Category — General

EC offering a billion euros for ICT research. From a European Commission news release, 29 Sept: “The Union's priority for R&D in Information Society Technologies (IST) aims to bring technologies closer to people, ensuring that all Europe's citizens and businesses can, and actually do benefit from technological advance…[The]… [InternetPolicy.net]

Hallucinogenic “tablets” hit Baghdad? [bOing bOing]

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is this really happening or did someone start broadcasting fox news there too?

Deflating the Blog Bubble: this guy is soooooo right….:

During one of the Saturday sessions a member of the audience referred to the assembled crowd as “utopia”. Now, yes, I loved the blog camaraderie but quite frankly I don't want to be the only black person in utopia. I was the only black person in that room, and was one of a few minorities. I'm not whining about that, but simply stating the fact that a technology that is mostly the pursuit of upper middle class white males does diddly to change the real world. I'm a geek through-and-thorough but when I hear tooth gnashing about issues like copyright as if they were the most important issue in the world – it tells me that the blog world is somewhat out of touch.

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Monkey business. While Liz may find herself questioning the force of her arguments while finishing up the AIR paper, I myself have… [Blog de Halavais]

Halley Gets Joi. Halley successfully Stealth Disco'ed Joi Ito at BloggerCon — and, brazen woman that she is, continued discoing after he noticed. . . . Check it out…. [AKMA’s Random Thoughts]

2003 MacCarthur Fellows. The MacCarthur Foundation has announced the 2003 winners of what has come to be known as its “genius” grants–5 years… [The Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates]

Very snarky post from Leiter, who seems to think that philosophical genius is general genius, when was the last time that the people that are chosen for this are chosen because of what they add to the world, and can add to the world in general terms. The genius rewarded here is the genius of general effects.

Infographics.

Those who like to learn about and ponder world affairs through the graphical representation of data will enjoy these posters presented by the International Networks Archive at Princeton.

[Crooked Timber]

Kickass Women. Tina and four of her grad school friends are working on reviving their pre-days-of-blogging blog, Kickass Women. It doesn't mean that Tina is abandoning her EYV digs with me. We like having a blog together. It does mean that she'll… [Eat Your Vegetables]

Another Top 100 films. Another Top 100 films, but this is the product of Tv Cream and is more special (and I'd hazard closer to our opinions) than the usual lists. I won't give away the top film but if I mention that 'Psychomania', 'The Belles of St Trinians', 'The President's Analyst' and 'Time Bandits' are all in there you'll get the idea. Purposefully obscure at times? Sure. After all, there are still no places for 'Krush Groove' or 'Electric Dreams' … [MetaFilter]

The Senate Starts To Grow A Spine. “Up to now, it’s been like Dodge City before the marshals showed up.” — Senator Ron Wyden (D-Or.) speaking of the Administration’s contracting practices in Iraq as the Senate voted to require open bidding on Iraq-related contracts.Of course it’s just a small growth of spine, as Iraq is just a small part of the picture. What worries me is that the entire approach to the Treasury, the budget, the tax code, has been too much like barbarians sacking a wealthy city…… [Discourse.net]