Slim Links March 23 2009
Building the 21st-Century Mind A professor of cognition and education reveals the five minds you need for success, how to make better …
Dwyers: 19th Century coachbuilders
Does anyone in the great wide world know if multiple award-winning coachbuilder W. Dwyer of Sydney is related to award winning coachbuilder …
Increasing Poetry Readership
Poet Michael O’Dea has suggested, as a means of increasing poetry readership …that Poetry Ireland, (since it will take such a central …
Silicon Republic
Silicon Republic, Ireland’s technology news service, has a tasty makeover.
Internet Explorer compatibility issue with YouTube – the solution
Apologies to those of you who use Internet Explorer and have got an “Aborted” message when visiting this website. Hopefully the issue …
In a State of Surveillance
“From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink – …
The Pale Blue Dot
It never fails to move me, and as Grace Wynne-Jones mentioned it in passing today, here it is again, the beautiful video …
Britain Suppressed Details of ’57 Atomic Disaster
New Scientist (preview only, sub for full article) and The New York Times report that British Cabinet documents, published under regulations governing …
Juan Enriquez
I know, I know, another TED Talk. but whether or not you agree with everything he says, spend 18 minutes with Juan …
Streetcars of Desire on AP
It isn’t often I plug my other weblogs, but I’m so chuffed at the possiblity that Dublin (and indeed other Irish cities) …
Was cancer research suppressed? Answers, please
I’m sure you’ve had friends and/or family die of cancer. I certainly have had friends die of both brain and breast tumours. …
Biomimicry
If you have 23 minutes to spare, and I would strongly urge you to have them, then have a look at this …
Remarkable Service
Tom Raftery has an interesting post about Remarkable Customer Service. I could rave all day about the remarkable service from my host …
Earth seen from 4 billion miles away
On a day when the world’s media is consumed with the unintended decapitation, rather than the “civilized” hanging of a former tyrant, …
from XP to Ubuntu Edgy Eft
I hope you all had a happy Christmas and New Year’s Eve and I wish you all, especially friends and family, a …
Ms Dewey
In a clever hat-tip to the Dewey Decimal Classification System used in Libraries, Ms Dewey is search as you’ve never seen it. …