Steam Trek. Steam Trek – an enterprising individual has masterfully melded two classic SF genres, Star Trek and Steampunk. The result is a wonderful universe with a rich history where Her Majesty's Aether Ships explore the solar system and protect the United Kingdom of Planets. Long live Queen Victoria, and may her glorious reign continue […]

The Best Sandwich. The BBC Is Looking For The Best Sandwich In The World: Can you help? Sandwiches are supposedly easy but, come to think of it, perfect sandwiches are actually quite difficult to invent and produce. Bread gets wet; lettuce wilts; flavours and textures clash. Personally, I like English tea sandwiches best; though the […]

ESPN Reminder – Rush Starts Sunday. As he NFL season gets underway (yawn) just a reminder that ESPN is now an employer of Rush Limbaugh for their Sunday NFL Countdown show which premieres this Sunday. Make your own judgement about what to do. Me? I'm not… [Eat Your Vegetables] ——- at least until they get […]

More on Structural Changes. Tim Oren, a VC, in California: Eating the Valley's seed corn, describes some of the structural changes in engineering staffing. For the startups that I deal with, the idea of having a chunk of the engineering overseas is already routine. If we see a plan with engineering in India, China or […]

academic job hunting is like hunting season for turkeys, only you are given a blindfold, a slingshot, and a turkey call, you can guess the outcome.

The new cartography. Social borders have their own sort of cartographies.- David Harvey, Justice, Nature & the Geography of Distance, 1996, p. 282…. [Blog de Halavais] —- I think this is somewhat the same idea as Georg Simmel had in his book on metropolitan life. It is a classic insight and one that I've found […]

Latest news on World Summit on the Information Society. The latest E-Flash relating to the upcoming World Summit on the Information Society (organized by the ITU) is available with links to WSIS documents for the upcoming Third Meeting of the Preparatory Committee for WSIS (PrepCom3), Geneva 15 – 26 September 2003. This meeting will attempt to finalize […]

Privacy and Human Rights 2003. Today, EPIC & Privacy International launch ‘Privacy and Human Rights 2003, an international survey of privacy laws and developments’. It is a meaty tome that summarises developments in privacy law and policy in 55 countries during the past year. There’ll be a webcast of today’s launch at the National Press […]

Italy forbids unsolicited email. “Sending e-mails without the permission of the receiver is against the law in Italy. Offenders now risk fines of up to 90,000 euros and between six months and three years in prison, if it is proved that they did it… [InternetPolicy.net] ——- somebody had to do it, now to get an […]

Debunking IPv6 Myths. Geoff Huston has written an opinion piece in the Internet Protocol Journal debunking myths about IPv6. [ITU Strategy and Policy Unit Newslog] ——- This is an interesting and somewhat insightful paper that brings to light some of the questions we should ask about technological implementations.