Stephen didn’t appear to have done very much research and appeared not to know even how to talk about the thing he was reporting on: “Well, I’ve been “playing” – if that’s the right verb – Chat Roulette for about 15 minutes now, and I’ve been dumped faster than Jordan’s husbands – it really is that quick.” Thank Jehovah that the Web is still capable of generating the kind of super-retarded moral panic and outrage that characterised Newsnight’s piece on Chatroulette last night. It was brilliant to

Jordan Ellenberg wrote up Massively Collaborative Mathematics for the NY Times Sunday Magazine's 9th Annual Year in Ideas--and what an idea this one was. mathematical research in a new way. Tongue twister? No, mind bender. Cambridge University mathematician Timothy Gowers and Toronto writer and physicist Michael Nielsen launched the Polymath Project

Case in point, DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which funds some really neat cutting edge research, held a contest to celebrate the 40 th anniversary of the internet. Some of these groups appealed to altruistic motives, urging people to report their sightings so that the prize money could be donated to AIDS research, the Firefighters Scholarship Fund, or other worthy causes. Jeffrey Saltzman's Blog Enhancing Organizational Performance If War is Hell and Business is War, What about those Red Balloons? leave a comment » During the warring states period in China 2300 years ago, Sun Tzu wrote The Art of Strategy, a military guide to be used to help insure victory on the battle field.