March 2009
“On December 22 a dike broke at the plant, sending more than a billion gallons of...”
– The Dirt on Clean Coal
The Weight of a Mustard Seed | csmonitor.com →
Where's the Bailout for Publishing? - The Daily... →
“they would have expressed them thus: “There probably is no God; so start...”
– The American Spectator : The New Humanism
design and dasein: heidegger against the birkerts... →
Here and elsewhere in the blogosphere, much ink has been spilled — or rather, many pixels generated — regarding Sven Birkerts’s “Resisting the Kindle,” which contends that the e-reader’s rise…
MIT To Make All Faculty Publications Open Access →
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Death Metal writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: “If there were any doubt that open access publishing was setting off a bit of a power struggle, a…
Taking It to the Streets →
Photo by sniderscion from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
No victors were declared last night in the ongoing struggle between the street and the man, between high and popular culture,…
Facebook Introduces Private Groups for Families →
There’s a new landing page on Facebook that’s designed to get families involved sharing updates, photos, and videos on the social network. The extended family group invite page, available here,…
Obama's anger over AIG criticism →
President Barack Obama showed a rare glimpse of anger during a nationally-televised press conference at the White House last night when he was pressed over his slow response in the row over…
Lounge brings a rich Twitter client to iPhone and... →
There is no shortage of Twitter clients these days, but Goose Apps is bringing a unique two-punch approach to the table with Lounge. Offered as a client for both iPhone and Mac OS X,…
Protesters visit AIG officials’ lavish Conn. homes http://ping.fm/HpWGU
From The New York Times:
For A.I.G. Executives, Here Comes the Tour Bus
By MANNY FERNANDEZ
For the handful of executives whose names — and addresses — have
slipped out, life is no longer the same….
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£2,000 fee rise 'won't deter students' →
• Report says £5,000 fees would maintain status quo • Students fear debt levels of more than £32,000
Raising tuition fees from £3,000 to £5,000 a year would not put students off higher…
Covering Your Tracks →
The TTC has a very rough copy of their public GPS streetcar tracking system up and running. There’s a live map (discovered last night by Steve Munro), and a mobile phone application…
The Onion on the Hudson River Plane Crash →
Fowl Qaeda.
Kuwaiti Prime Minister plays "tag" with... →
Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah yesterday tendered his resignation to his boss (and uncle)—the Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah—deciding that he would rather…
'Car crime was given higher priority than rape' →
• Yard unit was understaffed and overburdened • Inquiry says untrained officers handled cases
One of Scotland Yard’s elite sexual assault units has been condemned for serious failures after…
TTC GPS Streetcar Tracking Beta? Now Live! →
The TTC, GPS, and mobile devices appear to finally be united! Using the satellite-based services of a company called NextBus, the TTC now has what appears to be (LIVE!) mobile-friendly,…
“From the rudimentary sketches it looks like E.T. found a Touchscreen Mac that is about 10”.” http://ping.fm/Cmu2g
Death Switch Sends Out Emails Upon Your Demise... →
Do you want to be sure that your final messages and missives are heard? Death Switch is a service which sends out emails upon your unfortunate demise. Photo by hansvandenberg30. Why would…
Death Switch Sends Out Emails Upon Your Demise... →
Do you want to be sure that your final messages and missives are heard? Death Switch is a service which sends out emails upon your unfortunate demise. Photo by hansvandenberg30. Why would…
Worst recyclers in Ontario live in small... →
Average Ontarian discards 385 kilograms of garbage a year but some residents producing almost four times that much, new data show
Encouraging February jobless rates in Canada: http://ping.fm/1sR58
Foucualt Studies: Neoliberal Governmentality http://ping.fm/9seTO
Ontario’s Green Energy Act: legislation allows local electric utilities to own renewable energy facilities http://ping.fm/MdwUA
Thorstein Veblen, Prescient on Today's Media →
Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger.
Via Joe Costello, a friend and former colleague:
While Keynes is all the rage these days, as the way things actually “work” in our society are…
Find out when p-books reach the Kindle—via the... →
The Mysteria service links up with your Amazon wish list and tells when paper books become available in the Kindle format. The owner is the aggressively nonprofit and proudly…
iPhone App Causes Google To Shut Down SMS Service →
An anonymous reader writes “A few days ago, Inner Fence released a paid iPhone app called Infinite SMS, which let iPhone users employ Google’s free SMS gateway to send SMS messages without paying…
Thorstein Veblen, Prescient on Today's Media →
Via Joe Costello, a friend and former colleague:
While Keynes is all the rage these days, as the way things actually “work” in our society are laid bare for a short period, Veblen keeps popping…
Facebook Friends the iPhone, Apps Will Now Connect →
Facebook today announced that your iPhone apps can be friends with Facebook at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas –something Om had written about nine months…
Facebook Friends the iPhone, Apps Will Now Connect →
Facebook today announced that your iPhone apps can be friends with Facebook at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas –something Om had written about nine months…
Ontario leads jobless surge http://ping.fm/i0ykR
Analysis Tool Pack working its way back to Mac... →
The loss of VBA scripting from Office for Mac 2008 was especially hard on Excel. Besides the many custom macros that would no longer work, important add-ons, like Solver and Analysis Tool…
Drop.io Speeds Up Its File-Sharing And Adds Chat http://ping.fm/v3oXN
A content API will smooth the way for web developers to build applications and services using Guardian http://ping.fm/8PTcn
Pro baseball player traded for bats, dead from... →
Last year, minor league baseball team the Calgary Vipers traded pitcher John C. Odom to the Laredo Broncos in exchange for 10 maple baseball bats worth $665. At first, Odom took the odd trade in…
Canada New Media Fund gets more money from feds: http://ping.fm/isBKd
Desperate Times Call for Free Beer →
Feel like everyone is getting a bailout except you? Brian Morin, chef and owner of beerbistro, is doing his part to change that with his “beerbistro bailout.” For two weeks now, Chef…
Digitalus CMS: Open Source and (Mostly) Simple →
Digitalus CMS is a fairly new player in the simple CMS market. Their first open source Zend/PHP-based version 1.0 was released in August 2008.
Recently, version 1.5 came out and caught…
The Lede: Portrait of Shakespeare Is Unveiled →
A Shakespeare scholar unveiled a painting that he believes to be the only authentic image made during the Bard’s lifetime.
Pro baseball player traded for bats, dead from... →
Last year, minor league baseball team the Calgary Vipers traded pitcher John C. Odom to the Laredo Broncos in exchange for 10 maple baseball bats worth $665. At first, Odom took the odd trade in…
Gilbane SF 2009: Content Means Business →
Summer. San Francisco. Content management, social media and other related geekiness. Dreams do come true.
Gilbane just released their conference program for the June 2-4 Gilbane SF 2009…
O’Reilly teams up with Stanza 40% discount →
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From the O”Reilly site:
Just in time for Read an Ebook Week O’Reilly’s 400+ ebooks are now available for direct purchase and download on your iPhone or…
The American on newspapers →
I’ve been getting a bit tired of the repetitive “newspapers are dying” articles, but I came across an excellent article in The American that actually had something new to say. Here’s a…
Wolfram Promises Computing That Answers Questions →
An anonymous reader writes “Computer scientist Stephen Wolfram feels that he has put together at least the initial version of a computer that actually answers factual questions, a la Star Trek’s ship…
Norwegian Broadcasting Sets Up Its Own Tracker →
eirikso writes with an interesting story from Norway; the state broadcaster there has decided to put up some of its content on BitTorrent. “The tracker is based on the same OpenTracker software that…
An Modest Proposal - Bikers, Take the High Road →
An excellent article in its general thrust, but it falls down in the important places. Viz., “How about we ride with traffic as opposed to the wrong way on a one-way street? I know the idea of being told which way to go drives many bikers bonkers. That stuff is for cars, they say.” And, “Bikes don’t kill people; cars kill people. I know this, I feel this (big scar on...
“Come back when you have a warrant,” reads the floor mat underneath his office recliner. http://ping.fm/PrmtJ
Amazon Kindle store now available on iPhone/ iPod Touch http://ping.fm/GIHcU