- Amazon.com: Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century: Books: Alex Steffen,Al Gore,Bruce Sterling
Worldchanging is poised to be the Whole Earth Catalog for this millennium. Written by leading new thinkers who believe that the means for building a better future lie all around us, Worldchanging is packed with the information, resources, reviews, and ideas that give readers the tools they need to make a difference. Brought together by Alex Steffen, co-founder of the popular and award-winning web site Worldchanging.com, this team of top-notch writers includes Cameron Sinclair, founder of Architecture for Humanity, Geekcorps founder Ethan Zuckerman, sustainable food expert Anna Lappé, and many others. Renowned designer Stefan Sagmeister brings his extraordinary talents to
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in Public bookmarks by 2 users - On the Psychology of Military Incompetence: Books: Norman F. Dixon
"Everyone who manages anyone should be required to read this book. By focussing on the military Dixon has written a book crammed with examples that show the drastic consequences of incompetence. In management situations it's seldom a matter of life and death (despite the way some bosses act) but the consequences are still there: demotivated, under-utilised, confused and stressed staff. So if you're the boss and this sounds familiar you should read this book and learn it's lessons."
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Note: The best ever explanation of 'military intelligence', Reviewer: A reader - The Cyberiad
How The World Was Saved (a fragment of The Cyberiad) One day Trurl the constructor put together a machine that could create anything starting with n. When it was ready, he tried it out, ordering it to make needles, then nankeens and negligees, which it did, then nail the lot to narghiles filled with nepenthe and numerous other narcotics. The machine carried out his instructions to the letter. Still not completely sure of its ability, he had it produce, one after the other, nimbuses, noodles, nuclei, neutrons, naphtha, noses, nymphs, naiads, and natrium. 'This last it could not do, and Trurl, considerably irritated, demanded an explanation. "Never heard of it," said the machine.Trurl's Machine "What? But it's only sodium. You know, the meta
in Public bookmarks - The New York Review of Books: Shipping News
Nobody knows exactly how many containers there are in the world, but estimates run as high as three hundred million. What we do know is that not so long ago, there were none. Shipping containers are a recent American invention. On the face of it not a world-shaking event, yet it could be called the beginning of a revolution in transportation.
in Public bookmarks - The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan
In 1961, the name of Marshall McLuhan was unknown to everyone but his English students at the University of Toronto--and a coterie of academic admirers who followed his abstruse articles in small-circulation quarterlies. But then came two remarkable books-- "The Gutenberg Galaxy" (1962) and "Understanding Media" (1964)--and the graying professor from Canada's western hinterlands soon found himself characterized by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the hottest academic property around." He has since won a world-wide following for his brilliant--and frequently baffling--theories about the impact of the media on man; and his name has entered the French language as mucluhanisme, a synonym for the world of pop culture.
in Public bookmarks - touchgraph amazon browser (data visualization & visual idesign - nformation aesthetics)
an interactive network visualization that aims to reveal the intricate network structure within purchase pattern recommendations. users can explore related books or albums, see how similar items form clusters around common subjects, & discover how the clusters themselves are connected within the information space. it seems the visual information design & interactive features have been dramatically enhanced since their first google browser version about 2 years ago.
in Public bookmarks - Amazon.com: Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization: Books: John Robb
As Brave New War explains, system disruption lies at the heart of the agenda. Instead of symbolic, or deadly attacks, we should be on the lookout for economically devastating attacks. Our enemy will be looking for gaps in the system where a small, cheap action--say, on an oil pipeline--will generate a tremendous return. It may not even make the evening news, except as a report on spiraling gas prices. Because of the open source nature of the enemy, they don't all need to be smart. In fact, none of them need to be smart. They'll just keep trying random acts until one really works, and then they'll all copy it. That doesn't take genius, just flexibility. Is this all just theoretical? No, it's exactly what we're seeing in Iraq, as their IEDs improve, their tar
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in Public bookmarks - Summer Readings Prof. Michael B. McElroy (last updated, December 2005)
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade, by Pietra Rivoli ||The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life by Paul Seabright ||Freakonomics by Steven Levitt ||Stephen Dubner: The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki ||Paul Blustein: The Chastening: Inside the Crisis that Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF + And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out): Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of America. ||William Easterly's The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics ||Russell Roberts's The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism + The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance
in Public bookmarks by 2 users - The Long Tail - Why the future of business is selling less of more
Wired editor Anderson declares the death of "common culture"—and insists that it's for the best. Why don't we all watch the same TV shows, like we used to? Because not long ago, "we had fewer alternatives to compete for our screen attention," he writes. Smash hits have existed largely because of scarcity: with a finite number of bookstore shelves and theaters and Wal-Mart CD racks, "it's only sensible to fill them with the titles that will sell best." Today, Web sites and online retailers offer seemingly infinite inventory, and the result is the "shattering of the mainstream into a zillion different cultural shards." These "countless niches" are market opportunities for those who cast a wide net and de-emphasize the
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in Public bookmarks - 60's Teensploitation!
Angry young men, wayward and wanton women, troubled youth, and just plain trouble. Exposés exposed, coming of age in a bygone age. A batch published in the late '50's through to the mid-'70's. '- - Now finally in paperback!' '- - Soon to be a major motion picture!' '- - Read the book that shocked a nation!'
in Public bookmarks - Book-A-Minute
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in Public bookmarks by 3 users - Book-A-Minute: Don't have time to read it all?
We at Book-A-Minute understand that your time is valuable. You want to experience the wonder and excitement of the fine art of literature, but reading actual books requires a significant time investment. We've got the solution for you. Our ultra-condensed books are just the ticket.
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in Public bookmarks by 3 users - Martin van Creveld: The Blemish of Conquest
In 1966, Israel’s leading newspaper, Maariv, invited the legendary military commander Moshe Dayan to be its war correspondent in Vietnam. Dayan, then 51 years old, jumped at the chance. He had been working in politics since 1959, eventually serving as minister of agriculture under Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, but he had left his post in 1964 when Ben-Gurion fell out with the new prime minister, Levi Eshkol. He had been casting about for a new project.
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in Public bookmarks - The New York Times Book Review > 'Incompleteness': Waiting for Gödel
... science seemed to be tidying the mess of the real world into an eternal order beautiful and pure -- a heavenly file cabinet labeled mathematics. Then, Einstein published his relativity theory, Werner Heisenberg his uncertainty principle and Gödel his incompleteness theorem. Many thinkers -from the logical positivists with whom Gödel drank coffee in the Viennese cafes of the 1920's to existentialists, postmodernists and annoying people at cocktail parties - have taken those three results as proof that reality is subjective and we can't see beyond our noses. You can hardly blame them. But she makes a persuasive case that Gödel and Einstein understood their work to prove the opposite: reality exists, whether or not we can ever touch it
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Along with the book, I am launching a Here Comes Everybody blog, designed to both chronicle and extend the themes of the book. I'm delighted to finally have to book out, and to be able to begin blogging about it. In addition, this site collects many of my older writings, from which many of the themes of the book arose.
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Part scientific exploration, part philosophy, this unique book touches upon such diverse topics as dark matter, Feynman's "sum over paths", the quantum observer, and the soul. It is aimed at anyone interested in leading-edge theories about cosmology and the nature of reality, but it is not about mainstream physics. Rather, Imagining the Tenth Dimension is a mind-expanding exercise that could change the way you view this incredible universe in which we live.
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in Public bookmarks - Slate: Who Is Grady Harp? Amazon's Top Reviewers and the fate of the literary amateur By Garth Risk Hallberg Jan 22 2008 7:33
Full disclosure: It was late at night, in a fit of furtive self-Googling, that I discovered the first Amazon customer review of my debut book of fiction. "Superb," wrote Grady Harp of Los Angeles. "Fascinating ... addictive." Not to mention "profound." Such extravagance should have aroused suspicion, but I was too busy basking in the glow of a five-star rave to worry about the finer points of Harp's style. Sure, he'd spelled my name wrong, but hadn't he also judged me "a sensitive observer of human foibles"? Only when I noticed the "Top 10 Reviewer" tag did I wonder whether Grady Harp was more than just a satisfied customer. After a brief e-mail exchange, my publicist confirmed that she'd solicited Grady Harp's review.
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