Punk-loving robots pogo for science at the ICA in the London this weekend.

(The photography of Natasja Fourie - via)

Cheap plastic dolls never looked so precious as in this photo set by Colodio.

Food exotica from Edible.

Related: Eat more insects, scientists say.

Ping mag on the hidden aesthetics of RFID tags.

Big thanks to Leandro Agro' for inviting me to speak at Frontiers of Interaction IV and to all the production team for putting on such a great event. The line-up was inspiring, from Bruno Argento (aka Bruce Sterling) to David "openspime" Orban, via Elisabeth Churchill and Nicolas Nova, among others.

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Online. On the streets. On the tube.

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Bruce Sterling points to a photo that has been found of the great grandfather of modern computers:

"This is the first known photograph of the great grandfather of modern digital computers - a room sized, one ton jumble of wiring, valves and racks that was 640 million times less powerful than its descendant, the pocket-sized iPod."

This is millennia ago in technology terms, but only 60 years in human terms.

There's classical allusion, contemporary sensibility and an eighteenth century libertine spirit in Chris Antemann's porcelains. Utterly beguiling.

Thanks to the eclectic erudition of Jahsonic, comes this black pearl from Paul Verlaine:

“I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds.”

(Quoted here)

Mash-up Sevilla style: Los Rumbers mix flamenco samples with hip hop beats.

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Billions of electronic-eating 'crazy rasberry ants' invade Texas:

"billions of tiny reddish-brown ants have arrived onshore from a cargo ship and are hell-bent on eating anything electronic. Computers, burglar alarm systems, gas and electricity meters, iPods, telephone exchanges – all are considered food by the flea-sized ants, for reasons that have left scientists baffled."

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LAX will use body imaging scanning:

"I don't think people are really aware of just how accurate and detailed the images are of their naked body," said Peter Bibring, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union office in Los Angeles. "We need to make sure there are good safeguards. The temptation is great not to follow procedures when a celebrity or someone well-known is involved."