I was at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD yesterday, at the Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference, a remarkable institution that I confess I… Read More »Morozov vs.(?) Tufekci at the US Naval Academy
YouTube – unicode 33 minute video consists of each displayable Unicode character, one per frame. Hypnotic and strangely beautiful (tags: i18n typography unicode language culture… Read More »links for 2011-04-11
Ian Frazier, writing about the return of seals to the waters that surround New York City, offers this poetic observation about a white plastic chair:… Read More »Those White Plastic Chairs – The Monobloc and the Context-Free Object
Two days ago, I wrote about a terrific effort to help people in the Ivory Coast by convincing mobile phone operators to offer free services… Read More »Orange Côte d’Ivoire sets a great example
The Praxis of the Egyptian Revolution | Middle East Research and Information Project Extremely helpful essay on the Egyptian revolution. Very thorough timeline of the… Read More »links for 2011-04-05
Data Science Toolkit Great set of tools from Pete Warden to enable better parsing of online text, particularly news stories. Includes GeoDict, very cool tool… Read More »links for 2011-04-04