Sapere Aude
Month: March 2007
When talking amongst ourselves we should also be more careful what words we use. Otherwise we might slip when talking to the public, and say we believe something when we mean something quite different from the everyday usage of the term — and the trouble begins. If scientific belief is set against other beliefs, what differentiates it from them — are we not then just arguing matters of faith?
no more “we believe” and other words that confuse the unwashed
gCensus nicely builds on GE to add more traditional GIS analysis for the masses
this would be relevant in an alternate universe where SVG matters.
The ACM seems to be stuck is some pre-Web timewarp, where things like object orientation, components and CORBA are exciting new ground.
+1
A Goldman Sachs trader named “Charlie” was warned by his employer that his visits to Facebook on company time were to stop. He spent over 500 hours on Facebook in a 6 month period. That works out to 4 hours per day.
Unwisely, Charlie posted the warning email on his Facebook account, saying “It’s a measure of how warped I’ve become that, not only am I surprisingly proud of this, but in addition, the first thing I did was to post it here, and that losing my job worries me far less than losing facebook ever could.”
social networks are the new unions
The cost of the program, I suspect, is trivial compared to the benefits. Let’s do a quick back-of-the-envelope on this one. Let’s assume 32 buses require less than 100 employees to operate (bus drivers running in 2 shifts + maintenance + coordination + admin). Assume a Google employee using the bus is able to work for at least 1 extra hour that would otherwise be wasted in the commute.
duh
old media fails to disclose and link to primary sources. no wonder claims of bias are so persistent
Twitter is Continuous Partial Presence, mostly made up of mundane messages in answer to the question, “what are you doing?” A never-ending steam of presence messages prompts you to update your own. Messages are more ephemeral than IM presence — and posting is of a lower threshold, both because of ease and accessibility, and the informality of the medium.
good analysis on twitter. i haven’t tried it yet, but maybe i should? looks like a big time suck
an Australian performance artist whose works focus heavily on futurism and extending the capabilities of the human body. As such, most of his pieces are centered around his concept that the human body is obsolete.
He explained how his performances explore the body as an evolving architecture.
it seems to be fear & stupidity day. then again, everyday is fear & stupidity day!
Gregor J. Rothfuss 
