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

The Mobile Information Society
:

there are some papers too, but mostly there are only abstracts.

Blogthings – The American Cities That Best Fit You:

What is Your World View?
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http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=1397&date=20050509

China “suspected of spying at Swedish universities”

(AFP/The Local) China is suspected of hiring scientists to spy and steal unpatented research from Swedish universities, Swedish public radio reported on Monday.

Quoting an unnamed detective within Sweden’s security service, Säpo, radio news program Ekot reported that guest scientists from China were suspected of stealing unpublished and unpatented research from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

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wow! just wow. this is the sort of thing i just don’t expect to come from Sweden. Oh, I can see it happening… that is not an issue, knowledge is ’stolen’ or more precisely ’shared’ all the time. That is the nature of science, it is communal and shared. It is not personal/private and owned. However, when states stop underwriting knowledge generation and knowledge producers have to turn to profit and guarantee mechanisms to ensure their future livelihood and the continued existence of their institutions, traditional understandings start to fade awy.

Putfile – Upload Video and Upload Images:

Custom Action Figures & Personalized Action Figures that look like
you.:

oh this is great fun.

TASTELESS WTC SAND SCULPTURE DONE IN INDIA 11-16:

it doesn’t seem so bad to me. I like the cartoonish quality of the plane.

Chronicle – Leaving Academe:

On my first day in the English dept, an aged colleague, grizzled and smelling slightly of gin, sidled over and said – ‘Some people hold that reading great books makes one a better and more moral person. Well, I’ve read a great many books and look at me….

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classic.

Getting Things Done TiddlyWiki:

Holy wiki, Batgirl! GTD TiddlyWiki tracks all your Getting Things Done lists – Next Actions, Projects, and context lists – in a you-won’t-believe-your-eyes dynamic web page made up of editable chunks.

The original TiddlyWiki by Jeremy Ruston is, without a doubt, one of the most amazing dynamic web apps I’ve ever seen (sorry Gmail.) The GTD TiddlyWiki adaptation is searchable and printable on 3×5 index cards (hello Hipster PDAers), and best of all, web hosting isn’t required to use it. Simply save the file to your computer and open it up in your web browser for a private, local, cross-platform webpage app. Give yourself some time to play with this new toy – it’s fun, addictive and useful.

Very, Very, Very cool

well today almost turned out bad, but it didn’t. I lost my wallet apparently, but i lost it at Gillies which was the only place that i’ve used it today. They had it, which is great because I’ll need what’s in it for italy.