My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell
february 2008 by bkerr
Free ebook / pay Lulu paperback: "Part memoir and part ethnography, My Tiny Life is about the social life of the online, text-based virtual world LambdaMOO and my own brief encounter with it in the early '90s."
text
world
lambdamoo
book
february 2008 by bkerr
Google Maps -- The World of Hello World
april 2007 by bkerr
"A map of programming languages and rough locations in the world where they were created. Colors correspond to four major epochs: blue -- first languages, green -- establishing paradigms, yellow --consolidation and modules, pink -- the Internet age."
google
maps
language
history
geography
hello
world
april 2007 by bkerr
Americans for Informed Democracy | World AIDS Day videoconferences
november 2006 by bkerr
U-M location: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1ST from 1:00-2:30 p.m. EST @ Mason Hall 2499
umich
si
umsi
cicumich
world
health
video
conference
events
november 2006 by bkerr
CIA - The World Factbook | World
april 2006 by bkerr
"For the 21st century, the continued exponential growth in science and technology raises both hopes (e.g., advances in medicine) and fears (e.g., development of even more lethal weapons of war)."
world
classification
failures
april 2006 by bkerr
The Degree Confluence Project
december 2005 by bkerr
"The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location."
culture
geek
world
maps
space
december 2005 by bkerr
Internet Archive: Details: xoc - SMW
august 2005 by bkerr
"The complete soundtrack to Super Mario World, covered by one man using dozens of instruments."
games
music
world
funny
august 2005 by bkerr
Boston Globe | Re-branding America
march 2005 by bkerr
"Marketing gurus think they can help 'reposition' the United States - and save American foreign policy."
brand
politics
world
march 2005 by bkerr
Economist.com | The real digital divide
march 2005 by bkerr
"Encouraging the spread of mobile phones is the most sensible and effective response to the digital divide."
world
economics
$
march 2005 by bkerr
style.org | Camp Delta
february 2005 by bkerr
Engaging charts of "nationalities of enemy combatants detained at Guantanamo Bay, the 'legal equivalent of outer space.'"
politics
world
images
design
february 2005 by bkerr
AlterNet | The 10 Worst Corporations of 2004
january 2005 by bkerr
"The year's most egregious price gougers, polluters, union-busters, dictator-coddlers, fraudsters, poisoners, deceivers and general miscreants."
economics
world
january 2005 by bkerr
The New York Times | The Ends of the World as We Know Them, by Jared Diamond
january 2005 by bkerr
"A ... reappraisal would require us to recognize that it will be far less expensive and far more effective to address the underlying problems of public health, population and environment that ultimately cause threats to us to emerge in poor countries."
politics
economics
ecology
past
world
january 2005 by bkerr
Futurismic Blog | Interstitial Living
december 2004 by bkerr
"Reminiscent of William Gibson's Virtual Light, a man was recently evicted from beneath a Chicago bridge where he had built a shelter, tapped into the bridge's electricity and kept a television and Play Station."
sf
world
december 2004 by bkerr
csmonitor.com | Religion's eternal life at core of world concerns
december 2004 by bkerr
"Secularization did not take place because people stopped believing in God. That, if anything, was a consequence, not a cause."
past
politics
religion
world
december 2004 by bkerr
Oligopoly Watch | The coming organic oligopoly
november 2004 by bkerr
Evilcorps buying organicorps, etc.
economics
world
november 2004 by bkerr
Flickr | Photos tagged with eclipse
october 2004 by bkerr
Mostly from last night.
images
science
world
october 2004 by bkerr
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