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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Powder to the people Renowned ski guide Felix Tanquay has come up with a new concept to guarantee British skiers the best snow possible in the Alps. This winter his Verbier-based company, Powder Extreme, is launching "Mystery Tours", where guests fly to Geneva to be met by a guide who will make a "last-second" decision as to where the best snow is at that time – and take...
Mattaw's Mumblings (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Synthesizable RTL versions of IBM's excellent embeddable PowerPC™ line of processors (the 405, 460 and the 460 FPU ) are available to SoC designers from Synopsys' Star IP Program and this Star IP PowerPC™ 405-S is also available to Educators . Further embeddable PowerPC™ cores for synthesis are also available from AMCC . In a series of articles I will show how to take the educational...
VizThink Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Ole Qvist-Sørensen, an amazing graphic facilitator (he’s facilitated at all three of our vizThink conferences) and owner of Danish visual thinking company ‘Bigger Picture‘, recently put up an excellent post on his company’s blog outlining their tips for drawing just about anything. Their context is graphical facilitation but these techniques will work for any context...
PhoneArea.net (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
We previously mentioned Gameloft’s Asphalt series when Asphalt 4 made its way to the N-Gage as well as on Verizon’s V-Cast service . Gameloft teased us at this year’s WWDC ‘09 with…
LIFT Conference Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The next Lift@home will happen next Monday (Nov 9) in Geneva. Organized by Nicolas Nova, the event will be about " Urban informatics ". Future "networked and digital cities" have popped up on the radar for sometime now. This is a topic we address on a regular basis at Lift from a various set of viewpoints (art, design, architecture, digital services) and with a long-term vision....
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
United Nations human rights specialists have expressed concerns over November’s anti-minaret vote and “discriminatory” poster campaign in Switzerland. The comments by the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Committee were made in conclusions on Swiss progress in implementing the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which is monitored by the body of experts. Switzerland...
MacEvangelism (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
First-person shooter Elminate Pro [Free - iTunes link] and virtual pet sim Touch Pets Dogs [Free - iTunes link] for iPhone and iPod touch, first shown off by ngmoco at WWDC 2009, have begun making their way into iTunes App Stores around the world (we’ve confirmed them in Canada, other countries should be getting them [...]This is a story by the iPhone Blog. This feed is sponsored by The iP 1...
From the Dust Returned (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The Screwfly Solution is an adaptation of a short story by by James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon's male pen name), directed by Joe Dante ( Gremlins ). The concept behind this episode is one of the more intriguing in the entire Masters of Horror series, but this hour length treatment really doesn't do it quite enough justice. ***SPOILERS REGARDLESS OF GENDER*** A virus has spread across the Earth, starting...
In Search of Enlightenment (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The latest issue of Nature has this insightful , and refreshing, editorial on renewing our optimism for gene therapy. Here is a sample: In the early 1990s, when the first human trials got under way, it seemed to many that the era of gene therapy was at hand: the techniques of modern molecular biotechnology would make it possible to repair genetic defects by inserting healthy DNA directly into a patient's...
7.5th Floor (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Last saturday at Citilab in Cornellà, in the outskirts of Barcelona, Nicolas and myself organized a “lift @ home” event during the Urban Labs days. This one-day long workshop called “Hands on Barcelona’s Informational Membrane helped launch the Ciudad Percibida initiative and is part of a series of seminar about the new practices as well as [...]
MacEvangelism (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of five newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. The most crucial patent within this group covers Apple's iPhone Encryption technology. During Apple's WWDC 2009, Phil Schiller stated that businesses had asked for hardware encryption and that all iPhone 3G-S models would have this security feature. 1 Vote(s)
Carson's Post (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Troops in Afghanistan already outnumber the Taliban 12-1, reports Slobodan Lekic in the Huffington Post. Why ask for more? “The Taliban rebels are estimated to number no more than 25,000. Ljubomir Stojadinovic, a military analyst and guerrilla warfare expert from Serbia, said that although McChrystal’s reinforcements would lift the ratio to 20-1 or more, they would [...]
Voices (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
It's long been hard for health-care consumers to learn how much doctor visits or hospital stays will cost them. That's now beginning to change, as a growing array of Web sites try to lift the veil on pricing.
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Calling a special election to coincide with the general election like Gov. David Paterson did in NY-23 turns out to be something of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it assures a certain degree of turnout, which is good, since specials are generally plagued by lower voter interest, resulting in elected officials who aren't selected by anything close to the majority of residents they represent....
VizThink Blog (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
David Armano of the Dachis Group, just posted his slide deck from a talk he gave last week at Blogworld 2009 titled “The Value of Visual Thinking in Social Business”. His presentation contains some really great insights into how visuals are useful and how to get yourself thinking visually. His breakdowns (the 4 M’s and 6 [...] Related posts: What is Visual Thinking? VizThink &...
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