Field Notes

notes, photos, sketches, & asides

Hawking: Space key to human survival

Dylan / 6/15/2006

Stephen Hawking says we need space colonies in case we Earthlings wipe ourselves out. Guy’s gotta point: Hawking: Space key […]

Dylan / 6/12/2006

Outstanding music podcast: 30 minutes of cover songs, about 3x/week, usually on a theme (Bob Dylan’s birthday, Smiths covers, etc):

Dylan / 6/9/2006

Hey, kids, it’s Digg for girls! BlinkList | Your personal start page and social bookmarking engine

Dylan / 6/8/2006

Like BASIC, PHP will destroy your future as a programmer (and I should know; I programmed in BASIC as a

Dylan / 6/6/2006

200 liters of Diet Coke, 500 Mentos, and 1 great soundtrack: EepyBird.com

Dylan / 6/2/2006

Almost unbelievable growth: Broadband usage in the U.S. up 40% in the past year (and up 121% among African Americans):

Dylan / 6/1/2006

Tired: objective journalism. Wired: shorting a company’s stock the day before you publish a hit piece alleging they’ve committed accounting

Dylan / 5/31/2006

Net neutrality: Never had it, never will: Neutral Net? Who Are You Kidding?

Dylan / 5/31/2006

Jaron Lanier says Wikipedia’s not only stupid, it’s “boring”: DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism

Dylan / 5/30/2006

Technologists think their business is the creation of cool technologies, because they are engineers who thrill to the idea of