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Archive for October, 2008

What’s on my N810

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Currently installed on my N810
adblock-plus, advanced-backlight, a-gps, Canola, Fennec
MaemoMapper, WordPy, Mauku, MediaBox, MediaStreamer
mgcal, mplayer, Nokia Chat, Numpty Physics, Nuvopearl theme
Om Weather, OpenNTPD, OpenSSH, PWSafe, Rootsh, Skype
StatusBar Clock, VideoCenter, VNCViewer, user-agent switcher

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Ostraciform Airship

Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

From the 7th International Annual Airship Convention

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“You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.”

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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Advertising Gem

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Paper puppets and stop motion animation with score by Herbie Hancock and Chinese Pianist Lang Lang. Too bad the product isn’t as good.

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EconTalk

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Russ Roberts has put togther an impressive collection of economics podcasts. Many of the podcasts provide great background to aspects of the current crisis in the the finance markets. Here’s a selection:

Arnold Kling talks with Russ Roberts about the economics of the housing market and the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Robert Shiller of [...]

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Error message haiku

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Three things are certain:Death, taxes, and lost data.Guess which has occurred.
David Dixon – Salon

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RAND : How Terrorist Groups End

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

How Terrorist Groups End -
“This research brief describes an analysis of how terrorist groups end. The evidence since 1968 indicates that most groups have ceased to exist as a result of police and intelligence actions or of political accommodations, not military efforts.” 
who knew

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Sir Ken Robinson on Education

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Education, reform, thinking, creativitivity – Sir Ken Robinson’s talk as he picked up his RSA Benjamin Franklin Medal.

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Steam

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Once in a while a steam train travels from Christchurch station to Rangiora. There’s a reason why the most common icon for a train is a steam train…

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video from “living on the edge”, opentech 2008

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

About the Internet cloud and the edge. How we might restructure the Internet so that our personal and important moments aren’t hosted by Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and Blogger, but rather on our own machines.

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Bye Bye Facebook

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Well my experiment with Facebook has come to an end. The final straw was the user-interface. As they used to say about IBM products, it may be slow, but it’s hard to use (just for fun point YSlow at your profile page – 30 JavaScript files, 12 style sheets and 75 CSS background images [...]

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