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This is great commentary on some of the anti-One Laptop discussion recently. Harris makes some good points. I've seen on of these PCs and they are beautifully designed and engineered. Some people just don't get it. OLPC: the best designed notebook in the world by ZDNet&
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Here is another critique of Twitter - this time as the enemy of corporate confidentiality. Does Krigsman not realise that the problem already exists with mobile phones & PDAs? I can already send a text message to the 200 people in my mobile phone's address book. Although Twitter
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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Pirate Pete, originally uploaded by kate.carruthers. Here is pirate Pete the accountant showing off his booty (obtained from Harry's Cafe). This is his natural state.
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This is one of those stories that friends email you with the request to email it to 10 friends for a 'miracle'. For some reason I decided to check if it was true and discovered that it is alleged to be true. In any case I like it.
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moar funny pictures via Aide-mémoire
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Here is a great story from ISN on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:01:27 -0600 (CST) - now the bad guys can extract personal info using flirting robots. Talk about paranoia for online dating! "http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9831133-56.html By Ina Fried, December 7, 2007 Those
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Over at Techdirt it has been noted that "David Hazinski, a journalism professor and former NBC correspondent, claiming that 'unfettered' citizen journalism is 'too risky' and that it needs to be regulated (via Romenesko) by 'official' media companies, handing out 'certificates'
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This via Michael Krigsman is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time - it's an error on the huge billboard in Times Sqaure in New York. "The big screen in New York’s Times Square runs Windows and Adobe Flash. I guess you
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Over at Freakanomics they did a Q&A with the creator of Second Life, Philip Rosedale about Second Life (aka SL). This is interesting stuff - the questions are wide ranging from security and privacy to economics. But I still don't think that SL is a very
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I can't believe that crappy program says I look like these celebrities! via Aide-mémoire
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Great to see that Pia and Jeffrey Waugh have been awarded the NSW Pearcey Award 2007 for their collaboration within the open source software sector and their sustained contribution to the Linux movement in Australia (more at LinuxWorld) via Aide-mémoire
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This visit to Twitter by Loïc Le Meur is very amusing ... via Aide-mémoire