links for 2007-03-04

5 March 2007

• Boing Boing: Vancouver Olympics will own words like “winter,” “2010” and “Vancouver” “It’s amazing how the Olympics have come to symbolize bullying corporate greed; overreaching, violent “security measures;” drug abuse and destruction of public facilities and low-income housing.” (tags: ip-maximalism notes-towards-free-culture)
• Boing Boing: People are good at recognizing faces in 10-pixel-wide-photos “Cognitive Daily ran an experiment to find out how good people were at recognizing famous faces and other things in extremely low-resolution photos.” (tags: cognitive-science aesthetics pixels faces)
• Arduino Forum – Linux PowerPC How to build Arduino for GNU/Linux on PowerPC (tags: arduino powerpc linux howto)
• Winning by Sharing: Fractional Work. The next small thing? How fractional work works. (tags: work exploitation alienation fordism clickworking)