Weekly links
September 15th, 2007
- Freebase pancakes
- One Laptop per Child rolls-out in Nigeria. This is just brilliant. But how to keep laptops with children, rather than them disappearing into the black market? Surely the key is to saturate the market. Supply so many that demand dries up. I wonder if this is possible.
- Japanese underdog archetypes in anime
…This classic story, however, is not merely about high-school girls playing tennis. The whole narrative acts as an allegory about Japan’s place in the world in the 1970s … Oka Hiromi represents Japan. She is physically small (a small island country), young (just “discovered” modernity in the 19th century), and inexperienced (yet to know the proper protocols of Western culture). Some may protest this patronizing view of Japan, but this was the way the Japan saw itself coming out of the 1960s.
- Fixed vs. growth mindset (pdf alert!)
- A Gigantic Globular Burst of Anti-Static. I’ve been enjoying a lot of FSOL recently, but Gaz Cobain, you need to put some weight on, mate.
- Dr. Grordbort’s wave disrupter gun. Steampunk nutters…