developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a
subject — broad or obscure — and, aided by his 60 to 70 computers and six or
seven programmers, he turns the results into books in a range of genres, many of
them in the range of 150 pages and printed only when a customer buys one
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He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work) - New York Times - 0 views
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Mr. Parker has generated more than 200,000 books
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“I guess it makes sense now as to why the book was so awful and frustrating.”
VOA News - Haiti Seeks New Prime Minister After Food Riots - 0 views
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Leaders in Haiti are looking for a new prime minister as the Caribbean nation tries to recover from a week of deadly food riots.
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Six people have been killed in Haiti during violent protests against the high cost of food. The victims include a United Nations peacekeeper from Nigeria who was shot and killed in the capital of Port-au-Prince.
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Second Life affair ends in divorce - CNN.com - 0 views
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A British couple who married in a lavish Second Life wedding ceremony are to divorce after one of them had an alleged "affair" in the online world."> text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
THE END(S) OF ETHNOGRAPHY: Social/Cultural Anthropology's Signature Form of Producing K... - 0 views
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Today's investment in and calls for public anthropology are one symptom of the profound rupture and reorganization of the research agendas of social/cultural anthropology as it moved away from the four-field organization of anthropology into an alignment with certain humanities-driven, energetically interdisciplinary appropriations of the concerns of the social sciences in the name of "theory." In anthropology, this story can most cogently be told by focusing on what happened to its central professional culture of method: what ethnography looks like today and the conditions of research, encompassing fieldwork, that produce it. This article is an examination of this reorganization of social/cultural anthropology, which has left the center of the discipline intellectually weak relative to the vitality of its diverse interdisciplinary and even nonacademic engagements. It asks whether this post-1980s reorganized social/cultural anthropology might rediscover and reunite with some of its historic core associations (four-field as well as topical) in the new terrains of research and partnerships on the peripheries of its old disciplinary center.
Collective Action in Action: Prosocial Behavior in and out of the Laboratory - 0 views
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Experiments have become a popular method to study altruism and cooperation in laboratory and, more recently, in field settings. However, few studies have examined whether behavior in experiments tells us anything about behavior in the "real world." To investigate the external validity of several common experimental economics games, we compare game behavior with prosocial behavior among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists of lowland Bolivia. We find that food-sharing patterns, social visitation, beer production and consumption, labor participation, and contributions to a feast are not robustly correlated with levels of giving in the economics games. Payoff structure and socioecological context may be more important in predicting prosocial behavior in a wide variety of domains than stable personality traits. We argue that future experimental methods should be tailored to specific research questions, show reduced anonymity, and incorporate repeat measures under a variety of conditions to inform and redirect ethnographic study and build scientific theory.
FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping - CNN.com - 0 views
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The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people's physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists.
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The bureau is expected to announce in coming days the awarding of a $1 billion, 10-year contract to help create the database that will compile an array of biometric information -- from palm prints to eye scans.
Khaleej Times Online - Cable damage hits 1.7m Internet users in UAE - 0 views
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An estimated 1.7 million Internet users in the UAE have been affected by the recent undersea cable damage
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The submarine cable cuts in FLAG Europe-Asia cable 8.3km away from Alexandria, Egypt and SeaMeWe-4 affected at least 60 million users in India, 12 million in Pakistan, six million in Egypt and 4.7 million in Saudi Arabia.” A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each.
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The first cut in the undersea Internet cable occurred on January 23, in the Flag Telcoms FALCON submarine cable which was not reported. This has not been repaired yet and the cause remains unknown
Businesses praise chips as privacy groups worry - USATODAY.com - 0 views
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Already, microchips are turning up in some computer printers, car keys and tires, on shampoo bottles and department store clothing tags. They're also in library books and "contactless" payment cards
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By placing sniffers in strategic areas, companies can invisibly "rifle through people's pockets, purses, suitcases, briefcases, luggage — and possibly their kitchens and bedrooms — anytime of the day or night
frontline: merchants of cool: watch the full program | PBS - 0 views
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