A Call to Contributors

03.14.2012 | by Dylan | Comment

We’re being lame right now. While we’re pretty good at it, frequently finding interesting content to share is harder than it may sound. Follow our tumblr, there’s always fresh stuff to look at – we just reblog 17 year olds all day… it’s too easy.

We are looking for curators, culture jammers and artists to help contribute content to Selectivism. If you’ve got that internet-magic we’re looking for, email us.

The Story of Sushi

03.06.2012 | by Dylan | Comment

Three Strikes, You’re In!

03.06.2012 | by Dylan | Comment

Brilliant.

Excerpts from Business Insider:

“A Happy Meal voucher rewarding patient innocent New Yorkers for being frisked and found innocent three times by the NYPD has been making rounds on the web. The initiative, first announced in a video a month ago, was allegedly launched in partnership between NYPD and 365 Black, a McDonald’s program geared towards helping African-American communities, as an extension of the NYPD’s Stop-and-Frisk program.

Terry Malloy, the author of the “Three Strikes, You’re In!” press release, told Business Insider that the parody initiative was launched to draw attention to the Stop-and-Frisk program and the innocent people that it targets. According to him, the parody turns the Stop-and-Frisk program ‘into a game with a delightful prize.’

When asked why ‘Thee Strikes, You’re In’ chose to target McDonald’s as well as NYPD, Malloy said that McDonald’s has made millions off of serving low nourishment food to African-American communities.”

Read the entire article at Business Insider.

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Nice One Hector…

03.06.2012 | by Dylan | Comment

LulzSec Leader Betrays All of Anonymous

“According to the FBI, you’re looking at Sabu, the head of LulzSec, and the de facto King of Anonymous — easily the most notorious and influential hacker alive today. One thing: he just turned in his people to the police.”

Read the article at Gizmodo.

Faces of the Taliban

03.05.2012 | by Dylan | Comment

Photographer, Larry Towell, gives us a glimpse of the other side.

“They’re not ominous; they’re not all wrapped up looking sinister,” he said. “(Some) just look like kids.” This glimpse into their camp humanizes the insurgents when the “media dehumanizes (the) enemy during war.” – read the story at CNN

Follow These Flys on Twitter

02.29.2012 | by Dylan | Comment

Artist, David Bowen taught this colony of house flies how to tweet.

“This device sends twitter messages based on the activities of a swarm of houseflies. The flies live inside an acrylic sphere along with a computer keyboard. As the flies move and interact inside their home they fly over the keys on the keyboard. These movements are collected in real-time via video. As a particular key is triggered by the flies the key’s corresponding character is entered into a twitter text box. When 140 characters are reached or the flies trigger the “enter” key the message containing the accumulated characters is tweeted. Thus twitter messages are sent in real-time based on the predilections of the swarm of flies.”

Follow them on twitter @flycolony

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Back to Reality

02.28.2012 | by Dylan | Comment

We’re back from a short vacation – More posts coming up

The Defender: A bike light that simply can’t be jacked

02.21.2012 | by Dylan | Comment

Check out the The Defender – theft-resistant bike light by Gotham Bicycle Defense. “It locks onto your handlebars making it next-to-impossible to remove.” Pre-order one when you back their Kickstarter.
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SAGAN SUNDAY: Rare 1966 Interview

02.19.2012 | by Dylan | Comment

Check out that scientist with the eyepatch!
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Defenders of Trade

02.18.2012 | by Dylan | Comment

“We want that oil to go where it needs to go in this world. We want people in this region to be able to get the products they can buy from Europe, from America, other regions of the world,” said Naval Aviator Matt Driskill - Reuters

Read more here.