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LII: Constitution To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; I had no idea that copyright was part of the US Constitution until I read about this in an LA Times Op-Ed . The article was…
Read more →On The Media I'm not a psychologist, but I think that at some deep level, if the situation you’re living is a lie, and the situation these boys were living was one, and, moreover, at least the father was complicit in some way in the murder of these children’s parents - that situation, I do…
Read more →BBC - Radio 4 - Today Programme Listen Again 11 Sept 2007 08:50 It's the 50th anniversary of the British Computer Society. But what can we expect over the next half century? Will our levels of dependence on the internet and computers change? One of the guests on the programme, Oliver Sparrow , made the…
Read more →Anil Dash: Cats Can Has Grammar The core behavior has existed for some time; "Image macro" is a generic term for this kind of folk art, and cats have always featured heavily in these types of Internet in-jokes. But a few distinct categories have sprung up that have helped amplify and popularize the phenomenon. Two…
Read more →BBC NEWS | Technology | Robot unravels mystery of walking "Babies use a lot of their brains to train local circuits but once they are trained they are fairly autonomous."Only when it comes to more difficult things - such as a change of terrain - that's when the brain steps in and says 'now we…
Read more →The metaphoric mappings that structure most of our frames are usually seen as automatic. However, more often than not, they are negotiated through discourse prior to becoming fully blended (entrenched). This image is a great example of one such mapping negotiation done almost entirely visually. This Apple Lisa ad from the 1970s has two functions…
Read more →TIME.com: Time's Person of the Year: You -- Dec. 25, 2006 -- Page 1 America loves its solitary geniuses—its Einsteins, its Edisons, its Jobses—but those lonely dreamers may have to learn to play with others. Car companies are running open design contests. Reuters is carrying blog postings alongside its regular news feed. Microsoft is working…
Read more →Column by PC Magazine: Our Modern World—Weirder by the Minute DIGITAL CAMERA ARM STRETCH. Okay, let's get to the meat of this essay. Perhaps the weirdest societal change has to do with digital cameras and the practice of framing shots in the preview window by holding the camera out in front of yourself. Even ten…
Read more →Buzz Out Loud: CNET's podcast of indeterminate length on CNET.com [ click here to listen to clip ] recently featured this fascinating discussion of analogies. A caller suggests an analogy and the hosts discuss both the aptness of the analogy itself as well as the medium of analogies for elucidating certain issues. The combination of…
Read more →BBC - Radio 4 - Archive Hour - 21 October 2006 Matthew Parris uncovers the remarkable story of the Electrophone, the first sound broadcasting service to operate in Britain. Electrophone (information system) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The name Electrophone was used for a telephone-distributed audio system which operated in the United Kingdom between 1895…
Read more →The Books Google Could Open The nation's colleges and universities should support Google's controversial project to digitize great libraries and offer books online. It has the potential to do a lot of good for higher education in this country. ... This powerful tool will make less well-known written works or hard-to-find research materials more accessible…
Read more →MercuryNews.com | 07/31/2006 | Internet raises gender gap This gender gap, which affects everything from the marketing of new technology to attracting more women for engineering careers, is elegantly illustrated in an academic study just published by a researcher from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Eszter Hargittai tested and interviewed 51 women and 49 men…
Read more →Technology News: E-Commerce: Study: Poor Web Design Alienates Customers One twentieth of a second. That's about how long it takes for a Web site Get Linux or Windows Managed Hosting Services with Industry Leading Fanatical Support. to make a first impression on an Internet user, according to researchers at a Canadian university, whose findings could…
Read more →The Prejudice Map The Prejudice Map According to Google, people in the world are known for... Here's an interesting 'mash up' of Google's API that supposedly answers the question above. It uses a very simple Google query as in http://www.google.com/search?q="germans+are+known+for+*" to create a graphical overview of the different 'prejudices' about various cultures in the world…
Read more →The Aargh Page # Not surpisingly, "argh" is much more frequent than any of the alternatives, and the items with fewer 'a's or 'r's are more frequent than their longer neighbors. # However, there are high-frequency islands , even way out in the long-word planes. For example, "a17r23gh" (17,23) occurs in 171 pages, even though…
Read more →The GIF Pronunciation Page The GIF graphics file format was invented by CompuServe in 1987. In the years since, a debate has been raging as to the correct way to pronounce "GIF": like "jif", or with a hard 'g' as in "gift" as a majority of Mac users seem to prefer. With this page I…
Read more →A List Apart: Articles: Thinking Outside the Grid Because Iâd been thinking about this article for some time, the aerial view of these cities struck me as an apt metaphor for grid design on the web. With todayâs technologies and techniques, we are free to create grid designsâor we can choose to break out of…
Read more →There are two analogies in this post! What great value. Discover Music through The Music Genome Project by Pandora Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes…
Read more →iRex : The iLiad Digital written content can now be read as easily and conveniently as the printed word on paper. The iRex Technologies E-reader provides true reading comfort, flexibility and versatility. It can be read outdoors, in sunshine or shadow. As well as reading you can also write comments, mark or underline sections, for…
Read more →ABC News: Male Domination of the Internet Is Over, Study Finds The study says 68 percent of men and 66 percent of women now go online. Since women make up a larger portion of the population, that means they outnumber men in cyberspace. ... Although a similar percentage of men and women use the Internet…
Read more →The Video Game Revolution: "Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked" by Henry Jenkins | PBS The availability of video games has led to an epidemic of youth violence. According to federal crime statistics, the rate of juvenile violent crime in the United States is at a 30-year low. Researchers find that people serving time for…
Read more →There's no Wikipedia entry for 'moral responsibility' | The Register The first, and the most immediately absurd of these two defenses, is that since nothing at all can be trusted, er, "definitively", then Wikipedia can't be trusted either. This is curious, to say the least, as it points everyone's expectations firmly downwards. If you recall…
Read more →Anthropology.net | Beyond bones & stones Anthropology is defined as the study of humankind and their origins throughout different places and times. The study focuses in detail on cultural, biological, linguistic, and archaeological research. Anthropology.net's mission statement is to expand understanding and appreciation of humanity by way of creating a cohesive online community of individuals…
Read more →iDNES.cz - Å est Å¡kůdců, kteÅà zaruÄ?enÄ zniÄ?à váš poÄ?ÃtaÄ? Pokud nenastane zvrat v použitých technologiÃch, za 15 let budou procesory a grafické Ä?ipy vyzaÅovat na centimetr Ä?vereÄ?ný stejné teplo jako sluneÄ?nà povrch. Now here's an interesting throwaway line in an article about protecting hardware: "Unless there is a change in the technologies used, in…
Read more →A Library for The New World Digitized, instant communication is the great technological revolution of our time. It has streamlined business and delivered more information more quickly to more people than ever. And it has accelerated basic and applied research. Both the problems and the researchers who work on them are scattered around the world…
Read more →Portable Media Expo and Podcasting Conference Saturday Sessions Audible's CEO Don Katz's keynote address at the Podcast Expo brought together very many interesting points regarding the relationship of the oral and written tradition and the role of new technologies in giving new importance to the ultimate pre-technological medium: storytelling. ( Audio here ) He reminded…
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