Author: buridan

Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:34:15 GMT

News.Com: A life in bits and bytes. Q&A with Gordon Bell. Jim and I wrote an article on the 50-year outlook for computing, and that's when we realized that the amount of storage was so vast that we in principle could capture everything–everything you read, every picture you've ever taken, everything you've said. [Tomalak's Realm] […]

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Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:42:07 GMT

NEA at work. Marc Center: Proposal for Open Media Management Servers. [The Doc Searls Weblog] another one of those things that i do

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Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:30:19 GMT

Where the Girls Aren't. Computer science has become the new math — boys only. Is it nature or conditioning? By Karen Stabiner. [New York Times: Technology] hmmm, why? have you ever tought of the model they teach from…. who it appeals to?

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Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:22:07 GMT

Beyond the Blackboard. No more eraser clapping. Today's “slates” are chalk-free and interactive. By Michel Marriott. [New York Times: Technology] these are handy, but i'm not sure whether they change much

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cool mice

sure they are for kids, in theory, but whwo doesn't really want a t-rex mouse.

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Sat, 11 Jan 2003 19:40:38 GMT

Dear Philosopher. “Dear Heidegger: What came first, the chicken or the egg?” “Dear Hobbes: What causes women to wear white pumps?” Answers and advice from these and other great philosophers, from h2so4. [MetaFilter] this is great stuff, and h2so4 has an utne award, yeah utne

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Sat, 11 Jan 2003 19:36:24 GMT

More on Media2Go. There's more info and a photo available of that new Media2Go personal video player designed by Microsoft and Intel. The Media2Go can store up to 175 hours of VHS-quality video, and has a battery life of six hours, and runs on the Windows CE .NET operating system. Read [Gizmodo] mmm hmmm, but […]

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Sat, 11 Jan 2003 19:09:05 GMT

When You Collectively Bargain, You Bargain With Bin Laden. Plastic::Work::Travel: The Transportation Security Agency has announced that airport security workers cannot unionize. Does the TSA deserve this power, or is Bush just trying to break organized labor? [Plastic: Most Recent] mmm, yup, but driving an suv and not participating in american activities is worse. isn't […]

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Sat, 11 Jan 2003 18:15:07 GMT

Meanwhile, the British govt. is planning to introduce an identity card for everyone in Britain. Danny, who always knows lots about this kind of stuff, explains more about it (with lots of links) at Oblomovka: So the UK government has been proposing what they call an Entitlement Card – a universal ID card for every […]

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Sat, 11 Jan 2003 18:11:16 GMT

When You Wish Upon A Blog. I Wish, You Wish Nifty site that scours wishlists (Amazon and others) of bloggers and puts them all in one convenient place, sorted by either birthday or alphabetically. [MetaFilter] i put my wishlist up the other day.

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