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Podcrastinating - verb - to spend time at the computer listing to Podcasts, instead of working, as opposed to listening to podcasts on your iPod while doing other things like driving, cycling or ironing.Technorati Tags: podcast...

The Messenger probe took a great movie of Earth as it left for Mercury.The spooky thing for me is that my old friends at Planetary Visions Limited spent a big chunk of the 90s making computer visualisations from satellite data of just this kind of thing - here's a year's worth of weather, so the real pictures are curiously familiar.Technorati Tags: 3D Atlas, earth, Erd Sicht, geo, movie, sp...

After seeing and enjoying Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I realised the boys hadn't seen Edward Scissorhands, so we watched that together too.Seeing them consecutively made me realise that they both are parables of how it is to be a geek in the world. The way Edward Scissorhands gently satirises Californian suburban life was much clearer now I've been living it for a while. At it's core, though,...

Scott Beale is hosting Dorrian Porter's impressionistic video of Bar Camp, which I helped compre...

Arnold Kling tries to apply Long Tail thinking to politics - I think there is something to this, but it goes back to coalition building. In order to gain support for a cause we need to be able to craft arguments for it that appeal to different political worldviews.For example, here's the argument against copyright term extension reframed for different political views:Liberal collectivistThe shared...

This weekend's Foo camp and Bar camp set me thinking about how important physical proximity is. One of the tenets of the Open Source movement was that in the Internet age, physical co-presence is no longer needed - your operating system can be run from Finland, your VoIP service from Luxembourg, and both can draw on global collaborators.Perhaps it was this idea of decentralisation that got Tim O'Reilly...

Lynne Kiesling quotes Adam SmithThe man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. He goes on to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any regard either to the great interests, or to the strong prejudices...