All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly.

Eat Over Your Sink:
Wow. There’s a day for everything. And today, November 24, 2006, is Sinkie Day, sponsored by the folks at www.sinkie.com. They’re also known as the “International Association of People who Dine Over the Kitchen Sink,” established in 1991. Yep, SInkie Day is a day to eat standing over your sink. Not, perhaps, a cause for celebration — but a release for a little guilty pleasure in doing so? Nut the big news is: on sinkie day, the folks at the web site announce their 6 suspected closet sinkies of the year. Will you be one?

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wow, well I don’t usually eat over the sink, but sometimes I do. It really depends on the crumb factor… if there are lots of crumbs, i eat over the sink, else… i have to sweep up crumbs…

Buy Nothing Day – ADBUSTERS.ORG:
Every November, for 24 hours, we remember that no one was born to shop. If you’ve never taken part in Buy Nothing Day, or if you’ve taken part in the past but haven’t really committed to doing it again, consider this: 2006 will go down as the year in which mainstream dialogue about global warming finally reached its critical mass. What better way to bring the Year of Global Warming to a close than to point in the direction of real alternatives to the unbridled consumption that has created this quagmire?

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celebrate buy nothing day. (of course, i have to buy contact solution today, but eh)

Worldmapper: The world as you’ve never seen it before:
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.
Maps and extra information will be added during 2006. Use the menu above or click on a thumbnail image below to view a map.

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seen a few of these before….

EU Bookshop:
From science and society to science in societyTowards a framework for ‘co-operative research’ This report arises from intensive discussions at an innovative two-day ‘Gover’Science’ Seminar organised by the Governance and Scientific Advice Unit of DG RTD in November 2005. The Seminar focused on a variety of complex and hotly contested questions that are central to current efforts to move Europe towards a ‘knowledge based society’. What is the appropriate role for science in the governance of modern society? How should research itself be governed? What is the function of public engagement? Attention focused on a variety of detailed topical areas: including the communication of risk, the provision of science advice, relations between government, industry and civil society and the best ways to balance involvement by experts, stakeholders and citizens.

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here’s an interesting report.

INEC Declaration on Open Networks being forged; Community Leaders around the World to Sign / INEC / News / Home – Scin:
While “Open” is one of the main thematic angles of INEC’s Broadband Cities 2006 (Stockholm, November 8-9), INEC is engulfed in drafting the so-called INEC Declaration on Open Networks, to be signed by community leaders around the world, INEC members and non-members alike. The Draft Declaration is being made available here.
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this is really a great idea.

OLPC UI demo:
Video provided by 90percentofeverything.com

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olpc has a cool interface.

Modern Archival Literature: A Brief Annotated Bibliography:

25 Greatest Science Books of All-Time – Discover Magazine – science news articles online technology magazine articles 25 Greatest Science Books of All-Time:
In 1543, the same year that Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus appeared, anatomist Andreas Vesalius published the world’s first comprehensive illustrated anatomy textbook. For centuries, anatomists had dissected the human body according to instructions spelled out by ancient Greek texts. Vesalius dispensed with that dusty methodology and conducted his own dissections, reporting findings that departed from the ancients’ on numerous points of anatomy. The hundreds of illustrations, many rendered in meticulous detail by students of Titian’s studio, are ravishing.

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some good ones.

Memories for Life:
Memories for Life is a unique project, funded by the EPSRC, bringing together a diverse range of academics in a bid to understand how memory works and to develop the technologies to enhance it.
We are our memories. Our memories underpin every thought we have, every fact we learn and every skill we acquire.
In today’s technology-rich society this human memory is now supplemented by increasing amounts of personal digital information; emails, photographs, Internet telephone calls, even GPS locations and television viewing logs.
We believe bringing together psychologists, neuroscientists, sociologists and computer scientists will lead to a more effective use and management of both the human and computerised memory. It will place the technology in the context.
The challenges that lie ahead include the development of prosthetic memories, the storing and retrieval of a lifetime’s worth of memories and the issues of trust and privacy such databases will entail.
We aim to produce an understanding of what is common in memory systems and use that knowledge to improve efficiency, recall and information management across human, personal, social and work domains.
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The memories for life project seems very interesting. It is amazing that they don’t have more humanists and behavioural scientists.

Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Captured Koala:

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