Thursday, March 11, 2010

11-Mar-2010 PM clippings

Enjoy:

Talkabout Special:

PublicACTA, talks to discuss and analyse what we know about ACTA to be held in Wellington 10th April, weekend before secret ACTA talks:
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/media-releases-2010/michael-geist-to-keynote-publicacta-internetnz

Nat Torkington on the problems of making data sets Open:
http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/03/truly-open-data.html

A public lecture in Auckland on the public conception and mis-conceptions of science from the media. By Prof. Lawrence Krauss:
http://www.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/events/template/event_item.jsp?cid=246813

And finally. A coffee-powered car. Seats 4, max speed of 100km/h. Needs re-beaning every half hour and does 3 miles to the kilo:
http://hackaday.com/2010/03/10/coffee-powered-car-puccino/

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