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An interesting article about the “domestication” of cats.

“There’s been a lot of media attention directed at the iPhone recently. Some of it has been positive, some negative, but none have come forth to acknowledge the obvious, sinister context of Apple’s latest toy. This device, portrayed as a harmless product of science, is obviously designed to introduce our children to witchcraft and sorcery.”

Dissection.

Web style comic – superb!

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Here’s some festivals that are coming up in the next couple of months:

Antiworld070707 – England 06-08 July07 £100 incl Camping – good line up but pricey and a bit too soon – they have day tickets for £35 which I might be interested in doing

Fullmoon Festival – Near Berlin 27 July – 01 August 2007 60 Euro including Camping – this one looks good, & it’s cheap..

Shamania Friday 27th July – Monday 30th July Lancashire £60

Shamanik festival – Portugal 11-15 AUGUST 2007 90 Euros

Freedom Festival 16-20 August Portugal 65-85 Euro

Offworld 17-20 August Swindon £50

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Article from TechCrunch (read the comments).

The Shockwave Rider is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in 1975. It is notable for its hero’s use of computer cracking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word “worm” to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network.

It also introduces the concept of a Delphi pool, perhaps derived from the RAND Corporations’ Delphi method – a futures market on world events which bears close resemblance to DARPA’s controversial and cancelled Policy Analysis Market.

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In order to have a successful Digg, you must submit information that is new, exciting, and very interesting. More than anything, though, your submission must not be old news, no matter how interesting it may be. The ideal article is one that presents 100% brand new, interesting information before anyone else.

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Application Program Interface

A set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications

Practically, an API is any interface that enables one program to use facilities provided by another

A good API makes it easier to develop a program by providing all the building blocks

Check these sites for great APIs and some good tutorials:

http://nate.koechley.com/blog/2005/01/20/beautiful-api/

http://www.flickr.com/services/api/

http://www.programmableweb.com/apis

Her research focuses on how people negotiate a presentation of self to unknown audiences in mediated contexts. In particular, her dissertation is looking at how youth engage with networked publics like MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal, Xanga and YouTube.

http://www.danah.org/

Most of her publications & papers, can be found here.

She also has a great blog here.