7.5th Floor (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yesterday, I delivered my last formal talk of the year at the Lift @ home session on “Urban informatics / Les nouveaux paysages numériques“, organized by Nicolas Nova in the Lift Conference premises in Geneva. This event was part of the urban informatics workshop series Nicolas and have been running. I played the role of [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
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...
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...
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 [...]
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....
Test (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Pardon the terrible pun, but following last week's gloomy atmosphere due to the news about Cortex, a batch of new music has arrived to lift the spirits. First up is Rob Hood's excellent new 'Superman'/'Range' release. The Detroit producer's previous...
The Urbanophile (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
My latest post is up over at New Geography . It's called " The White City ". I take a look at the cities which are often touted as progressive urban role models, places like Portland, Denver, Minneapolis, Seattle, and Austin, and find that one thing that unites these cities is their lack of African Americans. This is in marked contrast to most cities of the Midwest and South. The following...
BlogF1 (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
In an effort to lift the lifetime ban from motorsport imposed on him following the race-fixing scandal that came to light earlier this year, Flavio Briatore intends to lodge papers in the French courts on Monday that will see him start a fightback against the FIA. Briatore was given his ban on motorsport involvement after [...] Original article by BlogF1 . Flavio Briatore To Commence Court Proceedings...
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
The firemen were among the team, which went to attend to a call from the Tarangam housing society in Vartak Nagar locality of the city, police said.
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