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My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell
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
"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
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
"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
"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
"The complete soundtrack to Super Mario World, covered by one man using dozens of instruments."
games  music  world  funny 
august 2005 by bkerr
BBC NEWS | Americas | New name for 'war on terror'
Get the memo? It's now "a global struggle against the enemies of freedom."
politics  language  world  future 
july 2005 by bkerr
Summer Moon Illusion
"The lowest-hanging full moon in 18 years is going to play tricks on you this week."
science  world  moon 
june 2005 by bkerr
The New Yorker: Online Only | Q&A -- Planetary Problems
Followup interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, author of recent & kick-ass "The Climate of Man" series.
science  politics  world  future  past 
may 2005 by bkerr
Boston Globe | Re-branding America
"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
"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
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
"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
"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
"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
"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

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