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Friday 16 May 2003

Stratford tenants experiment with trial by television

Residents of east London housing estate to debate and vote on masterplan using interactive TV and internet [Building]

2:49:21 PM.

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." [Quotes of the Day]

2:45:56 PM.

Thomas A. Edison

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." [Quotes of the Day]

2:45:19 PM.

Natalie Jeremijenko's

Natalie Jeremijenko's new "One Tree(s)" art/tech/science/culture project involves planting 1,000 clones of the same tree in various places and monitoring what happens. She's now accepting proposals from interested potential participants. Got a cool place to plant a clone? Let her know.

For those of you in the Bay area, an opening reception with introductory remarks by Natalie takes place from 7-10 pm tonight, Friday May 16th, at Pond gallery on 14th street in San Francisco.

Link to opening event information, Link to One Trees website, Discuss (thanks, Alex)
[Boing Boing] for those of you not in the Bay area and say in the....... east London area - what a great idea coupled with the web a great education project too.

1:28:28 PM.

You mean I'm not an enigma?

I was reading something today about how bloggers quite often don't offer the reader any information about themselves at all. I guess it's true, although I don't hide my biases it's probably hard to judge what sort of person I am. So i've added a little bit of biography via the "About Me" button in my right hand link panel. It's a work in progress but hopefully gives more of the flavour (I won't ask which one).
[Curiouser and curiouser!] Matt Mower discussing the ins and outs of talking about ones-self on the web. I suppose the reasons behind blogs are the thing - mine is mostly a link of bookmarks i share with friends I think I am too much of a "work in progress" to write down anything more than what I am at the moment of writing. Maybe I'll look into it though.

1:25:04 PM.

How to Fake A Hard Day at the Office

futileboy writes "There's a great article in the WSJ about how to use technology to avoid work, while giving the impression of working. At the bottom of the ... [Slashdot]

12:26:21 AM.