Chatroulette Gaga
Chatroulette, Lady Gaga, and a man in panties bringing the world together. What I love about this video is that it’s truly transnational. No matter the ethnicity or global location every single person laughs the same, which I think is fantastic.
Save the environment, boycot Arial fonts?
University of Wisconsin bans the Arial font in an effort to reduce costs and save the environment. Who knew?
Friday Cybernews Round-Up
Cyber-War: Emerging Threat or Phantom Menace? Apparently the ruckus between Google and China amounts to a “cyber war.”This sounds familiar. In late February, former director of national intelligence Michael McConnell declared on the WAPO opinion pages that we are losing some sort of “cyberwar.” Then earlier this month Obama administration cyber-czar Howard Schmidt announced “there [...]
The cloud and ubiquity of cyberspace
By Bruce Sterling, published on May 30, 2009 at Beyond the Beyond a Wired Magazine blog. Cyberspace Policy Review: Assuring a Trusted and Resilient Information and Communications Infrastructure In February 2009, President Obama directed the National Security Council (NSC) and Homeland Security Council to conduct a 60-day review of the plans, programs, and activities underway throughout [...]
Sovereignty and the Internet
During the course of the final decade of the twentieth century, what international relations scholars study transformed from the exclusivity of Cold War strategic geopolitics to the inclusion of transnational actors like NGOs working on topics ranging from human rights, the environment, human rights, gender, to human security. Most profoundly, however, the rise of information [...]
Tabletized Transformative Triumph
tabletology 2000-1800 BCE The cuneiform on this tablet on display at the Spurlock Museum is early legalese. 1700s Slates put a premium on memorization. 1888 Paper mill employee cut, ruled, and bound reject sheets to create the first legal pad. 1987 Star Trek The Next Generation introduces the PADD—Personal Access Display Device. 1993 Apple MessagePad [...]
