10 interesting things I've read since 18 November

... which is when I posted my last "10 interesting things" and actually it's only nine since I will be going in to the hospital in about an hour to prepare for a bypass operation tomorrow!


Back with you in a week (I hope)

1. Dead Sea Scrolls digitisation to be led by King's College London Karl Flinders, ComputerWorld.com


2. The Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London is leading a team to digitise the Dead Sea Scrolls (Wikipedia).


3. Arts & Letters Daily (17 Nov 2007)
   There is only one right way to see historical truth, says an official at a Chinese think tank. "There is a pool of clear water and there's no need to stir up this water"... more


4. Children Need a Playground Like THIS to Foster Creativity from LifeDev by glen
   OH man… does this take me back. Back to a day where playgrounds consisted of things that could easily injure like weathered wood with giant splinters, ample slides, and hardly ANY of that sterile plastic.


5. Restart the clocks of Britain! from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow
   The Stopped Clocks campaign aims to get Britain's public clocks running and on time again. Many handsome old public clocks are visible from the streets of London, but it often seems that these grand old timepieces are dead and rusted, ground to a halt years in the past.


6. KABACLIP Contact Lens Case from Cool Tools
   This simple little carrier hugs a bottle of contact lens solution, so the two are always together and easy to find at the bottom of your pack


7. Animal Farm from Cognitive Edge
   Paternalism has always worried me, especially when it is exercised with the power of the state.
   You really need to read this to appreciate where Dave Snowden is coming from!!


8. Another nail in the coffin of semantic analysis from Cognitive Edge
   Nice little test site here ... I tested out a couple of the key blogs I read every day.
   
9. Eight philosophers contributed to this issue of the UNESCO Courier, focusing on the role of philosophy today. Different approaches, varied concerns, but one certainty: philosophy can’t stay in its ivory tower. It provides a weapon against dogma and manipulation. And, to cite one of Jostein Gaarder’s ideas, philosophers have a cosmic responsibility. (More)
   
10. This is where I have to give up for lack of time!