What's With All these Hot Authors!!!
I'm about half way through Zadie Smith's "On Beauty", and it's another laugh out loud piece. A finely tuned story about race, class and identity in Amarican academia, it's up there with Chimamanda...
View ArticleWhy Hackers FLOSS
http://blog.milkingthegnu.org/2008/05/why-hackers-floss.html This absolutely describes why I got into software instead of finance when I finished University. And it's hard to get across to employers /...
View ArticleConversations with History: Wole Soyinka
"On this edition of Conversations with History, UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler talks with Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. In an extraordinarily prolific and rich body of work including plays, novels, poems,...
View ArticleTechnology Management Program UCSB: WIFI
A good talk on the beginnings of the Internet and the emergence of mesh networks among other topics. OLPC is such a device using mesh network technology. "Mr. Bryan was also recognized in September of...
View ArticleOn "Cities and Ambition"
Ok, those of you who know me, know that I've been trying out different cities for the last 3 years now. Most people looked at that with a mixture of awe ("New York? Wow, exciting!!"), puzzlement...
View ArticleCapturing MySpace MP3s
I find it a more than a little annoying that I cannot save MP3s being streamed to my computer through MySpace. They are after all, files on my computer. And if I don't plan to make any profit on...
View ArticleSomething New
This mix is in loving memory of my brother, Sam. Something New Ce Jeu St Andrew Remix Yelle; Fuck the Google Beaufort; I Know UR Girlfriend Hates Me Annie; Stay Night And Day Rocca; Science of the Dark...
View ArticleStory of the Atom
I love Music, Computers and Theatre. Math, Physics and Linguistics though, have been sort of pet interests of mine over the last few years. So this video series was perfect for me. Professor of Nuclear...
View ArticleAnother Small Step for Man
While China has had their first manned space walk (third manned mission), the US just had their first privately organized space flight. Very cool.
View ArticleOwning Your Own Time
If you can't wade throught the entire talk, you can skip to the last 15 minutes or so. Economics Professor Richard Wolff is basically arguing for people's democratic control of their own economic...
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