1. 24 March 2007

    The Batteries of Life

    Christopher Assendorf

    563 days ago

    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

  2. 27 November 2005

    1045 days ago

    Democracy in Thin Air

    You 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??

    via Kjell Olsen1045 days ago

  3. 07 September 2005

    1126 days ago

    ChangeThis :: 25 Ways to Distinguish Yourself

    Nice ideas on how to be more then just one of the pack.

    via Kjell Olsen1126 days ago

  4. 08 June 2005

    1217 days ago

    live recent changes feed

    A live change feed for wikipedia. Lots of stuff happening!

    via Kjell Olsen1217 days ago

  5. 04 June 2005

    1221 days ago

    BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Changing planet revealed in atlas

    A 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.

    Kjell Olsen1221 days ago

  6. 13 May 2005

    1243 days ago

    PBS | I, Cringely . May 12, 2005 - Inflection Point

    At 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.
    And Microsoft? Microsoft kicks the dog.

    via Kjell Olsen1243 days ago

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