The german computer magazine c't did a review on special notebooks that can handle rain, dust and crushes. You can find it in c't 9/2004, page 106-117 (Available in our library). But be aware, that you have to pay between 2300.- and 5600.- Euros for those. And there are also some ergonomic disadvantages: Who want's to write on a better rubber keyboard?

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The Magazine on European Research has published a special issue on Art & Science: "'I am grateful to certain artists for helping me step back and achieve the essential critical distance which techno-science requires today.' This 'saying' of Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond dates from 1996, but it has not lost one iota of its truth to this day." Online available in English, German and French (see top right on the page) and completely downloadable as .pdf, too (see bottom left of the page).

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Clay Shirky has written an interesting piece over at many2many, called Moblogging from the front and the new Reformation: "Once the Church lost the ability to control the direct perception of scripture, thanks to the printing of (relatively) cheap bibles in languages other than Latin, their loss of political hegemony followed. This is what we are seeing now relative to the military's control of information. A year or so ago, someone in the DoD told me that the thing that would most affect the prosecution of the war in Iraq would be images of DAB's -- Dead American Bodies. The unplanned spread of photos of coffins, and now of torture victims, means that control of this part of the war is outside the military's hands." Read all ... via many2many

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