Intellectually turned on. Few things in life give me greater joy than witnessing (if only from afar) another's intellectual excitement and imagination.Matt Webb is currently reading D&G's A Thousand Plateaus and taking good notes.I'm on a journey to the centre of my world . [Purse Lip Square Jaw] deleuze and guattari, great material, one of […]

When terrorism was cool. As a new film about the Weather Underground opens, former '60s revolutionary Mark Rudd wonders whatever possessed him — and America. [Salon.com] [A blog doesn't need a clever name] hmm, terrorism wasn't cool, but sometimes when the wheels of the machine become odious, and there is no other option, one has […]

from the atlantic, through arts and letters daily: A dependence that's so strong it's almost like a narcotic. You don't question the pusher.” It may sound like the language of drug addiction, but in fact Robert Baer, a former CIA agent in the Middle East, is describing American dependence on Saudi Arabia and its oil. […]

The Effects of Global Aging on the Global Workforce.. The Effects of Global Aging on the Global Workforce from the Hudson Institute. A bit of depth on the formula: Global Aging + Regional Factors + Policy Options + Wildcards = Workforce Outcomes This article, by Hudson's Gary Geipel, cites: Beyond Workforce 2020, coming in 2004. […]

US Cybersecurity Agency launched. You can all now sleep safely [The Register] through centralization you can create a monoculture, and through that you end up making your position weaker than a plural and decentralized system…

Not Rocket Science. Simon Willison is collecting his excellent series of writeups on practical CSS magic under the rubric CSS ain‰??t Rocket Science. He should be wrong, it should be like rocket science: predictable, deterministic, with an engineering ruleset saying How To Do It. Except for the tools are broken. To be specific, Microsoft‰??s tool […]

Agile programming and analogies. Boundary objects and software development is the topic of one of the papers (pdf) for Analogy Fest. [Link by Tesugen.com.]… [Imaginary magnitude] sounds like a cool paper….. its a topic I'm intersted in.

STS blogs. Blogs by people in the Science and Technology Studies field: an index… [Imaginary magnitude] so anyway, i added Gustav to my blogroll, so here is where he linked to me… there has to be more STS blogs out there in the world, come on people speak up.

Hellenic Ministry of Culture. The Hellenic Ministry of Culture The Hellenic Ministry of Culture and its many guides and maps for hundreds of Greek archaeological sites, monuments and museums. Here's one of Herakleion, in Crete. [MetaFilter] for those who are planning on hitting greece this year, I'd like two, but i think depending on my […]

Comment on the Department of Education's third National Education Technology Plan. See also the USDE press release. [A blog doesn't need a clever name] if you haven't commented comment soon, comment loud….