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I'm examining in depth NoteCards, the hypermedia environment of Medley Interlisp well described in the 1987 paper NoteCards in a Nutshell. To experiment with the NoteCards API I set out to explore the space of possible answers to the question: what if Lisp programs were represented as NoteCards hypertexts? Leveraging NoteCards to play with the idea seemed like a natural extension to Sysrama, my Interlisp documentation tool for presenting information …

Tim Edwards and Markus Sodergren in The Story of My Life at the Stage Door Theatre, London. Picture: Peter Davies The Story of My Life continues at the Stage Door Theatre, London until 19 October 2024. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ With a definite touch of the retro cabaret lounge about it, the Stage Door Theatre, above the Prince of Wales pub on Drury Lane, Covent …

I’m sure every futurist has been asked this question. Maybe lots of times. We may have developed a stock answer. We may vary it. I was asked recently and I thought back to 2007, when I was fresh off the publication of the first edition of Thinking about the Future with Peter Bishop. We gathered […] The post Why Foresight? first appeared on Hinesight....for Foresight.

A couple of months ago, I posted this on the sociality: Every once in a while I listen to “Hog-Eye Man”, a fine sea shanty. Lots of versions online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfMhy-Er-_Y [Martin Carthy] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCIM_shahkI [The Longest Johns] But... it’s noted as one of the filthiest shanties ever collected. Of course, every published and recorded version is cleaned up! Ass-cheeks and bit of double entendre are all that remain. (Maybe the N-word …

It’s been a fun three days in Ljubljana, it’s on to Budapest tomorrow for potentially more flooding. The trains are still running so who knows. For now, it’s sweet dreams of Slovenia, a beautiful country full of warm, friendly people. I’m very much looking forward to returning next week for the original two days we had planned. Note tags: travel, europe, slovenia, adventure, architecture

William Jennings Bryan (left, seated) being questioned by Clarence Darrow at the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. Image from the Smithsonian Archives via Wikimedia. Reprinted with permission from Worst. Book about the Scopes Trial. Ever!, published on September 10, 2024, by Righting America, a forum for scholarly conversation about Christianity, culture, and politics in the US. Glenn Branch is deputy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit …

The next time we meet it will be autumn. Who submitted the requistion for that? Thanks. A lot. At least we get one more Saturday in. We’ve had a good run of weather to see us out, picking a couple of pounds of tomatoes a day. I’ll need a new hobby once the garden slows down. Maybe I could join a men’s pie making groups or something. The American Association …

Our review of Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel, by Sara Caputo, first published in August 2024. Tracing a history of ships track on maps from their inception about five hundred years ago to modern times, Tracks on the Ocean, untangles what else they can tell us beyond how to get from A to B.I‘m only a minor map buff, and I don‘t know …

I think turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a bad idea. However, recent news coverage has been framing the weaponization of pagers and radios in the Middle East as something we do not need to concern ourselves with because “we” are safe. I respectfully disagree. Our militaries wear uniforms, and our weapons of war are clearly marked as such because our societies operate on trust. As long as we don’t …

An article I wrote for The Conversation on the second REAIM Summit held in Seoul, Korea in September. The article provides some additional context on the key theme of REAIM - Responsible AI - and explores what this might look like in practice in military contexts. Read here

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Cowboys and cans, oh my!This silver Tomorrowland trash can adorns the entrance for Rocket to the Moon (1955-1975). Let’s head to the “Space Port Waiting Room” and read the sign explaining the adventure that awaits!The initial blast-off, phenomenal acceleration, sounds and visual sensations are all realistically simulated aboard a rocket.This venture into space is under conditions as calculated for the year 1986 by Willy Ley and Dr. Wernher Von Braun, …

The British Library is delighted to be hosting Dan Jones on Monday, 23 September, when he will be talking about his breathtakingly brilliant new biography of King Henry V. You can join us in person at St Pancras or online. Things kick off at 1900 (we know, should have started...

Pegah Ouji’s flash “In the Name of Those Optimist Iranian Fools” leaves the moon behind for love of a twin sister and Iran. Here she shares just one thing about the piece:“I’ve been so blessed to know and love a few of these real-life, optimist Iranian fools- Anisa and Naghmeh to name two. I want to let them know here how much I appreciate them, how much I draw continual …

Riccardo Mori responding to John Gruber’s post about Apple’s “It’s Glowtime” event: Selective memory is amazing. Shall we talk about a few duds that happened under Tim Cook’s Apple? Like the 2013 ‘trash can’ Mac Pro? Like the impregnable 2014 Mac mini? Like the 2015 12-inch single-port retina MacBook? — A dud in itself containing yet another dud in the form of the infamous keyboard with butterfly mechanism, one of …