Posts from — May 2007

International Prize of Digital Literature:
Submissions are now open for the annual Ciutat de Vinaros International Prize of Digital Literature, with a deadline of 14th September 2007. Works may be submitted in French, Spanish or Catalan, Italian or Portuguese, as well as in English. The two main prizes are in “Digital Narrative” and “Digital Poetry”, each offering a large purse of 2,500 euros to the winner (about £1,700). Works must be unpublished, have a high quality as interactive design and as literature, and should “explore and use the possibilities of the computer as a space for creation”.

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great.. we need more of these.

Spy Chips:
This book will make you look at every store-bought item you own or debate owning with a curious skepticism that — after reading the book — won’t seem too unwarranted. It was published two years ago (a cheap paperback came out in the fall), but if you’ve yet to explore the fascinating, potentially paranoia-inducing, world of RFID and you want the cautionary, consumer-advocate perspective about the Radio Frequency Identification tracking being proposed — and used! — by certain companies (for instance, Gillette, Procter & Gamble and Wal-Mart)

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this could be an interesting book.

“New” Internet to Be Built by Original Designer:
Arguably, BBN has more Internet experience than any other company. In 1969 it led the effort to connect computers at four universities, a linkage that became ARPAnet, the original backbone of today’s Internet.
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yes.. and then bill joy fixed it so it actually worked fairly quickly.

Hobo Signs & Symbols:
Hobo Signs & Symbols

Some hobos now communicate via cellular phones and e-mail. But the classic American hobo of early this century communicated through a much more basic system of marks–a code through which they gave information and warnings to their fellow Knights of the Road. Usually, these signs would be written in chalk or coal on a trestle, fence, building or sidewalk, letting others know what they could expect in the area of the symbol.

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for the perpetually lost….

powerpoint presentation humor:
2 “PowerPoint presentations” by comedian Don McMillan, who attempts to give some good advice on using the PowerPoint tool properly. there is another funny Powerpoint-based video after the break.

[link: myspace.com & myspace.com|via presentationzen.com]

see also powerpoint bad for brains.
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hilarious.

You scored as Classical Liberal. You are a classical liberal. You are sceptical about much of the historicity of the Bible, and the most important thing Jesus has done is to set us a good moral example that we are to follow. Doctrines like the trinity and the incarnation are speculative and not really important, and in the face of science and philosophy the surest way we can be certain about God is by our inner awareness of him. Discipleship is expressed by good moral behaviour, but inward religious feeling is most important. Classical Liberal 82% Emergent/Postmodern 71% Modern Liberal 61% Roman Catholic 50% Neo orthodox 36% Charismatic/Pentecostal 32% Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 21% Reformed Evangelical 7% Fundamentalist 0%

What's your theological worldview?
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i actually don’t accept most of what it ascribes to me.

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Stephanie Booth on BBC NEWS 24

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Bunny made the beebs, congratulations, well done.

BBC NEWS | Technology | ‘$100 laptop’ sparks war of words:
Chip-maker Intel “should be ashamed of itself” for efforts to undermine the $100 laptop initiative, according to its founder Nicholas Negroponte.

He accused Intel of selling its own cut-price laptop – the Classmate – below cost to drive him out of markets.

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hmmm, i think the intel design might actually be more servicable.

Book of Watercolors of Second Life Now on Sale:
Amy Wilson has been painting really nice watercolors illustrating her travels around the virtual world of Second Life for some time. Now, she’s published them in a 32-page book, available on Lulu.com.

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Mark points to Amy’s new book which has a forward by Brian

Unusual Hotels of the World : Woodpecker Hotel:
Tree house set 13 metres above a Swedish public park, with rope ladder access only.

The Woodpecker hotel is another brainchild of Mikael Genberg, artist and innovator of this hotel and its sister, the underwater Utter (Otter) Inn on nearby lake Malaren.

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Rochelle said she’d take me there next year! ohhhhh myyyyyyssssss!