Posts from — November 2007

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.
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we needed something like this. we just need it built into every OS now.

smart kids:
The Secret to Raising Smart Kids
Hint: Don’t tell your kids that they are.
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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 people who are demonstrably disadvantaged in any number of ways in terms of mental faculties, but past the demonstrable, I’m not sure i believe in ’smart’ as much as I might have a few years ago.

Continental Philosophy » Blog Archive » E-Texts: Guattari, Molecular Revolution:
Guattari, Felix. Molecular Revolution: Psychiatry and Politics (Peregrines). New York City: Puffin, 1984.
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this is a good resource to get started on for some of guattari’s work.

Undercover 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.”

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this is the way the world works…. I like it.

YouTube – Nationl Anthem Fenway Park:
National Anthem Fenway Park
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the beauty of this is that the crowd kicked in and supported this young gentleman’s song.

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now with a man in a faraday suit, watch his feet and the lights he holds… musical tesla coils.

Australia’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.
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yay! congratulations australia

Nemester:
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
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and another

Introvertster:

Introvertster is an online community that prevents stupid people and friends from harrassing you online.
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another knockoff, somewhat funny product, but… the ‘flood with packets’ has uses.

Archivalia: 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
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this is a worthwhile study, i wonder if there is funding to do a comparable study in the u.s.