It appears that I promised a full iPhone jailbreak guide in an earlier rgbFilter post. I have since lost any memory of doing it. Fortunately, I actually wrote out all the steps before my latest schism, and have since recovered them for you from my lifestream. Here is the entire rest of the series. Make sure you reread the caveats in that first post!… QuickPwn 2.2.5 identifies which iPhone model to jailbreak…
Read MoreFirst of all, try to understand that with new barriers inserted in every software update (you’ll have to hold off on each iPhone upgrade until there is a jailbreak released specifically for it) — and Apple even attempting to make it illegal to do it in the States of America — providing jailbreaking tools for the iPhone isn’t a business with a huge growth trajectory. The people who bring us this crack and the maverick apps it enables are ‘deep geeks’ who are likely doing this out of twin loves…
Read MoreA trial is convened in Sweden, in which the co-founders of filesharing directory The Pirate Bay face two years in jail and a €100,000 fine for “assisting copyright infringement”. YouTube begins crippling the audio on all of its content, whenever it auto-pattern-matches with any audio pattern claimed by a record company, sparking fears of the ‘End of Mashup Culture‘ and reports of the first massacres of teenage digital dreams. Then, just weeks later, as if to reassure any who might be in doubt as to whether there is room in…
Read MorePsychologists have simultaneously discovered that synchronised behaviour (like, say… marching in step) increases loyalty, and that after being shown propagandistic images, people’s emotional profiles are changed. It’s something I’ve always noticed — people are like mirrors. From the article… Interest in the idea of a herd mentality has been renewed by work into mirror neurons – cells that fire when we perform an action or watch someone perform a similar action. It suggests that our brains are geared to mimic our peers. “We are set up for ‘auto-copy’.” Of course,…
Read MoreSometimes two or three things come at you in the news in the same week which are such perfect expressions of opposing spirits of the times, that the connection simply begs to be drawn between those points. Take the recent rant on Derfcity, declaring a modern economic End Times for cartoons as a result of the Great Comic Axing at alternative weekly newspaper chain, Village Voice Media… OK. This is it. We’ve reached the apocalyptic final struggle for the future of cartoons. Village Voice Media is the largest group of…
Read MoreIn response to the recent unceremonious shuttering of tens of thousands of AOL blogs, Jason Scott — ASCII text files archivist, documentary filmmaker of the CC-licensed BBS Documentary, and writer of recent counter-technocultural foul-mouthed gems like Datapocalypso! and FUCK THE CLOUD — is striking up a kind of internet viligante, do-gooders league called Archive Team, which will cooperate, wiki-style, to save the sum total of cultural data on commonly used public blog servers and website shingles. Scott himself has already started the ball rolling, by personally saving (and making available…
Read MoreScientific American has posted an article about the day when Diana Reiss discovered that a dolphin had learned to use her own disciplinary tactics in reverse, against her, giving her a very human-like ‘timeout’. Even more interesting was the information that dolphins shape and play with bubble rings, in a process that very much resembles, let’s just say it: making art. Embedded from here is the 2007 video of a dolphin doing just that. With accompanying text from the article: Notoriously playful, dolphins have also caught scientists’ attention by creating…
Read MoreI can’t actually vouch for this tutorial (courtesy of TUAW). Maybe RebelScum or King-Pin can pop in and evaluate it, since as we discussed while cable-sorting at our recent group tidy-up of the increasingly Gigeresque floor of the podcast studio, I don’t intend to get into Windows 7 until I am forced. Hell, I would still be installing Windows 98, if XP weren’t required for the whole concept of me trying out PC games. A concept sadly, heretofore unexecuted, mostly due to lack of drive space on my Windows partition…
Read MoreThe TED conference has just posted a dynamic slideshow talk from 2005 by comics artist/theorist Scott McCloud, wherein he delves into his own biography and how his artistic vision was informed growing up by science. Which is interesting enough, but in the final half, he gives a crisp rundown of the analytical territory which he is famous for populating with graphic Aristotelian orgies, beginning with his 1993 treatise, Understanding Comics. The final third is the most interesting to me. McCloud is bearish on hypertext, or any form of interactivity which…
Read MoreA physicist known as Craig Hogan, at a particle physics labratory in Illinois, has unearthed new evidence that all of the information in the cosmos — including you and me — might be encoded on a farflung surface or ‘event horizon’, that encloses Life, the Universe, and Everything. The theory that the universe is ‘encoded’ is meant to address a conundrum that has puzzled quantum theorists for decades: the amount of information a three-dimensional space can mathematically contain appears not to be dependent on its volume, but rather unexpectedly…
Read MoreWhen BOOM! Studios published their post-ice-age/book-burning dystopian comic book tale North Wind, at Myspace concurrently with its retail release last January, brick-and-mortar comic shops chafed and some even rebelled, asking for “evidence” that free online simul-publication would not eat their collective lunch. (Funny how the common conventional wisdom that it would, requires no evidence whatsoever.) One year later, alongside last Wednesday’s (January 7th) release of their new miniseries Hexed under the same experimental distribution model as North Wind, BOOM!’s Editor-in-Chief Mark Waid has posted a video statement for retailers saying…
Read MoreAn eBook ‘digital rights management’ provider suddenly decides to ‘manage’ all the books it has ever sold through a popular eBook site into deep freeze, consigning all that distributed literature to the digital dustbin in a single blow. A developer attempts (and fails) a 100-day protest just to get permission to release a game he has been designing for years, on the Nintendo Wii. A physical crafts artist begins firing up a lynch mob to take down and destroy the widely sourced collage art of digital remixers. Apple escalates its…
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