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links for 2008-04-20
The Serious Play in Saving the World: Gaming gets on the sustainability bandwagon
Shall we play an infinite game? Games based on collaborative design with social networks and group-forming activity could result in powerful community development, online and off-line. As new sustainability-focused, technology-mediated communities evolve
(tags: play games simulation environment sustainability ecosystem)
links for 2008-04-18
An Unlit Candle: Solidarity with Tibet at Passover
Beautiful proposal for Jews to include an unlit candle on their Seder tables this year. The candle symbolizes the Olympic torch, whose light has been dimmed, and the unmet hopes of a people still living without freedom.
(tags: tibet passover judaism freedom)
Dalai Lama: Lessons of Buddhism as applied to [...]
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Thomas Laird: On the Use of Propaganda by the Chinese Communist Party
Great article on how perspectives of people in the PRC are shaped by propaganda orchestrated by President Hu Jintao and the central committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Since Tibet crisis is about the Party, how can we stop enabling them? Speak up.
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links for 2008-04-16: Tastes of Freedom
Take a Bite out of Climate Change Anna Lappe’s new Bite Blog explores climate change through the lens of food with up-to-date info, analysis, interviews with experts in the field, tips on diet choices and actions you can take. (tags: climatechange food farming agriculture biotech biofuels hunger meat organic foodindustry ) Detailed Nomadic Taxonomy Paul Saffo’s post on Cyber-Nomads, a functional taxonomy of mobile users , dives more deeply into the metaphors quoted in my New Nomads post (Thanks, Paul!). (tags: nomads digitalnomads globalnomads urbannomads taxonomy metaphor astronauts hermitcrabs cybertrekkers ) Ask Umbra: On Rooftop Gardening Are plants grown on NYC rooftop gardens safe to eat? … (tags: gardening urban containergardening ediblegardens gardens pollution food ) Fring brings VOIP to the iPhone I just received my first VOIP call from an iPhone using Fring ( Hi Dad !).
Read more →My Fingers Wear Pants… and Read Books
I had noted “I Was Told There’d Be Cake” by Sloane Crosley as a book to read, but without a sense of urgency. … I Was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crosley from Book Videos on Vimeo .
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The Quantified Self
Kevin Kelly’s blog on tools for knowing your own mind and body
(tags: surveillance selfknowledge measuring tools)
links for 2008-04-14
John A. Wheeler, physicist who named black holes and optimist about nature of reality
The black hole “teaches us that space can be crumpled like a piece of paper into an infinitesimal dot, that time can be extinguished like a blown-out flame, and that the laws of physics that we regard as sacred,’ as immutable, are [...]
The New Nomads
My uncle confused me last weekend at a family gathering with the following question: “How many hours a day are you online?” … I looked up from the stream of my friends’ latest photos on my iphone and repeated the question out loud several times, stressing the different words to try to understand what he meant. 10 or 12?
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Slooh 3.0 Live Online Observatory
Control powerful robotic telescopes (wide field and high magnification) at observatories in the Canary Islands, Chile and Australia through your browser and save photos from your journey. Live guided space shows nightly. Team up to make discoveries.
(tags: astronomy photography observatory discovery)
Cellphones: Illiteracy-reducers, too—not just poverty-enders?
Good roundup of recent news on mobile [...]
links for 2008-04-09
NYT: The Torch & Freedom: PR Advice for China
Stop arresting dissidents. Stop lying about the Dalai Lama, and start talking to him about religious and cultural freedoms for Tibet. Stop enabling Sudan’s genocide in Darfur. Start delivering on the pledge you made to the IOC to respect human rights…
(tags: china tibet dalailama)
links for 2008-04-08
The Human Network: Engaging Conversation
Love Mark Pesce’s latest post exploring nature of conversation online, fragility of beginnings and value of trust over expertise.
(tags: trust conversation online expertise relationships human)
Eco-Safe Badge for websites
Provide environmentally friendly alternatives to printing for your website visitors. Eco-safe’s merit badge allows people to email themselves copies of the page or save [...]
links for 2008-04-06
FontStruct: online simple font editor
FontStruct is a free online font editing tool. Build, share and download fonts. Brilliant!
(tags: typography fonts editor)
The New French and Other Neighborhood Characters
They also ran an editorial Most Perfect Neighborhood Was feeling low this morning over some kind of romantish nonsense and about to schlep a giant duffel of old clothes down to Housing Works so they could start a new life. … Strolling back from depositing donation and trying to decide between omelette at Petite Abeille or Panino Mucho Giusto or something salady at Le Pain Quotidien, I see “The New French” on the windows of the old Le Gamin at 536 Hudson St in Maira Kalman’s unmistakable handwriting.
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