July 2011
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Obama’s and Bush’s effects on the deficit in one... →
Ezra Klein - The Washington Post
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The "Internet of Places" - Directions Magazine →
See also - The 3D Web
A significant proportion of the content available on the Internet has a spatial dimension. This may be either explicit or implicit … . .
An increasing number of real-time sensor data feeds and an unprecedented amount of unstructured crowdsourced information now complements standard geospatial resources. This evolution is multifaceted, leveraging concepts such as...
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“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the...”
– The Evolving Global Order Prospects and Opportunities
Language and Other Cognitive Systems What is Special about Language?
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Carlos Montes and the Security State: A Cautionary... →
Poor urban neighborhoods have already learned what is only dimly being understood by the rest of us—in the eyes of the state we are increasingly no longer citizens with constitutional rights but enemy combatants. … . .
On May 17 at 5 in the morning the Chicano activist Carlos Montes got a wake-up call at his home in California from Barack Obama’s security state. The Los Angeles County...
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Extending human consciousness
The magic of visual summary
The emergent, seminal, art and science of animated info-graphics is both accelerating and amplify our ability to extract meaningful perspective form the overwhelming data stream of a ubiquitously wired world.
Please sir! Can we have some more.
Here is an example of info-graphics turned into a visual store line.
Remember the human...
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Wikileaks updates Mastercard’s ads and it’s priceless. Thanks to Mastercard and other corporations, they’re operating under a financial blockade: Via: cognitivedissonance
For six months now, five major US financial institutions, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, Western Union and the Bank of America have tried to economically strangle WikiLeaks as a result of political pressure from Washington. The...
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First Fully Synthetic Organ Transplant Saves...
Artificial trachea built from scratch shows the promise of regenerative medicine.
Surgeons in Sweden have successfully transplanted a fully synthetic, tissue-engineered organ—a trachea—into a man with late-stage tracheal cancer. The synthetic trachea was created entirely in the lab, using a scaffold built out of a porous polymer, and tissue grown from the patient’s own stem cells...
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“We need to wake up and realize that our real enemies are not in some distant...”
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Former US soldier and Iraq war veteran Mike Prysner (via zeitgeistmovement)
The enemy within:
The ideology that it is acceptable to run a society based on corporate profit centres, profit centres that are run with little or no regard for the fact that corporate institutions have a fiduciary...
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#3 The Facebook Platform has one huge weakness:...
Read full post @ momentusmedia.com
Any successful Facebook Platform developer knows how you build a successful social app. Cater to 100% of the population. The symmetrical and emotional relationships on Facebook only assume that friends have “emotional glue” connecting each other. Unlike Twitter with “interest glue” or Linkedin with “professional glue”, on Facebook you can only assume...
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Why Software code is the crucial component of...
Software is what the 21st century is made of
What steel was to the economy of the 20 th century What steel was to the power of the 20 th century What steel was to the politics of the 20 th century Software is now It is the curial building block the component out of which everything else is made
and when I speak of everything - I mean of course: FREEDOM as well as Tyranny as well as Business as...
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Mississippi Fred McDowell - Baby Please Don’t...
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Movement to Abolish Corporate Personhood Gaining... →
In Citizens United v. FEC, the U.S. Supreme Court (in an act of outrageous “judicial activism) gutted existing campaign finance laws by ruling that corporations, wealthy individuals, and other entities can spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns.
Throughout the country people have responded by organizing against “corporate personhood,” a court-created precedent that...
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