Second Lowest Form of Wit. Jean Baudrillard (Apologetic): I’m sorry I’m so late for dinner, dear, I got stuck at the office. Have I missed everything? Mrs Baudrillard (Annoyed): Welcome to the dessert of the meal. I know there’s a genre of these jokes waiting to be born. [Kieran Healy's Weblog] but there is no […]

Bursty Community Formation in Blogspace. Absolutely fascinating paper on community formation in blogspace, by Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan, Jasmine Novak, and Andrew Tomkins, called On the Bursty Evolution of Blogspace. (Free ACM account required — it's so worth it, just for this article.) [A Man with a Ph.D. – Richard Gayle's Weblog] This is an […]

Now that's small. No that's not dust they're prototype RDIF tags from Hitachi [Micah's Weblog] Wow – that is small. About 10 years ago I met with the head of strategic planning at Loblaws, Rob Almeida, who then went on to set up President's Choice Banking. We were talking about the future of supermarkets. At the […]

Dream Tournament: Annika vs. Vijay. Sid Meier designed a virtual golf course that pits Vijay Singh against Annika Sorenstam. By Sid Meier. [New York Times: Technology] Simulations are fine, but lets put some tournaments together with mixed membership. Since I worked on a golf course as a kid, I've seen that the equality in this […]

Probe into 'happy pill' after suicides. Government bows to pressure over Prozac and Seroxat. [Guardian Unlimited] It's about time.

Directory of Open Access Journals under Creative Commons. Lund University in Sweden has recently launched the Directory of Open Access Journals featuring hundreds of peer-reviewed, scholarly journals from scientific and cultural communities. Their principal aim is to secure the right of “users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts […]

Help wanted Since I'm lucky enough that this blog is read by a decent number of talented software developers and technology managers, it seems like a good place to point to this job posting. Salon is in the market for a VP/technology. If you're interested or you know someone who might be, read the posting […]

Army and M.I.T. Unveil Futuristic Soldier Center. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology won a $50 million Army contract to form a center that develops combat gear using materials the size of atoms. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology] yes remember this is the group that swiped someones comic and used it for their proposal, never […]

Toys of the 80s. Toys of the 80s They don't make them like they used to. [MetaFilter] hmmm, they did have some great toys back then

Computer games degree 'not Mickey Mouse'. A course sponsored by PlayStation games console maker Sony is worthwhile, an academic claims. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] a degree in computer games actually couldn't be 'mickey mouse' really, there is just so much to a game beyond anything people think is simple. to really get […]