Create an Account
username: password:
 
  MemeStreams Logo

Post Haste

search

possibly noteworthy
Picture of possibly noteworthy
My Blog
My Profile
My Audience
My Sources
Send Me a Message

sponsored links

possibly noteworthy's topics
Arts
Business
Games
Health and Wellness
Home and Garden
Miscellaneous
  Humor
Current Events
  War on Terrorism
Recreation
Local Information
  Food
Science
Society
  International Relations
  Politics and Law
   Intellectual Property
  Military
Sports
Technology
  Military Technology
  High Tech Developments

support us

Get MemeStreams Stuff!


 
Being "always on" is being always off, to something.

A Death in the Family
Topic: Politics and Law 5:02 pm EDT, Oct  6, 2007

Christopher Hitchens in Vanity Fair.

Having volunteered for Iraq, Mark Daily was killed in January by an I.E.D. Dismayed to learn that his pro-war articles helped persuade Daily to enlist, the author measures his words against a family's grief and a young man's sacrifice.

A Death in the Family


Packet Garden
Topic: Technology 5:02 pm EDT, Oct  6, 2007

Originally recommended by Hijexx in January.

Packet Garden captures information about how you use the internet and uses this stored information to grow a private world you can later explore.

(Still) doesn't work (yet) on Intel Macs.

Packet Garden


Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Topic: Society 5:02 pm EDT, Oct  6, 2007

Following up on a previous post, A Beloved Professor Delivers The Lecture of a Lifetime.

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.

Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams


The Man in the Irony Mask
Topic: Politics and Law 5:02 pm EDT, Oct  6, 2007

Like Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat, Stephen Colbert so completely inhabits his creation—the arch-conservative blowhard host of The Colbert Report, his Daily Show spin-off hit—that he rarely breaks character. As Colbert's new book, I Am America (And So Can You!), is published, Vanity Fair gets a revealing interview with the real thing: a master comedian, forever altered by family tragedy.

The Man in the Irony Mask


Neuroscience and Fundamentalism
Topic: Society 5:02 pm EDT, Oct  6, 2007

The evolving and growing complexity of the human brain allowed our ancestors the ability to question, wonder, and consider new possibilities—to be creative. Life altering advances were the result. Is unconditional adherence to dogma (whether religious or secular) at odds with this evolved capability and our full potential as creative beings?

Neuroscience and Fundamentalism


Think Again
Topic: Politics and Law 5:02 pm EDT, Oct  6, 2007

Prohibition has failed—again. Instead of treating the demand for illegal drugs as a market, and addicts as patients, policymakers the world over have boosted the profits of drug lords and fostered narcostates that would frighten Al Capone. Finally, a smarter drug control regime that values reality over rhetoric is rising to replace the “war” on drugs.

Think Again


The greatest party on earth?
Topic: Society 5:02 pm EDT, Oct  6, 2007

Pakistan's tourism ministry designated 2007 as "Destination Pakistan", the year when tourists were urged to discover the country's sights and delights. Their timing couldn't have been worse. A military ruler clinging to power, al-Qaida fanatics hiding in the mountains, suicide bombings booming across the cities - in 2007, Pakistan has become a byword for peril and turmoil.

But there is another Pakistan, one the majority of its 165 million people are more familiar with. It is the thrusting software entrepreneurs and brash new television stations. It is the kite flyers and partygoers and the strangers who insist you sit for a cup of tea. And it is Sehwan Sharif.

The greatest party on earth?


Power harnessed one step at a time
Topic: High Tech Developments 5:02 pm EDT, Oct  6, 2007

Engineers call it 'crowd farming.' If it works, you could help power city lights just by taking a stroll.

Power harnessed one step at a time


The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Topic: Science 5:02 pm EDT, Oct  6, 2007

As Steven Johnson's latest book is released into paperback, this companion website has been established. There are a bunch of videos.

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson


Mending Brazil's Megacity
Topic: Society 5:01 pm EDT, Oct  6, 2007

São Paulo is a great city, but not a beautiful city. The ­soot-­darkened buildings of its old business center resist all claims of glamour or novelty. Its periphery is an oceanic sprawl, bursting with gaudy commerce and neighborhoods where many thousands of shacks have become, within a generation, sturdy but nondescript houses of brick and concrete. Its residents are regularly shocked by corruption, prison revolts, failing public education, truck hijackings, armed robberies, and murders at traffic lights.

Yet for all that, São Paulo is a complicated, qualified success. Because of the dynamism and diversity of its economy, and despite its many contradictions, it now may be the most successful “megacity” in the developing world.

..

Great cities have always been hard to manage. Like other complex systems, they grow spontaneously but then demand more management and investment if they are to avoid decay and disintegration. A time comes in the lives of big cities when the need for regulation and rational allocation of space, money, and other resources prevails over impulsive processes. For São Paulo, the beneficiary of so much good fortune, that time is now.

Mending Brazil's Megacity


(Last) Newer << 275 ++ 285 - 286 - 287 - 288 - 289 - 290 - 291 - 292 - 293 ++ 303 >> Older (First)
 
 
Powered By Industrial Memetics
RSS2.0