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My dad just emailed me to let me know that his co-researcher at Rand Corporation in the 1960s, Dr Ginsberg, has confirmed I did indeed play 'hangman' with the Johnniac, as noted in the reminiscence...
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MIT Technology Review: Don't Break E-Mail To Save It. Vipul Ved Prakash, founder and chief scientist for Cloudmark: "My perspective on design of spam filtration solutions is centered around...
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US to show corpse photos. [Guardian Unlimited]... Hmmmm. The US government considers it fine to show what it describes as "horrific" pictures of corpses to the Iraqi people as long as they are of...
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Security Experts: Electronic Voting Machines Threaten Democracy. [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
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Training molecules to draw chips. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have come up with a way to organize molecules through lithography, the science of "drawing" chip circuits. [CNET News.com]
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Audiopad: Linux-based musical gizmo. "Audiopad is a musical composition and performance device that tracks the positions of objects on a flat surface, then converts their motion into music. Developed...
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Paris Wi-Fi: Drizzle, Not Sizzle. "Despite free Wi-Fi service near and in Metro and train stations, usage was low: Esme Vos writes that only 1,700 people tried the free Wi-Fi in Paris during the first...
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Slashdot links to another piece on the Computer History Museum (My Irish Times piece is here [with stupid headline not provided by me...], and will also have a different piece in the UK Guardian in a...
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I've gone analogue.Again. Frustrated by the short life span, poor sound quality, and dying battery in my digital cordless phone, I've disconnected it and replugged in my old analogue handset. Ahhhh....
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Ouch:Sony's Profit Falls 98% on Weak Demand. Sony reported quarterly profits plunged 98 percent. Nobuyuki Idei, the chairman, said the company has pledged to generate stronger profit margins by 2006....
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Desperately seeking Kraftwerk. The creators of electronica are back at work - and not accepting visitors. Alexis Petridis goes anyway. [Guardian Unlimited]
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Gartner Says Delay Linux Deployment Due to SCO [Slashdot]: ...Wearing my journalist's hat, I've raised this as a business point with Linux people (including those at big Linux partners like Oracle) a...
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Fonts derived from old-school videogames. "Super-frag-olicious. This website offers free, downloadable font sets derived from classic 8-bit computer games."Link, Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]
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The software contrarian. SybasesJohn Chen on why total cost of ownership is a farce, industry consolidation is not inevitable and why Larry Ellison is not everyones idea of the software messiah....
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Moving news: OK, I'm going to try and port my site over to my new domain, which is (taaa-daaa!) www.techno-culture.com. Probably over the weekend, and I'll be using other Radio user's suggestions on...
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Hee hee!! Letter to the Editor from today's Irish Times:Madam, - Now I know what the spire is for - it's for holding Liam Lawlor's receipts! - Yours, etc.,GERARD LEE, Crumlin, Dublin 12.
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Reality check: Jupiter Research has published some interesting figures on blogging. Somewhere between 2.4 and 2.9 million active blogs exist, but they remain a tiny slice of web life. Only 2% of web...
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Linux wars: Big Blue strikes back. IBM argues that SCO's demands for Unix license revenue are undermined by its earlier shipment of an open-source Linux product. [CNET News.com]
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From the Guardian's onlineblog.com: Snapster, son of Napster. "Robert Cringely has figured out the future of the music file-sharing business, maybe."And they also have this (not recommended near...
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From Danny: bush-o-meter. "Collated statistics on Bush approval/disapproval ratings. The site's obviously a bit biased, but the figures are straight and quite fascinating. It's amazing how jittery...
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Unknown."I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere." [Quotes of the Day]
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Out of the U.S. and Out of Luck to Download Music Legally. Online music-selling services have far fewer restrictions than they used to, but they do not necessarily travel well. [New York Times:...
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NB: This blog will pack up and move to www.techno-culture.comsoon. Over the weekend, I moved my links site there, where it's living happily. The blog will take more time (not that it is hard, but it...
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