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Give one, get one – for $423.95, you can order one laptop and give $200 to OLPC to provide laptops to a developing nation project. Interesting way to get your hands on a very cool piece of tech – I bought one…
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An excellent update on Natalie Jeremijenko’s wonderful and crazy set of projects that blur boundaries between art, science and pranksterism
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The founder of “Gates Keeper” – a blog that critiques the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – introduces his project and talks about his/her reasons for anonymity – “The Bill Chill” – a fear of criticizing Gates in public
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Anonymous blog analyzing and critiquing the work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, ostensibly from an insider point of view
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An anonymous blog from a foundation Program Associate – interesting, but not updated very frequently
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Interesting Naomi Klein piece suggests that Israel’s recent strength in technology innovation has a strong focus on military/homeland security tech, and that fear is a growth industry, at least in selling to the US…
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US Soldiers stationed at NATO bases in Kabul work out while watching Al Jazeera English. But if you’re in the US, you’re out of luck watching it over almost every traditional cable and satellite provider. And that’s a problem…
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Interesting post about improving poker bots – will it be a poor decision to play poker online in the near future because of the high chances of playing against a bot? Cool idea about randomness and bluffing as well
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Some excellent examples of causes that have done well raising money online through social networks
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Howard Rheingold makes the argument that Habermas – generally quoted by anyone trying to make an argument for the internet as a public sphere – doesn’t understand the net, and points to the need for new theorists of online community
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Evgeny Morozov has a really useful post about Russian racists are using Web2.0 sites to make the argument that ethnic Russians are being displaced by people from the Caucuses, complete with linkbombing and citizen media video…
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Terrific recipe for Chanko-Nabe, the stew sumo wrestlers eat for lunch