Posted: February 29th, 2004 | Author: jadearama | No Comments »
Edward Tufte, the famous information designer, argues that the design of the Pioneer Space Plaque, which embellished the first spaceship to leave our solar system was fundamentally wrong-headed, and proposes an alternative.
Posted: February 23rd, 2004 | Author: jadearama | No Comments »
Martin describes the progress of a course he and a colleague taught at Institudo Empresa. Illustrates that free markets aren’t fair, but they might work better if they were.
Posted: February 21st, 2004 | Author: jadearama | No Comments »
Ted Shelton describes what you need to set up as an Internet telco. No doubt about it, it is now possible to build a system with a couple of Linux boxes that does the same thing as an expensive telecommunications switch.
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Posted: February 19th, 2004 | Author: jadearama | No Comments »
IE Domain Registry Ltd. has appointed a new CEO. The directors didn’t bother to advertise the job. Are they being lazy or are they being smart?
Posted: February 17th, 2004 | Author: jadearama | 6 Comments »
Justin points out that there are more deaths on roads per capita in California than in Ireland. On a trawl through the UK DfT website, I found these interesting statistics. Although the US has more deaths per head of population, they have fewer deaths per billion miles driven.
Posted: February 16th, 2004 | Author: jadearama | 1 Comment »
Did you know that 30 percent of payments for parking in Tallinn, Estonia are made using a mobile phone over SMS? Or that you can buy a single-trip tram ticket using SMS in Finland? Do you think it would work elsewhere?