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Gimme that high-tech religion.

Posted on November 30th by .
Elliott Malkin makes high-tech religious art -- like a crucifix made of circuit boards that broadcasts the Lord's Prayer, using your body as its antenna. Intriguing intersection of religion and tech:
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Is the Microsoft way the only way?

Posted on November 29th by .
What I think of as the Microsoft approach to product development is to cram as many features as possible into each product. Interface is an afterthought: All those features exist primarily ...
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What androids dream of.

Posted on November 27th by .
What does your computer do when it's asleep? Well, if you're the giving type, it might be searching for intelligent life in the universe,

russell davies: how to be interesting

Posted on November 27th by .
Making's the new thinking: russell davies: how to be interesting
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Creative computing.

Posted on November 17th by .
One of the first magazines I can remember subscribing to (apart from Cricket and Ranger Rick) was Creative Computing. I started getting this magazine about 1980, after I fell ...

Work-life imbalance

Posted on November 17th by .
Rarely has the Economist made such a wrongheaded call: Farewell to the flexibility fad
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1,000 years in Bali.

Posted on November 17th by .
bali_water_temple_statue, uploaded by crderivative.Listened this week to an amazing talk by anthropologist Stephen Lansing's talk on Bali at the Long Now ...

HDTV for dummies.

Posted on November 15th by .
Not exactly for dummies, actually, but for beginners: Next week I'll be hosting a webcast on how to select and set up an HDTV set. Two of Ziff-Davis's top HDTV gurus, ...

Corporate karaoke.

Posted on November 14th by .
"PowerPoint presentations are like corporate karaoke" - Cubicle Culture - WSJ.com