Links for 06-07-2006
China’s ‘crowd buying’, RFID consultation, science and philosophy on MySpace…
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1 – Shop affrontsChina gets savvy to the ‘wisdom of crowds’ – the internets producing a bit of leveage for the people at the bottom of the stack. See my post later today for more on this…Link via The Huge Entity.
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Hah hah ha ha ha ha! Cruel and unusual, but bl**dy hilarious for a football-hater such as myself. Heh! That’s what I call protest art-terrorism. Link via BoingBoing.
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My fellow Europeans, rejoice! You have the opportunity to tell the EU government your feelings on the future of RFID implementation in Europe! Log in and have your say! (Or nod off and head for the pub; your choice.) Link from BeyondTheBeyond.
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4 – Turned OffAnother great micro-story at 365tomorrows. Of course, you’ve bookmarked them by now, haven’t you?
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They have big old cracks in ‘em, apparently. No doubt this will be used as proof that we should build more new ones…can’t say I agree with that POV, as it happens.
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H3y, d00dz! Fred Nietzsche is on myspace! O RLY? YA RLY!
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NO WAY11!1!1!one!eleven! Isaac Newton is rocking on myspazz as well! Gnarly!
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ZOMFG!!!11!111!11!!!!! Charles Darwin is like, totally on there, too! Awesome! j00 g0tz 3volut10n 1n my int4rw3bz! (All myspace links courtesy Metafilter)
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Want a fly website? Got the ideas, but a lack of time or coding skillz? These guys will code up your design for $150 upwards. In 5 days. Link via OhGizmo.
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US head-of-year graduate student takes his acceptance speech as opportunity to lay into the education system he just spent four years toiling through. Some damn fine points in there, that must have made a lot of people feel damned awkward. Kudos to the gu
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Sploid rounds up some interesting data on the war on terror – seems there’s not so much of a war anymore, at least as far as the CIA are concerned, and Bin Laden was just a useful tool to get Dubya back in the White House. Via MetaFilter.
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TechDirt disassembles the mainstream media reportage on the ‘evils’ of piracy worldwide.
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13 – The Clash of FormsDavid Schwartz muses on the differences between the short story and novel forms. Link from Hal ‘Vellum’ Duncan.
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Ever wondered why UK University Sci and Eng courses are packed with foreign students? Because none of our lot give a toss for science, it seems; in rich countries, science (as a career) just isn’t cool enough.
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Does what it says on the tin – more encouraging news from the world of nanoelectronics.
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The odds on habitable planets in the Centauri system just got better – though sadly a long way from definite.
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It looks like ‘E’ stands for Enceladus…more great data flowing back from the Cassini probe.
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Blue Origin’s ‘environmental assessment’ document gives a good view of the company’s plans for space tourism enterprises.
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Those exoplanets can be gard to spot…best put your shades on.

