Present Tensed

Found on Web Between October 23rd and October 31st, 2009

Here are some links that I’ve tagged recently. This set is from Octo­ber 23rd through Octo­ber 31st:

• With ‘memo­ri­al­ized’ pro­files, Face­book sees dead peo­ple | The Social — CNET News — | face­book soci­ety death
• Peace on Face­book — | peace face­book
• Simple:Press Forum — SR: Maybe some­thing for the report­ing sys­tem? link indi­vid­ual blog reports to forum top­ics | word­press forum nsp plu­g­ins
• Google Voice AIR App Keeps Voice­mail and SMS on Your Desk­top — Google Voice — Life­hacker — | google voice air soft­ware
• Google Wave First Look — Google Wave — Life­hacker — | google wave howto
• Chicago stu­dent shot, killed :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro — He is the sec­ond stu­dent from Dyett to be fatally shot this school year. | dyett chicago cps vio­lence news
• Report Ques­tions Duncan’s Pol­icy of Clos­ing Fail­ing Schools — NYTimes.com — Now a study by researchers at the Uni­ver­sity of Chicago con­cludes that most stu­dents in schools that closed in the first five years of Mr. Duncan’s tenure in Chicago saw lit­tle ben­e­fit. | uchicago research ccsr cps education_reform edu­ca­tion
• Arti­san­Cam — Activ­i­ties — Pic­ture Book Maker — | art pho­tog­ra­phy digital_storytelling
• Tweekly.fm — Top Weekly Artist Tweet — | music mashup last.fm twit­ter
• McSweeney’s Inter­net Ten­dency: Reviews of New Food — | humor food
• Spooky Eco­nom­ics — China Real Time Report — WSJ — An album released this month by Amer­i­can artist DJ Spooky fea­tures a song with a Chi­nese woman read­ing a series of Chi­nese eco­nomic phrases as if it she were seduc­ing a lover over beats in the back­ground, turn­ing the mun­dane into a tripped-out ver­sion of a Mandarin-language econ class. On the album’s title track, “The Secret Song,” she slowly reads “Global econ­omy, cap­i­tal flows, local pro­tec­tion­ism, cur­rency in cir­cu­la­tion, worth, mar­ket, resid­ual value,” and more | dj.spooky music china eco­nom­ics
• Lis­to­ri­ous: Dis­cover the Best Twit­ter Lists — | twit­ter web2.0 lists social­me­dia direc­tory
• Book Review — ‘Ayn Rand and the World She Made,’ by Anne C.­Heller — Review — NYTimes.com — Rand’s par­tic­u­lar intel­lec­tual con­tri­bu­tion, the thing that makes her so pop­u­lar and so Amer­i­can, is the way she man­aged to mass mar­ket elit­ism — to con­vince so many peo­ple, espe­cially young peo­ple, that they could be geniuses with­out being in any con­crete way dis­tin­guished. | pol­i­tics eco­nom­ics books lit­er­a­ture cap­i­tal­ism review elit­ism
• Start­ing out with Objective-C — | edu­ca­tion apple pro­gram­ming iphone soft­ware
• The Lab Mys­tique — Chicago mag­a­zine — Novem­ber 2009 — Chicago — A place where every five-year-old intim­i­dates me | uchicago lab_school chicago
• BULLS: Bulls top NBA in atten­dance over the past decade — | bas­ket­ball nba
• Creepy Cap-and-Trade Claims are Illu­sions | FactCheck.org — | energy envi­ron­ment pol­i­tics
• How To « WordPress.tv — Short howto videos walk­ing you through dif­fer­ent aspects of word­press.… | word­press howto video
• Afro-punk — Afro-punk — | music
• Talk of “global cool­ing” based on bogus sta­tis­tics — Ars Tech­nica — The AP went beyond this analy­sis by send­ing out tem­per­a­ture data to four sta­tis­ti­cians, with­out inform­ing them what the data rep­re­sented, and asked them to iden­tify any trends in the data. Appar­ently, none of them saw any sign of global cool­ing. All of them detected the upward trend that is appar­ent when peri­ods longer than a decade are exam­ined, while the ups-and-downs of the last decade appear sim­i­lar to the sta­tis­ti­cal noise that occurs in other decades within the data set. One of the sta­tis­ti­cians is even quoted as say­ing that see­ing a down­ward trend in recent years involves “peo­ple com­ing at the data with pre­con­ceived notions.” | envi­ron­ment stats data
• City Room™ — Series Ele­ment — Nic­hole Pinkard Teaches Stu­dents to Take Con­trol of Dig­i­tal Media — | uchicago uei digital_media
• Obama Library Talk Revs Up Chicago’s Nobel Fac­tory (Update1) — Bloomberg.com — | obama uchicago library
• A Flow­chart to Deter­mine What Reli­gion You Should Fol­low — | humor reli­gion flow­chart
• Mas­ter­piece | Endgame | PBS — nation teeters on the brink of civil war in this real-life polit­i­cal thriller about the nego­ti­a­tions that led to the end of apartheid in South Africa and the release of Nel­son Man­dela. | pbs southafrica man­dela mbeki anc apartheid
• China and Africa: Don’t worry about killing peo­ple | The Econ­o­mist — Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s pres­i­dent, recently praised the Chi­nese for invest­ing in Africa’s infrastructure—in con­trast, he said, to the West, which doles out aid. | africa china rwanda devel­op­ment international.development invest­ment
• Sam Mar­tin: The quirky world of “man­spaces” | Video on TED.com — Sam Mar­tin shares pho­tos of a quirky world hobby that’s trend­ing with the XY set: the “man­space.” (They’re custom-built hang­outs where a man can claim a bit of his own ter­ri­tory to work, relax, be him­self.) | archi­tec­ture video space ted man­space
• Breaker Morant (film) — Wikipedia — | films aus­tralia southafrica his­tory
• Chris White Answers Pro­found Ques­tions About the Pres­i­dents. (Tim­o­thy McSweeney’s Inter­net Ten­dency) — Q U E S T I O N 3 — WAS THOMAS JEFFERSON A JERK? | humor his­tory
• South Africa and cor­rup­tion: He promises a big clean-up | The Econ­o­mist — Can Pres­i­dent Jacob Zuma ful­fil his promise to root out cor­rup­tion? | zuma southafrica pol­i­tics cor­rup­tion
• Inter­net Archive: Free Down­load: Cen­tury of Progress Expo­si­tion: Wings of a Cen­tury — | chicago his­tory 1933 century_of_progress
• BBC NEWS | Africa | Africa — the board game — | africa games
• Address Deliv­ered at Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity | The Uni­ver­sity of Chicago — | acad­e­mia uchicago
• How the District’s Chil­dren Die — Cover Story — Wash­ing­ton City Paper — Sto­ries of a city fail­ing its most vul­ner­a­ble wards. | youth vio­lence health
• TED Blog: Start your own FabLab: $1,499 — There’s a 3D printer, a 2D plot­ter and a 3D mill (the Uni­mat 6-in-1 tool sys­tem). | fablab gad­get
• iLearn Tech­nol­ogy » Blog Archive » 5 Best Vir­tual Field Trips — Vir­tual field trips can fill this void. Vir­tual field trips have come a long way from the page of links they used to be. | vir­tual field­trips
• Cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment: From arson to pol­i­tics | The Econ­o­mist — Had the com­mis­sion con­cluded that the evi­dence did not point to arson, Mr Perry would have been faced with the grave pos­si­bil­ity that Texas had exe­cuted an inno­cent per­son. | death-penalty texas pol­i­tics

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