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South Africa showing support for crazy ass dictatorships. Poor Nelson Mandela must be rolling in his

Madiba said that human rights would be the guiding light of South Africa’s foreign policy. So what the hell, Mr. Mbeki, is your government doing giving a cheesy thumbs-up to Myanmar, Iran, Libya, Haiti and Zimbabwe?As …
NOTED :: In the mirror world will Swedish diplomats make funny faces to get me to laugh?

The Mirror Neurons Made Me Do It - Counterfeit Chic“Ever wonder why yawns are contagious, or why we feel the pain of a fictional onscreen character (at least until the credits roll)?” Blame your ‘mirror neurons’.Sw…
Visualize your relationships

Netvis Module - Dynamic Visualization of Social Networks The NetVis Module is a free open source web-based tool to analyze and visualize social networks using data from csv files, online surveys, and dispersed teams. …
Contextual Integrity

IF send(financial-institution,third-party,personal-information) THEN PREVIOUSLY send (financial-institution,consumer,notification) OR EVENTUALLY send (financial-institution,consumer,notification)Can acceptable behavio…
NOTED :: visualizing social networks, touch screen interfaces and disruptive innovation

TraceEncounters“TraceEncounters is a social network tracking and visualization project. When pin wearers came to a central location to view the accreting network, they saw a thousand circles on a plasma display panel…
On Digital Maoism

Is the connected generation too easily abandoning the individual for the wisdom of the crowd?… collective online creations like Wikipedia have made the Web less expressive by absorbing the efforts of hordes of voluntee…
Noted :: information vs economics

What is Information? The Flow of Bits and the Control of Chaos“Digital information is conceived of as an inexorable force that will finally enable a faithful representation of reality– both the reality of the external…
NOTED :: Survey of the brain

Who do you think you are? - Economist.com“If the essence of individuality can be changed by a physical accident, it implies that the brain is a mechanism which generates the self, rather than merely an organ which hou…
Proposal: A tool for navigating people

When I read a name online or in an article, I want to know where the individual is placed in the world - physically and in relation to others.The text on the left is from an online survey on the subject of the brain. T…
NOTED :: Much, but not something.

Economics discovers its feelings - Economist.com“So many lucky men, restless in the midst of abundance,â€ said Alexis de Tocqueville. This article inquires into economists recent interest in measuring happiness. Not …