Wikileaks Keynote at HOPE 2010: No Assange, But Institutional Details Emerge
The part of scheduled keynote speaker Julian Assange, the Australian hacker US agents have made it clear they would like to question, was played by Jake Appelbaum today at HOPE. Appelbaum is increasingly the other public face of Wikileaks, while also being a spokesperson and developer for the Tor online anonymity project. Appelbaum led off…
Isaac Asimov’s The Gods Themselves: In which scientists are jerks and aliens masturbate
At long last we come to perhaps the biggest name in science-fiction literature. Settle in for a long, long — long — look at what might be the least Asimovian story Isaac Asimov ever wrote. This weekend we’re doing something different: Instead of just me droning on all by myself, io9 contributor and Asimov aficionado…
Offshore Oil Strike for All the Family
In the 1970s, BP released Offshore Oil Strike, a board game about the excitement of deep-water drilling. Will you, dad, or grandma be the first to gain $120,000,000 game-winning petro-dollars? BP; photo by BLDGBLOG” />. One of the most extraordinary-and timely-subcollections in the archives of the Canadian Centre for Architecture can be found resting on…
