May 2007

A Hot Little Portable Grill for Summer: ArtBuzz – beautiful, little, and cheap

bookofjoe: Larry J. Kolb learns why ‘I don’t know’ is not only the best but the correct answer “If you happened to be asked, ‘Why did Mr. Gandhi go to the restaurant?’, your answer could not be ‘Because he was hungry’ or ‘To eat.’ Your only truthful answer would be, ‘I don’t know.’ Because, even…more

991001; Atlantic Monthly, p. 47 – 57; Beyond the Information Revolution – “This means that the key to maintaining leadership in the economy and the technology that are about to emerge is likely to be the social position of knowledge professionals and social acceptance of their values. For them to remain traditional ’employees’ and be…more

Bill Moyers and Jon Stewart – “You know, one of the things that I do think government counts on is that people are busy. And it’s very difficult to mobilize a busy and relatively affluent country, unless it’s over really crucial– you know, foundational issues…I’m sure what [Bush] would like to do is send 400,000…more

I Chat, Therefore I Am… | Technology | DISCOVER Magazine – paging Dr. Turing…or not

I Chat, Therefore I Am… | Technology | DISCOVER Magazine – paging Dr. Turing…or not

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Darwin’s letters archived on web – “Evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin thought the voyage of the Beagle was a “magnificent scheme” allowing him to spend time “larking round the world”.”

APOD: 2007 May 16 – Dark Matter Ring Modeled around Galaxy Cluster CL0024 17 – “How do we know that dark matter isn’t just normal matter exhibiting strange gravity? A new observation…is shedding new dark on the subject.” Ha ha. Plus, a pretty amazing image.

Gluing captions to cats – on metadata; reminds me of Kottke’s metadata overfizzle post a while back…

Can CBS Put the Net Into Network? – WSJ.com – “CBS’s new chief Internet strategist now jokes that the Web address for Innertube should be ‘CBS.com/nobodycomeshere.’ CBS, after a year of experimenting with various Web initiatives, says that forcing consumers to come to one site — its own — to view video hasn’t worked. Instead,…more