Posts from — November 2007

What if my American Girl doll had an avatar in Second Life named Michael Finnegan…:
On the way to school this morning I was telling my son about the store and he turns to me and says, “What if there was an American Girl store in Second Life? And what if your American Girl doll in Second Life had an avatar in Second Life? And what if your American Girl doll avatar in Second Life made a Facebook account? And what if…..”
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this fear is perhaps the most significant idea of ‘web 2.0′…. what if identity mattered and did not matter.

J. T. Gatto interviewed by Lennart Mogren, Sweden, March 2003:
gatto is a critic of the school system’s institutionalization.

2007 – number 9 – Philosophy : A cosmic responsibility | The UNESCO Courier | ISSN 1993-8616UNESCO.ORG:
Different approaches, varied concerns, but one certainty: philosophy can’t stay in its ivory tower. It provides a weapon against dogma and manipulation. And, to cite one of Jostein Gaarder’s ideas, philosophers have a cosmic responsibility.
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Some interesting articles in this weeks unesco courier

University viewpoint: the University of Warwick on ‘The challenge of global education and research’ « GlobalHigherEd:
The challenge of global education and research

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Nigel Thrift writes on the new global education.

You Have No Choice – You Have Owners :
You Have No Choice – You Have Owners
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this is pretty good other than the dumb presidential stuff in the slideshow.

Internet Archive: Details: Communications Primer, A:
Communications Primer, A
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Ray and Charles Eames movie. It’s like powers of ten… but not.

MAKE: Blog: Tesla coil super mario duet:
Twin Solid State Musical Tesla coils playing Mario Bros theme song at the 2007 Lightning on the Lawn Teslathon sponsored by DC Cox (Resonance Research Corp) in Baraboo WI. The music that you hear is coming from the sparks that these two identical high power solid state Tesla coils are generating.
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the sound of electricity.

OpenDoc Society – Home:
OpenDoc Society brings together individuals and organisations with a stake or interest in the openness and future of documents to learn from each other and share knowledge – about core technologies, available tools, policy issues, transition strategies, legal aspects and of course the latest innovations. Whether you are a developer, publisher, decision maker, educator, vendor, IT manager, academic, writer, archivist or just an involved citizen – OpenDocSociety.org brings you together with interesting like-minded people to learn from and cooperate with. OpenDoc Society is supported by a large number of organisations .
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open document formats are necessary for the open interchange of knowledge

Bug Labs: Products:

BUG is a collection of easy-to-use, open source hardware modules, each capable of producing one or more Web services. These modules snap together physically and the services connect together logically to enable users to easily build, program and share innovative devices and applications. With BUG, we don’t define the final products – you do.
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heh, i made a proposal for this back in 1998-2000. modular computing systems…