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The United States Army’s 4th Psychological Operations (PSYOP) Group at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, has been responsible for designing the propaganda flyers dropped by air during the recent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

If we are dealing with a Third World nation with illiteracy, there is no point in going to great pains to produce a first-rate leaflet. Not that this applies, but in Bosnia we dropped leaflets showing big food crates coming down in parachutes and begged them to not stand under the crates (as had happened in Somalia, causing a few deaths). The other answer is that with all the fancy computer software around these days we no longer need to use real artists. Most of the drawings are computer-generated images. You lose a lot when you go CGI.

Cabinet Magazine Online - Paper Bullets: An Interview with Herbert A. Friedman (via Caroline Woolard)

Tweet Your Vote: Welcome to Twitter Vote Report (via twittervotereport08)

Yahoo Pipes Geocoding Twitter feeds (via psychemedia)

Twitter uptime on Pingdom

56 mins average downtime Aug-Oct… and 100% uptime on Election day. This seems like a stable solution for realtime SMS mapping, even in disaster situations. Pingdom: twitter.com/home

What are the Twitter phone numbers?

We currently have three short codes and one long code for those who twitter internationally.

In the US, use 40404. In Canada, use 21212. In India, use 5566511. Anywhere else, use +44 7624 801423

For all people using the international number: once your phone is verified, you’ll be able to send your updates to +44 7624 801423 , but you will not be able to receive text updates from Twitter. Find out more on the Twitter Blog.

» VoIP/Telephony web framework - Asterisk/Adhearsion

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…Might the cake serve as a platform for the staging of ideas, great and small? What would a Brechtian cuisine look like? The toy theater revival, now in its tenth year, gains momentum; but it has yet to cross the thresh-old of the edible. Or has it?

“Erst kommt das Fressen,” wrote Brecht, in his most famous proverb. “Dann kommt die Moral.” First comes the eating, then the moral. Critic Fredric Jameson has addressed the compressed literary form of Brecht’s maxims, a style that recalls the direct, minimal language of the Bible and which the playwright used as a means of political address through epic dramaturgy. Minimal narrative, only gestus.

— Architecture and Dessert - Mark Sussman, 2001 - Cabinet Magazine Online - Architecture and Dessert

Erving Goffman

http://first.sipri.org

http://www.armsflow.org

Follow these directions please.

Starcraft Ecologies

Robotic Salmon

Becoming Beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being, Brian Rotman

Post Office

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770, Caricature of a Fat Person Wearing a Long Cloak and a Tricorne, Seen from Behind

“ E.O. Wilson: Oh, no. (LAUGHTER) I’ve slaughtered more ants in my life than possibly any living person. Whole colonies.

— From the Desk of David Pogue - An Interview With E.O. Wilson, the Father of the Encyclopedia of Life - NYTimes.com