Taxi drivers growing brains, US rattles satellite sabres, Project Daedalus remembered, where you are on the map of the internet…

• 1 – Taxi drivers’ knowledge helps their brains grow
  “Satellite navigation systems can stunt your brain, preventing it from developing, according to scientists. They have discovered that taxi drivers have actually grown more brain cells because of all the knowledge they keep in their heads.”
  (tags: neuroscience drivers taxi growth neuron brain memory knowledge cognition science)
• 2 – Remembering Project Daedalus
  “Daedalus was the first serious and thorough design for a starship, a robotic interstellar probe that would reach Barnard’s Star in about fifty years, moving at twelve percent of the speed of light.” A Brit design, too, believe it or not.
  (tags: history Society Interplanetary British design starship space Daedalus Project)
• 3 – Talk of Satellite Defense Raises Fears of Space War
  “The administration insists that there is no arms race in space, although the United States is the only nation that opposed a recent United Nations call for talks on keeping weapons out of space.” Zing!
  (tags: politics statements agression latent paranoia defence satellite policy space administration US)
• 4 – New York City to get Taxi 2.0, now with GPS tracking and TV
  Does what it says on the tin.
  (tags: TV tracking location GPS technology cab taxi US NYC York New)
• 5 – Person of the Year: You
  “…for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME’s Person of the Year for 2006 is you.” ZOMFG! Er, I’d like to thank my agent, my ISP ..
  (tags: MSM bandwagon hype internet web2.0 networks media social you year person magazine Time)
• 6 – Time Fails to Find Person Of The Year
  “Time magazine just announced that their person of the year is ‘you’ – meaning all of us involved in social media content. I find this particularly uninspiring.” Matthew Hurst is unimpressed at big media blah2.0 bandwagoneering.
  (tags: criticism networks media social hype bandwagon web2.0 2006 year person magazine Time)
• 7 – Find yourself on the Map of the Internet!
  Not sure where you lie in the great wilderness that is the Internet? Wondering how far away your friends (or enemies) are along the TCP/IP pipes? Look no further — just use the Map of the Internet!
  (tags: humour tool visualization network mapping internet map IP)
• 8 – Peter Watts reports that support from bloggers is helping sales of [Blindsight].
  Does what it says on the tin. I know I’m looking forward to my copy arriving in time for the holiday downtime!
  (tags: sales hardcopy recommendations bloggers marketing download free Commons Creative CC Blindsight Watts Peter)