http://www.evilmadscientist.com/

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

“Making the World a Better Place, One Evil Mad Scientist at a Time.”

http://www.rheingold.com/

The Pedagogy of Civic Participation

A Lecture by Howard Rheingold held at the Gonick Amphitheatre of the NMC Campus in Second Life Sat Oct 21st 2006

“Education – the means by which young people learn the skills necessary to succeed in their place and time – is diverging from schooling. Media-literacy-wise, education is happening now after school and on weekends and when the teacher isn’t looking, in the SMS messages, MySpace pages, blog posts, podcasts, videoblogs that technology-equipped digital natives exchange among themselves. This population is both self-guided and in need of guidance, and although a willingness to learn new media by point-and-click exploration might come naturally to today’s student cohort, there’s nothing innate about knowing how to apply their skills to the processes of democracy.

We have an opportunity today to make use of the natural enthusiasm of today’s young digital natives for cultural production as well as consumption, to help them learn to use the media production and distribution technologies now available to them to develop a public voice about issues they care about. By showing students how to use Web-based tools and channels to inform publics, advocate positions, contest claims, and organize action around issues that they truly care about, participatory media education can draw them into positive early experiences with citizenship that could influence their civic behavior throughout their lives.”

– Howard Rheingold

see also:http://www.nmc.org/sl/2006/10/21/rheingold/
where you can catch an audio podcast of the event. (Oct 30th)

http://www.google-watch.org/

http://www.cwgc.org/search/certificate.aspx?casualty=1814246

http://www.bodgers.org.uk/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1214

http://www.vonnegut.com/

Web site of Kurt Vonnegut, another resident of Second Life.

http://mcgoodwin.net/pages/otherbooks/ws_richard3.html

William Hogarth: David Garrick as Richard III, 1745 (Detail)

The Life and Death of Richard the Third, Act 5, Scene 3
RATCLIFF
Ratcliff, my lord; ’tis I. The early village-cock
Hath twice done salutation to the morn;
Your friends are up, and buckle on their armour.

KING RICHARD III
O Ratcliff, I have dream’d a fearful dream!
What thinkest thou, will our friends prove all true?

http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~moz/main.htm

Cemetery Gates by the Smiths

A dreaded sunny day
so I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side

A dreaded sunny day
so I meet you at the cemetery gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
while Wilde is on mine

So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
all those people all those lives
where are they now ?
with loves, and hates
and passions just like mine
they were born
and then they lived and then they died
which seems so unfair
and I want to cry

You say: “ere thrice the sun hath done, salutation to the dawn”
and you claim these words as your own
but I’m well-read, have heard them said
a hundred times (maybe less, maybe more)
if you must write prose/poems
the words you use should be your own
dont plagiarise or take “on loans”
there’s always someone, somewhere
with a big nose, who knows
and who trips you up and laughs
when you fall

You say: “ere long done do does did “
words which could only be your own
you then produce the text
from whence was ripped
(some dizzy whore, 1804)

A dreaded sunny day
so let’s go where we’re happy
so I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side

A dreaded sunny day
so let’s go where we’re wanted
so I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
but you lose
because Wilde is on mine.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/n-korea-you-cant-threaten-us/2006/10/10/1160246130053.html

Kim Jong-il, a man playing a very dangerous game, just ask Saddam or Slobodan what happens when you really annoy the USA.

http://www.trilliumpress.com/inferno/intro.php

Limbo – The Innocents

And now we were heading through a bleak forest
It was so full of lost souls that they were everywhere
Canto IV, 65-66

A modern limbo for the modern age.

Bishop of Rome – take note

http://www.icdancing.com/

‘Crazy Dancers’ on a treasure hunt in Leeds Millennium Square as part of the ‘Light Night’ arts festival held in 5 cities across Yorkshire tonight.

http://www.nmc.org/

“The New Media Consortium (NMC) is an international not-for-profit consortium of nearly 200 leading colleges, universities, museums, corporations, and other learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies.

The consortium serves as a catalyst for the development of new applications of technology to support learning and creative expression, and sponsors programs and activities designed to stimulate innovation, encourage collaboration…”

http://originalmadgamer.stumbleupon.com/

A very promising blog, one to watch methinks.

http://www.opentopia.com/showcam.php?id=4420&time=1158673732

P..P…P…Pickup a Penguin…

Which one is Tux?

http://burningdork.slab.org/index.php/Main_Page

Burning Dork

A mini-BurningMan camp in the UK between 1st-4th September 2006, sounds like fun.

Dorking is a verb. “I am going dorking for the weekend” means that you are going to spend a weekend applying too much logic to the wrong contexts.

See also: http://www.badscience.net/?p=295#more-295

http://www.shof.msrcsites.co.uk/

Send enquiries to our very own Papa Lazarou, and his “Pandemonium Carnival”

http://www.lunacynet.com/league/char_lazarou.html

for more details.

http://www.francesoir.fr/

“Au secours, Voltaire, ils sont devenus fous!”

http://dagenhamdave.stumbleupon.com/

“Dave was from out of town
Manchester’s likely too
Had read De Sade to Marx
More read than me and you
Scaffolding pays good bread
It pays for drugs and kicks
Dave only had one love
Had no real need for chicks
Dave was so far ahead
But now he’s dead

I’m not going to cry
I bet he hit that water high

I guess he lost control
And welcomed in the night
It was too much for him
What were his thoughts that night?
The River Thames is cold
It keeps on flowing on
But it left Dave alone
It just kept flowing on

There’s city sickness here
But now he’s dead

Late night a street in the west of the city
There was a place there where he lost himself
Strange feelings did he feel there
Strange people did he meet there
Angry sounds did he hear there
Like the howling of bulls.”

Welcome to stumbleupon, DagenhamDave

http://mandysroyalty.stumbleupon.com/

Welcome to stumbleupon from Old Nol, the man who refused the British Crown.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/5323908.stm

From the page: “Cornwall’s planners have given the go-ahead to a company which wants to re-start tin mining in the county.”

There has been tin mining in Cornwall for over 4,000 years. Fittingly, the last mine to close (South Crofty) is now scheduled to re-open and can be seen above.

Go to:
http://www.phdcsm.freeserve.co.uk/croftymen.htm
to read about the mine, it’s Geology and to view pictures of South Crofty as a working colliery.

http://sio.midco.net/dansmapstamps/russia.htm

A rare image indeed. Leon Trotsky appearing in a Soviet picture. He was never formally rehabilitated by the Soviet government, despite the Glasnost-era rehabilitation of most other Old Bolsheviks killed during the Great Purges of Joseph Stalin.

This stamp, from 1987, depicts Trotsky, Lenin, and Dzershinski pouring over a map of Moscow in the painting, “On the Eve of the Storm,” by V. V. Pimenov.

http://www.rudebritain.co.uk/gallerydetail.asp?id=4

http://tremali.stumbleupon.com/

Welcome to stumbleupon and the stumbleupon second life group. http://second-life.group.stumbleupon.com/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/04/nposters04.xml

“The largest privately owned archive of Chinese propaganda posters, providing an illustrated history of the country from the 1930s to post Tiananmen Square, is to be sold at auction later this month.

The collection, of 2,600 posters, was amassed by several generations of a single Chinese family. Some are expected to fetch up to

http://www.cheese-burger.net/

Hmmmm…. cheeseburger….

[Warning: This site contains cheeseburger porn.]

http://www.hoopla.org/KenBrown/Postcards/pages/C173.htm

http://www.better-together.co.uk/

http://www.sixofone.org.uk/

“Where am I?”
“In the Village.”
“What do you want?”
“Information.”
“Whose side are you on?”
“That would be telling…. We want information. Information! INFORMATION.”
“You won’t get it.”
“By hook or by crook, we will.”
“Who are you?”
“The new Number 2.”
“Who is Number 1?”
“You are Number 6.”
“I am not a number — I am a free man!”

http://www.filmbuffonline.com/ReadingRoom/TimeBanditsIIReview.htm

Time Bandits II – Unfortunately, not coming to a cinema near you.

http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/the_battle_of_bosworth.htm

August 22nd 1485

” Inter their bodies as becomes their births:
Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled
That in submission will return to us:
And then, as we have ta’en the sacrament,
We will unite the white rose and the red:
Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction,
That long have frown’d upon their enmity!
What traitor hears me, and says not amen?
England hath long been mad, and scarr’d herself;
The brother blindly shed the brother’s blood,
The father rashly slaughter’d his own son,
The son, compell’d, been butcher to the sire:
All this divided York and Lancaster, “

http://phototravels.net/england/N0021/yorkshire-fountain-abbey-22.html

http://www.chinasucks.org/

This site implies that the ‘Rape of Nanjing’ did not take place.

This is the equivalent of holocaust denial. The evidence is legion.

Oh yes, and also Chinese are cannibals too.

Bigoted and rascist site that seems to be a cover for some sort of “Christian” group. Not the sort of Christianity that we have in the Anglican Church.

http://www.bloggingawaydebt.com/

Been there, done that, paid it off.

Advice from Mr Micawber,

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.“

http://www.yorkshireccc.com/the_club/museum/grounds

http://dombat.stumbleupon.com/

Are you local?

Welcome to stumbleupon.com

http://www.myspace.com/peteshelleysolo

Remember Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks fame? Well here you can hear his classic solo releases ‘Homosapien’ and ‘Telephone Operator’.

http://www.entropysedge.com/idiotsinspace.html

LOL, guess what I typed into google images….

http://blog.machinima.org/

Home page of Paul Marino a producer of machinima including the excellent ‘I’m Still Seeing Breen’ which synchronises clips from Half Life 2 to ‘So Cold’ by Breaking Benjamin

It can be downloaded from this site or viewed online via You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkOvoD-y0vQ

“Machinima is filmmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment, often using 3D video-game technologies.”

http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/Latimer,Ridley,Cranmer.htm

Burning Bishops, Oxfordshire Style

An intriguing concept, but I don’t think that the immolation of heretical clerics provides the answer to our future energy needs.