Year of the dragon, International Year of Co-operatives, International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, Alan Turing Year, Year of Gastronomy, National Year of Reading, Year of the farmer, year of opportunities, year of youth, jaar van de buitenplaatsen, jaar van de bever, jaar van immaterieel erfgoed, zeeuws jaar van het water, 400 year Dutch-Turk relations, jaar van het geloof, European Year for Active Ageing, creative scotland, etc. (More about 2012)
See also 2011.
StooTV that shows Raiders of the Lost Ark paired with identical shots from 30 different adventure movies made between 1919 and 1973. Yup, that’s how culture works…at least if we let it. (via)
Alec Liu of Fox News reports that Amazon, Facebook and Google are considering a coordinated blackout of the internet to protest SOPA, the Stop Online Privacy Act being debated in Congress. When the home pages of Google.com, Amazon.com, Facebook.com, and their Internet allies simultaneously turn black with anti-censorship warnings that ask users to contact politicians about a vote in the U.S. Congress the next day on SOPA,” Declan McCullagh wrote, “you’ll know they’re finally serious.”‘”(slashdot)
pfff.. I do need to see this happen to believe it. According to the Chaos Conference recently, this is just the start of an battle (and not a small one).
STOCKHOLM – Kopimisme, de godsdienst van internetpiraten, is in Zweden een officieel erkende religie in die zin dat de priesters van dat geloof nu ook mensen voor de Staat mogen trouwen. De Missionerende Kopimistengemeenschap staat volgens de zegsvrouw nu officieel bijgeschreven als ”een geloofsgroep die bouwt op godsdienstige werkzaamheden en daarvoor samenkomsten met gezamenlijke meditatie of bidden organiseert”.
Kopiëren en verspreiden van materiaal, illegale bestandsdeling volgens critici, staat hoog in het vaandel bij de kopimisten, net als bij de Zweedse Piratenpartij die de politieke spreekbuis voor de internetpiraten is. De partij mist zetels in Zweedse volksvertegenwoordigingen, maar heeft sinds 2010 wel twee afgevaardigden in het Europarlement.(via)
See also their website, because it is saccred.
While looking back to 2011 in film, the cultural film festival 2012 @rotterdam is upon us already again.
Sebastian Wernicke thinks every TEDTalk can be summarized in six words (like hemingway). At TEDxZurich, he shows how to do just that — and less.
Western cuisines tend to use ‘pairs’ that share many flavours. But east Asian cuisines tend to avoid ingredients that share them. Read more.
The reading package for our pension funds…
Truly eye-opening: According to a recent book, The Hedge Fund Mirage, by Simon Lack, from 1998 to 2010, 84% of the investment gains of the entire hedge fund industry went to the managers, and only 16% to the investors. More analysis from Financial Times or Economist.
Though SOPA has taken the spotlight, there is another Internet-related bill on the House Judiciary’s agenda. It’s H.R. 1981, a.k.a The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, which proposed a mandate that Internet sites keep track of their users IP information for up to 18 months, to make it easier to investigate Internet crimes – such as downloading child pornography.
Very interesting article @ Danwin.com.
Thomas Sargent en Christopher Sims. Sargent (New York University) en Sims (Princeton) won the economic nobel prize for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy. Like 17 others before them they have a very specific view on the current economic crisis and the European Banking crisis in particular. The video above is a compilation of their press conference at Princeton. While at first they acted dumb, having no opinion, later they clearly critized the EU.
Notice that they see politics, not economic theory as the foremost barrier for the solution.
Let’s have a look at the field, TIOBE index, now 6 year later. Python and iOs software Object C are upcoming frontrunners.
As always the best software benefits from being lean and mean.
Computerworld – IBM announced Thursday that after five years of work, its researchers have been able to reduce from about one million to 12 the number of atoms required to create a bit of data.
The breakthrough may someday allow data storage hardware manufacturers to produce products with capacities that are orders of magnitude greater than today’s hard disk and flash drives.
“Looking at this conservatively … instead of 1TB on a device you’d have 100TB to 150TB. Instead of being able to store all your songs on a drive, you’d be able to have all your videos on the device,” said Andreas Heinrich, IBM Research Staff Member and lead investigator on this project.
Via. Respects!
Since we’re still a bit in the beginning of the year.. Where are we heading?. If you have 20 minutes, the video above of le Web 2011 might inspire. 2012 and beyond: App Internet, Post (evolued) Social and new Entrepenerial opportunities.
Looking back to the blogosphere..did it change that much according to Technorati?
Ps. Nice fact: 50% of all internet users visited Facebook in 2011.
We noticed it before, but now it’s live.. legal recourse for financial offences..
The world’s first international tribunal for complex financial litigation has opened in the Netherlands, headquartered at the Peace Palace in The Hague.
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The campaign for understanding seems running today a bit, good for now, so how about the wide spectrum? We got ACTA and other monsters.. good that there also things happen.. [among democracy haters]
“Attack of La Niña” Athlete Extra – Sean Pettit from MSP Films on Vimeo.
Sean Pettit ripping mountains with his skies.
