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Ben Shoemate

I design corporate intranets, portals, and web strategies. Co-founder of Base22. Amateur philosopher and science enthusiast.

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Feb 16, 2011

All the world’s computers equal to one human mind

The time may come when a computer will be able to out-compute a human, but not yet. According to a recent study, adding up all the computation power in every laptop, server, mainframe, cell phone, and digital processors of all kinds, everywhere…

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Feb 9, 2010

It’s time for celebrity teachers?

In the US we have celebrity trainers, celebrity cooks, athletes, song writers, scientists, CEOs, politicians, zoo keepers, mechanics, comedians, and ballon-boy. But where are the celebrity teachers? When a preacher is really good they build a mega-church and broadcast…

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Feb 16, 2009

A primer to communication — 1953 film

The basics of communication presented in this 1953 introduction to “the era of communication” (aka the information age) are still true in 2003. Transmission, noise, redundancy, distortion… misunderstanding. Charles and Ray Eames were husband and wife, not…

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Feb 15, 2009

Complex information put to music

Since your first day of kindergarten when you sang your “ABC’s” educators have used music to teach the otherwise boring lists, numbers, patterns and history of our world and universe. I don’t know if it is actually easier to memorize when put to music or simply more…

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Jan 22, 2009

The making of a road-trip mix tape…or how I hurt my plinky

Ok look, here’s the deal. I saw a new service on the web and decided to try it. The gimick of “plinky.com” is they ask you a question and you answer it. At first I dreaded the question, then rolled my eyes, 3 “road trip songs”…

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Nov 30, 2008

Einstein never said that…

I was testing BlogJet today as a possible desktop blogging tool. Strangely, what caught my eye first was not the…

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Nov 3, 2008

Al Gore’s Speech to the DNC

One of the greatest gifts of our democracy is the opportunity it offers us every four years to change course.

It’s not a guarantee — it’s only an opportunity.

The question facing us is, simply put, will we seize this opportunity for change?
That’s why I came here tonight: to…

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Oct 28, 2008

MTV posts every music video ever online!!

I grew up with cable and MTV. I didn’t watch it that often but it was there. I mean it was one of the channels. And back then, before there were 300 channels, and Tivo, and the internet, we used to flip through them. Over and over. For fun. A song or video…

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Oct 28, 2008

Where is the bear in the big dipper?

On the mantle of my bed I have a planetarium (Sega HomeStar) that projects the night sky onto my ceiling. Every other night or so, I turn this on when I’m relaxing into sleep. It allows me to star up at the stars, forget about the day, and contemplate the vast…

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Oct 17, 2008

Children who spend large amounts of time with their fathers have higher IQs

Academics at the University of Newcastle, carried out a study of more than 11,000 British men and women, born in 1958.

The scientists asked mothers of children how often the father of their child…