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

Josh Rubin: Cool Hunting: Van Der Waals Clock:
http://www.joshrubin.com/coolhunting/archives/2004/11/van_der_waals_c.html?rss

apparently i forgot to post this yesterday….

Eye in sky may watch Parks workers :
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-gps09.html

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surveillance society…. it’s growing…

Demystifying The iTunes EQ:adam wade writes “We’ve all seen the EQ setting in iTunes, but not many of us know exactly how to use it to its full potential. Rich Tozzoli, Senior Editor of Surround Professional Magazine breaks each EQ slider down and helps you get the most out of your music.”

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handy

Library groups endorse Geneva Declaration:

eLearning Reviews: research on elearning – reviewed for you:
http://www.elearning-reviews.org/

interesting and handy.

Scopitones: music videos played on dismantled WWII airplanes:Cory Doctorow:Jacob sez, “‘Scopitones’ are music videos from the 1960s, designed to be played in a film jukebox that was built in France from surplus WWII airplane parts. Check out the archive of Scopitones –i t’s full of such retro treasures as a Nancy Sinatra video for ‘The Boots Are Made For Walking’ and a Neil Sedaka video for ‘Calendar Girl.’ Dig those crazy outfits!”Link(Thanks, Jacob!)

cool stuff….

Farting around (and “economic rationality”):

Will Wilkinson’s thoughts on the (alleged) European taste for leisure over work had me scurrying over to my bookshelf to find a copy of Marx’s Grundrisse . Will surmises that the real reason that Europeans work shorter hours than Americans is that European taxes are too high. After all, anyone who is “economically rational” would surely work more if only the rewards were there, wouldn’t they? So goes human nature according to libertarians. Well, no Will, they might work even less if they could satisfy their consumption needs with fewer hours at the grindstone. As Kurt Vonnegut says , human beings “are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different.”

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more over there. but, i think that farting around has been my primary occupation for years, but then…. i do pretty well when i’m just farting around with stuff.

Scopitones: music videos played on dismantled WWII airplanes:Cory Doctorow:Jacob sez, “‘Scopitones’ are music videos from the 1960s, designed to be played in a film jukebox that was built in France from surplus WWII airplane parts. Check out the archive of Scopitones –i t’s full of such retro treasures as a Nancy Sinatra video for ‘The Boots Are Made For Walking’ and a Neil Sedaka video for ‘Calendar Girl.’ Dig those crazy outfits!”
Link(Thanks, Jacob!)

cool stuff….

World Likely to Miss Primary Education Target:

From BBC.com (do only the British care about this? why isn’t this fronting American news sources?):

The United Nations’ target of universal primary education by 2015 is unlikely to be reached, a new report shows.

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this should surprise no one. the world economic system does not really support this and is not structured to support this, and the world would be a vastly different place if it was structured with some sense of social justice.

Lip Balm Anonymous: Recovery:
http://www.kevdo.com/lipbalm/recovery.html

now there is help….