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jonathano — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:32:38 -0400

theatlantic: Turning Street View Into Street Art As Google’s...

jonathano — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:38:53 -0400

theatlantic:

Turning Street View Into Street Art

As Google’s Street View cars rumble through our cities and towns, they don’t capture merely the geography of our streets and buildings. They see and record the life there, people going about their days.

Those inadvertent portraits are now moving back from the digital realm to our earthly one, in artist Paolo Cirio’s projectStreet Ghosts.

Cirio finds images of humans on the streets of Street View and creates life-sized prints of them, and places them back on the spot where they were originally captured, such as in the picture above, taken from a Street View image of Dircksenstrasse in Berlin. As he describes it, his project exposes “the specters of Google’s eternal realm of private, misappropriated data: the bodies of people captured by Google’s Street View cameras, whose ghostly, virtual presence I marked in Street Art fashion at the precise spot in the real world where they were photographed.”

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jonathano — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:38:40 -0400

theatlantic: Google Keeps Paying Deceased Employees’ Families...

mikeclaremikeclare — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:41:50 -0400

theatlantic:

Google Keeps Paying Deceased Employees’ Families for a Decade

Many of the perks Google famously offers its employees are designed to help those employees enjoy a healthier life. Organic food in the cafeteria! On-site gyms! Subsidized massages! Nap rooms!

Turns out, though, that the company also wants its employees to enjoy a better death. More specifically: a wealthier death. In an interview with Forbes’s Meghan Casserly, Laszlo Bock — Google’s, Chief People Officer (in non-Google terms: head of HR) — shares a Google benefit that is all too literally out of this world. “This might sound ridiculous,” Bock tells Casserly. “But we’ve announced death benefits at Google.”

Yes. It’s like this: Should someone pass away while employed by Google, that person’s surviving spouse or domestic partner will receive a check for 50 percent of the deceased’s salary. And that spouse or domestic partner will receive that check every year. For the next decade.

Read more. [Image: Shutterstock/Viktor Gladkov]