"This year's Reith Lecturer is the
distinguished engineer, Lord Broers who is President of the Royal
Academy of Engineering and Chairman of the House of Lords Science and
Technology Committee."
"Lots of fans and even some pros
characterize Batman as being crazy. However, the rationale given for
this judgment has often had little to do with the realities of mental
illness."
John Belcher and colleagues ...
developed a computer applet into which students put the mathematical
expressions that describe a given field. "It then pops out a visual
representation of what the field looks like," he said.
"Gaskell took Charlotte Brontë,
the author of Jane Eyre, the dirtiest, darkest, most depraved fantasy
of all time, and, like an angel murdering a succubus, trod on
her."
"The gay and lesbian pressure group
is currently trying to pull together a pledge from five major parties
at Westminster to conduct non-homophobic campaigns..."
I can safely say this is by far my
favorite O'Reilly cover art to date. Amusing and accurate, if you've
ever been on a mailing list dicussing such topics
"The creators, stars and crew of
Star Trek: Enterprise ambitiously and proudly upheld the fine
traditions of the Star Trek franchise. We are grateful for their
contributions to the legacy of Trek..."
Interesting piece - I'm trying to
work out how much of what I do here is about me talking in public and
how much of it is about me organising myself in public
Lots of conversations around
creating some kind of monolithic internal lifestyle admin interface,
which I'm both interested and slightly horrified by...
I wonder if we could pursue a
componentised vision by creating mediating interfaces that completely
circumvent the individual weblog / flickr / whatever
interfaces...
" As I'm sitting there, waiting to
start mashing buttons again, I can't help but think that this is kind
of lazy design. Isn't there a better way to do this inside the game
itself? Why ask the player to stop playing?"
"The GLAAD Media Awards recognize
and honor the media for their fair, accurate and inclusive
representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
community and the issues that affect their lives"
The implementation here though is a
bit odd - you can only tag stuff that you've written, and there
doesn't appear to be any immediate personal benefit for doing so,
except maybe self-promotion...
Pranksters Undo Ten Years
Of Cruise Auditing "By lunchtime on the West Coast, it's unlikely
that there will be a single human being who hasn't seen the video of
Tom Cruise getting blasted in the face with water from a prankster's
microphone"
The Pan & Scan
"Giant-Ass Image Viewer" Once they get this working on IE
effectively, then this is going to be a really nice and elegant way of
displaying larger images and maps across the internet. And all
inspired by work by Google...
"The biggest regret is that we
didn't stop 9/11. And then in the wake of 9/11, instead of redoubling
what is our traditional export of hope and optimism we exported our
fear and our anger. And presented a very intense and angry face to the
world. I regret
"I'm getting kicked out of the SFSU
freshmen dorms for documenting underage alcohol abuse and criminal
activities that have taken place over the past semester." - student
photojournalist at SFSU (I looked and looked, but can't find the
offending images th
Leave to marketers to see something
useful like bottom-up organization and think "Wow, people like some
useful new thing? We better stuff advertising in that!"
Apparently there's the father of an
Iraq war vet campaigning against Blair in his constituency. Millar's
idea - re-elect the Labour party, but make sure Blair can't lead it.
Strange / intriguing.
"NotApathetic was built so that
people who are planning not to vote in the UK General Election on May
5th can tell the world why." I don't really approve of this, to be
honest...
The thing about 37 signals is that
they not only do good consulting, but they also make beautiful things
for their own sake. That's a company ethos that I can
understand...
I talked to a few people about this
stuff a year or so again. I might get around to doing something around
it again. I hope they define something that applies to all webloggers
though, not just the minority that aspire to journalistic
practice...
"Governments facing human rights
pressure from the United States now find it easy to turn the tables,"
said Mr Roth. "Washington can't very well uphold principles that it
violates itself."
"The bad guys' basic strategy is to
portray themselves as defending the status quo while in fact effecting
a revolutionary change. When you, their opponents, allow yourself to
be defined as the alien, you’re doing exactly what they want you
to do, and
It occurs to me that the Ancient
Greeks thought that almost romantic friendships made soldier more, not
less, effective. Perhaps after the initial shock and traumatic
discussions with parents, this might make an enemy army
stronger!
"The BBC has already decided to
embrace the technology. It aims to offer most of its own programmes
for download this year and it will use P2P technology to distribute
them."
"JPG Magazine is for people who love
imagemaking without attitude. It's about the kind of photography you
get when you love the moment more than the camera. It's for
photographers who, like us, have found themselves online, sharing
their work..."
The assumption being that a clued-up
individual would be able to make determinations about the data based
upon how controversial or active its editing history appears to have
been...
Among other things, reflects the
enormous explosion of people using BitTorrent and demonstrates that
the vast amount of traffic on the net is P2P (and not web)
related
I remember being stunned driving
through America and seeing landscapes being ripped apart at an
enomrous rate. The consensus at the time seemed to be just that there
was "plenty more where that came from"...
I can particularly recommend Hot Hot
Bowie's "Let's Dance With Me" and Beyoncaville's "Crazy In Japan". The
latter is rapidly rising through my iTunes 'most played'
playlist
"It's the web design event of the
year. The @media 2005 conference brings together the biggest names
from around the world to talk about the hottest topics in web design -
web standards and accessibility."
I wonder how long it will take
people to stop thinking of weblogs as publishing, and start thinking
about them being people interacting to diminish the role of
publishing
God I would have killed for that
Millennium Falcon when I was a kid. I'd watch TV shows with cars and
space-ships in them and immediately go home and make them in
Lego
Weird one this. Visual supplements
to radio are generally considered to be used for enhanced information
provision. But often the rights owners don't want you broadcasting
song information...
"Wikipedia is exceptionally valuable
to read about multiple sides to a story, particularly in historical
contexts, but i don't trust alternative histories any more than i
trust privileged ones."
"To celebrate our first half-decade
as a blog, we've put together a single html file containing 17,000+
posts (every post as of yesterday mid-day) in Movable Type export
format."
I love this little browsable app -
it gives a real perspective on what the Boingers are interested in.
Also it's more evidence that Cory either has too much energy or not
enough to do...
"POSM (The Project for Open Source
Media) is an independent research and development entity for the
development and deployment of a standardized Open Media
Platform."
