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Columns of crystal/rock grow on contact with water, shatter, grow again, terrorising - with complete indifference - a desert town in California. Cited briefly in Carpenter's They Live as well.
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Extraordinary first 20 mins offers both smooth orchestration and a meditation on surfaces (the truth in images), each of which is drawn back like a veil to reveal another. What a film.
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"If you're designing 4G around the assumption that the web is somehow magically going to transform itself to being mostly mobile-centric in 10 years time, and all the cool Web 2.0 / Web 3.0 stuff is yours for the taking, you're mad."
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Ajit sees Java ME as an interim enabler of mobile ajax (and seems to define AJAX as necessarily requiring 100% open stds).
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Met's CTC plus 3 regional CTUs (or “national asset dumps") in the West Midlands (local forces already had an ad hoc anti-terrorist unit), Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire. 6 further regional intel cells.
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Hopw GM gets multiple IT vendors to play together: clarify who is providing which services, phase projects/contracts over ten years (future carrots), and having them all speak eg ITIL.
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Salesforce.com is one or several saas ecosystems.
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"When you lecture or write using conversational language, your user's brain thinks it's in a REAL conversation! [...] so it pays more attention"
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"Margaret Thatcher became obsessed with dusting and cleaning. Harold Wilson found himself without friends. What is it like to be a former prime minister, stripped of power - a 'workless workaholic'?"
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Smartly executed video on digital text, semantic networks, etc uses digital text and interfaces itself: browsers, text files, text boxes, search boxes. (Does this exemplify or complicate the argument?)
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Those with the block, and those without.
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