November 2007
51 posts
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Canada's coming DMCA will be the worst copyright... →
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remix.nin.com →
Brilliant.
Passing by →
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Stephen Fry on the "Storm" botnet →
Gazing into the techno-future can be fun. We all dream of utopias involving benign robots, food for all and fusion power that is free, safe and unlimited, but then there are the cacotopias too – nightmare visions of malevolent machines that turn on mankind. It has been usual to suppose that the two-pronged threat to our liberty and our privacy would emanate from big business and government, from...
On technology innovation in Canada
Amie Serga, MaRS Blog: Canada has an interesting duality to it. On the one hand, we have exceptional and educated people, a social culture open to new-comers and new ideas, and a network of small and medium enterprises — all of which are complementary to a knowledge economy. On the other, as a developed nation built on a legacy of resources and manufacturing, challenged by limited investment in...
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Change as a Feature: Designing for Consumers in a... →
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Memories processed seven times faster than reality →
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Laptops, by 8-year-olds. →
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Adobe - Flash on →
Gorgeous Flash-based video promo site from Adobe. Another hat tip to Paul.
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Songza - The music search engine & internet... →
Fast, easy to use and very slick. Hat tip to Paul.
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Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of... →
“An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave reviews from scientists.”
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A surprising idea for "solving" climate change →
Environmental scientist David Keith talks about a cheap, effective, shocking solution to climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of ash into the atmosphere, to deflect sunlight and heat?
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Peter Gabriel's "Hub" →
Witness, the non-profit led by Peter Gabriel has launched “The Hub”, an online platform allowing anyone to use camcorders, cell phones and cameras to upload, share, and discuss human rights-related footage, as well as organize advocacy campaigns.
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US intelligence honcho channels Orwell, redefines... →
Donald Kerr, the US Principal Deputy Director of Intelligence, has decided to kill privacy. He says that human beings can no longer expect governments and companies not to spy on them; instead “privacy” will now mean having the right to expect that governments and companies won’t tell other people what they learn when they spy on you.
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From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm →
” Americans spend a 3.7 billion hours a year in congested traffic. But you will never see ants stuck in gridlock.”
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good,...”
– Howard Aiken (via WorkHappy.net)
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A First Look at the Google Phone →
Definite game-changer.
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Pop!Casts →
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Caution: Watching CNN could be harmful to your... →
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The fish that can survive for months in a tree →
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Counter-taserism →
At New Scientist’s Last Word blog, a reader posed the question of how one might reduce the unpleasant shock if they’re about to be tased (bro). There are quite a few interesting answers. Apparently being high on meth seems to help. As might wearing a chainmail “shark suit.”
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How creativity is being strangled by the law →
Larry Lessig, the Net’s most celebrated lawyer, cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the “ASCAP cartel” in his argument for reviving our creative culture.
"The Interoperation" by Bruce Sterling →
“Architecture had given way to software management. So he turned buildings into construction programs.”
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William Gibson: The Rolling Stone 40th Anniversary... →
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China special: Growing pains of a superpower →
The 21st century, we are told, will be China’s. Usually this is intended as a warning: if the world’s leading economies fail to respond to the Chinese “threat”, we will face a second-class future trailing in the wake of the People’s Republic. This blinkered view gets us nowhere. …
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Vintage Computer Festival: The rare, historic, and... →
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I feel your pain →
New proof of “mirror neurons” explains why we experience the grief and joy of others, and maybe why humans are altruistic. But don’t call us Gandhi yet.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: This Hollywood... →
What makes it beautiful is that the guys on the other side of the fight are even more overpaid and more moronic and more full of crap than the writers. It’s like watching two guys you really despise get into a barfight, and you don’t know which one you want to win and ultimately you just hope they both beat the daylights out of each other.
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WatchMatthieu Ricard: Habits of happiness
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Loss of tourism costs USA $100B, 200K jobs, $16B... →
The 17 percent decline in US tourism since September 11th, 2001 has had a devastating effect on the economy, costing nearly $100 billion (200,000 jobs, 16 billion in tax revenue). Visitors to the US from around the world rank the border procedures as among the worst on earth.
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Devices Enforce Cellular Silence, Sweet but... →
“She was using the word ‘like’ all the time. She sounded like a Valley Girl,” said the architect, Andrew, who declined to give his last name because what he did next was illegal.
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Our cell phones, ourselves →
Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase’s investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our pockets.
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Gracenote: Music Maps →