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Malcolm sent me a number of links to and around Snakes On A Plane.[Warning: Contains strong language].
While there are many reasons the film could and should make cult status, there’s something quintessentially Gonzo about the whole thing. A lead actor who takes the role because he likes the title. Then finds out they want to [...]

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I’ve been a fan of, and a subscriber to, FirstMonday for as long as I can remember being able to subscribe to anything electronically. In fact, I think it was my first-ever electronic sign-up, probably sometime in 1997, confirmed by looking at the fossil record of the e-mail address I used to register :-)
If you [...]

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Malcolm’s post on Second Life, itself riffing off Scoble’s On Not Getting Second Life, got me started on this particular snowball.
If you haven’t done so already, you should check out Cyworld . [Yes, I know, I've linked you to the wikipedia definition and article and not to the site itself; since most of the site [...]

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Word has been spreading all day today that the Indian government has blocked a large number of blog sites. Both Dina Mehta as well as Xeni Jardin at Boing Boing commented across my radar screen.
I could be wrong. But my guess is that the ISPs were asked to do something they couldn’t, by a group [...]

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I’ve always accepted the received wisdom about men and women and multitasking. Mars and Venus. Men solve problems and work sequentially and logically, women are good at multitasking and some sort of ordered chaos. Or something like that.
Now, as I watch Generation M and the modern workforce, I’m not so sure.
Maybe housewives were the world’s [...]

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In that serendipitous flow that blogs excel at, Chukti made contact with me after a quarter of a century. [Great connecting up, Chutki!) And as we conversed he brought up Attention Deficit Trait (as defined by Edward Hallowell) and wondered what I thought of it.
A few days later I was reading The Economist’s Intelligent Life [...]

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Isn’t it ironic
That “the internet…a series of tubes”
is clogging up
The Internet [via] a series of YouTubes….

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Speakers and headphones to be taxed as well….
You’re right, it’s not true. But it might as well be. Kevin Marks reminded me about this story, via Gordon Cook’s community. Thanks to Kevin and to Gordon et al; it has been a busy day, and I forgot to pick up on the story.
I’m not even going [...]

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I’m going to expose you to a few quotes first, with some artistic licence applied:

Rather than subsidising the rewriting of existing [proprietary] code, [enterprise] resources and funding should be focused on areas where external investment is not being made, areas where [industry segment] requirements are not being addressed, and [radically differentiating] technologies. Within these areas [...]

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[A health warning: This is a very provisional post. I haven't thought through it too deeply, but there's something about it that compels me to write it now.]
I’ve always been fascinated by collaborative filtering ever since I read the research papers on Firefly sometime in 1998. I got hooked on it by the time I [...]

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