Robot Mouse
Mini bio of Claude Shannon, founder of modern information theory: April 30, 1916: Information Theory, Who’s Your Daddy? | This Day In Tech.
“I would be buying media properties”
Former Gawker editor and Awl founder Choire Sicha: “If I were going to be buying things now, I would be buying media properties. You get a lot of bang for your buck. People are making good, stable money, recession or no. Now is the time that people should be trying things and having fun.” Choire […]
Steampunk Segway
I want to see video of someone riding this. Jalopnik – Segway Goes Steampunk With “Legway” – Legway.
Totoro creampuffs
How to make delicious Totoro cream puffs, by bento art genius Annathered. We are totally doing this. (thanks, Xeni!)
Tell me about tomorrow, not yesterday
Barney Kilgore: “It doesn’t have to have happened yesterday to be news” via L. Gordon Crovitz Says Bernard Kilgore Knew How to Make Old Media New Again – WSJ.com.
Mini Movie Machine Almost Breaks Into the Big Time
Dell pushes the upper echelons of netbookitude with the Mini 10. It’s a little laptop whose Atom processor marks it as a populist ultraportable, but whose 10-inch, wide-format display and HDMI port reveal more aristocratic ambitions. Want to catch the last episode of Battlestar Galactica while hangi
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What a Wired.com editor does.
I’ll be a guest speaker at Racepoint Group, a PR firm, during the lunch hour today. I’ll be talking about a few things Here’s what I planned on talking about. For what I actually said, see this summary by Caroline Kawashima: Dylan Tweney visits Racepoint. If I get a chance, I’ll try to flesh some […
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Scratch Lowers Resistance to Programming
A new language from MIT’s Media Lab makes it easy for kids to develop programs that interact with things in the real world: Pencils, paper, water, and even vegetables.
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Online journalism and the First amendment.
I’m speaking tonight at the Green Arcade in San Francisco (1680 Market St. @ Gough, 7pm) together with Karl Olson, an attorney with Levy, Ram & Olson who specializes in media law. The topic of our talk is online journalism and the first amendment. Here are some notes for what I’d like to talk about.
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Unix Lovers to Party Like It’s 1234567890
Unix weenies everywhere will be partying like it’s 1234567890 this Friday. That’s because, at precisely 3:31:30 p.m. Pacific time on February 13, 2009, the 10-digit "epoch time" clock used by most Unix computers will display all ten decimal digits in sequence. (That’s 6:31:30 Eastern, or 23:31:30 UT
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