Print Story: New software detects Web interference on Yahoo! News: Increasingly worried over Internet providers’ behavior, a nonprofit has released software that helps determine whether online glitches are innocent hiccups or evidence of deliberate traffic tampering. —— we needed something like this. we just need it built into every OS now.
Read Moresmart kids: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids Hint: Don’t tell your kids that they are. —- it can be very disempowering to be told you are smart, or smarter… what does that mean anyway? intelligence varies across too many dimensions to really make that claim too strongly as far as i’m concerned. there are […]
Read MoreContinental Philosophy » Blog Archive » E-Texts: Guattari, Molecular Revolution: Guattari, Felix. Molecular Revolution: Psychiatry and Politics (Peregrines). New York City: Puffin, 1984. —- this is a good resource to get started on for some of guattari’s work.
Read MoreUndercover restorers fix Paris landmark’s clock | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited: “The Latin Quarter is where the concept of human rights came from, it’s the centre of everything. The Panthéon clock is in the middle of it. So it’s a bit like the clock at the centre of the world.” —- this is the […]
Read MoreYouTube – Nationl Anthem Fenway Park: National Anthem Fenway Park —- the beauty of this is that the crowd kicked in and supported this young gentleman’s song.
Read More— now with a man in a faraday suit, watch his feet and the lights he holds… musical tesla coils.
Read MoreAustralia’s Prime Minister Defeated After Four Terms – New York Times: SYDNEY, Nov. 24  Prime Minister John Howard of Australia suffered a comprehensive defeat today, with a coalition led by his Liberal Party losing its majority in parliament. —- yay! congratulations australia
Read MoreNemester: Nemester The new way to make enemiesâ„¢ Nemester is an online community that connects paranoids, egotists, villains, and monomaniacs through networks of competing agendas and incompatable ideologies for bitter conflicts, mutual loathing, or to find their one, true nemesis —- and another
Read MoreIntrovertster: Introvertster is an online community that prevents stupid people and friends from harrassing you online. —- another knockoff, somewhat funny product, but… the ‘flood with packets’ has uses.
Read MoreArchivalia: Usage of Creative Commons by cultural heritage organisations: Usage of Creative Commons by cultural heritage organisations http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007 Snapshot and case studies of current usage of Creative Commons (and other open content) licences by cultural heritage organisations in the UK —- this is a worthwhile study, i wonder if there is funding to do a […]
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