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Mind Games - Thinking Lessons:
"Lexia VS, the first mind-improving software package from David Stevens' research team, contains five visual-spatial games. Each game develops a different set of cognitive skills, and becomes progressively harder as the child masters each level. It's all done at the press of a button: the child uses a standard video game controller to move objects around, ask for hints, and check answers. "

See also David Steven's Eclectic blog .

Elad Wafa, Netayna, Israel:
"As part of a series of photo journals about ordinary people's experiences, BBC News Online looks at the life of a survivor of a suicide bomb attack in Israel.

Elad Wafa lives in Netanya, Israel. He is 27 years old and was born in Ethiopia. On the afternoon of 19 May 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber let off his explosives near the vegetable stall where Elad worked.

Elad suffered severe injuries and is now paralysed from the lower back downwards. "

fabprefab - modernist prefabdwellings:
"fabprefab a web resource dedicated to tracking developments in the realm of ‘modernist prefab dwellings’. Modernist prefab is still more of a meme than a marketplace. Most projects are �in development� and relatively few prefabs are available for immediate purchase."

Most Unwired College Campuses Survey:
"Intel's 2nd annual 'Most Unwired Cities' survey ranks the top 100 U.S. cities and regions for the greatest wireless Internet accessibility. This year, the survey has been expanded to include a look at the most unwired college campuses in the nation. You can also see the Most Unwired Airports."

UVM ranked 35th.

"The "Most Unwired College Campuses" survey findings are based on the number of hotspots, the number of undergraduates, number of computers and the computer to student ratio. The results were also based on the percentage of each college campus that is covered by wireless technology. The data was collected from university interviews and documents, and a variety of industry sources."

mogimogi
mogi.com hosts a location based community collection game - where players move outside, pick-up virtual items through their mobile phone interface, then trade with other players to complete collections. the goal is to get the maximum points completing collection. from the web interface, players see in real time, on a 3D map, the position of connected playeers as well as collection items.

cf.

• geocaching
• flash mobs

Spam: The Next Generation:
"'Spim (I can barely bring myself to acknowledge the name for it) is projected to triple from 400 million instant messages in 2003 to 1.2 billion by the end of this year. So if you use instant messaging and are upset that 'spimmers' are ignoring you, don't worry - they are bound to catch up with you pretty soon."

blosxom : the zen of blogging
"Blosxom (pronounced 'blossom') is a lightweight yet feature-packed weblog application designed from the ground up with simplicity, usability, and interoperability in mind. "

• google [ blosxom ] versus google [ bloxsom ]
• blog about blosxom powered by Movable Type
• reality bytes

Which Programming Language?:
"If your 12-year-old cousin suddenly decided he wanted to learn to write programs, and came to you asking advice on which programming language to learn, what would you suggest and why?"

• Stage Cast

The Secret Source of Google's Power: "There's something deeper to learn about Google from [gMail] than the initial reaction to the product features... "Google has taken the last 10 years of systems software research out of university labs, and built their own proprietary, production quality system. What is this platform that Google is building? It's a distributed computing platform that can manage web-scale datasets on 100,000 node server clusters. It includes a petabyte, distributed, fault tolerant filesystem, distributed RPC code, probably network shared memory and process migration. And a datacenter management system which lets a handful of ops engineers effectively run 100,000 servers. "