links for 2007-11-12
Written on November 12, 2007
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"...plans have been unveiled for the building of about 150 pyramids around Schiphol Airport, the so-called ‘Polderbaan’,...to reduce the noise...by 20 percent, to reduce the CO2 emissionl...while sustaining a growth of air travel of 10%"
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"Even when every other industry's future can appear murky, one thing remains clear: The world's gotta eat. The question is, what are you going to put on your plate?"
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Canadian researchers have started the “Help Conquer Cancer†initiative. They hope to accelerate their research by using the computers of 330,000 people who volunteered to give their idle computer time to the “World Community Grid,â€an IBM project
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World Community Grid's mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity.
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aha, you can go surfing-- that's the killer app!
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Mary Joyce on how a grassroots web-site -- ThisNovember5th.com -- helped Ron Paul's campaign raise $4 million. The key to success? The site served as "a virtual billboard which other sites and could blogger could link to"!
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Dan McQuillan calls for a social innovations Seedcamp. We hear you Dan ;-)
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Most network-intrusion systems today compare traffic against a manually-collected database of previously recognized attack signatures. The innovation... is to automatically generate intrusion signatures, making detection faster and more precise.
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Kiwanja founder on the potential that Google's Android and Gphone may have in the developing world. Very insightful post.
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Cory explains Creative Commons in Locus Magazine
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"The Sunlight Foundation has just put Google Earth to an excellent advocacy purpose: letting us follow the (budgetary) money"
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The Nation on MIA's Kala: "In a sense, Kala is what happens when antiterror hysteria touches the artistic soul." a good piece, with lots of global politics thrown in the mix!
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the outsourcing of facts to devices may carve out a better niche for the use of our memory. "nostalgia, tradition, and history ...[are] heightened in different ways by these same networked-archival entities that have become our outsourced memories"
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students appear to be winning the war for using gadgets in the classrom, but some smart technologies or brute force can always reverse the process!
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a story on how an increasing number of universities are having their students edit specific sections of Wikipedia as class work
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Quietly, without promoting the move, The New York Times began this week publishing on its Web site readers' comments at the end of certain articles
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"Overall PC shipments in Japan have fallen for five consecutive quarters, the first ever drawn-out decline in PC sales in a key market"
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so, is it the arrival of the social camera? "Wirelessly transfer images to IrSimple-equipped devices, including other digital cameras" sounds like it.
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an interesting list of influential Wikipedians with double or triple accounts. hm, some of them get to excited that they start arguing with themselves!
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Dani Rodrik on Africa and the globalization of world soccer
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weather 2.0! wisdom of clouts!
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EpiSurveyor is a free, open source tool enabling anyone to very easily create a handheld data entry form, collect data on a mobile device, and then transfer the data back to a desktop or laptop for analysis
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i didn't realize there is a heated discussion going on at Flickr about whether SecondLife photos merit being part of Flickr pools! interesting where it's going
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from Boing Boing gadgets: "EpiSurveyor project, which provides software that can be run on PDAs and phones as an entry point to collect data in areas where laptops are impractical but paper records are rarely indexed"
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"In 2006, the world market for network video surveillance products increased by 41.9 per cent, according to IMS Research. And the public sector is an avid adopter of video technology" Why? Because it's easier with WiFi that is also getting ubiquitous
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"These mobile users have very different usage patterns from the American users. Most Chinese users who touch mobile Internet will have no PC at all"
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President of the Oxford University Students Union, Martin McCluskey, has also e-mailed members to warn that their online community is being spied on."the proctors have been using evidence gathered from Facebook for disciplinary matters," he warns.
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"Hungerhill School is testing RFID tracking and data collection on 10 pupils within the school" School uniform with RFID -- comes from--guess--Britain!
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Adrià is often associated with "molecular gastronomy"....Adrià 's stated goal is to "provide unexpected contrasts of flavour, temperature and texture. Nothing is what it seems. The idea is to provoke, surprise and delight the diner."
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“Piracy for personal use is no longer targeted,†Noël St-Hilaire, head of copyright theft investigations of the Canadian police, said in an interview with Le Devoir. “It is too easy to copy these days and we do not know how to stop it,†he added.
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