The Singularity Institute appears to be of interest: Sometime in the next few years or decades, humanity will become capable of surpassing the upper limit on intelligence that has held since the rise of the human species. We will become capable of technologically creating smarter-than-human intelli...
[Space and Place] The fool's map !
Smart new japanese project: fool's world map. This is a project visualizing the world map which many fools in the world imagine. If you can see this map comfortably, you are definitely a fool. One day, a Texan asked me a question when I lived in U.S.. The question was "How many hours does it tak...
(Weird) When Cluedo meets Warhammer40k
For W40K fans like me who played at Space Hulk, Tyranid Attack and so forth, it's alway refreshing to see that some people have crazy ideas like mixing cluedo and space crusade. Check the rules ! And turn Colonel Mustard into an aggressive space marine ! Cluedo Crusade resulted from the somewhat un...
(TheWorld) After murphy's law, the pottery barn's law
Via st petersburg times: Could invading Iraq really have anything in common with sending a wine glass crashing to the floor while browsing at Pottery Barn? Absolutely not, say the folks at Pottery Barn, who are miffed by a metaphor attributed to Secretary of State Colin Powell in a new book by Wa...
(Prospective) Video Game and Territories
It's funny to see how different countries (and hence market) specialized their focus on different video games infrastructures. Government by massively investing into the field could leverage this. Two critical examples:- Korea, who focuses on multi-user internet games, especially through the game i...
(Prospective) Inoffensive spatial data?
intelligence-online about geospatial data (shit it's not free). Does the ever-rising amount of open source information make it easier for terrorists to plan strikes against critical infrastructure? ...
[Tech] Bluesnarfing is the new bluetooth buzzword
Bluesnarfing, according to Daily Wireless: to connect to the device without alerting the owner of the target device of the request, and gain access to restricted portions of the stored data therein, including the entire phonebook (and any images or other data associated with the entries), calendar,...
[Research] The Secret's in the Schedule
Video Games website Gamasutra proposes a brief on schedule, time and team management, a crux issue in software/video game development. The Mythical Man-Month is a seminal work on not just software engineering but the psychology of human interaction inside a team environment. (...) Creating a schedu...
[TheWorld] A privatized War
The International Herald Tribune today tackled the issue of privatizing the war in Iraq. It's one thing for the U.S. military to outsource food and laundry services to private firms, as it started doing aggressively in the 1990s, but it's quite another to outsource the actual fighting. (...) Increa...
(TheWorld) Test the Chemical Constitution of your European Deputy!
Via liberation, WWF analysed the blood of several European Union deputy, all are contaminated ! WWF a prélevé un peu de sang à 47 volontaires de 17 pays européens (députés européens).(...) Les scientifiques ont ensuite analysé les échantillons pour y quantifier la présence de 101 produits chimiques...