[monochrom] Appease Your Robot Overlords

Prepare Humanity's manners for the imminent robot uprising with these jolly little stickers, once more available at the joyous celebration of all thing Robot, Suicidebots. Lovingly made with 100% pure, robot-approved vinyl, let your overlords know you respect their n

[monochrom] The Torture Trainers and the American Psychological Association

Torture and business... Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 6/26/2008 12:38:00 PM

[monochrom] Internet Undersea Map

TeleGeography create these brilliant visual map's with subtle colours and stimulate our thinking with clean, clear info graphic pye charts. Link (via EnlargeYourPen) -- Posted By johannes t

[monochrom] "The Black Death": John Hatcher's Remarkable History of the Plague

This totally absorbing book presents the best account ever written about the worst event to have ever befallen the British Isles. In the hands of John Hatcher, an English medievalist of sober and steady reputation who has for decades been squirreled away in one of the smaller, older, and le

[monochrom] The most extreme life-forms in the universe

While scientists find ever more planets around other stars and contemplate missions to probe the far reaches of our own solar system, researchers are looking to the extremes of the Earth for clues about what kind of organisms could exist in the brutal conditions elsewhere.

[monochrom] Ab 27. Juni: Linuxwochen Linz - Kunst trifft Open Source

Ab 27. Juni: Linuxwochen Linz - Kunst trifft Open Source Medienkunst trifft auf die Offenheit der Freien Software Spätestens seit Linus Torvalds Verleihung des Prix Ars Electronica haben Open Source Software und Kunst in Linz ihren fixen Platz. Ab Freitag, dem 27. Juni, um 14 Uhr starten die Lin

[monochrom] Bill Gates on useability.

Luckily it's not only us suffering. Hopefully introducing at least the basics of useability in all parts of his company will be a task accomplished before his final retirement. See the following authentic mail from 2003 for details. fra source: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsof