Known Unknowns, enjoying conspiracy theories and practice on a lazy sunny Sunday afternoon

First, an interesting Dutch RAND connection.

Conflict Between Pakistan and India: Realizing RAND’s Plan for World War Three

So what happened to 5000 people after the Hurricane in Voodoo Town?

Preparation for civil unrest, only in the States?

Suzanne Hogendoorn made a short movie at the public launching of MAUJ in Karachi

Check

her report here.

Il y a longtemps qu’on fait de la politique

oh parfois je suis une imbecile

mais on a pas du choix non entre l’albatros et le pelican

ou peut-etre

l’aigle

peut on le prendre dus museé?

hmm

dada

da

In Taipei it is good growing old

I did not see any of the white obsessive compulsively cleaned compounds where the keep old people, but the entire neighbourhood seemed to be a place where old people are respectfully walked around, drawn into everyday activities and keep up theit taichi exercises. A bit slower maybe. But still.

Difr demo

DIFR, the Dutch Interdisciplinary Forum on RFID, finished development of
the RFID Privacy Coach. Funded by NLNet Foundation, the group
(consisting of TNO, MoboUniq, Royal Acadmy of Art at the Hague, Waag
Society, Rathenau Institute and Leiden University) developed this
proof-of-concept application for NFC enabled mobile phones. It shows
that, once HF EPC tags become available, consumers can use their mobile
phone to verify the privacy policies enforced by RFID tags (on the goods
they buy) against their personal privacy profile.

For more information, and a flash-demo, see
http://www.difr.nl/?page_id=10