January 2010
60 posts
“The basic premise is that when someone is confronted by a corrupt official for a...”
– Zero Rupee Notes // NoahBrier.com
“I’m often saddened by the infantilising effect of high technology on...”
– Fraser Speirs - Blog - Future Shock
“By the middle of next week, there will be nothing but a couple of pyramids.”
– BLDGBLOG: Tama-Re, or the Egypt of the West
“People and insects aren’t the only creatures on the planet that can grow a...”
– Salt marsh snails plow leaves, fertilize fungus - New Farmers | Science News | Find Articles at BNET
“I know that every fatal collision is a random occurrence. They are so low...”
– January pedestrian deaths a statistical hiccup: mathematicians - Posted Toronto
“Where food really seems to come into its own in the miniature book world is as a...”
– Edible Geography - Publishing Food #2
“We have taken quality assurance extremely seriously because of how complex time...”
– Achron - Achron Faq
“With enough accuracy, atomic warheads would not be necessary for all purposes”
– Science: Push-Button War - TIME
“I don’t think the NYTimes.com wants to get into a technological arms race...”
– The New York Times Co.’s plan to build a content wall answers the wrong question. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
“The NYT’s journalism might well continue to be reliable, but its website won’t...”
– The NYT’s paywall | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters
“However, they warn that within 10 meters the Thunder Generator could cause...”
– A sonic blaster so loud, it could be deadly
“In the past decade we seem to have created two new social classes, unaccountable...”
– The WELL: Bruce Sterling: State of the World 2010
“We have broken your business, now we want your machines.”
– russell davies: meet the new schtick (2)
“If having a free, open and just society depends on purity of motive, God help us...”
– RConversation: Google, China, and the future of freedom on the global Internet
“THEY WERE VERY, VERY CURIOUS, BUT NOT AT ALL FAR-SIGHTED.”
– Bruce Sterling - Homo sapiens declared extinct
“If you like what we are doing either support us or steal this plan.”
– Cameron Sinclair: Haiti Quake: A Plan for Reconstruction
“Those concepts don’t reflect the world in a straightforward way; instead,...”
– This column will change your life: To be or not to be… | Life and style | The Guardian (via rtbc)
“It is unlikely any worthwhile target will used Windows unpatched.”
– ((I’m not reassured.)) ‘Bugnets’ eavesdrop on you wherever you go - tech - 14 January 2010 - New Scientist
“As long as we shine a light on them for 12 hours a day, they can survive...”
– Sea slug surprise: It’s half-plant, half-animal - LiveScience- msnbc.com
“Dish residents started noticing problems in 2005, the same year the town changed...”
– Texas town welcomed drilling, now fears pollution - - Air America
“Will libraries’ physical collections be treated more as museum objects or...”
– Twitter / Fletcher Durant
“The act of schlepping across a continent to a dealmaking extravaganza dates back...”
– A Ready Supply of Bullion - Déjà Vu | Lapham’s Quarterly
“The team says its find buries “the view of Neanderthals as...”
– BBC News - Neanderthal ‘make-up’ containers discovered
“The peace-loving natives are at one with nature, and even have a fiber-optic...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - The Messiah Complex - NYTimes.com
“They’ve not bought into a tool they’ve bought, either financially or...”
– Kickingbear» Blog Archive » Software Sea Change