It’s 7 a.m., and the fascist birds in his cuckoo clock are going to make sure this poor sap gets up and into the bath! Little Napoleons and Kaisers get a Metropolis-type but fantastically whimsical assembly line going and pretty soon everybody’s in! The catchy Vaudeville-inspired tune will have you tapping your toes all day. Atomfilms.com
These are my links for December 10th from 10:30 to 10:30:
Information Arbitrage: We, The People, Deserve Better – We, the People, are the owners of the US Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and represent the “full faith and credit of the US Government.” Therefore, solutions to the financial crisis that use our money should benefit us, and reflect a risk-adjusted market rate of return for the capital used. The measure should be what a rational, arms-length investor would demand for scarce capital in a time of crisis, not what Treasury Secretary Paulson together with CEO of the bailed out institution deem appropriate
These are my Delicious.com links for December 8th through 00:41:
IT Conversations | Jon Udell’s Interviews with Innovators | Howard Bloom (Free Podcast) – Many of us feel that the Web is ushering in a new era of global consciousness. But Howard Bloom thinks life has been a collective mind from the very beginning. He made the case in his book “Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From the Big Bang To the 21st Century.” Host Jon Udell speaks with Bloom who reviews the themes of that book — group selectionism, complex adaptive systems, collective learning — and considers what has, and hasn’t, changed since the book was published in 2000.
These are my Delicious.com links for December 7th through 15:43:
Quick how-to – tarpipe Developer Preview @ Webcracy – tarpipe is a publishing mediation and distribution platform that simplifies regular upload activities:* Publishing content to multiple Web locations;
* Combining different media into a single blog post or article;
* Transforming documents on-the-fly;
* Managing repeatable upload actions.
Cybernetics and Systems Theory – The following links provide general background information on the field of Cybernetics and Systems Theory, an interdisciplinary academic domain.
NASA astronauts Scott Altman and Mike Massimino of the STS-125 mission visit the New York Stock Exchange to support the release of Hubble 3D, the newest IMAX film, which documents the mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope and features never-before-seen 3D flights through Hubble imagery such as the Orion Nebula. In honor of the occasion, Altman and Massimino ring 'The Closing Bell' ending the day's trading at the Exchange on Thursday, March 18, 2010. Image Credit: NYSE (Used by permission) Read More