Posts by Russell Brown
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InternetNZ has released twin reports on the economic impact of the internet in New Zealand, from Infometrics and NZIER.
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Hard News: It's NetHui Week, in reply to Sacha,
Certainly not a trade expo.
Anything but.
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Hard News: The not-so-Evil Empire, in reply to 81stcolumn,
Not evil, just a bit sad Apple opts out of green certification. This would be just like the rest, but an important point gets made over the legitamacy of Apple in education. Something I have questioned for several years now.
That's a real bummer. Apple has actually been doing really well on product sustainability in recent years -- and now, because the retina display Macbook's battery is glued to its case, they pull every product out of the standard?
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And, in an interaction that speaks of the great things the internet has done to facilitate a relationship between creator and and fan, I contacted Bobby Busnach today to ask for a WAV download of his great remix of 'I Feel Love' to play at my impending 50th birthday party. He got back within the hour and, in a sweet interaction, reopened the download long enough for me to get a birthday copy. So awesome.
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Facebook, set in Zapfino?
Good god, man -- I'm trying to eat my lunch. Nearly choked from laughing!
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to richard,
Wow. Who knew? (Where did this come from – I mean it comes from the Herald, but where did Roughan get this idea from?)
Where Roughan gets his ideas from is an enduring mystery.
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Here's a good interview with Bobby Busnach. I'm actually becoming mildly obsessed with his work.
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Hard News: OGB Update, in reply to richard,
If you can’t go the Great Blend, you CAN go to this:
Opportunist!
But, damn, what a clash.
Ben, if you did go to the lecture you'd still get down the the Civic in time for the Cut Collective show.
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Sour grapes, much? And it’s commercial hubris, not environmental hubris that’s the problem.
He takes it all back to his last year at school, in 1969, when a lady teacher enthused to the class about ecology. He seems to see the Higgs breakthrough as a return to proper Man Science.
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In today's Herald, John Roughan weighs in. At first it's a little confusing:
Who knows where that knowledge will lead? Next they will work out how to control the particle, then they will remove it to enable things - people - to travel at the speed necessary to explore the galaxy.
But in concluding his purpose becomes clear:
If science had not succumbed to environmental hubris, a generation of New Zealanders might have gained a geological view of this country ... Science has been dominated by environmentalism for too long. What it gained in political attention and research grants has come at a cost to its power to excite us. If a subatomic particle has opened a door to phenomena we can barely comprehend, science will be wonderful again.
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