"We've evolved from being a pack of monkeys to being a pack of monkeys with a dream" Terence McKenna
Nikola Tesla comments in 1926 on wireless "the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain connected by instruments carried in vest pockets."
'Lawn of the Dead' - Zombie garden gnomes chow down on a pink flamingo - being sold on Etsy - great idea wonder why no one has done this this earlier
An interview with Jon Gertner on Bell Laboratories which from the 1920s to the 1980s was the most innovative and productive institution of the twentieth century. These ingenious, often eccentric men would were responsible for some of the major innovations of the twentieth century and Jon talks about how they aided in the development of radar, lasers, transistors, satellites, mobile phones, and much more.
Australian Heritage Strategy is nearing its closing time for public consultation - given this is the first review in 20 years you have until next Friday to put in a submission.
A Free Mandelbrot Fractal Generator Application for iphone and PC's
The opportunity to make a submission to the UK consultation on open standards has closed. But Glyn Moody's introduction entitled Open Season on Open Standards is still well worth a read - "In the face of the continuing move to such open standards, there has been a rearguard action by traditional proprietary software companies to push FRAND - Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory - as an acceptable default for "open" standards. Except that it is not, as I have discussed at length before ...."
My favourite album this week has been Electric Moon's Inferno. Melkezedek's review pretty much sums it up ".... Chock full of the prime spaced out explorations you expect from the trio, Lunatics Revenge is a perfect bridge to Inferno, where things get even meatier and a shade darker, and deeper..."
A new macrowikinomics video animation featuring some of the world's brightest innovators.
What To Do When Attacked by Pirates - The music industry fought the future and created a black market; book publishers tried another tack - an article on ebook publishing and responses to Piracy by Rob Reid.
A nice guide on how to chemically develop your own photographic film
Another nice pdf guide to Digital Archiving in the 21st century put out by Zotero
Post by Science Insider - Horizon 2020: A €80 Billion Battlefield for Open Access
by Jop de Vrieze on how the next installment of Europe's gargantuan research funding programs called Horizon 2020 will be on Open Access. Hopes ... the program will have "dedicated support to dissemination (including through open access to research results), communication and dialogue actions" and that "open access shall apply under the terms and conditions laid down in the grant agreement." read more
A nice post on the new features of Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6)
Jean Burgess posted her slides for her presentation on the role of social media in crises and risk management during the Queensland floods at the 6th Annual Enterprise Risk Management for Government conference in Sydney.
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