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17 december 2004: the sock has flipped |
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Sneedle Flipsock has gone surfing (at the beach) and safari-ing (in the back garden, which is somewhat overgrown and in need of attention). The next weekly email version will be posted to subscribers on Friday 14 January 2005. Meanwhile, there may be occasional updates on the blog page.
Strict intellectual property laws, says Mackenzie Wark, are "not in the interests of creators. It is in the interests of those who own the means of realising the value of what we do... [T]hink about what you have as a common interest with other producers of information, and beyond that with other producers in general. Think beyond the property form. Imagine new worlds where information not only wants to be free, but is free. I think that’s a whole new horizon for thinking about what justice is, for what the just society could be." "The amount of work involved in designing a new intranet or redesigning an existing intranet is minor compared to the time needed to maintain an effective intranet over the longer term... For this reason, intranets tend to go one of two ways after launch - they either stagnate with few new features added over time or become masses of unstructured content and functionality created in a random fashion." 15 December 2004 | top of page A serious case of laptop burn was reported in a letter published in a medical journal two years ago after a 50-year-old man burned his penis while using a laptop balanced on his legs for an hour, despite wearing trousers and underpants. State University of New York scientists have found that heat emitted from notebooks sitting on a man's lap can lower sperm count over time. (thanks, Paul and Nick) "It sounds like science fiction: a brain nurtured in a Petri dish learns to pilot a fighter plane as scientists develop a new breed of 'living' computer... The 'brain', grown from 25,000 neural cells extracted from a single rat embryo, has been taught to fly an F-22 jet simulator by scientists at the University of Florida." (thanks, Warren) A vast collection of odd words and trivia about language. Try the history of "dord" on page one, and then try to stop browsing through the rest. (thanks, Peter) Cute dog, faithful companion, world-class defence lawyer: it's Herman the Legal Labrador! Herman's is a story of struggle, mistrust and victory despite the odds--and soon to be an animated Australian movie. (thanks, Michael) One day you may be able to buy sunscreen made from scarlet antibiotic mucus scraped off a hippo. The question is, would you? (thanks, Peter) What have the Romans done for us? Well, there were the aqueducts... Fellow
Science-Matters member David Allen spotted this "interactive cartographic
history of the relationship between hydrological and hydraulic systems
and their impact on the urban development of Rome, Italy from 753 BC to
the present day. Aquæ
Urbis Romæ examines the intersection between natural hydrological
elements such as springs, rain, streams, marshes, and the Tiber River,
and tectonic hydraulic elements such as aqueducts, fountains, sewers,
bridges, conduits, etc., that together create the water infrastructure
system of Rome." An American study shows that letting children play with a Gameboy in the operating room before undergoing surgery can help relax them better than tranquilisers or holding a parent's hand. (thanks, Tink) The Guild of Accessible Web Designers (ye GAWDs) is "a world-wide association of organisations and accessible web designers and developers - designed to both promote and protect standards - not technical standards - but accessible design standards." (thanks, Claire) Squirrel fishing: a new approach to rodent performance evaluation. "Almost wish we had squirrels in Oz!" comments flipsock friend Andrew. These days he's recognised as a Great English Poet. During his lifetime, John Keats was considered more of a working-class yob with pretensions. 13 December 2004 | top of page
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