From a paper being presented at the SecureComm conference in Italy by Tom Chothia and colleagues at the University of Birmingham, which investigate how users who participate in BitTorrent swarms for popular files are likely to have their IP addresses logged by monitoring companies within three hours.

It would be generous to say that privatesquare was ever released. Instead, the source code was made public with a long and twisty blog post and a flurry of screenshots. I’ve told a few people about my installation of privatesquare but since I haven’t had the stamina to run a service for strangers (and a free one, at…

Outrun, by Garnet Hertz:

Intriguing concept: iPet Companion:

“Rubber band AI”:

“What? They’re Only Mechanical Men!” says Spock, in this old Star Trek coloring book shown on io9

Two weird examples of photo manipulation that aims at converting an “innocent” image into something erotic or pornographic in nature: (1) The now old “mormon porn” strategy, which consists in adding circular bubbles on an image in order to make people focus on certain aspects, (2) The pixellation technique, that the…

Weird:

Read in Freud’s Civilization and its discontents