.php\">here<\/a> to get to Miller&#8217;s Hail the Jewel in the Blue Lotus mix (Buddhist\u00a0 hip hop).<\/li>\n<li>Another dispatch from the digital edge &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/science\/discoveries\/magazine\/16-07\/pb_theory\">The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete<\/a>. Not sure how I feel about tossing theory over the side&#8230;\u00a0 <strong>Update<\/strong> &#8211; an example of scientific petabyte computing &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.oreilly.com\/2008\/06\/large-hadron-collider-as-a-mas.html\">Large Hadron Collider<\/a> &#8211; 2Gb of data every 10 seconds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\">Apropos of absolutely nothing, a picture of Barbie finials on a miniature trebuchet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3296\/2607354898_2f52d996a1_b.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3296\/2607354898_2f52d996a1_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3296\/2607354898_2f52d996a1.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Bruce Sterling, a great series of summer reading lists.Lots of interesting books &#8211; two that I&#8217;m going to put in my queue: The Resurrectionist and Dark Mission. Feral House, publishers of Dark Mission, print some wild stuff &#8211; this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/365\">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":[5,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-information-sys","category-making-things"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-5T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","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=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}