A landmark ? OK so almost 50% cut, but …. a start.
Beckham Bent in N.Korea
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December 31, 2010 at 9:56am
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Comparing Apples
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December 31, 2010 at 9:03am
by Psybertron
Had to capture this Freakonomics image, after suggesting the other day that metaphysically speaking, for all pragmatic intents and purposes, Apples and Oranges are identical.
Blimbonista
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December 31, 2010 at 7:25am
by Psybertron
I usually avoid politically partisan material, but this caught my eye. In the whole “Wikileaks” saga recently, I several times made the points that publication of otherwise secret material was never a “right”, and that responsible journalism was always needed in the loop in a working democracy, as opposed to anarchic free-for-all slanging match politics [...]
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Great Defending
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December 31, 2010 at 5:20am
by Psybertron
In the absence of easy access to a game involving any club we actively support, we made the short trip to The Stadium of Light to see Sunderland versus Premiership underdogs Blackpool on the bank holiday. Ian Holloway’s management ethic is easy to like, and the Tangerines are living a dream, a bubble they hope [...]
Technology & Skills Mismatch
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December 31, 2010 at 3:28am
by Psybertron
Nice one from Dilbert. I can foresee using this in a presentation or two in 2011. “A” technology well ahead of “B” skills and content …
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Who Gets to Keep Secrets ?
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December 22, 2010 at 5:43am
by Psybertron
Special edition of The Edge. Question from Danny Hillis with responses from the great and the good at The Edge. “Perhaps better would be that we might need separation of ideas/memes/cultures long enough to test them — and then recombine the parts we like best.” George Church Reinforces the issue of the speed of communication …. no [...]
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Raw Tips
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December 21, 2010 at 10:42am
by Psybertron
Left hand finger tips raw from practising the guitar recently after months, a year even, without touching it. (Any blog post in General, Music or Facebook categories should come through here ?)
Null Post
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December 21, 2010 at 10:41am
by Psybertron
This post shouldn’t appear via dlvr.it on either Facebook or LinkedIn.
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Wikileaks Power Struggle
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December 21, 2010 at 3:13am
by Psybertron
Thanks to Johnnie Moore for this “Overland” piece on Wikileaks and power politics.
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What to do next ?
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December 20, 2010 at 12:08pm
by Psybertron
Interesting NY-Times piece by William Gibson from back in August. (Thanks to Edward at Nixon McInnes) “I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.” Do we [...]
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Introducing Euan to MPF
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December 20, 2010 at 10:35am
by Psybertron
I mentioned Mary Parker-Follett to Euan Semple in a comment on one of the posts linked below. Rather than pollute Euan’s blog with some tangential detail, I thought I’d write a longer post here and simply trackback to Euan’s blog. My agenda takes in some mystical & pragmatic, monist metaphysics, which can seem a million [...]
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Pathological Literal-Mindedness
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December 20, 2010 at 8:32am
by Psybertron
Brilliant spoof from John Cleese. Which was in this NY-Times Opinionator blog by Tyler Burge, which is also an excellent read. [Thanks to Marsha on MD for the link.]
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Jonathan Zittrain
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December 19, 2010 at 12:19pm
by Psybertron
Just watched the Feb2010 update to Jonathan Zittrain’s “Minds for Sale” Harvard law school presentation. (Thanks to David Gurteen for Tweeting the link to LinkedIn). Excellent presentation – for me – on the downsides of inter-mediated trust and motives in internet organizational models – whether business, general governance or simply epistemic. The lack of any [...]
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Martyr
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December 17, 2010 at 11:41am
by Psybertron
That’s the word. I’ve been refusing to join the baying mob in seeing Assange as any kind of hero, and still do, despite raising my opinion marginally above “Yawn” recently. Jeff Hall used the word Martyr, commenting on the recent “Something Worth Worrying About” post from Euan Semple, on which I had already commented and [...]
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Harrier’s End
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December 15, 2010 at 10:38am
by Psybertron
Blogged a few weeks ago my memories of working on Harrier. Great collection of pictures here from Nigel Blake at the final take-offs and flypasts. Hat tip to Smiffy on FB for the link. My favourite recollections are of this tail-stand transition from hover to climb. Strangely when I was in Brisbane last month, their [...]
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The War on Wikis
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December 15, 2010 at 10:01am
by Psybertron
Wikileaks is still a big yawn. Freedom of speech / press is one thing worth fighting for, but governments have power because we give it to them on our behalf to protect our interests. The ability to hack into and publish anything morally interesting or dubious is not itself a reason to do so, though [...]
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Unity is a Process
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December 14, 2010 at 7:36am
by Psybertron
This kind of quote reminds me why I’m a big fan of Mary Parker-Follett. [Specifically this.] ‘The most important thing to remember about unity is — that there is no such thing. There is only unifying. You cannot get unity and expect it to last a day–or five minutes.’ Quoted by Rosa Zubizarreta quoting Albie [...]
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Turned Out Nice Again
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December 10, 2010 at 7:53am
by Psybertron
Scary piece by Lisa Jardine about a hero of mine (and hers) where it seems she may have lost her admiration for her father Jacob Bronowski. I have long had the “I beseech you …” Auschwitz scene burned into my psyche, that it was always the punctuation to the grand sweep of science he had [...]
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Test Post
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December 8, 2010 at 11:35am
by Psybertron
Just testing out some RSS and Wiki-Watch-Page integration.
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Animal Kingdom
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December 7, 2010 at 6:26am
by Psybertron
Saw this Sundance Grand Jury winner on the flight back from Brisbane / Singapore. Really excellent study in evil. Slow, depressing, grim, grey-brown mood builds inexorably towards unavoidable family conflicts of loyalty, with many a predictably unexpected twist. Some good out-of-sequence events arriving at & leaving the courtroom climax add to the temporary confusion. How [...]
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Wikileaks
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December 3, 2010 at 1:20am
by Psybertron
Yawn.
