Blogs

Kevin Werbach reports on the (mostly) good news of the additional open spectrum that’s been allocated. Link

Excellent collection of flag images (thanks to Lessig). Link

Pointer to the W3C design recommendations, as well as Udell tool to help get to the point quicker. Link

Interesting antecdote from Boing Boing about the ongoing evolution of the government in infrastructure and creavity. Link

Notes on the evolution of the infrastructure which underlies our technological playing.

I’m going to use this blog for notes about evolution of our energy situation, including technology, trends and policy.

Red vs. Blue. Simply amazing. Link

AKMA with very cool old Bible that uses pictures in place of key words: _ In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, one poular mode of biblical instruction invovled the Hieroglyphical Bible or the Bible in Pictures, a sort of rebus-like affair wherein pictures stand in for some of the words. For instance, in this example (from well-known printer Isaiah Thomas’s A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible, or, Select Passages in the Old and New Testaments, Represented with Emblematical Figures, for the Amusement of Youth) shown in the Library of Congress, the author has substituted a haloed Hebrew Tetragrammaton for the English ‘God,’ an odd cloudy shape for ‘heavens,’ a globe for ‘earth,’ and so on.

Clay Shirky’s Semantic Web critique (actually, more of a ‘gutting’ than a critique, I guess). Link. Various rebuttals and discussion pieces: David Weinberger - AGREE Tim Bray - AGREE A LITTLE, DISAGREE A BUNCH Kevin Werbach - YEAH TIM, BUT… Nelson Minar - YOU GO, CLAY! Shelley - ITS NOT ABOUT THE MACHINES (four stars for this one)

Ensembl Genome Browser, now with the human genome! Thanks to BoingBoing.