Things added in February, 2006
A Solid That’s Light as Air
If you wanted to catch a few particles of comet dust speeding through the vacuum of space at 6 kilometers per second -- without damaging or destroying those particles -- how would ...
Lantos to Google et al: Are you ashamed?
Tom Lantos is my congressman, and it's principles like this that keep me voting for him every single time he comes up for re-election: Congressman quizzes Net companies on shame | ...
Bump de bump.
Anyone else have problems with T-Mobile Hotspots in Starbucks bumping them off the network and reconnecting every 15-20 minutes? It's really annoying.
Blog blog blog
Locke blogged my story. I blogged his blog of my story. Then he blogged my blog of his blog of my story. Now, I'm blogging his blog of my blog of his ...
Search two-fer.
I've got not one, but two stories about search engines appearing today.Here Comes a Google for Coders, on Wired News, talks about a startup search engine called Krugle, which ...
Here Comes a Google for Coders
For most people, open source is a synonym for free software. But for programmers, open source is about sharing code, building on the work of others and not having to reinvent the ...
Google’s Private Lives
A new search technology from Google makes it possible for law enforcement officials to examine personal documents from your hard drive, without your knowing it, according to the digital-rights advocacy organization Electronic ...
Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing
Elmore Leonard's rules of writing. (Sadly not included: Don't center your copy, since it makes it fucking hard to read.) Category | Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle ...
AlterNet: Son of Dot-Com
Winner, best business writing, February 2006: Annalee Newitz: "investors have turned their burning, collective gaze from the wastes of Mordor to the human world of Silicon Valley again" AlterNet: Son of ...