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'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo&feature=youtube_gdata
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Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE1DuBesGYM&feature=youtube_gdata
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Buzz by Michael Silverton from Buzz
| Toward Ubiquitous Massive Symmetric Bandwidth: Version Eleventy-Seven Point Oh |
Louis Gray http://goo.gl/7pWc has once again alerted us this morning to the latest in the ongoing saga of foreseeable and avoidable communications industry insanity in the form of intentional bandwidth scarcity and pay-per-packet pilfering.
To avoid all this, some will recall that I began advocating that we should have done things right, from 1991.
However, it wasn't the typical idle banter insisting upon what they should do, as fills so many forums. Rather, we set forth upon a quixotic quest to build the first ETTH proof of concept and primed Silicon Valley to get it right in 2001.
We succeeded. However, neither the valley, nor that all-knowing, all-foreseeing invisible spirit medium known as the market were ready yet. Today, we must get it right for 2011.
What is it? It's about national communication grid robustness, redundancy, survivability in times of emergency, and plain old Keepin-up-with-Korea infrastructure competitiveness. It's still called Ethernet Everywhere, after all these years.
Why now? If all of your own reasons cited in LouisGraySpace and the previous paragraphs aren't enough, perhaps you would vote in favor of tens of thousands of dig and trench and wire and splice and tower and router config jobs.
A key, foundational component for Ethernet Everywhere is bit.ly/GoogleFiberhood
Therefore, if I am elected Google Fiberhood Ubiquitous Massive Symmetric Bandwidth Ambassador not only will I champion Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf's Interplanetary Protocols to the ends of the known galaxies; I will simultaneously embark upon the complementary, full time good will mission here on earth, to save the interwebz from an unsustainably tragic fate where:
- SMS over Ethernet: $39/mo
- Email over Ethernet: $29/mo
- MMS over Ethernet: $29/mo
- Games over Ethernet: $49/mo
- Voice over Ethernet: $99/mo
- Video over Ethernet: $49/mo
- Salmon over Ethernet: available only in cans
It's all just Ethernet. Sure, packets can be prioritized for any of those purposes, but All Packets Are Created Equal. The manufacturing and transport costs of a packet don't suddenly go up after 50 million of them blink in and out of existence on a light wave or radio frequency; or 50 billion; or 500 trillion; or yes, a googol of 'em. There are no manufacturing or transport costs for bits or packets. There is only network congestion, and network congestion can always be fixed by smarter routing, additional capacity, or you got it: Monopoly Pricing.
So you see, if you are an incumbent monopolist or oligarch, congestion has always been your friend, because so long as you sit on your plant and don't do a thing, you can demonize your leading innovators, call them bandwidth hogs and cry about the next round of fixed costs that would require you to reinvest profits from us, the customers, into actually improving service offerings to meet ... wait for it ... explosive market demand.
Every packet carries bits. Bits that don't know or care whether they are images, text, games, voice, video, or tele-robotic surgery gestures.
If elected, I will advance the interdependent causes of:
- Universal FTTH
- With fon.com like sharing at every edge
- With solar powered WiMAX on N of every 10 street lamp posts, per R&R req's
- With green-wifi.org on the end of every transcontinental glass strand possible
I will advocate a return to the normalcy of Open Access, and preservation of Net Neutrality.
To the other side of the aisle: Do not even try to whine about costs this time, Wall Street. Are you kidding, Bailout Boy? No, last time, you punked us with "what would anyone ever do with all that bandwidth?" Well, let's see. Oh yeah, only everything; precisely as promised.
Today, after two decades of trial and error and finally learning what works, it is time to fulfill that promise.
Paid for by @silverton for Google's Ubiquitous Massive Symmetric Bandwidth Ambassador.
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Envisioning decentralized @replies and notifications with WebFinger
Olympic Gold Medalist in the Global Cognition Grid Cluefactor Competition, @DeWitt Clinton -- in unprecedented open collaboration with one of the most amazing global teams ever self-selected and assembled -- is "Envisioning decentralized @replies and notifications with WebFinger."
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Hacking The Buzz Stream with Bundles
If you can read this in Buzz, I managed to use a Bundle as a wrapper to sneak my Sweetcron stream into the Buzz. Now, to find a way to do it the other way around -- Buzz -> Sweetcron -- to demonstrate at least some modicum of full user-directed portability, WITHOUT DUPES!
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Sustainable development: going beyond the tragedy of commons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByXM47Ri1Kc&feature=youtube_gdata
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Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable - The Oatmeal
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers
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Nexus One Phone - Web meets phone.
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Fonera 2.0n quick tour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7ETyxV1qg8&feature=youtube_gdata
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The UI is the Platform, Exhibit W: Windows 7
Gizmodo saith:
Windows 7 is the biggest step forward in usability since Windows 95. In fact, over half of what makes it better than Vista boils down to user interface improvements and enhancements, not so much actual new features.
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Philip Zimbardo prescribes a healthy take on time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo4HiVetBd0&feature=youtube_gdata
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Multi-pointer Remote Desktop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCQ-5eOElxE&feature=youtube_gdata
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Chrome for Mac HowTo: Braindead Walkthrough, Step by Step, Handhold Edition
http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/packets/?p=1044
Yes, Chrome for the Mac has been long available through the Google Code Chromium developer group. Of course, the good stuff is never free or easy, so if you were hoping for either of those, you might as well go join the Republican Billionaire club, because they are the only ones ordained and entitled by God to Freely Hoard 70% of the nation’s wealth, leaving the bottom 80% to scramble for only 7% of the total pie. On the other hand, if you are already familiar with unixy stuff or are willing to invest a modest amount of All Valuable Attention to achieve the goal which you seek, your reward awaiteth thee in twitter braggadocio heaven. If you want them, here are the full Mac Build Instructions, which I highly recommend, because this lazy cheat sheet is just that; lazy cheating. Odds are it will work for most people, but not for YOU. Don’t feel bad if ur a n00b, this is true for all of us. Keep breakin’ shit (as long as it’s YOURS to break) till it works, that’s how we learn. Of course, if any of these steps fail, here is your Plan B. Plan C is to pay me more than you can afford, so I’m not betting on that one so much. ;-) Prerequisites:
An Intel Mac running Mac OS X 10.5.* (Leopard). XCode 3.1.2. gclient, part of the depot_tools package, is a wrapper around svn used to manage working copies. Get any or all of these here.
Without further ado, the Super Easy Less-Than-Minimum-Wage-Worthy Chrome Recipe for Mac OS X 10.5.7 (tarball bootstrap sold separately); the steps of which maybe might doubtfully work for your version of OS X 10.5.* too.
Run Terminal. If you don’t know how, the learning starts here. You can do it, Happy Gilmore! $ cd $ svn co http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/tools/depot_tools $ export PATH=
pwd/depot_tools:"$PATH" $ mkdir chromium $ cd chromiumTo practice Safe Syntax, first check http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/waterfall/console for all Happy Green Lights. Then check http://chromium-status.appspot.com/ because we like Open Trees, not Closed Minds and Fists. Or ignore this part completely because it’s boring and unnumbered; then post flaming comments later when "this lame-ass recipe didn’t work." Liar. Next: 7. Yes there are three paths you can go by; but only pick ONE; for "gclient config" option!
Option 1: Rowdy Reckless Geek Bareback with no protection whatsoever (because you trust all the Happy Green Lights and Open Trees, above):
$ gclient config http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src
Option 2: To be Geek of the Hour (or so), you can try:
$ gclient config http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src http://chromium-status.appspot.com/lkgr
Option 3: To settle for Geek of the Day (or thereabouts), go with:
$ gclient config http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/srchttp://build.chromium.org/buildbot/continuous/LATEST/REVISION If you are more risk averse than you used to be, you might just settle for that last one; being GOD (Geek O’ the Day, silly!) instead of those other higher frequency, build & crash, beings. 8. Bonus Points (should save a lot of disk space): Put this line… "src/webkit/data/layout_tests/LayoutTests": None, … just underneath the "url": line in the file ~/chromium/.gclient If you don’t know how, you can learn. 9. $ gclient sync (or, update to a specific version) [ Go do something else for awhile. To get this far took about 30 to 45 minutes on my Macbook Pro. Honestly, I didn't time it and didn't really pay much attention, as I was probably off trying to conceptualize some damned Cognitive Saturation-Aware Attention Management BCI using currently available code and mushware or something. Sorry about that. ;-) ] Next, assuming the sync worked out okay: 10. $ cd src/build/all.xcodeproj 11. $ xcodebuild -target All [ go do something else for awhile. this took about 2 hours on the MBP with random other random processes running. ] 12. $ cd ../../xcodebuild/Debug 13. $ open . (yes, you need the ".") 14. Click on Chromium.app And viola (or voila, or something …) you too will have Google Chrome (well, Chromium) in ur Mac, makin’ you way cyberubermeta.
Now, please go visit some of these advertisers or something, comrade. It’s called Free Market Socialism for a reason, right? It’s not MONEY that’s evil, it’s ABUSING it and HOARDING it that are lame, tired, and broken, right? Eddie Vedder had it right long ago … all about the Even Flow …
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Ian McEwan Interview - Richard Dawkins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7LjriWFAEs&feature=youtube_gdata
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Claudia Mitchell Operates a Bionic Arm with her Brain at RIC (no sound)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1OBzc9QfIs&feature=youtube_gdata
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