August 2009
23 posts
Obama is losing the health debate – but he can... →
Shared by Zacha “When trade unionist and civil rights leader A Philip Randolph demanded that Franklin Roosevelt integrate the military, Roosevelt responded: “I agree with you. I want to do it. Now…
Aug 30th
Glebe Community Set to Make History :: Sydney... →
Shared by Zacha According to the Uconnect wifi cafe map, this wireless connection is now live. As part of the art work, the City will install a wireless broadband internet connection in the park….
Aug 30th
The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple... →
When Good Enuf Is Great Entire markets have been transformed by products that trade power or fidelity for low price, flexibility, and convenience. — Erin Biba Phone Net-based calls can…
Aug 30th
Internationally Available | PBS Video →
Video of PBS shows freely avaiable outside the US.
Aug 29th
Is quantum mechanics messing with your memory? →
Shared by Zacha An explanation on the new solution for why entropy increases as time gies forward. For all we know we may live in a world in which windows un-break and cold cups of coffee…
Aug 29th
2009.08.62 →
Shared by Zacha Really interesting English article of comparative empires in a review of a Grenc book on the subject. Good further-reading list of English books at the end. Version at BMCR home…
Aug 27th
Fires in Greece →
Shared by Zacha Athens on fire. (photo) This NASA photo seems to be making the rounds of various lists: NASA photo Thankfully, the fires seem to have been brought under control. It is possibly…
Aug 27th
FCC Declares Intention To Enforce Net Neutrality →
Shared by Zacha Good. Unequivocal writes “The FCC chairman, Julius Genachowski, told Congress today that the ‘Federal Communications Commission plans to keep the Internet free of increased user…
Aug 26th
British Video Recordings Act 1984 Invalid →
Shared by Zacha Cool. chrb writes “BBC News is reporting that the British Video Recordings Act 1984 is invalid due to a 25 year old legal blunder. The Thatcher government of the day failed to…
Aug 26th
Healthy Skepticism →
Shared by Zacha It’s interesting to note what Anil Dash feels the need to defend in this article, given his skepticism of ‘serious journalists’ defensiveness about their impartiality. On…
Aug 25th
levelHead v1.0, 3 cube speed-run (spoiler!) on... →
Shared by Zacha Another fab-looking augmented reality app on consumer hardware (I think). As yet unseen footage of the first stable version of levelHead, an augmented-reality spatial-memory game…
Aug 25th
The Ancient Mechanics and How They Thought - New... →
NYT article on ancient understandings of mechanics and science. “The nice thing for Dr. Schiefsky is that hardly anyone reads the stuff. Scientists generally are not into ancient Greek or Latin,…
Aug 24th
Teenage hackers: Making a better world →
Shared by Zacha One of the judges, Ben Hammersley of Wired UK, said he “found the standard of the work produced by 15-18-year-olds in many cases infinitely superior to that produced by government…
Aug 24th
The Show is Open →
The exhibition has been launched and is open up to the 30th of August. With over 350 contributors the show is really special , thankyou to everyone who made the Sydney Reef. Network Image
Aug 24th
Ex-NYT exec: Newpapers' "mass... →
Shared by Zacha Damn right. Suspect I’ve shared this story before. Nytimes.com general manager Vivian Schiller, now at NPR, tells Newsweek that “news is a commodity”: “I am a staunch believer that…
Aug 23rd
All the News That Fits: Liberia’s Blackboard... →
Shared by Zacha Mico-blogging the news on a blackboard in Liberia. Via http://illsendyouthelink.tumblr.com/post/138082701/liberias-blackboard-blogger A battered blackboard serves as newspaper…
Aug 22nd
Star Trek Re-watch: Season 1 Wrap-Up →
Shared by Zacha Skip to ‘Torie’s final thoughts’ for verdict on first watching the original Trek from a ‘Next-Gen girl’. Before we transition into the second season of Star Trek, we thought this…
Aug 21st
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Shared by Zacha Scary. Another professor’s account of being arrested for being Black While Driving. My colleague Ravi Shankar, editor of the online multimedia journal Drunken Boat, co-editor…
Aug 20th
One rule for MPs? →
Shared by Zacha The Conservatives are good for something! If only the thing was government.. You may remember the arrest of Damian Green, the shadow immigration minister, as part of an…
Aug 20th
Watchmen’s Clockwork Origins Span Comics, Quantum... →
Shared by Zacha Article in some of Alan Moore’s influences in Watchmen (comic). From Mars’ Galle crater to comics, literature, music, politics and even quantum physics, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons…
Aug 19th
ABC iView plays with PlayStation®3 →
Shared by Zacha The BBC already does this with iPlayer and Wii, I think. ABC TV and Sony Computer Entertainment are working together to make ABC iView available on Playstation 3 game…
Aug 19th
Arrow of time no longer double-ended - Ars... →
Shared by Zacha Fantastically clever. No idea if it’s right though. And according to the theory, we can never prove it (or disprove it); which is probably the cleverest part. A physicist claims to…
Aug 19th
Poem of the week: No Coward Soul Is Mine by Emily... →
Shared by Zacha This is my favourite Emily Bronte poem. Just kick-ass. This time, a fierce, elemental lyric from a very un-Victorian Victorian Charlotte Brontё described Emily as “a…
Aug 18th