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 […]

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links for 2009-06-25

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) […]

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links for 2009-06-12

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: […]

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links for 2009-05-27

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 […]

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links for 2009-05-21

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 […]

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links for 2009-05-16

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 […]

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links for 2009-05-05

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 […]

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links for 2009-04-28

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 […]

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links for 2009-04-27

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, […]

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links for 2009-04-23

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 […]

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Looking out on the dreadful misty, grey day that is this Wednesday in Ireland this advert for ITV1 – the main British independent terrestrial channel is rather cheering (if a […]

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links for 2008-11-18

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 […]

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links for 2008-11-12

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 – […]

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links for 2008-09-18

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 […]

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