Base of the Pyramid Protocol, saw Stuart Hart on of the drivers of this thing speak today. He clearly wicked smart and seemed genuine, but every time he talked about the people on the base of the pyramid I couldn't help mentally interjecting the word "exploit" right before the phrase... "Inclusive capitalism" what do you make of that?
Starlight - Information Visualization Technologies
Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before
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nate_harrison_amen.mov (video/quicktime Object) - A documentary, short for a doc, long for a web video, on the seminal Amen Break. Great topic, great break, but was having it narrated by an Apple computer with the voice set to "NPR" the best choice?
Rana Dasgupta,
The Sudden Stardom of the Third-World City
Weber’s Polar Night » Tiny devices; virtual mirror selves; a rain of RFID a trifecta of news from that unevenly distributed future of today.
information aesthetics - internet backbone map, this one is super details and labeled.
YouTube -the Rolling Stones 1964 cereal ad jingle
Whiskey Bar: Trusting the Marketplace
Billmon is back and as nastily on point as ever. But really all he needed was to quote the WSJ: "Treasury Secretary John Snow said the widening gap between high-paid and low-paid Americans reflects a labor market efficiently rewarding more productive people"
CenSEARCHip lets you compare search results between different country versions of engines
A rather bitter but interesting Alan Moore interview, part 1 & part 2
Fun with Econ: Would Steven Levitt get into MIT today?
we make money not art: Interview of Oliver Hess - Materials & Applications
Siqueiros Image Bank "An image bank for everyday revolutionary life"
Africa's New Ocean: A Continent Splits Apart - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
John Battelle states the obvious on Amazon and Google
This Blog Sits at the: Children of 9/11, Children of technology
Bona tempora volvantur--by Guy Kawasaki: The Art of the Board Meeting
Shantytowns as a New Suburban Ideal - New York Times
Shantytowns as a New Suburban Ideal - New York Times
fryer_levitt_ecls_babies.pdf (application/pdf Object)
"On tests of intelligence, Blacks systematically score worse than Whites, whereas Asians
frequently outperform Whites. Some have argued that genetic differences across races
account for the gap. Using a newly available nationally representative data set that
includes a test of mental function for children aged eight to twelve months, we find only
minor racial differences in test outcomes (0.06 standard deviation units in the raw data)
between Blacks and Whites that disappear with the inclusion of a limited set of controls.
The only statistically significant racial difference is that Asian children score slightly
worse than those of other races. To the extent that there are any genetically-driven racial
differences in intelligence, these gaps must either emerge after the age of one, or operate
along dimensions not captured by this early test of mental cognition."
Attack of the Eurogoogle | Economist.com subscriber only unfortunately, had to go to Lexis/Nexis to actually read it. choice quote:
"Even so, the most striking difference between Quaero and Google is not technological, but ideological. Quaero is a classic example of European state-funded industrial policy, while Google is the very embodiment of American free-market techno-capitalism."
Howard Rheingold's The Virtual Community, out of print but online.
Christ, apparently my elementary school has turned into a racial war zone. You don't even have to read between the lines to tell there is some crazy shit going on. And no, there was no gifted and talented program nor racial warfare when I was there...
MaxSpeak, You Listen!: KEYNES'S GENERAL THEORY AT 70
By Barkley Rosser
BLDGBLOG: Thousand Mile Colosseum "it is not the roadways but their surveillance that never ends."
The Raw Story | Retired Supreme Court Justice hits attacks on courts and warns of dictatorship
Bruce Sterling's Etech talk on naming the future (unsuccessfully...) and Anne Galloway's response & discussion.
FORTUNE: Secrets of greatness: How I work - Mar. 7, 2006 (much of interesting interviews on working styles)
Perception of Fonts: Perceived Personality Traits and Uses
Geeking with Greg: In a world with infinite storage, bandwidth, and CPU power (or another step towards Google data domination).
Wired 14.03: The Chaos of Joshua Davis It's tempting to say Wired is just absurdly late to the game on this one, but instead I'll just hope that they're just ahead on the curve on his return to relevance, cause I'd love to see him make something as good as his old work again.
YouTube - Biggie freestyle in Bed Stuy at 17 yrs old
YouTube - Ask Me, Don't Tell Me (SF street gangs in the early 60's)
peterme.com: Because the Valley doesn't understand, um, people.