China’s ‘crowd buying’, RFID consultation, science and philosophy on MySpace…

• 1 – Shop affronts
  China 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.
  (tags: internet technology culture consumer shopping social economics China)
• 2 – Police arrest cement soccer ball pranksters
  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.
  (tags: cement Germany crime football bizarre)
• 3 – RFID Consultation Website
  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.
  (tags: futurism surveillance arphid tagging technology politics social RFID security privacy Europe)
• 4 – Turned Off
  Another great micro-story at 365tomorrows. Of course, you’ve bookmarked them by now, haven’t you?
  (tags: daily literature writing scifi SF fiction science story short)
• 5 – New fears over UK nuclear plants
  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.
  (tags: environment energy danger radiation risk report leaked safety cracks housing reactor plants power nuclear UK)
• 6 – Friedrich Nietzsche is in your extended network
  H3y, d00dz! Fred Nietzsche is on myspace! O RLY? YA RLY!
  (tags: myspace morality slave philosophy Nietzsche Friedrich)
• 7 – Isaac Newton is in your extended network
  NO WAY11!1!1!one!eleven! Isaac Newton is rocking on myspazz as well! Gnarly!
  (tags: myspace science physics Newton Isaac)
• 8 – Charles Darwin is in your extended network
  ZOMFG!!!11!111!11!!!!! Charles Darwin is like, totally on there, too! Awesome! j00 g0tz 3volut10n 1n my int4rw3bz! (All myspace links courtesy Metafilter)
  (tags: myspace evolution Darwin Charles)
• 9 – XHTMLized: Make sure machines dig your designs
  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.
  (tags: services website outsourcing contractor coding business HTML service design web xhtml)
• 10 – SPEECH of the Student
  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
  (tags: philosophy thought intellectual knowledge literature speech student learning education)
• 11 – CIA gives up hunt for Osama!
  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.
  (tags: lies government administration Bush 9/11 terrorism Laden Bin CIA terror war US politics)
• 12 – AP Looks At Piracy Around The World… Misses The Real Story
  TechDirt disassembles the mainstream media reportage on the ‘evils’ of piracy worldwide.
  (tags: content threat piracy press computer technology international copyright economics)
• 13 – The Clash of Forms
  David Schwartz muses on the differences between the short story and novel forms. Link from Hal ‘Vellum’ Duncan.
  (tags: literature technique comparison novel story short scifi SF fiction science writing)
• 14 – Kids in poorer countries more interested/excited about science
  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.
  (tags: demographics technology careers education youth sociology science culture)
• 15 – Carbon nanotube building blocks open up possibilities for advanced electronics
  Does what it says on the tin – more encouraging news from the world of nanoelectronics.
  (tags: futurism advanced electronics nanotubes carbon technology science)
• 16 – Proxima Centauri and Habitability
  The odds on habitable planets in the Centauri system just got better – though sadly a long way from definite.
  (tags: volatiles organic comets Proxima binding gravitational planets habitable system star Centauri space)
• 17 – Saturn’s faint rings share some of their secrets
  It looks like ‘E’ stands for Enceladus…more great data flowing back from the Cassini probe.
  (tags: astronomy science material Enceladus E-ring rings data probe Cassini Saturn space)
• 18 – Tourism Update: Jeff Bezos’ Spaceship Plans Revealed
  Blue Origin’s ‘environmental assessment’ document gives a good view of the company’s plans for space tourism enterprises.
  (tags: assessment environmental plans program vehicle suborbital Origin Blue Bezos Jeff tourism space)
• 19 – ‘Starshade’ may aid space exploration
  Those exoplanets can be gard to spot…best put your shades on.
  (tags: spectrography shield light star analysis spotting planet exoplanet telescope space)

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