Academia
PowerPoint and kittens
Brilliant background from Mark Goetz. Given the fact that today I’m working on 4 presentations for the next couple of weeks, I am afraid I might have feline blood on my hands.
Copyright
Copyright infringement is not theft
Tired of hearing copyright infringement called “theft” by all sort of people in the content industries? James Murdoch of News Corp is just the latest in a long line of industry shills who favour this wrong-headed argument. I could write a long retort to that statement, but I will simply Read more
Feeling silly
The Internet? It will never work!
Ah, 1995, the early days of the Internet. Windows 95. The Clinton era. Apollo 13. The Unabomber Manifesto. And in Newsweek, a columnist says that the Internet is all hype. He said: “But today, I’m uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, Read more
Feeling silly
The Muppets meet social media
Beaker has always been my second favourite Muppet, my favourite being of course the Swedish chef (ask me sometime to do my impersonation). That is why I loved this video: As with all great videos, it has a serious point. Social media can be empowering, but whenever I take a Read more
Academia
In Costa Rica
I’m in Costa Rica for the rest of the month. Why am I away? As the always excellent PhD comic accurately comments, nobody in academia works in December: Now, where did I put the suntan lotion?
Academia
Nano postmodern Feminist carbon sustainable robots micro blogging cold-fusion
(Via Mathias Klang) Excellent PhD comic:
Computing
Of love and spambots
As with any good xkcd, this one has a serious point behind it. Spambots and other autonomous agents are becoming increasingly sophisticated. There may be a time soon when captchas and Turing tests may be a requirement for any sort of online interaction.
Feeling silly
Deadlines
This video conveys perfectly how I feel: Just another example of that creativity that is not supposed to exist on social media sites.