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links for 2009-03-11
Opposed Piston Opposed Cylinder Engine – Engineering TV Much coolness – a boxer diesel with opposed pistons instead of a traditional chamber. I can't work out whether it is more complex than a trad 4-cylinder engine, but the balance looks cool – you could switch off half of it without disrupting anything…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-11
Reading “i-name” – http://is.gd/mIIq – compare committee-led OASIS-stamped goals for ubiquitous identity, vs: Twitter “@alecmuffett”. Lulz. # Aunt Betty (“Jenny Mapson”) hits the Daily Mail http://is.gd/mQsK – previously http://is.gd/mQtd # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-10
Clause 152: Sanity *may* have won. Watch the news. http://is.gd/mxtw # superb, via @webmink: http://tinyurl.com/bdm4zg # My 97yo Great Aunt makes the BBC News, with support of my sister! Woot! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7933097.stm # YouTube to block UK music videos – Hilarious to see the PRS (= UK RIAA) realise they could lose their tithe the hard
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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-09
today i have installed 170kg of flooring underlay and 80 laminate floorboards. tonight == beer. # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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links for 2009-03-07
Doctors force patients to sign gag orders forbidding online reviews – Boing Boing …and if you refuse to sign, no treatment?
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Ambient Computing: How long before Cloud Computing starts to rain?
Ben Hyde writes: The four horsemen of the digital apocalypse are cpu, storage, communication, and content, aka Moore’s law and his friends mean that costs are always falling, capablities are always increase, and displacement opportunities are always popping up. These are the drivers that keep pulling the rug out from under any industry that’s built
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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-07
Is it me or does Humphrey Hawksley’s blog look like a BBC website? Don’t mind but I remember newsreader fusses over less: http://is.gd/m58C # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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“Charlatanry in forensic speech science” -> Gagging Academics?
The security geek splash-story of the day comes from Private Eye, via Ian Brown, via FIPR; allow me to quote another website to set the context: neuroskeptic (Feb 1 2009) Via Mind Hacks, we learn about the case of Francisco Lacerda, a University of Stockholm academic who’s been threatened with legal action […] Nemesysco sell
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links for 2009-03-06
MacHeist TweetBlast! Sounds cute, but I suspect it's a) missing a pile of ideas and necessary functionality, and b) lacking that functionality is too complex for the value it offers.
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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-06
flash silliness: http://2006.1-click.jp/ # RT goals maybe hazardous to health: @adriana872 could this be forwarded to every manager of every corporation? Please?!? http://bit.ly/cWiNk # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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Producer, Consumer, Community Member?
This links posting from Adriana contains the following: (my emphasis) How About Free? The Price Point That Is Turning Industries on Their Heads – Knowledge@Wharton good if inconclusive article. annoyingly, still talk of ‘consumers’ addicted to free content. Oh boy, ‘consumers’ who also produce and distribute ain’t consumers no more. media industry can’t accept that
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links for 2009-03-05
Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: In Praise of the Sales Force Cory on the flipside of self publishing