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excerpts from the book

Featuring Anthony Greens "swing counter"

John Howard and George Bush APEC sex tapes

" .. the Ayer study stressed the need to strengthen the association in the public's mind of diamonds with romance. Since "young men buy over 90% of all engagement rings" it would be crucial to inculcate in them the idea that diamonds were a gift of love: the larger and finer the diamond, the greater the expression of love. Similarly, young women had to be encouraged to view diamonds as an integral part of any romantic courtship."

Toward the end of the 1950s, N. W. Ayer reported to De Beers that twenty years of advertisements and publicity had had a pronounced effect on the American psyche. "Since 1939 an entirely new generation of young people has grown to marriageable age," it said. "To this new generation a diamond ring is considered a necessity to engagements by virtually everyone."

Google architecture

graph of expectations over the next 18 months

aka 90-day holiday affordability chart

The annual Submarine Networks World conference last week heard Level 3 executive Mike Saunders predict that eight new trans-Pacific cable deployments including two to Australia would unfurl some six terabits of lit capacity onto the market. This effectively will quadruple supply in a two year period.

and Colon Powell

Stop resisting!!

Scrapyard Challenge Workshops are intensive workshops where participants build simple electronic projects out of found or discarded "junk"

the wifi liberator is an open-source toolkit for a laptop computer that enables its user to "liberate" pay-per-use wireless networks and create a free, open node that anyone can connect to for Internet access

LED throwies consist of a high-diffusion LED, lithium battery, and rare-earth magnet

the GPS hog consists of a motion sensor relay system that controls a GPS-Jamming device

Electro-graf is a graffiti piece or throw-up that uses conductive spray-paint and magnet paint to embed movable LED display electronics.

diy low cost illuminated signage from LED christmas lights

In his style of genial naivety, Bush at his first media conference mentioned Burma, where demonstrators were recently detained by the military regime. It was "inexcusable", he said, "that people who march for freedom" are threatened by a repressive state.

At first sight, the poster looks like an innocent children's cartoon. Three white sheep stand beside a black sheep. The drawing makes it looks as though the animals are smiling. But then you notice that the three white beasts are standing on the Swiss flag. One of the white sheep is kicking the black one off the flag, with a crafty flick of its back legs.

row over black sheep poster in Switzerland

swissinfo coverage

The irony of the current generation of online social networks is that although their premise is leveraging the internet to connect people, their own lack of interconnectedness is stifling their potential.

and images of the Apple //c manual