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I love the high, faux-literary tone of this spam message I received today. Its content is essentially the same as many Nigerian wire fraud scams … but the language is awfully high-flown. Where do they come up with this stuff?
… Story continues … “Literary spam.”From: Lady Catherine Levett,
4 Old Church Street, Chelsea, SW3, England.
At Wired, we’ve been experimenting with what we loosely call “open source journalism” in a variety of ways. What we’re learning is that there’s a fairly natural flow from quick blog posts to more fully-cooked news stories, and it works something like this.… Story continues … “Open source journalism.”
My daughter and I will be on TV this week, 8pm local time Wednesday night (Nov. 14) on most PBS stations. That’s when our “GeekDad” segment will air, sometime during that night’s Wired Science program.
Wired Science is a collaboration between Wired (my employer) and KCET (a PBS station in LA).… Story continues … “My daughter’s on PBS!”
Link: Artist’s NSFW Creations Envision Robot Sex
Link broken? Try the Wayback Machine.
Bill Lerach, the securities lawyer whom WIRED magazine called a “bloodsucking scumbag” in 1996, has finally met his match. Lerach is set to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy involving his former law firm, Milberg Weiss, the Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required).… Story continues … “The ‘Most Hated Man’ in the Tech Business Gets PWNED”
OK, I’ll admit it. I paid the stupid tax. The early adopter tax. Whatever you want to call it, I knew I was paying a premium for my iPhone when I bought it two months ago on the day it launched.… Story continues … “I Want My Two Hundred Dollars!”
Jay Rosen: ‘No one owns the practice of reporting or assigns the right to do it. It’s a democratic thing to tell others what’s going on and “show your work.”‘ The journalism that bloggers actually do
This looks really cool: Google Earth now lets you explore the sky, too. Google LatLong: Sky: The final frontier
In short: keyboard is great; speed and battery life suck: Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » One Laptop Per Child, Reviewed by 12-Year-Old
Josh Caldwell and Hunter Weeks were bored with their cubicle-farm jobs, making good money but feeling empty and unfulfilled. Like many white-collar workers, they dreamed of a life beyond the veal-fattening pens. But unlike most, they found a unique way to bust out of their corporate prison: They rode a Segway, at 10 mph, from Seattle to Boston, and in the process turned themselves into filmmakers.… Story continues … “Filmmakers Chase Their Dream–On a Segway”