Rough Drafts

Water-cooled CPUs coming soon from Cooligy.

The FBI has been telling some journalists to turn over their notes, email messages, and sources, secretly — and we have the Patriot Act to thank for this new attack on the First Amendment.

Poetically fractured English from a Japanese catalog site, for a video game / vibrator: “There are a color, a form, and a motion in all sound.”

Exposure to 3G radiation can cause nausea, headache — and improved alertness.

A Tablet PC, with its direct stylus-to-screen interface, is ideal for toddlers. Just make sure you keep the spray bottles hidden away.

I’ve posted a new issue of the tweney report: Spamfighters. This issue also went out via email to 2,647 subscribers. Although I’ve not published much lately, the bounce rate is pretty low — only a handful of defunct email addresses on the mailing list this time.

According to a research firm called Strategy Analytics, sales of digital camera-equipped cell phones have, for the first time, exceeded sales of standalone digital cameras: Mobile Commerce World.com “Mobile phone makers shipped 25 million handsets with built-in cameras worldwide in the first half of

A four-month investigation by Baseline magazine shows that security in shipping ports is almost nonexistent.

Stephen Wade talks about oldtime American music and the banjo.

The Government Information Awareness [http://www.opengov.us] site is trying to provide a total picture of our government

I’m psyched: Starting this week I am executive editor for Mobile PC magazine, focusing on mobile technology: notebooks, PDAs, handhelds, mobile phones, etc. Our first issue will be out in January. I’ll be editing features and the news/trends section. Got a mobile product, a story idea, or a trend yo

Wired News: Antispam companies raking it in. Recent estimates from the Radicati Group show that firms selling antispam products and services stand to make $653 million in revenues in 2003, and up to $2.4 billion by 2007.