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

blinkx:

blinkx is a tool for your PC that allows users to find and benefit from information in a revolutionary fashion. Fundamentally, blinkx understands what you are looking for.

blinkx reads what you have on your computer screen and automatically links you to related information – Web sites, the latest news on the Web, even documents and e-mails on your own computer. Users no longer have to input keywords or get caught up in the ugly mechanics of search.

woo hoo! other than smart folders… which won’t work right in either spotlight or blink when i search for “social construction of technology” blink is what spotlight should be, it finds stuff. i type in specific intellectual, it brings up all those papers… very good.

New Open Access Journal for human-centered ICT research:

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interesting new journal.

Disappearing Government Information – New paper by Susan Nevelow Mart:

You can download it for free from SSRN.   Susan Nevelow Mart, Let the People Know the Facts: Can Government Information Removed from the Internet be Reclaimed

Abstract:     
This article examines the legal bases of the public’s right to access government information, and examines and analyzes the types of information that have recently been removed from the Internet and the rationales given for the removals. The concerted use of FOIA by public interest groups and their constituents is suggested as a possible method of returning the information to the Internet. There article concludes with a brief review of recent FOIA cases that might provide some guidance on the litigation sure to follow such concerted requests.

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this is important

http://www.meulie.net/e107_files/downloads/Rare_Exports_Finland.mov:

Pilot:

The Road to Serfdom:

House prices | After the fall | Economist.com:

The whole world economy is at risk. The IMF has warned that, just as the upswing in house prices has been a global phenomenon, so any downturn is likely to be synchronised, and thus the effects of it will be shared widely. The housing boom was fun while it lasted, but the biggest increase in wealth in history was largely an illusion.

Stanley Kubrick’s Chicago:

Few people know that before he started making movies, Stanley Kubrick was a star photojournalist. In the summer of 1949, Look magazine sent him to Chicago to shoot pictures for a story called “Chicago City of Contrasts.”

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way cool.

OrlandoSentinel.com: News
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BOCA RATON –

In the near future, when a space shuttle returns to orbit, expect Florida Atlantic University’s pride to soar with it.

A video camera recording stunningly sharp images that was largely developed at FAU is set to hitch a shuttle ride as early as next year. Its mission: part science, part safety and part space-age scrapbook.

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they say a clear picture of a dime at a mile.

Why Democrats backed off education budget:

Where’s Waldo?: Waldo the pill-dispensing robot apparently went berserk
this past week at UCSF Medical Center, sending a doctor and patient running
for cover.
Whacked-out Waldo is one of three battery-operated, rolling robots that
dispense pills at the hospital. The other two are named Elvis and Lisa Marie.
All three are about the size of a large TV and are programmed to roam
from floor to floor, distributing medications to nursing stations.
At the end of their rounds, the robots are supposed to roll into the
basement pharmacy for refills.

they are coming for you! no not you…. YOU! no, the one on the right, yes you. don’t move just cause i said the one on the right either.