A new Philosophers’ Carnival is online, with discussions of everything: evolution and consciousness, utilitarianism and neurology and enough metaphysics to take your mind off the miserable, freezing cold.
classictelephonering.mid is a MIDI file that gives you a normal telephone ring sound. Useful if your mobile comes with some funky ‘youth-oriented’ ringtone that sounds like a incontenent parrot on crack, as Sony Ericsson seems to want my phone to sound like.
In other phone-related news, I’ve started a page on microformats.org called operator-phone-tests to try out different mobiles and see how they handle exported hCards, hCalendars etc. Test out your phone with Operator and add it to the page.
Photos from Santacon. We saw quite a few of these people in the pub on Saturday. By ‘quite a few’, I mean - oh - six hundred or so.
Danny Weitzner is working on a FOAF extension called ‘REP’ which stands for Reciprocal Privacy. I’ll have to think about this - I’ve said before that Trust is a tough problem, and in solving that problem the ‘beta’ users are going to get screwed on the privacy front.
