Category: links

My friend Cat has a collection of photos stored here here

• How to explain firewalls to your dad… (or at least to Mike Dewar’s Dad)
• Excellent review of ‘Mind Hacks’
• Someday, I Will Copyedit The Great American Novel (The Onion)
• How a minority of [slave trade] abolitionists won over the majority (Economist book review)
• How to stop other people getting in the way of a good idea
• When the oil is gone the police will all look like this
• Economics proves that sexism cannot exist in academia. Another triumph for theory over evidence
• Comparative Advantage (wikipedia) and interesting discussion
• World lock-picking championship (Wired)
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  Right-wing t-shirt sloganeering tells it like it is (and here)

The Mind Hacks URL is http://www.mindhacks.com. But there is also a page hosted by the publisher (which shows some samples) at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mindhks/

Here’s a list of some of the bookmarks I made in 2004, meaning to read them but never quite got round to doing so. Collectively I call them The Ten Thousand Things. No guarentees of quality…

BBC – Science & Nature – Articles – Flocks, herds, swarms and schools

Iain Couzin homepage

:: Douglas Rushkoff – Weblog ::

NATMAPreport.pdf (application/pdf Object)

http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~wegner/seed.htm

Majikthise : Gratitude journals and Loewenstein’s challenge

Visualize The Wiki

Edge: A SELF WORTH HAVING: A Talk with Nicholas Humphrey

Society of the Spectacle

Demos – Catalogue – Network Logic

The Loom: The Unwritten Self

The Shape of Days: The Ryugyong Hotel

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Yo-yo world of share price values

Chomsky vs Foucault

MSN Slate Magazine

Changing minds and persuasion — How we change what others think, believe, feel and do

Daedalus, or, Science and the Future

Welcome to the world of blogging to my good friend Mike over at mikedewar.org. Currently he says ‘notes of a confused, hypercaffinated PhD student’, you’ll find some complex system theory in amongst there too.