Month: December 2011

  • Stowe Boyd: Liquidspace: Finding A Space To Work Wherever And Whenever

    Stowe Boyd: Liquidspace: Finding A Space To Work Wherever And Whenever stoweboyd: I attended the GigaOM Net:Work conference in San Francisco a few weeks ago, and met some of the founders of Liquidspace, a new start-up building something like AirBNB for coworking spaces: LiquidSpace is an application that connects people seeking workspace with venues that…

  • From an algorithmic perspective, the idea that style and substance are separate is appealing. It allows us to code markup and stylesheets independently, and fits the logical mindset shared by so many techies. But it’s a falsehood. Style and substance are irretrievably linked. Like space and time, they are neither separable nor the same thing…

  • The Coming War on General Purpose Computation – Boing Boing

    The Coming War on General Purpose Computation – Boing Boing Part of Cory Doctrow keynote at 28C3… “The last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated by the copyright war, but the war turns out only to have been a skirmish. The coming century will be dominated by war against the general purpose computer,…

  • [Argentine President Cristina] Fernandez is only the latest South American leader to be diagnosed with cancer. Presidents Fernando Lugo of Paraguay, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Dilma Rousseff of Brazil all have undergone treatments recently. Argentine President Has Thyroid Cancer – NYTimes.com

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  • Digi-Comp 1 Emulator

    Digi-Comp 1 Emulator

  • In a small corner of social news site Reddit, an interesting game-making experiment is about to take place. Dozens of volunteers have been gathering for a little over a month with a single purpose: to provide 27-year-old Singaporean Munir Hussin with the tools and help he needs to program 52 video games—in 52 weeks. If…

  • Police in Colombia say they have found a half-built submarine in a warehouse in a suburb of the capital Bogota. (via BBC News | AMERICAS | Drug submarine found in Colombia) From September of 2000.

  • springwise: Social enterprise connects artists with empty commercial buildings In the UK we recently saw empty commercial properties offered to charities for free while permanent tenants are found. Similarly, an Australian social enterprise — Renew Australia — is connecting artists and community projects with workspaces in vacant city-center buildings until they are needed again for commercial use.…

  • Yellow NarcoSubmarine work in progress