Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-6-2008

[andrewducker]

• Portal map pack, from the makers of the Portal Flash Game
  
  
  Heard good reviews - and I loved Portal, so I'll be coming back to this one.
  
  
  (tags: flash games half-life)
  
  


• Revealed: Secret plan to keep Iraq under US control
  
  
  I can see this one going down _really_ well...
  
  
  (tags: military war politics iraq corruption usa occupation)
  
  


• What Obama's actually done
  
  
  In case you were wondering what he's ever achieved.
  
  
  (tags: Obama politics usa)
  
  


• Qinetiq ships first 'Transformer' war-droid | The Register
  
  
  The MAARS - Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System - has now been placed in the hands of the US military's Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office, also famous for its combat deployable climate-controlled swimming pools for US Navy war dolphins
  
  
  (tags: electronics technology war military)
  
  


• The Bicameral Mind
  
  
  Today's wacky theory of mind - whereby back in ye olden days one part of the brain would work things out and then command the othe part what to do, in the form of hallucinations of Gods, muses, etc.
  
  
  (tags: consciousness intelligence philosophy psychology wikipedia religion brain)
  
  


• Mobile phones expose human habits
  
  
  Anonymous movement data is used to show the patterns people move in.
  
  
  (tags: society sociology mobile_phones technology)
  
  

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[andrewducker]

Interestingly, this job is set to run at 8AM GMT (or 9AM BST) - so clearly it takes half an hour for the servers to reach me in the list...

[ipslore.livejournal.com]

I first heard about the bicameral mind from Neal Stephenson's The Big U. It's a good book.