Large Hadron Rap, best supercollider rap ever

GO ALPINEKAT ! 2 SWORDS !

Posted by Cory Doctorow, July 31, 2008 10:27 PM | permalink

BrookynTwang sez, "Check out this video for the Large Hadron Rap, by far the greatest physics rap of all time. The flow is halfway decent, and it accurately covers a lot of knowledge related to particle physics and the LHC. Its by AlpineKat, alter-ego of a science writer currently working at the LHC." Oh that's fantastic! I got to tour Cern and the LHC last week and got a ton of great pics, and came away with the impression that if this thing causes the universe to wink out of existence, it'll have been worth it. Large Hadron Rap, My photos from Cern

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W-League kick off in October

from SBS The World Game
W-League to kick off in October

28 July 2008 | 11:22 - FFA

Football Federation Australia (FFA) and Westfield have announced a landmark agreement in support of the fastest growing team sport for women in the country - women’s football.



The Westfield Group's support involves women’s football ranging from the Westfield Championship for Girls, the establishment of a new national women’s league known as the Westfield W-League, and the national women's team to be known as the Westfield Matildas.

Westfield has also extended its partnership in respect of the Socceroos and the A-League.

“We are delighted to announce this new and historic agreement for women’s football,” said FFA CEO Ben Buckley.

“Women’s football is a big growth sport which is enjoyed by many girls and women and watched by many mums and grandmothers each weekend, and it’s terrific to have the support of Westfield in our efforts to grow and develop the sport even further.”

Buckley said that women’s football has enjoyed an average annual growth rate of 6.3 percent over the past five years, especially on the back of the performance of the Matildas in the Women’s World Cup in 2007.

“The Westfield Matildas are one of the highest achieving sporting teams in Australia, having made four Women’s World Cup tournaments and several Olympic Games, and football offers a unrivalled career path for talented elite women athletes,” Buckley said.

Westfield’s Group Managing Director, Steven Lowy, said that women’s football is a great strategic fit for the business.

“Last year there were nearly 450 million visits to Westfield shopping centres, 70 percent of those visits were made by women. What better way to connect that huge number of women who visit Westfield each year than through this sponsorship of one of the fastest-growing sports in the country."

“We have planned a range of activities including player appearances, coaching clinics and game hospitality designed to create real value for our customers across our 44 regional shopping centres in Australia."

“It is one way of us giving back something to the community in a way which encourages a healthy, active and positive lifestyle. Girls will now have more resources, better competitions, more media attention and a clear and organised pathway to the top for our elite women players.”

The Federal Government also contributed funds towards the cost of establishing a televised national women’s league as part of its 2007 election promises.

Broadcast rights are still under discussion.

Buckley said the Westfield W-League will comprise teams from each of the seven Australian Hyundai A-League clubs as well as Canberra, and will kick-off at the end of October.

Matildas 4th place in Asian Cup

Sad.

Good write up over at Capital Football, where they know how to keep women's and grassroots football in the net. Now all they want for xmas is an a-league team for Canberra. Guess they'll just have to settle for a w-league team!

Capital Football

http://nearpost.blogspot.com/2008/06/tom-sermanni-reviews-asian-cup.html

stay posted for lots of news from w-league act players (like caitlin munoz) on the site!

Lipstick Jungle - it's Spinal Tap for feminists.

Damn those superwomen! There's a kind of dirty pleasure, a schadenfreude or frisson in this show, it's feminism as commodity fetishism.

Literally. It's not about making women powerful. It's about making powerful women sexy. Which as we all know becomes a contradiction in terms unless we're getting a bit bdsm here.

Feminism is dead but someone's tanned its hide and the heels are to die for! These boots are made for walking kind of hell on wheels happening here. It's murderballicious, babe.

If you must, then you must read the recaps. http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/lipstick_jungle/pilot_45.php

Web 3.0, Web 2.0, and Web 1.0

lol but not rofl

thanks gnardonkeys

More on smart mobs - Howard Rheingold

 I've been trawling the blog smart mobs (post google zeitgeist posting) and I like what I read. I heard about the book "Smart Mobs, The Next Social Revolution" but never read it. The book is 2003 vintage, so this is old to everyone else. But i diggg it and Howard Rheingold.

Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies amplify human talents for cooperation. The impacts of smart mob technology already appear to be both beneficial and destructive, used by some of its earliest adopters to support democracy and by others to coordinate terrorist attacks. The technologies that are beginning to make smart mobs possible are mobile communication devices and pervasive computing - inexpensive microprocessors embedded in everyday objects and environments. Already, governments have fallen, youth subcultures have blossomed from Asia to Scandinavia, new industries have been born and older industries have launched furious counterattacks.
Street demonstrators in the 1999 anti-WTO protests used dynamically updated websites, cell-phones, and "swarming" tactics in the "battle of Seattle." A million Filipinos toppled President Estrada through public demonstrations organized through salvos of text messages.
The pieces of the puzzle are all around us now, but haven't joined together yet. The radio chips designed to replace barcodes on manufactured objects are part of it. Wireless Internet nodes in cafes, hotels, and neighborhoods are part of it. Millions of people who lend their computers to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence are part of it. The way buyers and sellers rate each other on Internet auction site eBay is part of it. Research by biologists, sociologists, and economists into the nature of cooperation offer explanatory frameworks. At least one key global business question is part of it - why is the Japanese company DoCoMo profiting from enhanced wireless Internet services while US and European mobile telephony operators struggle to avoid failure?
The people who make up smart mobs cooperate in ways never before possible because they carry devices that possess both communication and computing capabilities. Their mobile devices connect them with other information devices in the environment as well as with other people's telephones. Dirt-cheap microprocessors embedded in everything from box tops to shoes are beginning to permeate furniture, buildings, neighborhoods, products with invisible intercommunicating smartifacts. When they connect the tangible objects and places of our daily lives with the Internet, handheld communication media mutate into wearable remote control devices for the physical world.
Media cartels and government agencies are seeking to reimpose the regime of the broadcast era in which the customers of technology will be deprived of the power to create and left only with the power to consume. That power struggle is what the battles over file-sharing, copy-protection, regulation of the radio spectrum are about. Are the populations of tomorrow going to be users, like the PC owners and website creators who turned technology to widespread innovation? Or will they be consumers, constrained from innovation and locked into the technology and business models of the most powerful entrenched interests?

Google Zeitgeist 08 pwned!

From smartmobs..

Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, originally uploaded by Joi.

Google is hosting a conference today in England, at the The Grove in Hertfordshire. The purpose of this event is “to inquire into the spirit of our times” and engage in “closed” dialogue. There is virtually “ZERO”, that is no open coverage at all of this 2008 event.

If you conduct a “Google search” you will also find nothing. I was able to find the following videos from previous Google Zeitgeist events. However, on seesmic we are able to catch a glimmer of the Zeitgeist from Rory Cellen-Jones (Thanks Rory!)