October 2011
22 posts
Oct 31st
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“Visual recognition software has developed to the point where the Defense...”
– Fierce Government IT story…
Oct 31st
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“In 1965 the IEA published a booklet that made this clear. It’s aim was to...”
– BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: THE CURSE OF TINA
Oct 26th
“The Series Seed Documents are a standardized set of documents that can be...”
– SeriesSeed.com (from the Silicon Valley law firm of choice, Fenwick and West…)
Oct 18th
“Have you ever wondered what happens when you upload a photo to Picasa, or where...”
– Where does my data live? | Google Research Blog
Oct 17th
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“Where’s Waldo: Matching People in Images of Crowds Abstract Given a...”
– Where’s Waldo: Matching People in Images of Crowds And here’s a PDF of the paper itself. I’d love to see the Google Analytics results for this paper: Iran, China, Burma, Occupy Wall St…
Oct 17th
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“Cell-phone users will be actively encouraged to play detective and use their...”
– 10 predictions concerning cell-phones, a 2003 article by the Surveillance Camera Players… This is prediction #3.
Oct 17th
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Oct 17th
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Oct 17th
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I basically want to drop it all right now, and go off and study anthropology. (via This is anthropology | john hawks weblog)
Oct 17th
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Oct 17th
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“Sensationalism sells. We’ve just got ourselves into an absurd situation....”
– Peter Gabriel in conversation with The Quietus
Oct 16th
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“CALL FOR APPLICATION FORM SUBMISSION Utopia Utopia is new quarterly jobs...”
– Latest utterly compelling spam email in my inbox.
Oct 14th
“Over the last few months, I’ve spoken about face recognition with a number...”
– September 2010 - Peter Fleischer: Privacy…?: Face recognition software
Oct 10th
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Oct 10th
Oct 9th
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(via Burma, the dictatorship of the absurd - support the makers -Flattr Blog)
Oct 8th
“Again, to be a hacker, you have to enter the hacker mindset. There are some...”
– How To Become A Hacker - Eric S Raymond (2001)
Oct 7th
“One of the factors that will determine the journalistic or evidentiary value of...”
– Prepare Your Digital Camera to Document a Protest - Wired How-To Wiki (via Dan McQuillan)
Oct 7th
“Military strategists have been talking about ‘super-empowered...”
– Mute magazine on WikiLeaks
Oct 7th
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Ethics in Business panel at the Carnegie Council in NYC, featuring Yahoo!’s Ebele Okobi-Harris and YouTube’s Abbi Tatton on the new challenges of global information-sharing as they run into human rights concerns. (via the WITNESS blog.)
Oct 6th
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Harvard's Intro to Computer Science Course --... →
lifeandcode: Very engaging first lecture.  Oh, Intro to Computer Science, I’ve been looking for you my whole life…
Oct 5th
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