Last week, a young bottlenose dolphin named Merlin became the first of his species to join the growing number of enthusiasts using the Apple iPad. (via Dolphin uses iPad as way to communicate with humans – Boing Boing)
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Read moreNothing else seems to be working, and the so-called “nuclear option” has a decent track record: the Soviets managed to seal off leaks in this fashion five times.
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Foster notes that Obama has already sent a team of nuclear physicists to the Gulf, and that it includes “82-year-old Richard Garwin, who designed the first hydrogen bomb.” Could nuking be a serious option?
Read moreA post-privacy world, increasingly operated by generations that traded privacy for connectivity and interactivity, naturally features the onerous spectre of surveillance. The future you move into, however, will be characterised by inverse surveillance: the open monitoring of authority objects. The flow of statistics into the street. The point of a “digital city” is a city that reports to you, not on you.
Extend that out of the cities. Build your 3G masts and your chains of Wi-Fi routers so that your fields and woodlands and towpaths can speak to you as clearly as your roads and squares. Yours may be the last generation where a child can get lost
This is a billboard in Ann Arbor, MI that doesn’t seem to be an advertisement… Of what could be an alien or could be a man.
Alie-man (by Ian B. Line)
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First human ‘infected’ with computer virus
via 80% of the humans I follow on Twitter.
First human ‘infected’ with computer virus
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Hong Kong’s rooftop shanty towns
From daily tonic:
In South America the slums are attached to the outskirts of mega-cities such as Caracas and Mexico City like wasps’ nests on a cliff face. In a hilly island city like Hong…
Hong Kong’s rooftop shanty towns
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 