Socket's cute little Cordless Serial Adapter Bluetooth-enables any RS-232 serial device. [Hack the Planet] [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

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i'll take 10

Reasons for Booting Bush. Check out Reasons to Vote Out Bush. There are 167 reasons right now. You can add your own…. [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

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some of these are not very good reasons, others…… are all the reason you should need.

Deutschland Grid. Germany plugs into national grid. The German government launches the Deutschland Grid, or D-Grid, a multi-year effort with IBM to use grid computing to tackle scientific research. [CNET News.com - Front Door] [The Mediaburn Radio Weblog]

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E-Science is picking up in europe, now all they need is a teragrid.

Google as context renderer. Martin Terre Blanche:
“I suspect that most Google searches have as much to do with getting a
feel for context as with locating something specific.”

Great examples
in there of how search engines and related tools help us sense the
landscape surrounding a term in an impressionistic manner. (Recall is another tool in that constellation, which Martin didn't mention.)

By the way, Martin has just pushed out a very interesting manifesto on social science research in the knowledge economy, “an attempt to make good ol' research methodology _less_ boring by dousing it in
a mix of lefty politics and techno-triumphalism.” [Seb's Open Research]

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interesting paper linked by seb. i'm not sure social science in the knowledge economy amounts to what the author says yet, but i will opine soon enough…

More Passion.

I saw it on Boing Boing: Steve Martin’s script notes for The Passion.

[AKMA’s Random Thoughts]

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akma points to a hilarious page…..

Scalextric Sportworld Slot-Racing System. JOEL JOHNSON –Elevating slot car racing far past 'toy' status, the Scalextric Sportworld system is an incredibly full-featured software suite that integrates with special race… [Gizmodo]

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mmmmm cool toy, too bad it won't work with a real computer.