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

jukebox – POPULAR VICTOR, EDISON, COLUMBIA RECORDINGS FRO 1900 – 1930:

TURTLE’S “78 RPM” JUKEBOX

some classic mp3’s converted from 78rpm records

Having poured over the umpteenth attempt to give some meaning to the
now-official ‘crisis’ of the EU, this one looked all the more
refreshing, as the reiteration of Stenger’s call for a democratization
of the production of scientific authority reminded me of the many
terrains ‘beyond politics’ where Europe takes (its) shape, sz

Europe’s foremost philosopher of science offers a devastating indictment
of contemporary European science

Isabelle Stengers
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/WSWE.php

As a philosopher, I can imagine no better keynote to strike than: what
are you doing, what are you trying to do? Organizing a discussion on the
European Research policy matters! It matters because it is both urgently
needed and difficult.

How to read the seventh framework programme? The first point to note is
that this programme does not really invite political debate. Indeed we
do not dealing with choices that could be discussed but with what
presents itself as the simple enactment of the “Lisbon agenda”, fully
endorsing its slogans, such as “knowledge society”, “economy of
knowledge”, “knowledge and its exploitation” as “the key for economic
growth” and “the competitiveness of enterprises.” All this, leading, as
we should trust, to employment, while maintaining and strengthening the
so-called “European Model”, and also providing an improvement of welfare
and well-being, quality of life, health and the environment; for such
improvements rely, as history has shown, on the progress of knowledge
and its many applications.

Garden-in-a-Bag:

Now it doesn’t get much easier than growing fresh herbs, but I still totally dig these ‘Garden-in-a-Bag’ kits from Wishing Fish, which provide the dirt, nutrients, and seeds you need to grow herbs and plants right out of the packaging. Pop them open and add water and it won’t be long before you have a believable excuse about why your entire office smells like chives.

Catalog Page ($8 – $10) [WishingFish via CoolHunting]

i’ll have to get a few of these…. nothing quite like fresh herbs.

via antonio gramsci

Originally uploaded by buridan.

it crosses via roma in turin… it has quite a few clothing shops.

cooltech.iafrica.com | tech news Hi-tech exam cheaters nabbed:

Three Greek youths were arrested over the weekend for conspiring to cheat in a university entrance exam using a wireless camera hidden in a pen, police said.

i give them B for innovation and a F for planning.

FREE SOFTWARE, FREE SOCIETY
The Thiruvananthapuram Declaration
May 29, 2005

We are currently living in a world that is increasingly gettinginterconnected and the issues of our concern are becoming global.Along the way, new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)transformed the process of knowledge construction and dissemination inour society. This process is transforming other fields of humancreativity as well — including music, painting or writing. Humanhistory is calling us to take note of this change. Creative workstoday live in a digital world, travel at the speed of light, gettransformed in seconds, become part of several other creations, andgrow in a number of other ways.

As society transforms drastically, we — students, engineers, ITprofessionals, social activists, lawyers, elected publicrepresentatives, media persons, film-makers and concerned citizens —urge our world to take note of the immense potential opening up forhumanity, and to ensure that technology is harnessed in the needs ofthe time to tackle the wider concerns of our planet.

Free Software has convincingly demonstrated to the world we know thatknowledge building is enhanced by freedom, openness and socialconsciousness; and that such features are very effective in creating afairer society and enhance the cause of the social good.
In the new networked and digitized society, the intangible(non-materialistic) aspects of reality are becoming more important incomparison with the material ones. Several years of material-centereddevelopment has not helped humanity to create a better world for all;or even for the majority on this planet.

To face the challenges of the day, we need a new model of developmentcentered around non material aspects of life — includingcollaboration, sharing, and compassion. Such a society is evolvingtoday on the foundations of freedom, collaboration and sharedknowledge.

We call it the gnowledge society (see http://www.gnowledge.org).
In our view, the gnowledge society will and must prefer:

freedom over bondage; sharing over monopoly; public good over privateprofit; participation over exclusion; cooperation over competition;diversity over uniformity.

We find that patent, copyright and other legal and institutionalsystems related to human knowledge are not suitable for thedevelopment of the gnowledge society. These systems were createdduring the industrial revolution, and then continued in spite of majorchanges in how technology shapes our lives. These systems were notdesigned for, and therefore cannot cater to, the emerging gnowledgesociety. For the development of human society, it is imperative thatwe promote the collaborative development and free sharing ofknowledge.
Such principles are not only consistent with, but even mandated by,the spirit of human rights as defined by the present legal system.

We, the participants at the Free Software, Free Society conference inThiruvananthapuram underline the following:

We call upon the social and political institutions to eliminatesystems that hinder the development of the gnowledge society.

We demand that every human being works for a more fair distribution ofknowledge for all, and for a world based on knowledge sharing andcollaboration.

Agreed upon in Thiruvananthapuram, South India, amongst theparticipants at the Free Software, Free Society Conference, byparticipants from the countries of:Bangladesh,Brazil,India,Italy,NorwayUruguayVenezuela.

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Declaration: http://fsfs.hipatia.net/wiki
FSFS: http://fsfs.hipatia.net

Juneday:

We have Mayday. Why not Juneday? Just wondering.

I hate that time moves faster as I get older. May was a 31-day month, but I feel like it went by in a week.

We do not have Juneday because we do not want to cut into the celebration that is Bloomsday.

New study sees how love burn brains:

New love can look for all the world like mental illness, a blend of mania, dementia and obsession that cuts people off from friends and family and prompts out-of-character behavior – compulsive phone calling, serenades, yelling from rooftops – that could almost be mistaken for psychosis.

personally, i’d say all of it looks sort of like this…. but that’s life.

HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries:

John Dewey, who lived from 1859 until 1952, was a “progressive” philosopher and leading advocate for secular humanism in American life, who taught at the University of Chicago and at Columbia. He signed the Humanist Manifesto and rejected traditional religion and moral absolutes. In Democracy and Education, in pompous and opaque prose, he disparaged schooling that focused on traditional character development and endowing children with hard knowledge, and encouraged the teaching of thinking “skills” instead. His views had great influence on the direction of American education–particularly in public schools–and helped nurture the Clinton generation.

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heh, well…. at least he was right.

Computer Forensics
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