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10th December 2010
Why Middleware is the Key to a Successful Gov 2.0
This is a great video on the promise of middleware and why the government should stop making apps.
(Source: youtube.com)
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10th December 2010
Incredibly cool video: Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four
(Source: youtube.com)
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9th December 2010
British Parliament Approves Controversial Tuition Hikes
British students protest the “commercialization” of education. Why aren’t American students as outraged?
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9th December 2010
“We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.”
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
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9th December 2010
Video of the Day: Making Future Magic: iPad Light Painting by Dentsu London
The technique demonstrated in this video has the potential for an interesting art installation. Imagine inventing a mass transit or personal vehicle mount for iPads or other devices. You could paint an invisible 3D light-scape over a city that could only be captured by cameras prepared to take long exposures. 4th dimensional art! I might see if I can do it after the new year.
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9th December 2010
culturalbytes - Tricia Wang: Ethnographic Reflexivity of Observed Realities: From Angell's & Demetis's Science's First Mistake to Mike Lynch's killer...
I am delighted to read this quote below from Angell & Demetis, 2010, Science’s First Mistake: Misinterpreting Observation, Delusion and Paradox. (thanks webisteme for posting this!)
We cannot even know if reality is consistent with sense data, because we only perceive what…(Source: culturalbytes)
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9th December 2010
Modern & Im/material things: In Which I Speculate About Digital Trends for The New Year
It’s that time of the year again. It’s the season of making predictions and speculations about the future of a given industry or cultural trend for the new year. As a cultural artifact, prediction lists intrigue (and amuse) me. To create them a writer must have equal parts of gall, courage and…
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9th December 2010
Mapping the Technological Imagination
Check out this incredibly cool vectors project.
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9th December 2010
The Past is a Foreign Country, and We’re all Illegal Aliens
As a self-professed history nerd, I was quite content to investigate the origins of the oft-used phrase, “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” I initially read the phrase in David Lowenthal’s book on the practice of history, The Past is a Foreign Country (snappy title, no?), but couldn’t remember the footnoted author who actually wrote it. I said history nerd, not history hot-shot.
