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SwipeStudy – now available on the Intel Appup store
Tweet Swipestudy is a flash-card study tool for the smartphone age, very useful for studying foreign languages and preparing for exams and best of all its all free. If you’re running Windows you can download it as an App here otherwise just goto http://swipestudy.com on your PC or smartphone. You can see what people are ...
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Wikileaks Cablegate on HRH Prince Andrew
According to a dispatch in the Cablegate Wikileaks treasure trove, American Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Tatiana Gfoeller attended a two-hour brunch to brief HRH Prince Andrew Duke of York ahead of his meetings with the Kyrgyz Prime Minister. Much of the banter is actually quite amusing and a rare peek into the attitudes of the British royal family.
“The crowd practically clapped. He then capped this off with a zinger: castigating “our stupid (sic) British and American governments which plan at best for ten years whereas people in this part of the world plan for centuries.” There were calls of “hear, hear” in the private brunch hall. Unfortunately for the assembled British subjects, their cherished Prince was now late to the Prime Minister’s. He regretfully tore himself away from them and they from him.”
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Social Media; doing good vs making money
Two social media videos…one inspiring, one impressive yet slightly scary
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Planning for “long-fuse, big bang problems” in an age of uncertainty.
TweetScenario planning derives from the observation that, given the impossibility of knowing precisely how the future will play out, a good decision or strategy to adopt is one that plays out well across several possible futures. To find that “robust” strategy, scenarios are created in plural, such that each scenario diverges markedly from the others. ...
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Power in the Networked Century
TweetInteresting thoughts on hierarchies vs networks in this influential paper by Anne-Marie Slaughter, America’s Edge: Power in the Networked Century. In this world, the measure of power is connectedness. Almost 30 years ago, the psychologist Carol Gilligan wrote about differences between the genders in their modes of thinking. She observed that men tend to see ...
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Social Networks – a Darwinian Perspective.
Interesting application of Darwinian theory to social networks from Justin Milne until recently head of broadband at Telstra.
The net in all its forms, wired or wireless, fixed or mobile has become the greatest contributor to the spread of memes the world has ever seen. Never have so many people been able to share so many ideas or concentrate their intelligence so rapidly.
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Digital Diplomacy
Looks like the u.s. state department is ‘getting IT’
The underpinning philosophy of 21st-century statecraft is that the networked world ‘exists above the state, below the state and through the state’
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Christopher Hitchens on the Grape and the Grain
A Short Footnote on the Grape and the Grain
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament—the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana—is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea.
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Twitter as History: Library of Congress Will Save Tweets
Perhaps maybe we should put more thought into our tweets now that they’ll be history
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Achilles Statue London: 19th century recycled French Canons
The 33 ton bronze statue was erected in Hyde Park 1822 by the swooning “Women of England”
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Gough!
Clifton Pugh’s portrait of Gough Whitlam in Parliament House in Canberra.
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Thankful Atheists
Saw this interesting quote attributed to Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
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Pre-Raphaelites and Ruskin
Tweet Just discovered these guys… a very interesting bunch! Proserpine, 1873-1877, at Tate Gallery, London. Painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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My Transit of Venus, Sydney 2004 / Bristol, England 2012
Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena occurring every 243 years