Little Brother is watching, too

Ever interested by the information machine that is the Internet as I am [1], I give you this: One guy has set up a project trying to detail North Korea’s visible society, by soliciting information from anyone willing to spend a little time with Google Earth and various news reports coming out of the almost [...]

Everything you ever wanted to know about…

…electric vehicles, and probably more, too. I’ve linked to energy places before, some of which can be found in the blogroll, but if you ever feel the need for hours and hours of podcasts about EVs, turn to EVcast to fulfill it. What little I’ve heard of it sounds interesting, if a bit evangelical.

There’s something rotten…

So, one of the largest scientific journal publishers, Elsevier, have been caught with their pants down, pushing pharmaceuticals in fake journals. They claim that publishing these “proceedings” do not constitue a journal, but as has been pointed out in the article above: In a statement to The Scientist magazine, Elsevier at first said the company [...]

Even Big Brother can be cool

At first I thought this was really cool: an app that searches the Twitterstream for tweets with the words “just landed in” and compares the geodata in them with the reported home location of the user to make a fascinating graphic over air travel. It doesn’t have that much of a practical use, but it [...]

Green lifestyles and real constraints

A couple of weeks back, I attended a workshop in Copenhagen on the STS field and climate change. Some bigshots were there too (well, bigshots in our field, at least). Lots of interesting discussions and presentations, so I’m sure I’ll come back to some of the papers presented. For now, take a look at the [...]