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http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dtfm9hj_30ccsw79f4 http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dtfm9hj_30ccsw79f4 This is funny, and a little bit scary too. Read and post comments | Send to a friend ... (more)

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So, I've been having some problems with the Vox service for some time, and now I have a twine invitation, so I am going to test out Twine as a platform for blogging. The way I blog is that I tend to write up my blog posts in a mail client and then mail these to the blog engine, but so far Vox as a service has been soso. ... (more)

I'm reading a great article by Joe Esposito on Open Access. You can read the article here:http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;cc=jep;rgn=main;view=text;idno=3336451.0011.203. The article's main claim is that attention is the barrier to disemination rather than access. Another claim of this article is that paid for publishing platforms are good for readers in that they act as an attention filter. One of the main claims of the article is that Open Content in a sea of ... (more)

Ubigraph (http://ubietylab.net/ubigraph/) Ubigraph (sorry for the fucked up formatting, I think my blog host vox is still being shitty at recognising simple html formatting in input, mixed with line breaks, it's just a frickin url link for god's sake) is a nicely implemented engine for making 3-D graphs and plots. I installed it and got the default python interface up and running in about 5 minutes. My initial reaction was "this is cool". ... (more)

Ahh, convergence, ahh, the ability to pinpoint your friends on your mobile phone. I've been waiting for this to happen. Sent to you by Ian Mulvany via Google Reader: Upcoming.org Founder Creates Fireball (Fire Eagle + DodgeBall + Twitter) via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on 4/22/08 Remember DodgeBall, the early social mobile network that languished after Google bought it? So does Leonard Lin, a founding member of Upcoming.org who recently left Yahoo, where he organized Hack Days. ... (more)

Nature, the company I work for, has been nominated for a Webby, woot!. OK, so we are up against Nasa's earth observatory, and some other great sites in the science field, but it's really nice to get a nod and see that some other people out there like the kind of work that we are doing. If you want to go and vote you can at this link herehttp://pv. ... (more)

Well, I just read through the engadget report on the iPhone SDK and it's looking pretty good. I'm in the middle of downloading the free SDK, mainly so that I can have a virtual iPhone to play around with, but last night I got to thinking about what kind of applications I personally would like to see on the device. I live in London, but I frequently travel to Europe. ... (more)

Yesterday the Guardian had a special pull out section dedicated to the LHC. If you browse through the articles you find lots of comments along the lines of "temple to mystery and imagination", "a journey to the edge of understanding". "a modern cathedral to our relationship with the universe", and so on. From the superlatives that are being written one would think that the LHC is the best thing to happen to enlightenment ... (more)

I just got the following Yay! "Hi, Somebody has sent you a Brightkite invite. Brightkite is a location-based social network, currently in private beta. Personal message: The wait is over! Here's your Brightkite beta invite. Enjoy!" Then on sign up discovered that it is only supported by a number of US carriers, boo. Read and post comments | Send to a friend ... (more)