Autonomous sensory meridian response” (ASMR) is a neologism for an alleged biological phenomenon characterized as a distinct, pleasurable tinglingsensation in the head, scalp or peripheral regions of the body in response to visual, auditory, olfactory, and/or cognitive stimuli. Other phrases to describe the sensation refer to it as a “brain orgasm”, “brain massage”, “head tingle”, “brain tingles”, “head orgasm”, “spine tingle”, and “braingasm”.

http://www.asmrvideos.com/ 
http://www.vice.com/read/asmr-the-good-feeling-no-one-can-explain 
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/may/8/notes-asmr-massumi-and-joy-digital-painting/ 

Noisy Typer is a free piece of software which plays typewriter sounds as you type. It runs in the background and works with all applications ( email, web, word etc ). Key sounds include: letter keys, spacebar, backspace, carriage return and scroll up and down.

http://fffff.at/noisy-typer-a-typewriter-for-your-laptop/ 

Today I participated in a contest, a web surfing contest. To be precise: the Trail Blazers Web Surfing Contest #5 atTransmediale 2013 BWPWAP. What’s so special about this web surfing contest?

In seven rounds, eight surfers are sent to specific trails they must complete only by clicking real hyperlinks. During each round a surfer drops out. If after 15 minutes, more than one surfer is still working to reach the goal, a rush to cat/gif/earth-images speeds things up. No keyboard, no Google, no copy/paste … just real hyperlinks!

These were the 7 rounds:

Round 1:
Start here: http://www.amazon.com/
Surf to: http://www.thepiratebay.se/

Round 2:
Start here: http://play.google.com/
Surf to: http://www.itunes.com/

Round 3:
Start here: http://www.instagram.com/
Surf to: http://www.flickr.com/

Round 4:
Start here: http://www.kim.com/
Surf to: http://www.wikileaks.org/

Round 5:
Start here: http://www.lol.com/
Surf to: http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

Round 6:
Start here: http://www.so.cl/
Surf to: http://www.pinterest.com/

Round 7:
Start here: http://www.juanna.ch/
Surf to: http://www.gettyimages.com/

So try it yourself, just use your left mouse button.

from http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2013/02/03/trail-blazers-web-surfing-contest-5/ 

DIS images is a serial project focused on manipulating the codes and trends in stock photography.

http://disimages.com/

The RGBDToolkit invites you to imagine the future of filmmaking. 
Repurposing the depth sensing camera from the Microsoft Kinect or Asus Xtion Pro as an accessory to your HD DSLR camera, the open source hardware and software captures and visualizes the world as mesmerizing wireframe forms. A CGI and video hybrid, the data can be rephotographed from any angle in post. 

http://rgbdtoolkit.com/ 

WikiCancel is the most current subscription, contract, and account cancellation guide. This Wiki lists the steps to delete your online accounts, such asFacebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, cancel contracts with companies, such as Sprint, Comcast, and LA Fitness, and unsubscribe from emails from sites like Groupon andLivingSocial.

WikiCancel’s goal is to make cancelling a subscription, contract, or account easier by increasing the accessibility of this information. Check out the Help page to see how you can edit any page right now, or the Project page for more information about WikiCancel and getting involved. You can use the search box to find companies, and if you do not find a company you can create the page for it!

http://wikicancel.org/index.php?title=Main_Page 

High Tech, Low Life follows two of China’s first citizen reporters as they travel the country chronicling underreported news and social issue stories. Armed with laptops, cell phones, and digital cameras they develop skills as independent one-man news stations while learning to navigate China’s evolving censorship regulations and avoiding the risk of political persecution.

The Perennial Plate is an online weekly documentary series dedicated to socially responsible and adventurous eating.  The episodes follow the culinary, agricultural and hunting explorations of chef and activist, Daniel Klein.  Season One took place over a calendar year in Minnesota where every Monday for 52 weeks, Klein and cameragirl Mirra Fine released short films about good food.  In Season Two, Klein and Fine traveled across America, taking the viewer on a journey to appreciate and understand where good food comes from and how to enjoy it.  In their Third Season, Klein and Fine are going around the world.  From China and India to Argentina and Italy, the duo will explore the wonders, complexities and stories behind the ever more connected global food system.  Join them in October for bi-weekly episodes.
http://www.theperennialplate.com/

Episode 111: The Middle Way

http://watch.tpbafk.tv/

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/15/googles-top-secret-video-game-revealed