The New Yorker has a long profile on Gordon Bell, who’s the lead guinea pig for Microsoft’s My LifeBits project, which is an effort to go Massively paperless: he’s scanned every artifact and bit of ephemera (photos, papers, receipts, etc) that he’s acquired over the years into a database, and now wears a small [...]
Someone (Cory Doctorow?) has a nice line regarding spam: something to the effect of “Parasites are the sign of a robust ecosystem”. Which is to say that, as annoying as spam is, its also an indicator of the health of email as a socially useful technology.
That makes this a very interesting development:
No longer [...]
There’s a new medium afoot: dynamic text. A few months ago a short history of the web called The Machine is Us/ing Us spread virally. It was narrated entirely with dynamic text.
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Now E.O.Wilson’s TED grant “wish”, called the Encyclopedia of Life, has an introductory video using the same technique:
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This mode of presentation is [...]
Bicyclists are a boon to any city, reducing congestion and pollution and pushing back the anonymity of automobile culture. Its enraging to see this kind of motorist-on-cyclist violence (which tends to be common) and gratifying to see it publicized and punished.
Students Accidentally Catch Cyclist Assault On Tape
Tuesday May 8, 2007
A group of students on a [...]
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ain’t it purty?
You can read the story here, but the page has been getting hammered pretty badly of late, so here’s the backstory:
MS Urges Antitrust Scuttling of DoubleClick Deal
This is fantastic. I was a little sad that they didn’t play the Scorpions song though.
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Thank god for YouTube.
I’m attracted to the ease-of-use Flock offers–i spend a lot of time in a web browser, and I’d just as happily write as I do read if it were as effortless as a right-click. But i’ve been burned by Flock registration bugs in the past, so I’m a little skeptical. Hopefully after I [...]
The reason: Nintendo’s new controller. The device resembles a TV remote but with fewer buttons. It relies on wireless technology with built-in motion sensors to translate movement directly onto a TV screen. Wii can be swung like a tennis racket, twirled like a steering wheel, or pointed at the screen like a gun.
The Big Ideas [...]
This is officially the funniest thing i’ve seen all day.
I got a 35. Not bad.
