links for 2008-02-16

• The Anonymity Experiment | Popular Science
  (tags: privacy society)
• Relating Reputation and Money in On-line Markets
• Techdirt: Utah Law Proposed To Hide Police Misconduct So It Doesn’t Get On YouTube
• Tom Coates: Web of Data – ReadWriteWeb
  He says a “web of data” is where data sources and services are the center of the Web, rather than pages. So, he says that “your site is not your product”
• Generate KML With Google Spreadsheets
  (tags: kml maps google)
• Google LatLong: Mapping with Google Spreadsheets
  (tags: maps kml google)
• Farmer gives low-cost laptop a proper field test – Technology – theage.com.au
  (tags: technology australia open_source)
• Kilted Pride: Danger Zone
  (tags: amusements clothing)
• YouTube – The Secret of Burl Ives | Erik the Librarian Ep 3
  (tags: amusements video libraries)
• Burn it – Times Online
  It’s perfectly straightforward: Nabokov wanted it burnt, so burn it.
  (tags: books writers)
• Charlie Brooker on the French rogue trader | Comment is free | The Guardian
  (tags: economics finance heh)
• Comment is free: Charlie Brooker
  (tags: comment amusements)
• Books | What we talk about when we talk about …
  Jeffrey Eugenides
  (tags: books short_stories)
• BBC NEWS | Health | Three-parent embryo formed in lab
  Scientists believe they have made a potential breakthrough in the treatment of serious disease by creating a human embryo with three separate parents.
  (tags: medicine biology biotech genetics)
• One Day: Poetry: The New Yorker
  by Grace Paley
  (tags: poetry death)
• Because They Said So – New York Times
  Even by the dismal standards of what passes for a national debate on intelligence and civil liberties, last week was a really bad week.
  (tags: civil_liberties law usa politics privacy)

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