"Sleep/Wake Up" by Julie Morel is a project that decontextualizes the "Sleep" and "Wake Up" keys found on typical PC keyboards into a networked control for the artist's bedside lamp. Visitors to the gallery in Toulouse, France can press the buttons which then control the lamp in Paris. A very simple binary connection, but nice implementation of the two keys on a bank wall in the gallery.
AP - The plan was nothing if not audacious: A turncoat persuades rebels to bring together their most prized hostages and march them 90 miles through Colombia's wilderness. A month later, disguised commandos primed with acting lessons land in a helicopter and trick the rebels into handing them over.
Reuters - The investigation of a salmonella
outbreak in the United States is shifting to the southern
border to encompass produce imported from Mexico, CNN reported
on Thursday.
