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[Original Link] An interesting new cordless interface device for your PC - one dedicated to instant messaging.
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One should always have something sensational to read on the net...
[Original Link] An interesting new cordless interface device for your PC - one dedicated to instant messaging.
[Original Link] Longish but interesting article by Paul Graham on whether hackers, normally classified amongst engineers & scientists, should be better described as artists...
It's 5 a.m. and I'm awake. Those who know me well will confirm that that's a notable event. Ask any of the chaps at the Drones. "Capital fellow", they'll tell you, "but not a bird given to catching the worm". It's partly because I have 8 hours of jetlag to deal with, and partly because I've just been woken by a very loud dawn chorus. One blackbird, in particular, was singing for all he was worth about 3 feet away from my open window. I badly needed the sleep, but after 10 days in a city hotel where even opening windows wasn't possible, I can't think of many better ways to be woken up.
A friend of mine said that mobile phones are the only thing about which men argue over whose is the smallest. I know another topic for 'inverse size envy': email addresses. Until recently I was quentin @ att.com, which I thought was pretty good, but a friend who works for Electronic Arts told me at the weekend that he had two initials before the @ea.com. 9 characters in total. My shortest valid address at present is my 3 initials followed by @pobox.com. 13 characters. I feel suitably humbled.
[Original Link] If the copyright system is broken, then roll your own. That's what Creative Commons are doing. And O'Reilly and others are using it.
[Original Link] A nice story by Jonathan Gennick.
My friend Martin King drew my attention to this wonderful example of journalistic differences. Even if you only read the headlines, have a look at the same talk by Alan Greenspan reported in the Seattle Times and the Economist.
Two related recent announcements are both welcome:
A US court decision that file-swapping is not illegal.
"The ruling means that the labels and studios cannot ban 21st century technology in defence of their inefficient and outmoded 20th century distribution model," said President of Grokster, Wayne Rosso.And Apple's very cool new music store means that people who wish to purchase music legally in a 21st-century way can do so. As long as they have a credit card with a U.S. billing address.
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[Original Link] John helps get RSS into the public consciousness.