Pictures of the day: 20 October 2008 – Telegraph
1,600 papier mache pandas set up by members of WWF (World Wildlife Fund) in Paris to highlight that there are only 1,600 pandas left on earth [From Pictures of the day: 20 October 2008 – Telegraph] —— the many stands in for the many becoming fewer.
Read MoreDesigning for learning in Virtual Worlds
Designing for learning in Virtual Worlds Designing for learning in Virtual Worlds | Virtual Worlds Research Project Seminar at Roskilde University Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies Monday, October 13, 2008, 9:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Room 43-2.29 ——— This is my first event in Denmark this year, but not my last:) Jeremy
Read MoreFlickr: Panda
Flickr: Panda —- best flickr interface ever!
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Gadget Review » Asus S101 Ultra Slim and Trim Laptop —– this looks pretty nifty to me.
Read MoreTowards Humane Technologies: Biotechnology, New Media and Ethics: Naomi Sunderland, Phil Graham, Peter Isaacs: Books
Towards Humane Technologies: Biotechnology, New Media and Ethics (Paperback) [From Amazon.com: Towards Humane Technologies: Biotechnology, New Media and Ethics: Naomi Sunderland, Phil Graham, Peter Isaacs: Books] What are the ethical and political implications when the very foundations of life -things of awe and spiritual significance – are translated into products accessible to few people? This […]
Read MoreArmored truck robber uses Craigslist to make getaway
Armored truck robber uses Craigslist to make getaway [From Armored truck robber uses Craigslist to make getaway | Top Stories | KING5.com | News for Seattle, Washington ] —- bank robbers…. they are class heroes aren’t they?
Read MoreAb-normal Distribution
The Universe of Discourse : The Lake Wobegon Distribution is a tight little explanation using baseball that also maps well into the way i think of most of the blather about power laws and related seeming web 2.0 statistic, which is that if you really analyze what is going, you find out that really it […]
Read MoreThe technology can only do so much, nutrition is worth thinking about
Jamie’s Ministry of Food, the celebrity chef’s new TV series, is a powerful portrait of the socially excluded. It also reveals an enduring truth, says Felicity Lawrence: our diet today is as much about class as it always has been – and it will take more than a one-man mission to change that [From Felicity […]
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For a long time I was working on a dissertation looking at Open Source technologies. Today, I did not turn that dissertation in. That project has been shelved. Today I turned in the first draft of a dissertation on the Critical Political Economy of New Knowledge Technologies. I have a ton of research on Open […]
Read MoreRIP Hayden Carruth 1921-2008 | MetaFilter
RIP Hayden Carruth 1921-2008 [From RIP Hayden Carruth 1921-2008 | MetaFilter] ——- Sounds like a Gentleman that it would have been worth knowing. A sad day is this.
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