Category: Linklog

Facebook’s role as a petri dish for the social sciences — sociology, psychology and political science — particularly excites scholars, because the site lets them examine how people, especially young people, are connected to one another, something few data sets offer. Read more →

2007 has certainly brought us some unique and bizarre viral videos, perhaps proving once again, anyone can become famours. From the ever funny Landlord Video featuring Will Farrell to the unforgettable ‘LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!’ plea, here’s Time’s top 10 Viral Videos of 2007 Read more →

A federal judge has rejected a file-sharing defendant’s argument that the record labels have engaged in copyright misuse by collectively litigating their nearly 30,000 file-sharing lawsuits. Read more →

The BBC show Click journeys to Sweden and talks to the Pirate Bay and the Pirate Party. Really interesting documentary. Read more →

Seven Blunders of the World is a list that Mahatma Gandhi gave to his grandson Arun Gandhi, written on a piece of paper, on their final day together, not too long before his assassination. Read more →

In part one of this series you kicked your digital SLR camera’s auto mode to the curb with the help of program mode. In doing so, you learned to control the flash, the ISO value, and the white balance. Now in part two we’re going straight to manual mode to learn about aperture sizes and… Read more →

A US judge has been removed from the bench for jailing 46 people after none of them admitted responsibility for a ringing mobile phone in his courtroom. Read more →

They say timing is everything, but some photographs become brilliant, surreal or hilarious because both the timing and the angle work out just right. Check out these 20 examples of perfectly shot photographs. Read more →

This is our next blog entry in our Corporate Social Responsibility Series. This time we are providing our readers a brief introduction into Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting. What does it mean? What does a report include and how can I determine whether this is a good or poor report. Read more →

Encase it in concrete, truck it to a site, bury it underground, hook it up to a steam turbine and, voila, one would generate enough electricity to power a 25,000-home community for at least five years. The company Hyperion Power Generation was formed last month to develop the nuclear fission reactor at Los Alamos and… Read more →