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Category Archives: Science and Engineering
Accessibility technology
A researcher over in the University of Maryland dismisses claims that voice input will be the interface of the future. With the release of OS X, Apple begins to take accessibility seriously again. And, Farlops updates his article about accesskey. … Continue reading
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Jetbike! African cyberpunk! Robot economists!
Get on your bad motor scooter and ride! As I said a few months ago, I think Africa should be the setting for cyberpunk fiction. It’s burgeoning urban sprawl has all the right feel. Not a year seems to pass … Continue reading
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A 1000 Hours of AOL Free!
Despite the fact that AOL/TW knows they’ve saturated the US market and have got all the customers they’re gonna get here, they still keep sending out those stupid disks. Just today I got the AOL 7 disk, unsolicited, in the … Continue reading
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Paper in the Information Age
When I had my last contract job at The Company that Must Not be Named a lot of my officemates would print out and photocopy almost everything. This always struck me as a wasteful slaughter of trees for the sake … Continue reading
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The Stop Button for the Internet
Sure, it’s a joke, but in truth, the Internet ultimately depends on the hierarchy of the Domain Name System, which is, ultimately, controlled by eight server farms in Europe, Asia and North America, which in turn depend on updates every … Continue reading
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Another Minor Milestone
I got Linux running the way I want on my LAN now. Still lots of things to be done though. Need to upgrade all the appropriate pieces of the OS–starting with the default Red Hat 6.2 distribution. Need to get … Continue reading
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Factory Floor is One Year and Three Days Old
I guess I should mark this occasion: One year of using the Greymatter script. Before, Factory Floor was just a vague way of referring to the site’s root page without saying, “home page.” Before, Factory Floor was just a site … Continue reading
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Silly Scientist Tricks!
Today there are a lot of links to very interesting articles on Nanodot. For example, the use of diatom shells in MEMS or as drug delivery capsules. Another interesting one is about the construction of three-dimensional polymer crystals (Think of … Continue reading
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Yes, I know it's late
Macromedia is planning an evangelizing tour to tout the new accessibility features of Flash MX. Considering the legions of Flash designers out there that probably may never learn how to design Flash objects accessibly one wonders if an upgrade and … Continue reading
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Links!
Web advertising just gets uglier and more in our face as time goes on. Good thing I got Internet Junkbuster to cut through all this junk. Take a look at the Small Times site, it’s a good source for nanotech, … Continue reading
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