Thursday, June 30, 2011

Stross whiffs on the Singularity

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Charlie Stross has been heads down writing for a while, but he must have his books in the bag because his blog is aflame again. Naturally,...
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Civil War, Polar edition

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The good news is that corporations may not be as powerful as I thought they were . The bad news is that we're reenacting a Cold version...

Denialists in favor of a warmer earth

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Talking Points attended a denialist gathering and brought back this poster photo .... What caught my attention is that the flat earthers ...

I think I have a Google Reader problem ...

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From  Google Reader trends : "Since October 7, 2005 you have read a total of 232,935 items."

RIM and rebooting a failed software company

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The iPhone was introduced on January 9th 2007 . I was shocked . It went to consumers in mid-2007. Naturally the share price of RIM (Black...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

The Surly Long Haul Trucker

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140 web years ago (born 1997) I used FrontPage/Vermeer to maintain a web page on commuting/touring bikes . The page was last revised in 2008...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

The organ trade: 10 % of organ transplants now fully commercial

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Susanne Lundin is Professor of Ethnology at Lund University, Sweden. This commentary of hers appeared in Daily News Egypt ... The great org...

The New York Times' bad password advice - and what you should do instead

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In the context of a site that claims to check passwords against a published hacker repository [1] Scientific American repeats the NYT's...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

The wilfull wastefulness of the Foundational Questions Institute

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The "Foundational Questions Institute" (FQXi, don't ask about the acronym) recently sponsored an essay question about the natu...
Friday, June 24, 2011

Nimbophobia: 4 more reasons to fear the cloud

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It's been a gratifying week for my fellow nimbophobics. Our numbers are growing by leaps and bounds. Consider just four examples ... A...
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Saturday, June 18, 2011

Quantum macro

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Living in a Quantum World: Scientific American by Vlatko Vedral is the headline article for SciAm's June 2010 issue. It's behind Sc...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Studies in paywalls: Scientific American

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In the many discussions of paywalls I read, everybody mentions the WSJ, but nobody mentions Scientific American . You can read the print ed...
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Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Bright side: Apple's computer for the rest of us

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It's not the best of times. Long Depression 2.0 grinds on . China is increasingly unsettled -- and it's sitting on one of history...
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Sunday, June 05, 2011

Uncertainty and Long Depression II

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Today's DeLong is about bond prices, and, in part, about the effect of uncertainty on savings decisions (emphases mine) ... Hoisted fr...
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Saturday, June 04, 2011

The kidney trade thrives

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The kidney trade is growing ... The village of the kidneys - Nepali Times : A village near Kathmandu is the "Kidney Bank". Desp...