Posts from — July 2007

Walk Score – Walkable Neighborhoods:
Picture a walkable neighborhood. You lose weight each
time you walk to the grocery store. You stroll
home from last call without waiting for a cab. You spend less money on
your car—or you don’t own a car. When you shop, you support your
local economy. You talk to your neighbors.

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walkable neighborhoods are my favorite.

Video: Sean Smith in Iraq | Video | Guardian Unlimited:
The Guardian’s award-winning photographer and filmmaker Sean Smith spent two months embedded with US troops in Baghdad and Anbar province. His harrowing documentary exposes the exhaustion and disillusionment of the soldiers.

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this is intense, it makes you feel for the lives of the infantrymen.

Conservative Pennsylvanians Pass ‘Radical’ Laws Defying U.S. Constitution – July 16, 2007 – The New York Sun:
But in May, the mayor, 37, cast a tie-breaking council vote to enact an ordinance that bans corporate waste dumping — making his the first community in America to do so — and abolishes all corporate rights within his borough.

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denying the rights of legal fictions… they are doing the right thing.

About Us
(The Open Library):
What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book—our planet’s cultural legacy.

First, the library must be on the Internet. No physical space could be as big or as universally accessible as a public web site. The site would be like Wikipedia—a public resource that anyone in any country could access and that others could rework into different formats.

Second, it must be grandly comprehensive. It would take catalog entries from every library and publisher and random Internet user who is willing to donate them. It would link to places where each book could be bought, borrowed, or downloaded. It would collect reviews and references and discussions and every other piece of data about the book it could get its hands on.

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sweet idea

Your boss could own your Facebook profile | The Register :
“The basic law is that if you create copyright material, something you write or type into a computer, you take photographs, you do cartoons, you potentially create film, if that is created in the course of your employment then the assumption is that that belongs to your employer, so that doesn’t have to be written down by your employer,” she said.

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i probably own mine… but.. i’m pretty sure most people do not own theirs.

:::…Lebowski Fest…::::
Lebowski Fest is a celebration
of all things Lebowski and includes:

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it’s this weekend. ohhhh noooooeees

Notoriety, of a Sort:
The Fred Saberhagen Wikipedia dust-up has made Wikipedia’s list of “Lamest Edit Wars”. It’s in the “Miscellaneous lameness” section and reads:
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this one yet one more of those things that i should have ignored, but butted in on… thanks to kevin

hyperpeople » Blog Archive » The Inconvenience of Truth:
The Inconvenience of Truth

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mark pesce lays out some of the key issues of contemporary knowledge societies.

PoducateMe Guide | PoducateMe:

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this is a highly detailed guide to podcasting

The Wales-Wide Web | The beginning of the end for the industrial schooling system?:
Knowsley Council in Merseyside, has abolished the use of the word school to describe secondary education in the borough. It is taking the dramatic step of closing all of its eleven existing secondary schools by 2009. As part of a £150m government-backed rebuilding programme, they will reopen as seven state-of-the-art, round-the-clock, learning centre

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this may be a very good idea for wales and the western world. we’ve been talking for a long time about liberating the creativity of people, and properly done, this is the sort of system that could do that.