November 2009
24 posts
French university brings manuscripts of Stendhal... →
Marie-Henri Beyle, or Stendhal as he came to be known, has become the latest of France’s literary giants to be dragged into the 21st century courtesy of painstaking research and cutting-edge digital technology.
So far around 500 pages of Stendhal’s lesser-known works are available for viewing at manuscrits-de-stendhal.org
In April, 4,500 pages of his 1857 masterpiece Madame Bovary...
“since the editor said to have carried out the bullying is none other than Andy...”
– Roy Greenslade: National papers involved in a conspiracy of silence | Media | guardian.co.uk
Tory’s and National Media - silence is golden
“a Distributed, Decentralised Information Storage and Retrieval System”
– The dark side of the internet | Technology | The Guardian
Introducing Freenet
“I was only my consciousness and nothing else”
– Trapped in his own body for 23 years - the coma victim who screamed unheard | World news | The Guardian
Bookshops chain Borders battles to stave off... →
Times are a changing. Borders going bust.
“The final issue will mark just over 26 continuous years since Futures Micro...”
– The Guardian’s technology coverage: what happens next | Technology | The Guardian
Sad news that the Guardian Technology will no longer physically exist as a printed paper edition. Thursdays will not be the same.
“YouTube Direct that allows news and media organisations to request, review, and...”
– YouTube Direct service to link citizen reporters and news organisations | Media | guardian.co.uk
“The government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely...”
– Ordnance Survey maps to go free online | Technology | guardian.co.uk
free provision of Ordnance Survey maps down to a scale of 1:10,000, (the Landranger map set is 1:25,000)
So it is possible to access MobileMe and Find My...
via tweetie —-Following the link in my original tweet, I was able to login to MobileMe and access all areas including Find My iPhone. The advantage of this is if a partner has lost their iPhone whilst out, it is possible to login to their MobileMe account and use the Find My iPhone facility. The original tweet: Experiment to access MobileMe in iPhone Tweetie via http://www.me.com/
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“scientist, Dr Brooke Magnanti, announced she was the writer better known as call...”
– Belle de Jour blogger unmasks herself as ‘big mouth ex-boyfriend’ looms | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Wonder if this makes science a more attractive subject to women.
“Police are also working closely with manufacturers and retailers of high-class...”
– internet-payslips-mortgage-fraud | UK news | The Observer
I wonder what else is banned.
DAB radio #FAIL
Listen! via AudioBoo
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“Margate desperately needs a new attraction, and this shelter could surely be it....”
– TS Eliot wrote The Waste Land in this Margate shelter | Books | The Guardian
I like this idea of an ‘Ezra Pound Shop’. Excellent ‘urban regeneration plan’.
“The physical world, at subatomic level, is highly symmetric: if you change an...”
– Israel Gelfand obituary | Science | The Guardian
Mathematician from Odessa, Ukraine whose discoveries enabled the creation of medical scanners and he founded the field of integral geometry, vital in medical imaging methods.
Chilling description in The Observer Magazine
I cannot link to the article in The Observer Magazine 08-Nov-09 because it is not online (that I can find; http://observer.guardian.co.uk/). In the article, “People’s hearts and minds need time to heal” about the recovery of Rwanda under President Kagame following the 100 day killing spree of one million Tutsis by the Hutu. One Hutu describes the emotion of killing,
“Yes,”...
“Newspapers…are wrestling with how to harness social-media tools to improve...”
– Posterous powers “storystreaming” at the Pioneer Press - Your Tech Weblog
Readers send photos to a customized email which are then redirected to Posterous. The Posterous CSS is customized so the Posterous page fits in with the rest of the original site.
