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Sometimes I do my best thinking in the morning
Just sent a dispatch off to Ms. Carlysle (Whose nom-du-geurre is Laughing Cow Cheese.) about investment in nanotech. The resulting letter was so witty I figured it would make a good entry here. What spurred the letter was some news … Continue reading
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A Friend's Travelogue
Comrade Shaw has some great photos and amusing anecdotes of his travels in Turkey. Joe Bob says check it out.
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No commentary, just links
Maglev trains Using the ballast of fluorescent lights to transmit data Sending e-mail to random recipients Bugs working in chips Bugs eating chips One, two pages about a promising new cancer treatment Progress in AI and robotics, including a robot … Continue reading
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Privacy and Security
What follows is rather jumbled but in my mind it’s all related. You may have heard of the Realtime Blackhole List. Now there is a blacklist of mail servers with poor security. These mail servers are often used by the … Continue reading
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Speech Recognition
Speech Recognition (SR) has come a long way in the last five or so years, just recently IBM researchers have managed to make it work in hand-held computers. Such developments might actually make hand-helds, which I’ve regarded as rather dubious … Continue reading
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Language Perplexities
Here’s a question: How come we don’t say “Czechia, ” “Czechland” or just “Czech” as opposed to “Czech Republic?” French come from France. Japanese come from Japan. Argentines come from Argentina. Poles come from Poland. Slovaks come from Slovakia. How … Continue reading
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Reports on the Death of Irony are Premature
A few days ago I saw a Ford commercial that mortified me. It was blatantly using the events of September the Eleventh to–get this–sell us more cars. Apparently some people are amazed at how quickly people’s pursuit of trivia has … Continue reading
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Added a Protest Badge
To protest the W3C’s proposal for “reasonable and non-discriminatory” patents, I have added a dark cloud over my validation badges. This means that I support W3C standards but only if they are royalty-free. The idea and badge came from the … Continue reading
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Computers With Alternative Energy Sources
NEC just recently developed a new high density fuel cell to power PDAs and laptops. Meanwhile SolarHost is a relatively new ISP/site hosting company whoes server farm is powered entirely by photovoltaic cells. And I just read about Australian plans … Continue reading
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W3C, Tool of Corporate Masters?!
What the hell? Just a few minutes ago I learned that the World Wide Web Consortium, probably bowing to pressure from some of its corporate members, tried to pull a fast one on us by submitting a proposal to patent … Continue reading
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