Things added in May, 2005
Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D
If you're a bit more serious about your digital photography, you probably want something that puts all of your camera's manual controls right at your fingertips, like the Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D. ...
Google Desktop Search Beta
If you're in love with Google and want to extend its all-seeing gaze to the intimate recesses of your hard drive, Google Desktop Search is the way to go. Google Desktop runs ...
Goodbye to cheap oil, and all that.
What happens if oil isn't cheap anymore? Our farming and food systems collapse, the suburbs implode, a period of violence ensues, and in the end, we're all living in small farming communities, ...
What time is it?
It's 1:50.Plus 1,439 other minutes--all illustrated with multiple photos--at the curiously engrossing Human Clock. A new shot every minute, of course.
Leaking plastic bodies.
Bodies embedded in plastic for display in San Francisco's Masonic Center are now decomposing, while on display, and they're leaking."The bodies were not degreased properly before they were filled with plastic," ...
Revenge of the Sith.
I've sat through Wagner operas that moved the plot forward faster.Sure, the computer generated imagery is amazing--but overwhelming. It quickly become so ubiquitous that it's no longer all that impressive (Coruscant ...
Writing advice from Cory.
Sci fi author and EFF publicist Cory Doctorow (see my 2003 interview with him) has some good advice on writing. "Every morning I get up and I spend half an ...
Everything Bad’s Not Bad
Wired News reviews Steven Johnson's book Everything Bad Is Good For You and wonders: If video games are making us smarter, why can't we solve problems like Iraq and Social Security? ...
Writing in the age of piracy.
John Scalzi is not worried about the state of book publishing in an age of easily made, widely-distributed digital copies:I write books, but you know what? I'm not a book writer, any ...