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Two pieces of rope laid across a road calm traffic on a Tirana sidestreet
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An amazing blog logging all kinds of ways of visualazing data
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A big list of tools for online collaboration
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At the moment, the contraption, built in a garden shed and first tested off the tops of small hills, is more like a free university having a love affair with a space station. Another useful analogy might be with a clearing in the jungle. The web is certai
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The spell of equations that I want to discuss is something different, that of genuine equations that enthral authentic scientists. In addition to the two I mentioned already, other equations that I think are legitimate icons include Maxwell’s equations â
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The del.icio.us interface that allows me to do this
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Very funny updating of many old school cliches.(tags: writing)
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Left vs. Right is dead. Now what?
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THe hack for posting from del.icio.us to one’s WordPress blog
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Growth is bumping up against physical limits so profound–like climate change and peak oil–that trying to keep expanding the economy may be not just impossible but also dangerous. And perhaps most surprisingly, growth no longer makes us happier.(tags: economics)
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Free audio books online
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An online book on socialist utopias
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Closing up some tabs that have been opened for a while:
- Back to Bach: ” How, though, does Bach’s music achieve, or at least point to, transcendence?” Good question. A new book takes a stab at the answer.
- Robert Paterson at his finest, as he compares our engagement with global warming to the appeasement of Hitler by Chamberlain in 1939:
“So here is my prediction.
I think that the time now is Munich. Our politicians think that they can negotiate with the institutions that really govern us. We hope they can too. After all – who wants to go to all out war.
The institutions, like Hitler, will say all the right things to make us feel better and that we are making progress – “Peace in our Time” – A better environment in our time and all we had to go was to negotiate a few terms. We could let Czechoslovakia go because we knew that this was the price for peace. So we can let the tar sands still run or worse – back Ethanol made from Industrially farmed Corn that costs more to make that it yields.
The a new crisis will emerge, as in the fall of Poland – we will say that we are really going to war. But we wont. We wont give up how we live really and we wont really take on the institutions that govern how we live.
Only after a out and out disaster, as in the fall of France or Pearl Harbor, we will get serious.”
- whiskeyriver produces a commonplace book of uncommon elegance and generosity.