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died: Milorad Pavic, author of "Dictionary of the Khazars", a great work of non-linear fiction. http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
US Chamber of Commerce offers free trip to Hooters for joining online anti-Health Care Reform Campaign http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpoi... RT@rrrgggbbb
finished website for our installation, "The Future of Books": http://vivatropolis.com/FutureO... @wattenberg @gilgul
Google CEO:"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know,maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place"http://www.networkworld.com/communi...
Excellent archive - including videos - of Future of the Forum conf. is now online http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/fotf... #FOTF
Jimmy Wales is showing a fascinating chart showing topics that dominate diff. lang wikipedias. Pop culture in Japan. Geography in Germany...
... points out that "sex" big topic everywhere but France and Spain. Perhaps doing replaces writing wikipedia articles about @jimmy_wales
Jimmy Wales Regents lecture at Berkeley. "Culture is getting SMARTER" e.g. WoW smarter than Pong. Wikia smarter than all...
@40kforLAF what is your guess about the source of those balloons?
across the globe 3 billion hours a week collectively spent gaming #fotf @avantgame -- potential training ground or colossal time waste?
"the answer to any ? of form 'can google wave be used to...' is yes" @larsras #FOTF. @mkapor mentioned similar phenom w/ spreadsheets
MIT team wins DARPA red balloon challenge #DARPA https://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/darpane...
how many fake balloons were there? are there pix of them? a map? #DARPA
copying existing paradigms (e.g. email) is limiting, but very novel inventions can be hard to understand (e.g. Wave) @larsras #FOTF
#FOTF Sheila Murphy showing a collection of pictures of cats e.g. http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008... in toilets to explain LOLtheory
is speaking at Future of the Forum - http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/fotf... - with @hrheingold, @mkapor, @jimmy_wales etc. #FOTF
more re: UN officials destroy poster for mentioning chinese firewall http://www.youtube.com/watch... and http://news.idg.no/cw...
more re: UN officials destroy poster for mentioning chinese firewall http://bit.ly/MnjQQ and http://bit.ly/3nF2AG
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Irony 1: Free-speech: 0 At an anti-censorship mtg, UN officials destroy poster b/c it mentions Great Firewall of China @zittrain #IGF09
In the Bay Area Dec 5? I'm speaking at the Future of the Forum #FOTF at UC Berkeley. Great speaker lineup - http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/fotf/
I think "i'd like you pick your brain" is my least favorite expression.
"neurosis:an adaptation, no longer required, but applied ongoing in inappropriate situations" says @ethanz. so they're the mind's appendixes
giant garbage patches - one twice the size of texas - are growing in the oceans http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
@amcafee get plenty of sleep and wash your hands
RT @ethanz @rdicker: The great irony about the vote in Maine is that Leviticus is pretty down on lobsters, too: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage...
screens and driving don't mix. not in a car, not in a plane. http://www.nytimes.com/2009... (pilots who missed airport were checking out new software)
RT @johnmcquaid The one advantage of a currency collapse: Iceland will soon be McDonald's-free http://www.bloomberg.com/apps...
Perhaps underage anorexic models signify a happy, sated society http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories... Underfed men seek heavy, older women @Richard_Dawkins
#bbf09 @negroponte olpc about empowering children thru tech
every schoolchild in uruguay now has an olpc laptop @negroponte #bbf09
Come see our video scultpture "The Future of the Book" at the Boston Public Library #bbf09 (@gilgul, @watten, @judithd)
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