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One of the benefits/drawbacks of moving my ever-growing OPML file from Bloglines to the more me-friendly Google Reader is that I’m reading more and reading more widely.
One of the things that I found my way to today was Paul Kedrosky’s One-Sentence Challenge. This offers each of us the chance to try and distill our own personal IP into one sentence; one sentence that would tell the future where to begin looking, should all knowledge about our chosen field disappear up its own fundament.
“Physicist Richard Feynman once said that if all knowledge about physics was about to expire the one sentence he would tell the future is that “Everything is made of atoms”. What one sentence would you tell the future about your own area?”
As I work in the water industry, I offered the following:
Of all the water on earth, only one percent is drinkable, so it is a resource to be cherished not squandered.
What would you tell the future? Leave a comment with your advice.
[via Russell Davies and Rebecca Blood]
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If you haven’t seen it already, digholes.com is a great ‘one use only’ web site that uses the Google Earth API to answer an age old question:
If you were to dig a hole from where you are standing all the way through the center of the Earth, where would you end up?
Like folks do, I located my small rural township in New Zealand, Huapai and clicked through to find out where I’d end up. The answer is that, after an awful lot of digging I’d pop out in a small rural township in Spain called Benamahoma.
This set me thinking about how digholes.com could be used for virtual town-twinning or sister city linking as I believe it’s known in North America. Given that 70% of the earth’s surface is water, this idea won’t work for everyone unless they’re strong swimmers or strike it lucky and pop up next to a supertanker.
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Airtight Interactive have come up with a nice spin on browsing Flikr. Enter a search term and it their Flickr Related Tag Browser will return a Zeitgeist-like compilation of images to the centre of your screen that are tagged with that term. These will be surrounded by related links which, according to AI, are “…a list of ‘related’ tags, based on clustered usage analysis.” All this allows the viewer to go on a remote ‘stream of consciousness’ type wander through Flickr, with the option to click-through to the site if an image takes your fancy.
In The Dilbert Blog: Human Behavior, Scott Adams relates a nice story about thermostats, told to him by a Dilbert fan, that tells us much we need to know about the human state.
