http://reworld.org Occasional notes posted by Peter Eckersley Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:56:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A verdict worthy of Dr Evil himself. Congratulations to the RIAA on their jury management! http://reworld.org/archives/19 Whilst driving around Auckland, New Zealand, I was a little surprised to see Vodafone pasting boingboing's URL across huge billboards. What the hell? (slightly gimped to compensate for a lot of glaring sunlight) Perhaps it's just a cunning scheme to get their ad campaign boingboinged.... http://reworld.org/archives/16 I'm currently reading one of Alan Lightman's curious little books, Einstein's Dreams. Published in 1993, it's a quirky mixture of philosophical thought experiments illustrating various models of time, which twist and wriggle into riffs on life and love. One of them, a condemnation of social climbing, doubles as ... http://reworld.org/archives/14 I'm also posting from time to time on another site called Science That Matters. It's a kind of meta-journal or review of scientific articles. The idea there is to dig up really exciting pieces of research from any field — the kind of science that has serious implications for ... http://reworld.org/archives/12 Wired Magazine is a funny publication. It is particularly entertaining to compare the total number of mentions of the names "george bush" (57) and "al gore" (307) in the magazine to date[1]. Upon consideration, this situation is easy to understand. It isn't that Wired has fought to ... http://reworld.org/archives/9 There's an idea I've had kicking around for a year or two but which still hasn't been implemented properly. So I'm going to post it for you to use! It lies somewhere between a neat trick and a business model for selling digital music without copyright enforcement or ... http://reworld.org/archives/8 A couple of years back, Jack Valenti argued that copyright law was supporting terrorism. Well, approximately. He argued that terrorists must be making money from piracy, which is really the same thing. He admitted to having no evidence for his claims, but if we presumed they were nonetheless true, criminal ... http://reworld.org/archives/5 Mobile phones are a privacy disaster. While they are switched on, they continuously reveal the location of the person carrying them. Records of calls made, where the calls are made from, and text messages sent, are almost always kept by the networks. Surveillance also permits evesdropping on calls and on ... http://reworld.org/archives/4