Testing PlayTagger

Just to test out PlayTagger

Hamsters – I Don’t Live Today (Live, Hendrix)
Hamsters – Love or Confusion (Live, Hendrix)

[Play tagger from del.ici.ous also via Robot Wisdom]
As Jorn says, priceless. Free too.

[And … post note …. now defunct. Oh well.]

Powerful Pinter

Pinter pulls no punches in pretty extreme anti-American stuff from Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech. [via Robot Wisdom]

The heavy morality of international politics you can read for yourself, but I was struck by this opening quote of something Pinter wrote in 1958.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

Google’s been around a while ?

Thanks to Rivets for this link. 🙂

And on to Beijing

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 ?

And this is Shanghai

Yes, that’s a submarine on the HuangPo.

That Was Fuzhou

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

Minding The Planet

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

Game Over

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

Panama Compression

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.

David Deutsch Awarded Edge Prize

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.