Technology Archives
November 13, 2007
■ “Oink didn’t offer solutions; it highlighted the problems of over-priced, over-controlled music elsewhere.” [#]
October 6, 2007
■ You can print a line on a Epson Printer located in Brugg, Switzerland. [#]
October 4, 2007
■ “The story behind the shutdown, and how the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) came within hours of shutting down the State of California’s Internet presence, is a complex one but, as with many stories on the Internet, it begins with pornography.” [#]
October 3, 2007
■ “I’m sorry, but I thought that just said that the person responsible for administering Copyright law in the US doesn’t own a computer.” [#]
September 18, 2007
■ “For example, I might say, ‘Let’s draw a seahorse, then add it in again 20,000 times.’ Believe me, I don’t want to be the guy that’s sitting there copying and pasting a seahorse 20,000 times.” [#]
September 2, 2007
■ “That’s a picture of runway 02 at Tribhuvan Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal (elevation is more than 4,000 feet, as you can see via the green numbers on the right, with the snow-capped Himalayas in the distance), taken from the flight simulator in Google Earth. If you(r) reaction is “what flight simulator in Google Earth?” - not to worry.” [#]
August 31, 2007
■ “Every e-mail I send to anyone, regardless of subject or recipient, will be five sentences or less.” [#]
August 29, 2007
■ “The brainchild of a Dutch freelance journalist, reportwitter.com aims to “unpack” the process of constructing and creating a story by providing a platform for members to display recent articles alongside “tweets” - short, pithy, public messages of 140 characters or less - that are the lifeblood of the Twitter community.” [#]
August 15, 2007
■ “After two years of documenting scenes of my life with my phone, here are some lessons I’ve learned for .” [#]
August 6, 2007
■ “Japanese scientists are to explore the centre of the Earth. Using a giant drill ship launched next month, the researchers aim to be the first to punch a hole through the rocky crust that covers our planet and to reach the mantle below.” [#]
July 20, 2007
■ “There’s never a good time to lose control of your Internet domain name, but for advocacy group the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), there could have been better times.” [#]
July 14, 2007
■ “I have seen many nice and creative cases before but none of them were made out of a bottle. In November I bought an industrial 3.5” SBC board (with Socket370). For the project I selected a 1.5 litre Ballantine’s bottle for case.” [#]
May 2, 2007
■ “To the wisest and most careful men in our greatest institutions of science and learning I have gone, asking each in his turn to forecast for me what, in his opinion, will have been wrought in his own field of investigation before the dawn of 2001.” [#]
April 5, 2007
■ “As books go digital, new questions, both philosophical and commercial, arise. How, physically, will people read books in future? Will technology “unbind” books, as it has unbundled other media, such as music albums? Will reading habits change as a result? What happens when books are interlinked? And what is a book anyway?” [#]
April 3, 2007
■ “Watts noticed that Bookscan numbers nearly tripled afterwards, and it was recently announced that the novel was nominated for a Hugo, something he said likely wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for the CC release.” [#]
March 30, 2007
■ “Ever feel as though you’re being followed? As if someone is behind you, shadowing your every move? It might be your ‘shadow person’, created by unusual activity in a specific brain region, a new study shows” [#]
March 16, 2007
■ “Science fiction writer and professional pundit Bruce Sterling has cracked bloggers with the extinction stick, saying the plebs will crawl back into their ooze by 2017. [#]
January 13, 2007
■ Paging Neal Stephenson: “With the help of all the kopimists on Internets, we want to buy Sealand. Donate money and you will become a citizien.” [#]
January 12, 2007
■ “In a last-minute change of porn allegiance, top adult studio Digital Playground has defected from Blu-ray to HD DVD. Replay of the VHS vs. Betamax fight … doesn’t everyone know that porn drives new tech? [#]
January 8, 2007
■ “We’ve decided to apply what we learned when we were wage-slave scientists to game reviewing: Either we enjoy ourselves, or we quit.” [#]
January 5, 2007
■ “I need to urgently make contact with a hacker that would be interested in doing a one-time job for me.” [#]
January 3, 2007
■ “Many teens are content (if not happy) to start over with most of their accounts in most places. Forgot your IM password? Sign up again. Forgot your email address? Create a new one. Forgot your login? Time for a change.apophenia: ephemeral profiles (cuz losing passwords is common amongst teens).” [#]
January 2, 2007
■ On This Day Pre-Y2K: “This section of kshay.com offers a real-world glimpse into what people concerned about the Y2K bug were actually saying on the Internet.” Dang, I remember writing these sorts of story. Even then, though, I was pretty much on the skeptical side … [#]
December 16, 2006
■ Asteroids Revenge [#]
December 4, 2006
■ “Synthravels is a tour operator that offers various types of guided tours in the most famous virtual worlds, with the warrantee of the experience of the best guides around.” Includes Second Life, Sims Online and World of Warcraft. [#]
■ Free (and Open) Software for Windows: Being both cheap and interested (professionally and personally) in simply seeing what’s out there, my hard drive is filled with freeware, used either instead of or just to compare with the big boys. I’m going to have to compare this list to the Tech Support Alert list, which has stood me in good stead. [#]
November 17, 2006
■ “e Boo Boos is a unique search tool used to hunt down misspelled auction items listed on eBay. eBay does not contain a spell checker and many auction items go unnoticed because nobody finds these items when searching using the correctly spelled word.” [#]
November 10, 2006
■ “More than 850,000 volumes are stored in 3-story high shelves of bins that are only accessible to high speed librarian robots. [#]
■ “This Gehry Writes Time Digital watch has an innovative time read out display in Frank Gehry’s own script.” [#]
October 9, 2006
■ Forbes ’ roundup of its YouTube coverage provides nice background with the announcement that Google is buying the site for $1.65 million. [#]