Archive for the “things about which I am ambivalent” category
Facebook Camp
by Luke Rodgers on July 8, 2008
Having just returned from FacebookCampToronto4, I have to say that the more I learn about Facebook, the more concerned I become.
First it was the Youtube video about how Facebook owns everything you put on it, and is (somewhat loosely) connected (…)
Some thoughts on the coming of everybody
by Luke Rodgers on June 6, 2008
Clay Shirky discusses his new book, Here Comes Everybody, at the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Very interesting guy. But I have to take issue with his main point, which seems to be that group action just (…)
Art show curator euthanizes living leather jacket
by Luke Rodgers on May 8, 2008
Victimless Leather was, for its short life, a small jacket made up of embryonic stem cells taken from mice. The MoMA curator decided she had to remove the jacket’s life support when it started to grow too big.
In other news, (…)
NASA will pay you $5K a month to lie in bed
by Luke Rodgers on May 8, 2008
The catch is, you can’t get up.
Self-re-assembling robots – cue the Terminator references
by Luke Rodgers on May 1, 2008
Modular robot reassembles when kicked apart
Nerdy and awesome
The ethics of race- and ethnicity-based statistics
by Luke Rodgers on April 28, 2008
Since the Vichy government, France has been more than just reluctant to collect statistics based on race, ethnicity, skin colours, etc. — it has positively banned such activities, and recently ruled that a sociology professor’s survey which sought to collect (…)
