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07 Dec 2001  Che Linux! Thanks BlackHoleBrain.ABCNEWS.com : Building a Bionic Fly More research into building little teeny tiny robot flies.
[ 07-Dec-01 8:53am ] 06 Dec 2001 We haven't had a Today's CD for a while so here it is.
Today's CD: Sasha And John Digweed - Communicate. BTW. Sad obituary yesterday for Can's lead guitarist. For anyone who doesn't know them, Can were an early electronic band somewhat similar to Tangerine Dream but more interesting. Especially recommended is the '74 album "Soon Over Babaluma". It could easily be a piece of late 90s Ambient from someone like Aphex Twin. [ 06-Dec-01 1:35pm ] 05 Dec 2001 Little tiny flying robots for mars exploration. [thanks, Slashdot] Luvely!
Now thats what I call global strategy. [thanks, Swhack Weblog] MP3s of Corporate Anthems in a Big Love Stylee.
The Doc Searls Weblog : Fulfilling the Promise of online journalism. Truly excellent think piece that pushes back against an article suggesting that mainstream news owns the web.
[ 05-Dec-01 8:11am ] 2700 images from RSS files.
[ 05-Dec-01 7:52am ] 04 Dec 2001 We seem to be having a seriously heavy blogging day today. But I couldn't pass this one up. "Pentagon Recruiting Bees, Cockroaches and Wasps " Scroll down and see the artists impression of a "bee with an electronic backpack and a helmet ". [A tip o'the hat to Bruce Sterling for snarfing these.]
[ 04-Dec-01 6:18pm ] Some extremely strange stuff to lighten the heart of anyone. FlipFlopBoy and The Critter Corporation
[ 04-Dec-01 6:07pm ] Project Grizzly Suit Buzz Light Year meets Super Gundam. A protective suit for getting up close and personal with a Grizzly bear. uh-huh.
[ 04-Dec-01 5:11pm ] Quick thought. Have you ever run across a corporate policy on the contents of the personal websites of employees?
[ 04-Dec-01 7:23am ] [ 04-Dec-01 7:05am ] Is Your Son a Computer Hacker? Most excellent. But what's this Son crap? I'll have you know my daughter's a Grrrl!
1. Has your son asked you to change ISPs? 2. Are you finding programs on your computer that you don't remember installing? 3. Has your child asked for new hardware? 4. Does your child read hacking manuals? 5. How much time does your child spend using the computer each day? 6. Does your son use Quake? 7. Is your son becoming argumentative and surly in his social behaviour? 8. Is your son obsessed with "Lunix"? 9. Has your son radically changed his appearance? 10. Is your son struggling academically? [ 04-Dec-01 6:55am ] Segway, Schmegway, More news than is fit to print in the Segway blog, but we want Extreme Segway or Segway jousting, and how about Military Segway. How long before we see Segway RiceBoys? Segway monster trucks? Tandem Segways? Segway sidecars? Segway choppers? Segway gangs? "So then I Segued into the office and turned into a water cooler." I'm disappointed with the colours too, yet more pastel polypropylene. There's a sort of Retro-futurism feel to all this. Shouldn't we be riding them while wearing silver spandex one piece jump suits? And security? What do I do when I leave it outside the newsagent? Will some Yoof' low life just step on it and zoom away?
Maybe it should have been called Segway.com; hype, lots of bucks up front, high whiz factor and no clear market. [ 04-Dec-01 6:47am ] Financial Times: Broadband's failure to connect Europeans. Both the government's Department of Trade and Industry and Oftel, the UK's independent telecoms watchdog, insist that local infrastructure competition still matters, but increasingly the battle to force BT to let rivals into its local telephone exchanges appears to have been lost. [thanks, Tomalak's Realm] Broadband access in the UK is a complete mess. It appears that most of Europe (with the exception of Germany) is in the same mess. And the corporate shenanigans with Excite and @home in the USA are as bad but for different reasons. This is critical though. Making always-on Internet access widely and cheaply available is really important if we're going to get this steamroller going again. So if DSL doesn't work, and cable is only available in some towns and caught in the whole investment trap, what else are we going to use?
[ 04-Dec-01 6:29am ] CIO: People Who Need People. Good piece about the role of community in coporate web sites. [thanks, Tomalak's Realm]
[ 04-Dec-01 6:24am ] Ransom Project - Theoretic Solutions : The Ransom Project is a software publishing model where the rights to the source code remain restricted until a set amount of money is collected or a set date passes, at which point the code is freed One solution to the problem of compensating programmers for open source work.
[ 04-Dec-01 6:19am ] 03 Dec 2001 Drupal for Klogs. Dries Buytaert, the creator of Drupal, sent this reply to John Robb's K-Logs mailing list, but it didn't make John's cut. No, I don't want to get involved in any controversy surrounding John's policies. He's writing excellent stuff and has every right to moderate as he sees fit. [thanks, Blogarithms] But I got this past the censor. So Drupal still got it's mention.
[ 03-Dec-01 8:08am ] Little mini text ads done as a linkshare system by a guy in India. Now you can be a BlogSnob! Nice.
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