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The “Internet of Things” gets real

December 18, 2011

The Internet of Things, predicted by Bruce Sterling around 2006, is happening. Steve Lohr in the NY Times explores the mainstreaming of the idea: “… the protean Internet technologies of computing and communications are rapidly spreading beyond the lucrative consumer bailiwick. Low-cost sensors, clever software and advancing computer firepower are opening the door to new [...]

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Light in slowmo

December 15, 2011

Extreme slow motion video of a pulse of laser light passing through a Coke bottle. “We have built an imaging solution that allows us to visualize propagation of light at an effective rate of one trillion frames per second. Direct recording of light at such a frame rate with sufficient brightness is nearly impossible. We [...]

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Voyager changed our understanding of the solar system

December 1, 2011

The Voyager program’s data transmissions, including images of the most distant planets in the solar system and data about galaxies beyond, offer “an unprecedented view of our own galaxy.” [Link]

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The Abolition of War, suggested by Krzysztof Wodiczko

November 28, 2011

We recently watched all episodes of HBO’s intense, realistic miniseries about the brutal and devastating war in The Pacific; it was a jaw-dropping experience – watching human beings blow each other apart, a real nightmare of violence. I was realizing how transformative that experience would be – you can’t go home again after that kind [...]

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The truth about OWS

November 26, 2011

Naomi Wolf in The Guardian: we hear that Occupy Wall Street has no clear message, but is it precisely because the dis-organization has a clear message, set of goals, and growing force that we’re seeing efforts to shut the 24/7 demonstrations down? The mainstream media was declaring continually “OWS has no message”. Frustrated, I simply [...]

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Pete Cochrane on singularity and evolution

November 25, 2011

Pete Cochrane at TedX Brussels, speaking on the requirements for intelligence, entropy, singularity, the Internet and evolution. “Are we going to be smart enough to recognize new intelligences and new life forms when they spontaneously erupt on the Internet?”

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Holy orbit

November 24, 2011

Aleksandra Mir collage via The Daily Beast. Blake Gopnik says “…when you think about it, a satellite and Jesus really do fit together in interesting ways. The cosmos has always had some place in our religious thought – we think of God as superlunary.”

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U.S. journalist Mona Eltahawy detained, beaten, sexually assaulted in Egypt

November 24, 2011

The whole story is at boingboing.net This is the quote I wanted to blog: ”The whole time I was thinking about article I would write. Just you fuckers wait.”

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Detail Moon

November 24, 2011

NASA’s created a topographic view of the moon. Sez Mark Robinson, Principal Investigator of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) from Arizona State University in Tempe. “We can now determine slopes of all major geologic terrains on the moon at 100 meter scale. Determine how the crust has deformed, better understand impact crater mechanics, investigate [...]

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DrupalCamp Austin 2011, Day 2

November 21, 2011

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My tweets from the Day 1 of DrupalCamp Austin 2011

November 20, 2011

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Thinking about memory, association, and identification

November 18, 2011

A lesson in memory. I showed up ten minutes early for a meeting this morning at Sweetish Hill, paid for coffee, took a cup and filled it half caf, half decaf, found a table for two and hung my sturdy black leather jacket on the back of my chair. My Nikon was in the left [...]

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Taking leave of our consensus

November 3, 2011

Tree Bressen, guest-posting at Dave Pollard’s “How to Save the World” blog, has a helpful summary of consensus process mistakes and barriers, and how to avoid them. This is a followup to Pollard’s earlier post, “When Consensus Doesn’t Work.” In my experience, a good first step is to admin that consensus is hard, in fact [...]

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