Posts from — January 2007

Factor of Ten – A Future Worth Having – ANU:
Factor of Ten — A Future Worth Having: science
and art of the environment meet at the Australian National University.
Through the presentation of aesthetically powerful forms of expression,
Factor of Ten engages people both emotionally and intellectually with ideas about the environment, and in particular the need to reduce energy and material consumption by a factor of ten if Australia is to achieve a sustainable future.

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This is pretty interesting… Nice art and science inter-relatioship

Laughing Squid :
Robert Anton Wilson 1932-2007

the buddha machine: lo-fi zen minimalist heaven:
In the mail yesterday, I got a buddha machine. I love it, and I made a minimalist lo-fi film to celebrate. Incidentally, it was not only shot but also edited in about 10 minutes using the VideoDJ application (which is a perfectly functional video editing tool) in my Sony Ericsson K800i. Very cool.
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she always has the best toys!

towboat:

great old pics of an interesting bridge passing.

The Decline and Fall of the British University:
Poor communication, expensive
reading materials and illiteracy were the foundation blocks for
the universities. If today we have excellent
communications, free online information and general
literacy, we also have an environment in which the universities
are struggling to maintain their position. That, of course,
is not an accident.

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yep, that’s a nice essay.

Technology (A Special Report): Home Entertainment — Virtual Vandalism: Mischief in an online realm can be almost as annoying as the real-world thing
By Don Clark
2177 words
27 November 2006
The Wall Street Journal
R6
English

phd

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life was hard, but people weren’t as hungry.

Seymour Martin Lipset, Sociologist, Dies at 84 – New York Times:
Seymour Martin Lipset, who ignored family pressure to be a dentist and instead became a pre-eminent sociologist, political scientist and incisive theorist on American uniqueness, died on Dec. 31 in Arlington, Va. He was 84.

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I don’t think that many people get through political science degrees without reading some Lipset… He made some interesting arguments.

Lessig and Barlow at 23c3:
Sandy Stone told me that I should hear Barlow at 23c3… I didn’t get a reference url from her, but ran across it on boing boing. I’m just noting it here so I can come back and listen when I have time. Isn’t that what blogs are for? [Link]
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jpbarlow on the copyfight