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These maker, modder, hacker spaces are popping up all over the globe. Making as Entertainment is now a life principle en masse. http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetart/sets/72157622299057734/

“We already see a future in which the humble contact lens becomes a real platform, like the iPhone is today, with lots of developers contributing their ideas and inventions. As far as we’re concerned, the possibilities extend as far as the eye can see.” And you thought the iPhone SDK was a tough nut to [...]

Brainchild of @hoeken, member of NYC Resistor, Makerbot Industries and The Rep Rap Team, Thingiverse “is a place to share digital designs that can be made into real, physical objects.” Think of it as the Slideshare of progressive material culture. http://www.thingiverse.com/

Crowdfunding, AngelFlocks, Social Microphilanthropy whatever you call it, Kickstarter is a funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors and explorers. Worth a peek. http://www.kickstarter.com/

Much debate over aesthetics vs insight in the information visualization community. Regardless of your position be sure to give this InfoVis Manifesto a read. Via Visual Complexity Blog. http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/blog/?p=644

“The Web is no longer a collection of static pages of HTML that describe something in the world. Increasingly, the Web is the world – everything and everyone in the world casts an “information shadow,” an aura of data which, when captured and processed intelligently, offers extraordinary opportunity and mind bending implications. Web Squared is [...]

The Finger tutting scene is blowing up. Signals from the periphery. Hinges. Traces. Isolation. <a href=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqLEzRDjQHw&feature=related’ >Franko Finger Tutting</a> <a href=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y_E9PNye3c&feature=related’ >watch?v=_y_E9PNye3c&feature=related</a> <a href=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D5lTxvldYg&feature=related’ >Moon </a>

A breakthrough explores the challenges–and suggests the financial possibilities–of creating quantum networks. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/23198/?a=f

Peep, lurk, contemplate and share your ideas around the future of money, possible anatomy of global finance and emerging mechanics of transactions. “KashKlash is a public domain project, set up by Heather Moore of Vodafone’s User Experience group, where all the content is public and open for all to use, allowing everyone to gain from [...]