The “Gog and MaGoogle” war on social networking has begun.
From marc.blog, October 30th, 2007.
‘OpenSocial details coming out’
…”Well well well - the wars have begun. Just as Facebook announces SocialAds - Google moves up their launch date and announces (kind of)OpenSocial. Originally slated for Nov. 5th, Facebook’s attack on Google’s family jewels must (obviously) have prompted [...]
How do you make and read a Headline?
Write “Iranians study nuclear physics in Britain” (Times Online October 28, 2007)
and then write, I quote…”THE Foreign Office has cleared dozens of Iranians to enter British universities to study advanced nuclear physics and other subjects with the potential to be applied to weapons of mass destruction. [...]
Artificial intelligence researcher David Levy at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands recently completed (Oct 12, 2007) his Ph.D. work on the subject of human-robot relationships.
His work reminds me of “The Caves of Steel“, from Asimov, where Elijah Baley, the human detective, and R. Daneel Olivaw his number 2 robot detective, preludes in 1954 the story [...]
Looking at the headlines on NP I saw the post by Pep, ” Turks Riot in Brussels; Attack Armenians &…”. This remembered me of many things..
To make my point I quote from Pep’s post,
…”Buses and trams were attacked. Several cars were torched and shops destroyed. Police forces were unable to restore law and order in [...]
It is not about the recent fundraiser at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, but it is about the unexpected ways you can create a chair (an artwork). Look at the following pictures to find new inspirations.
For the full text see here . For the video clip see here.
I never wanted to open an art site on the web. As a visual artist, the conventional way to show my work is to open an exhibition in a gallery (Kibbuts Gallery), to invite friends family critics and journalist to the opening evening and afterwards to hope for an “endless” stream of visitors. In reality the [...]
..”I can eat a pound of truffles but limit myself to a small amount of semi sweet each day. I used to eat half a pound some days, it was never enough. The flavor, the smooth texture, I would never take it over sex but it’s a close second.”..(From ThirdAge blog, see link below).
This [...]
To day, expecting the November 2007 Israel Palestine talks in Annapolis, puts the Facebook ‘Palestine’ debate of whether or not Palestine constitutes a country, in a bizzare anachronism, Palestine is an almost-State, if not recognize by all de jure, she is recognize by all de facto, including Israel.
Here are experts of the debate reported by ”The Jerusalem Post’. Oct 9, 2007 21:58 [...]
