Author: Kanyi

On Spirit for iPhone

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On Friday I spent a couple of hours going through some arduous and eventually ineffectual sets of instructions for tethering the iPhone to a laptop. Today I discovered that there is an automatic tool called Spirit, which was just released within the week. I hereby share it with other iPhone users who want to jailbreak. Find it here. It installs Cydia, which you will need to use to go through the Tethering process. Best of […]

On Technology and Relationships

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This is going to be a multiple post train of thought, I know it. But I first wanted to start with unpacking this one thought here a little bit. My friend Alex and I have spent some time pondering the notion of instant messaging, of cellphones, and of social networks, and how they leave us connected to anyone who we have ever interacted with, and make that all-too-easy proverbial “Add as a Friend” button all […]

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Marina Abramovic made me Cry “Portraits taken during the MoMA’s exhibit of performance artist "Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present”.  Abramovic sits at a table in silence, and museum guests can sit across from her and stare. Some people couldn’t handle the heat.“