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Monthly Archives: June 2002
Take back the Web!
Or at least the dot-org part of it. Over last 5 or so years, ICANN has allowed, without any struggle, the Domain Name System to be dominated by large corporations who use it to enforce, some would say in a … Continue reading
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Africa, Big Buildings, High Speed Trains, Robot Ears and Eyes
Two of the staples of cyberpunk are gleaming superbuildings and crushing inner-city poverty. I just read an article about information technology in Ghana that just oozed cyberpunk. Amtrak must die? Sure but, let’s start thinking seriously about real high-speed rail … Continue reading
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Mark Pilgrim Continues to Drop Science
I know I cited his pages a few days ago but, it just keeps getting better. I feel like an idiot. Mr. Pilgrim is writing about the gritty aspects of improving web accessibility much better than I ever could. Please, … Continue reading
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Molding Chips, Surprising Cybernetics and New Drugs for Nerds
Fearing for its life, a robot escapes the tumult of an artificial ecosystem. Or that’s one way of interpreting something that probably was an accident. Research develops a method that may shrink silicon chip features a hundred fold by eliminating … Continue reading
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Happy Fishbowls, Snow Crystals and Fame
Remember when Sony sold that infrared camera that rendered some clothing transparent? Well, it turns out that government is working on cameras and sensing technology, using light in the terahertz range, just below infrared, that also renders clothing transparent. If … Continue reading
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Transformers, Web Design and ASCII Art
Web building: The Web Standards Project is kicking bottom and taking names again. This time it’s personal. Some guy named Mark Pilgrim discusses why web sites and weblogs should be accessible by telling stories of users with screen readers and … Continue reading
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A revised list of things that I am interested in
Cartooning. I know I am too old to start a career in cartooning. Creating an compelling RPG background. Again, perhaps as 40 year-old single man, this might be highly suspect but there it is. I have the spare time–sort of. … Continue reading
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Cosmology, Lego and Haptics
New results in eschatological cosmology: it’s good to be in an accelerating universe. As still more evidence on why I think Africa is an ideal place for a cyberpunk novel, I cite Nigeria’s has a straight-to-video film industry. Andrew Lipson, … Continue reading
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Stupid Computer Tricks: Multi-booting NT, 9x and Linux
Again in the endeavor to make this site useful to Web developers, I present the following experiences in making an Intel/AMD multi-boot different OSes and file systems. I plan to revise this article extensively as time goes on and I … Continue reading
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