Foto del Dia 7.17.10
Tesla in his Houston Street laboratory. Caption for this photo in Electrical Review, March 29, 1899 reads: "The operator’s body, in this experiment, is charged to a high potential by means of a coil responsive to the waves transmitted to it from a distant oscillator."
ITU Wants Half The World Online By 2015
The UN telecoms agency, the ITU, has called for new action to enable half of the world's population to gain access to broadband by 2015.
Posted: July 16th, 2010
at 4:21pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: web,development,internets
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Internet Filtering in Australia
Australia's technology press is banding together on a common survey question regarding the Federal Government's mandatory internet filtering policy. Delimiter, a tech site focused on Australia is asking just one question: Would you vote for a political party which supports the internet filter?
Posted: July 15th, 2010
at 1:13pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: web,business,politricks,development,internets
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Who got that Vocab?! : Cognitive Dissonance
This is the feeling of uncomfortable tension which comes from holding two conflicting thoughts in the mind at the same time.
Dissonance increases with:
-The importance of the subject to us.
-How strongly the dissonant thoughts conflict
-Our inability to rationalize and explain away the conflict
Posted: July 15th, 2010
at 1:20am by orangemenace
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The Dull New Global Novel
Not all writers share the same sense of whom they are writing for. Many may not even think they are directing their work at any audience in particular. All the same, there are clearly periods of history when, across the board, authors' perceptions of who their readers are change, something that inevitably leads to a change in the kind of text they produce. The most obvious example is the period that stretches from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century when writers all over Europe abandoned Latin for the vernacular. Instead of introducing their work, as before, into an international arena presided over by a largely clerical elite, they "descended" to local and national languages to address themselves to an emerging middle class.
Mike Perry Eames Chairs
New York illustratorAMike Perry applies his original style to the classic lines and form of an Eames chair. These chairs are drawn on by hand using indelible inks and are signed by Mike. Drawn to order in the classic Eames Eiffel Chair or the Rocker Arm Chair version available throughAOutdoorz Gallery.
TED : Joshua Prince-Ramus
Joshua Prince-Ramus believes that if architects re-engineer their design process, the results can be spectacular. Speaking at TEDxSMU, Dallas, he walks us through his fantastic re-creation of the local Wyly Theater as a giant "theatrical machine" that reconfigures itself at the touch of a button.
Posted: July 15th, 2010
at 1:02am by orangemenace
Tagged with design, architecture, video, TED, Joshua Prince-Ramus
Categories: youtube,architecture,design
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Poster Children of the Hermit Kingdom
Foreigners are allowed few glimpses into the reality or mindset of North Korea today. But author B.R. Myers has managed to collect rare slides of North Korean propaganda posters, which illustrate the eerie mythology the government wants its impoverished people to believe.