January 2011
43 posts
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EGYPT: Looting as Counter-Insurgency - Global... →
There have been a growing number of reports of looters/thugs conducting smash and grabs across Cairo. Interestingly, there’s also a growing number of reports that when these thugs are caught, they…
BoardGameGeek →
Egypt turns off internet, Lieberman wants same... →
On Thursday Jan 27th at 22:34 UTC the Egyptian Government effectively removed Egypt from the internet. Nearly all inbound and outbound connections to the web were shut down. The internet…
Egypt: to thwart protests, government attempts to... →
“Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all…
book review: blindsight →
Blindsight was fucking incredible. Peter Watts put it out under a Creative Commons license so you can go download and read it now if you want. The book has sort of a backgrounder website, which…
Seinfeld: "Jerry the Great" re-cut... →
I favorited a YouTube video: My fourth Seinfeld video: Jerry hatches a plot to take over the world with his side kick George. But in the end, Jerry wants to take all the spoils for himself…
computational literacy and the gibsonesque present →
After an 8am class on instruction in which we started to learn about treating lessons as products to be designed, I attended a colloquium by Michael Twidale about Computational Literacy &…
Great Moments in Pedantry: How "Jurassic Park" got... →
The dinosaur called “Velociraptor” in the 1993 Jurassic Park movie was not actually a Velociraptor at all. They are much smaller, probably half the height of what you see in the film. If…
Cool! Movie: "Do You Want to Be a Librarian?"... →
We think you’ll enjoy this and my want to share it with colleagues and friends. A 1946 digitized movie that’s part of the “Your Lifes Work” vocational series. It runs 10:15. Direct to Video (via…
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Joos portable solar power charger looks good →
I don’t have one of these Joos portable solar power chargers, but they look good, and the specs are impressive. The manufacturer claims that it charges at least 3 1/2 times faster than other…
Searchable Annotated Bibliography: Collective... →
The bibliography is the work of Alison Booth, Professor, Department of English of the University of Virginia and Associate Fellow, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities . From the…
Reactions to the Vernon Wells trade. →
Virtually all positive for the Jays.
Wait, You Mean Someone Wants To Pay Vernon Wells? From Deadspin: Wells will earn $23 million next year, so the Angels had better hope he repeats his…
“I lead a rich internal life” is the way I typically explain it to myself...”
– Tycho
Mint.com helps you stay on track, but at what... →
Money management tool is great for the financially challenged, but some are raising concerns about privacy, security and potential identity theft
"Infopocalypse: The cost of too much data" →
From an Article in the Boston Phoenix by Chris Farone: Over the next decade, the world will produce the informational equivalent of nearly 100 million Libraries of Congress per year, according to…
Morgan, Eric Lease: Visualizing co-occurrences... →
This posting describes how I am beginning to visualize co-occurrences with a Javascript library called Protovis. Alternatively, I an trying to answer the question, “What did Henry David Thoreau say…
Tales of a Chinese daughter: On the superiority or... →
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Refers to this article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704111504576059713528698754.html
My biggest complaint: this piece is so fucking dangerous. I’ve seen and…
book review: the other →
I’ve had The Other sitting on my shelf for a couple of months and just got to it. It’s a book of philosophical essays by Ryszard Kapuscinski about how people deal with people who are not like…
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“What do you call a room with a bunch of books? A closet. What’s an empty...”
– R. David Lankes
"I was disconnected from reality, enslaved by... →
Samuel, a 24 year old Parisian student, led a quiet life with his girlfriend. A little bit out of step with his time, Samuel refuses to use modern technology. However a meeting will change their…
"We either live together, or we die together." →
Barely into the new year on Khalil Hamda street in Alexandria Egypt: “A devastating New Year’s Day terrorist bombing at a Coptic church in Egypt that killed 21 people was the latest in a spate of…
WikiLeaks Cables Cited in Lawsuit Over $500M... →
A deep-sea treasure-hunting company in Florida says that classified cables recently released by WikiLeaks have exposed the U.S. government’s backdoor interference in a lawsuit over $500 million in…
Chiptunes documentary "Reformat the... →
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If only Hulu worked in Canada.
You may or may not know that chiptunes have a very special place in our hearts. Regardless, the documentary about the people behind…
Infant Aerobics? →
Um…
via Disinformation
Whaddaya reckon? Real or fake? Either way, it certainly filled my Involuntary Horrified Shrieking Laughter of the Damned quotient for the day. Gah…
You win this…
from our correspondent in winnipeg →
A heartwarming tale of good old Section 22 by my friend Mary. Thanks for letting me post this. It reminds me of doing my time.
A customer told us there was a woman passed out on the floor in the…
Come Join the Carnival of Journalism! →
I’m terribly excited to introduce the RETURN of the Carnival of Journalism.
To understand it’s epicness – you first have to close your eyes and think back to a time long ago on the Internet…
Internet No Longer Just For Porn →
From Pew:
This is a study regarding where people get their news as broken down into four categories. The line that gets the most action and the most interest is the red Internet line in…
Internet No Longer Just For Porn →
From Pew:
This is a study regarding where people get their news as broken down into four categories. The line that gets the most action and the most interest is the red Internet line in…
book review: overqualified →
Overqualified is a novel told in job application cover letters. It’s by Joey Comeau, who does the comic A Softer World and wrote the zombie novel One Bloody Thing After Another. (I haven’t…
poking a library corpse with a ten-foot pole →
Via @librarythingtim, who is not touching it with a ten-foot pole, comes this Chronicle article on how librarians killed the academic library. Well, I like poking contrarian ideas to see what…
Who owns your digital downloads? (Hint: it’s not... →
Who owns your digital downloads? (Hint: it’s not you)
Click the link, read it, and explain to me how libraries (or, more importantly, WHY) libraries plan on overcoming this obstacle. Why not just…
tech review: pinboard.in →
At the end of November I finally decided to revive my del.icio.us account. I figured the winter break would be a good time to get everything organized and figure out a way to integrate my Google…
Always Retain Your Data →
Measurements separated by decades can yield a wealth of knowledge. Old Weather is a citizen science project (part of the Zoouniverse initiative for crowdsourced analysis) to transcribe the…
book review: incandescence →
I took a break from reading a Mary Shelley book because I needed something with a little less overwroughtness, and Greg Egan’s Incandescence was exactly the right thing to read. It’s about travel…
Three myths about students and the Net →
If your company counts students among its customers, check out these three myths about how they use the Internet
Why We Love Sci-Fi: It Boldly Goes Where Other... →
Many of sci-fi’s common scenarios delve into complex themes that beholden-to-reality fiction and non-fiction cannot so readily explore.
America needs an industrial policy →
A. Lange & Söhne is a German watchmaker just of outside Dresden in Saxony. But Lange isn’t any ordinary watchmaker of the Swiss sort. Correction: in some respects it is. I’m a lover of fine…
Would a near extinction event spur an interest in... →
What do Viking colonies teach us about space colonization? The former offers a dire lesson about why the latter may become necessary. Paul Gilster of Centauri Dreams discusses the…