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Dylan Tweney

Dylan Tweney

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The greatest gadgets of all time.

If you understand what a “gadget” is, please go vote for your favorites here — lots of people are unclear on the concept, so we need some smarties to offset the clueless: Wired News: The Greatest Gadgets of All Time
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Safari slower than Firefox?

Well, that was fun! My quick-and-dirty benchmark of Safari 3 for Windows really brought the haters out of the woodwork: Wired News Benchmarks Show Safari 3 Is Slower Than IE 7, Firefox
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Space Cowboys and the Steampunk Treehouse.

One of the best discoveries I made at the Yuri’s Night party at NASA Ames a couple months ago was the Space Cowboys, a group of people with a modified Mercedes-Benz Unimog — it looks like a military vehicle — that they’ve turned into a self-contained, mobile, fully street-legal dance machine. Once p
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Beer vs. biofuels.

I was shocked to learn that barley prices have doubled in the last 2 years, thanks to demand for the stuff from biofuels makers. I’m all for fighting global warming, but this is getting out of hand, people! Trouble brewing for beers prices
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The information universe and what it wants.

That modest subject is what I was asked to speak about, yesterday at the meeting of OCLC‘s RLG Programs group in Washington, DC. My presentation gave a quick overview of the web, covered the current state of information management on the internet (focusing on social media, tagging, and the search ma
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Overheard on the Metro.

“Calm down, go to the club, have a beer — I can’t be holding your hand all the time!” — Harried sounding young woman, talking on her cell phone as she emerged from the DC Metro.
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Your computer is training you.

Getting even simple things done with a slightly underpowered computer and a bunch of web-based applications means you spend a lot of time waiting. Waiting for TypePad to publish a post, waiting for Gmail to populate the screen with a list of the latest messages, waiting for an image to download so y
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