デザインバーコード™ 燃焼系アミノ式＆健康系カテキン式 サントリー
Having fun with barcodes in Japan:
デザインバーコード™ 燃焼系アミノ式＆健康系カテキン式 サントリー
Add comment Datestamp: February 28th, 2005
Archive for February, 2005
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Last day of “The Gates” in Central Park.
Add comment Datestamp: February 27th, 2005
EFF: Endangered Gizmos!
Help EFF Protect the Environment for Innovation. Rather than sit back and watch as promising new technologies are picked off one-by-one, EFF has created the Endangered Gizmos List to help you defend fair use and preserve the environment for innovation…
Add comment Datestamp: February 24th, 2005
ChoicePoint Exposed
Choicepoint Exposed:
The New York Times > Business > Breach Points Up Flaws in Privacy Laws
“When individuals understand the amount and detail in the information that these companies are selling,” said Chris Jay Hoofnagle, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a digital-rights group in Washington, “their attitudes are likely to sour.”
That is assuming they had an opinion to begin with. Like the name ChoicePoint itself, the sheer size and scope of what data brokers are able to offer clients may be unknown to many of the ordinary consumers whose information they buy and sell. It is only in the last decade or so that boutique services like credit reporting agencies, which once catered solely to specific clients like banks or potential employers, have given way to giant, one-stop shops like ChoicePoint where all sorts of ostensibly qualified parties are able to purchase consumer information.
Add comment Datestamp: February 24th, 2005
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | C4 lines up Guantánamo-style torture show
Channel 4 [England] is to broadcast what it is styling a Guantánamo Bay-style reality show that will examine the effects of mild torture on seven male volunteers.
The Guantánamo Guidebook will recreate some of the practices used at the US naval base where hundreds of so-called “enemy combatants” have been held without trial or access to lawyers for nearly three years.
Using an east London warehouse and declassified internal documents obtained from US sources, programme-makers mocked up conditions as they are inside Guantánamo, before subjecting seven volunteers to some of the milder forms of torture alleged to have been used by US authorities.
Add comment Datestamp: February 18th, 2005
Harvard Prez Remarks at NBER Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce
Remarks at NBER Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce
Harvard finally releases in full the talk by President Summers in which he stated:
“In the special case of science and engineering, there are issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly of the variability of aptitude, and that those considerations are reinforced by what are in fact lesser factors involving socialization and continuing discrimination.”
Add comment Datestamp: February 17th, 2005
Gyre.org
[For those of you interested in the “sending robots to war” story this week in the Times (see next entry), check out this blog.]
Gyre.org is a database of links, resources, and citations that track and explain the next technological and military revolutions. This project is also an attempt to expand the concept of the weblog beyond a linear, chronological collection of links and into a more useful research tool
Add comment Datestamp: February 17th, 2005
The New York Times > Technology > A New Model Army Soldier Rolls Closer to the Battlefield
The New York Times > Technology > A New Model Army Soldier Rolls Closer to the Battlefield
The American military is working on a new generation of soldiers, far different from the army it has.
“They don’t get hungry,” said Gordon Johnson of the Joint Forces Command at the Pentagon. “They’re not afraid. They don’t forget their orders. They don’t care if the guy next to them has just been shot. Will they do a better job than humans? Yes.”
The robot soldier is coming.
Add comment Datestamp: February 16th, 2005
MakeZine.com:
The first magazine devoted to digital projects, hardware hacks, and D.I.Y. inspiration.
[well, maybe not the first… but the first by O’Reilly]
Add comment Datestamp: February 15th, 2005
