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  Links for 2008-07-26 [del.icio.us]

  Posted: July 26th, 2008, 10:00pm PDT

  • A People's History of the World
    the first attempt to provide a single, accessible, grass-roots account of the development of human civilisation.
  • A Green New Deal
    A "war economy" social mobilisation harnessed, this time not towards fighting fascism, but towards heading off ecological crisis
  • CureTogether: Open Source Medical Research
    brings patients and researchers together in a massive worldwide collaboration to find cures for some of the most painful, prevalent, chronic conditions affecting millions of people every day
  • The Revolution Behind Google Knol
    AdSense plays as a standard to measure how much money certain embodied mind is worth.
  • China's internet still a promise for the future
    latest report on the staggering growth of the internet in China
  • OpenSim: Virtual Worlds Without DRM
    the open source platform based on Second Life's protocols, is shaping up nicely
  • Why We Must React to ACTA
    A new global standard for the enforcement of intellectual monopolies is currently being discussed by representatives of the United States, the European Commission, Japan, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Korea, Mexico and New Zealand.
  • Attendee Meta-Data (AMD) project : a new location-aware social networking system
    the ultimate affinity tool for conference attendees
  • YouTomb: where copyright-clobbered youtubes go to die
    MIT's FreeCulture club has started "YouTomb" -- a graveyard for youtubes taken off the Internet due to copyright complaints.
  • Pros and cons of growing up Amish (interview with former Amish woman)
    The biggest negatives? -The rape, incest and other sexual abuse that run rampant in the community -Rudimentary education -Physical and verbal abuse in the name of discipline -Women (and children) have no rights -Religion–and all its associated fear and
  • Apres CAPTCHA, le deluge
    the technology used to stop spammers from using computers to sign up for email accounts and the like -- are thoroughly broken
  • New solar is game-changing, dramatically slashes electricity costs
    We might be five years away from electricity in sunny areas in day time costing 1/10th of what it does now. Changes the whole game.
  • Vinay Gupta: the four great trends that will change our future
    visionary piece, very much worth reading
  • @ Brest - Entretien de Michel Bauwens : les accès publics Internet et politiques publiques TI en Thaïlande
    interview focuses on Thailand mostly (in french)
  • Praxis Peace Institute
    To bring together experts on culture, myths and mythos in order to better understand our patterns and history. The goal is to understand how transformation happens and how we can become conscious agents of personal and social change