Year: 2005

Thanks to Rivets for this link. 🙂

They (and the biting cold wind) keep the red flags flying
in Tiananmen Square

It’s that man again, overlooking those entering the Forbidden City

No stealing the photons now,

Red is not the only colour,

Does the guard on the bridge know he’s 6 inches off centre ?

Yes, that’s a submarine on the HuangPo.

This 10x lifesize statue of Mao overlooks the main square here in Fuzhou.

Linked to Nova Spivak’s blog “Minding The Planet” once or twice before, but intrigued to find here that Peter Drucker was his grandfather ?

Web 2.0 IS Google, says Cringley. 300+ portable and strategically located container-sized data processing centres are the key. [via Euan Semple]

Fascinating novelty item [via Rivets] of a week’s worth of activity through locks on the Panama canal compressed into 11 minutes of time-lapse video.

Must be something about the sequence of locks and holding pools, but there are long inefficient sequences with all boats going in the same direction, lock’s repeatedly filling with no up-bound ships, locks emptying without down-bound ships.

I’ve been raving about Deutsch’s Fabric of Reality world view, and mentioned that he didn’t play as strongly as expected on his quantum information work.

I see he was just last week awarded a prize by The Edge for his pioneering work in quantum computing.