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Words the move us

Another episode of “It’s Charlie’s Stross’s fiction, we are just living in it” : Will Wall Street require Python?

By Ian | April 21, 2010

Saw “Will Wall Street require Python? | ITworld”, on the Hot Links website and thought “interesting”, and then I read the description !
“Charles Stross was right. “with Release 33-9117, the SEC is considering substitution of Python or another programming language for legal English as a basis for some of its regulations.”
I remembered the use [...]

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TinEye Mobile : iPhone visual search for stuff

By Ian | October 1, 2008

as demonstrated during the recent The Amazon Web Services (AWS) StartUp event in Toronto by Idee’s CTO Paul Bloore, TinEye Mobile is soon to be showing up in the iPhone App store to melt your brains… or just take an image of product (a CD, DVD, book or game etc.) and then send you on [...]

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3 points towards a new business model for Music and Books.

By Ian | March 16, 2008

Free ebooks appear to boost sales | Blog | Futurismic – There has been a lot of criticism of the practice by some writers and lots of praise from other corners. At the moment, it looks like the practice works.
- Books ebooks business
Put Not Your Faith In Ebook Readers – Frankly, book reading just [...]

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The Friends of the Merril Science Fiction/Anime Flea Market

By Ian | August 29, 2007

Via Greg “Beatiful Code” Wilson :
The Friends of the Merril are having a Flea Market on Saturday September 8th, from 10-4, at the Toronto Reference Library (just north of Bloor on Yonge). Second-hand, collectible, or one-of-a-kind: all sorts of SF and Anime merchandise will be available.
The Friends of the Merril Flea Market is going to [...]

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Recent Links for August 10th : the ProtoType Way; Superflat Panda; Nefertiti

By Ian | August 10, 2007

A prototype-checklist : doing common things the prototype way (or taking advantage of those extra 100 KB in your page) – A great set of code examples of doing things the Prototype way. – Javascript
TOKYOMANGO: Superflat Panda Swallows Cell Phone, Then Girl – Great little animated short mostly made up of Takashi Murakami’s graphic work [...]

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Here be monsters : Cory Doctorow’s "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town" in the Globe and Mail

By Ian | July 30, 2005

Kelly McManus reviews Cory Doctorow’s “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town” in the The Globe and Mail Book section :
The novel presents some of Doctorow’s most striking insights into the cultural implications of new technologies, making it his best work to date.
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Doctorow suggests that the notions of high and low tech, archaic and advanced, [...]

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Accelerando Technical Companion

By Ian | July 7, 2005

The Accelerando Technical Companion is a technical companion to Charlie Stross’s latest novel, Accelerando,
Cool! and part of Wikibooks, a collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit……..as an addition to my ExoCortex…I could use this….I was thinking (I know, I know) building a Accelerando vocabulary and using GreaseMoney to build a Hyper-glossary of the html [...]

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Cory Doctorow @ Toronto’s Bakka Phoenix Books on July 11

By Ian | July 7, 2005

Author Cory Doctorow – and Boing Boing co-editor, and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) European Outreach Coordinator – is doing a Book Launch at Toronto’s Bakka Phoenix Books on Monday July 11 (2005)@ 7PM to celebrate his newest book “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town” (Amazon USA ISBN: 0765312786).
Currently I’m a 1/4 the way [...]

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Margaret Atwood on why we need science fiction….in related news flying pigs circling the Annex

By Ian | June 22, 2005

Via The Guardian, Margaret Atwood on why we need science fiction…She likes us she really likes us….see why this is a big deal Margaret Atwood Vs SF.
I’m too chicken to face the “Wrath of Atwood”, and ask the “question”. Perhaps I’ll just quietly move “Handmaids Tale” and “Oryx and Crake” to [...]

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A Whole New Mind

By Ian | March 14, 2005

Yes , I need one of these! Via Many-to-Many we have a summury of daniel pink’s on book “A Whole New Mind” (March 24, 2005) as presented at the SXSW Interactive conference.

His key thesis is that the future no longer belongs to analytical professionals—the linear, logical knowledge people (the “SAT people,” he calls them, pointing [...]

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