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24 March 2007
Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:39:06 GMTThe Batteries of Life
Christopher Assendorf
A look at early technology and the changes coming from it through the history of art and literature. Stuff that turned my head enough for me to get up and put it into the computer:
“Advertisement on the Firmament” 101
the clock… a compensation for the failure of our activities to follow each other any longer in a natural way. Musil, 140
The Metropolis and Mental Life
Paul Valéry, “The Conquest of Ubiquity” 176
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27 November 2005
Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:28:03 GMT Democracy in Thin Airvia Kjell Olsen2260 days agoYou see, you want me to speculate on the future of my country, which is one of the poorest in the world, while that wealthy Westerner cannot control the future long enough to get an apple from her bag into her mouth. There is no certainty but change. ?? Pradeep, a nepalese student??
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07 September 2005
Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:49:48 GMT ChangeThis :: 25 Ways to Distinguish Yourselfvia Kjell Olsen2341 days agoNice ideas on how to be more then just one of the pack.
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08 June 2005
Wed, 08 Jun 2005 20:58:39 GMT live recent changes feedvia Kjell Olsen2432 days agoA live change feed for wikipedia. Lots of stuff happening!
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04 June 2005
Sat, 04 Jun 2005 17:36:11 GMT BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Changing planet revealed in atlasKjell Olsen2436 days agoA coffetable book comparing satellite images from the past with corresponding new ones to show what kind of devestation we are forcing upon the earth. Tomorrow is the UN’s World Environment day.
Among the transformations highlighted in the atlas are the huge growth of greenhouses in southern Spain, the rapid rise of shrimp farming in Asia and Latin America and the emergence of a giant, shadow puppet-shaped peninsula at the mouth of the Yellow River that has built up through transportation of sediment in the waters.
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13 May 2005
Fri, 13 May 2005 10:37:40 GMT PBS | I, Cringely . May 12, 2005 - Inflection Pointvia Kjell Olsen2458 days agoAt some point, Google might even offer its own hardware device, optimized for the Accelerator. At that point, you’ll buy your PC from Google, use Google as your ISP, surf an Internet that is really the Google cache, be fed ads and sold content from Google servers. Its a GoogleWorld that requires no AOL, no Microsoft, no Intel, no HP or Dell—only Google, cable companies, telephone companies, users, and of course advertisers and web page producers.
Nice essay on how the digital market is looking to change, and I like hearing that Microsoft is dropping the ball these days.
So Apple takes over video and movies while Yahoo threatens with a low-priced music subscription service and Google threatens to take control of, well, everything.
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