links for 2009-06-27
LRB · Donald MacKenzie: All Those Arrows At its heart, Tett’s tale is a moral one. She believes that the history of the J.P. Morgan credit derivatives team shows that […]
LRB · Donald MacKenzie: All Those Arrows At its heart, Tett’s tale is a moral one. She believes that the history of the J.P. Morgan credit derivatives team shows that […]
FT.com / Pursuits – The best walks in Britain and Ireland A few closer to home here – one in the Mourne mountains, County Down. (tags: walks travel Britain Ireland) […]
Skype Asus Eee Videophone AiGuru SV1 – Computing – Which? Reviews Never been entirely sure about videophones but this is small, portable, simple and not tied to a PC. (tags: […]
Public Service – Why are we unprepared for an ageing society? The 'Age Unlimited' scheme wants to see so-called 'Third-Agers' – people aged between 50 and 70 – shift their […]
LRB · John Lanchester: It’s Finished John Lanchester’s book about the financial crisis, Whoops, will be published by the Penguin Press, once he’s finished writing it. (tags: creditcrunch banks economics […]
Mary Warnock on the role of older people in society and how we treat them | Comment is free | The Observer Looking after the old ought essentially to be […]
Terroirs Wine Bar & Restaurant Worth a peek for a few glasses of something different via Intelligent Life (tags: bars london wine) Welcome to the Centre for Rural Health Photos […]
Age OK launch press release | engage Business Network | Best practice in the field of age-positive business | www.engagenetwork.co.uk New research released today from charity Age Concern and Help […]
Reminiscence Systems Workshop 2009 @ Cambridge, UK – Reminiscence Systems Workshop 2009 @ Cambridge, UK The Reminiscence Systems Workshop (RSW-2009) at HCI-2009 seeks to explore the broad technical and social […]
FT.com / Books / Non-Fiction – A train journey to the soul of Britain From the man fast becoming my favourite columnist: "“Nightmare,” said a man close by (seated). Oh, […]
Flickr Photo Download: Telegraph unedited Twitterfall Immortalised – the Torygraph's Twitter fall (tags: Twitter newspapers new_media)
Hockneyizer: Create a simulated collage from a single photograph Does what it says on the tin. (tags: photography tools images photos tool)
AFP: Senior citizens flocking to the Internet "They are basically doing the same things as everyone else. Using the Web for communication, then quickly moving to other activities like information […]
Tim Adams talks to Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Outliers | Books | The Observer Gladwell is coming to Dublin 27th Nov. Hurrah. (tags: books people thinking […]
A selection of Alan Newell’s publications Good selection of papers from Dundee academic (tags: ageing papers design inclusivedesign) European Observatory… – Home European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies – […]
Why Apple doesn’t do “Concept Products” « counternotions Kontra's Law – A commercial company’s ability to innovate is inversely proportional to its proclivity to publicly release conceptual products. (tags: innovation […]
An Engine, Not a Camera – The MIT Press As a colleague of McKenzie said to me in Edinburgh last week – "he's our superstar but a bit too shy […]
Yammer : Home Twitter but for companies. An obvious place to take Twitter if you want to share inane details of your current state of mind with people you don't […]