2012/01/26

Information overload or information gluttony? Let's not ignore our own agency.

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Gluttony Goes Viral - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education : If you ignore the gratuitous slam at 'hipsters' and...

Europe has, in some ways, reacted no better than America to the threat of terrorism

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Europe’s Own Human Rights Crisis | Human Rights Watch: "To many friends of human rights in Europe, the Arab Spring has been the most t...
2012/01/19

The Judeo-Christian origin of modern Human Rights

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As a result of a very interesting discussion with a friend of mine... The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization...
2012/01/13

Humanity writ large reflected in the tools of the day:

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How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker "[...] at any given moment, our most complicated machine will be taken as a model of ...

The difference between the View from Nowhere and stenography increasingly difficult to find :-)

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The New York Times public editor's very public utterance | Clay Shirky | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk "Thursday, Arthur Brisban...
2012/01/09

Indefinite detention without trial: still not a good idea

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Notes From a Guantánamo Survivor - NYTimes.com "I LEFT Guantánamo Bay much as I had arrived almost five years earlier — shackled ha...
2012/01/06

The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.

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The illustrated guide to a Ph.D: "Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. It's hard to describ...
2012/01/05

The Internet is a tool. Human Rights are not about tools.

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Internet Access Is Not a Human Right - NYTimes.com: "FROM the streets of Tunis to Tahrir Square and beyond, protests around the world ...
2012/01/04

Android is far from open source, both practically and in spirit

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Android: the free-ish mobile platform | Jethro Carr "Whilst I’m a fan of the platform overall, I’m encountering more and more issues e...
2011/12/21

Regardless of your opinion on homosexuality, gender-based stereotyping is entirely cultural and limits our self-expression

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One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom " Gender is not a subject that I would have broached in primary grad...
2011/12/20

Wikileaks is not necessarily the apotheosis of the Cypherpunk movement

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The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution › I went to the same school as Julian Assange, but we learned different lessons : "Not being able t...
2011/12/09

Anthropomorphising [parts of] the Internet is intellectually crippling and denies us agency

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The New Inquiry - What We Talk About When We Talk About the Internet: "When I hit a nail with a hammer, I think: witness the power of m...
2011/12/07

Using a service without paying? If you're not the customer, you're the product...

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Don't Be A Free User: "Were you a big Gowalla fan? Did you like Dodgeball ? Did you think Trunk.ly (gasp!) was better than Pinb...

The art of not drowning: a critique of airline safety cards through the ages :-)

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Paris Review – The Unlikely Event, Avi Steinberg "The artist behind a current AeroMexico safety card is not convinced. In an echo of Th...
2011/11/30

The last Steve Jobs link I'll ever share.

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Be a Jerk: The Worst Business Lesson from the Steve Jobs Biography - Tom McNichol - Business - The Atlantic "Steve Jobs was a visionary...