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dunbar's dungeon

"Imagine a chat system, similar to IRC or AOL - a big room where you log in and talk to lots of other people simultaneously. When you log in, your Fire Eagle account gets a ping, so that the server can know your geographic location to some level of precision. You are then dumped into a big room, with the 150 people physically closest to you in the real world. As long as there are fewer than 150 total people in the system, everyone gets to talk to one another. As more people join, you begin to see overlapping conversation bubbles. You might be in San Francisco, talking to someone in Kansas. That person in Kansas can talk to someone else in New York, but you can't. Your conversational circle is strictly limited to the nearest 150 people, some of whom drop off occasionally as they are bumped out by more proximate newcomers. "

The Collapse of Complex Societies - Google Book Search

The Politics of Products

"But as it turns out, the “overhead projector” is really a pretty nifty planetarium projector that would have replaced a 40-year-old projector. The bill apparently got scuttled, so the new projector was never installed, alas. For comparison, $3m is about 30 minutes worth of the Iraq war. And that, my friends, says a lot about our politics and our priorities."

BBC - Press Office - Tony Ageh appointed BBC Controller of Archive Development

Congrats Tony...

Master of 500 Hats: Fear is the Mind Killer of the Silicon Valley Entrepreneur (we must be Muad'Dib, not Clark Kent)

BBC - BBC Four Programmes - The Story of Maths, The Language of the Universe