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The Resurrection of Philip K. Dick
Once upon a time, Philip K. Dick was renowned as a SF writer who focused on the meaning of identity and reality. It's no accident that more.... Max Lyons has been playing with large-format digital photographs, images on the order of 20-150 MB, for several years. While the feat more....Various Weblog Award Nominations
Given the number of self-congratulatory weblog awards going around maybe we should just convene the Netsurfer Awards for the Best Weblog more....A Short History of Computer Virii
The first computer virus, Pervade, spread through Univac systems in 1975 so that it could install the 20-questions guessing game, Animal. more....Umberto Eco on Memory and the Web
Umberto Eco's meditations on memory, first given as a lecture at the new Library of Alexandria, are well worth reading, especially for more....The Literary Review's Bad Sex Prize
"Her breasts are placards for the endomorphically endowed." And just wait until you catch a glimpse of what lies behind her white and more....GDP, Microsoft Licence Fees, and Piracy
Rishab Ayer Ghosh had a bright idea. If you compare software licence fees to a country's per capita GDP, you can determine the fee's real more.... We suspect that nearly everyone who has seen a 20-sided die first encountered it playing role-playing games, most likely some version more.... The newest largest known prime number weighs in at 6,320,430 digits and took about two years to find using a distributed network of more more.... As reviewers of a sort, we know how tantalizing it can be when you find a substandard product. What you can sometimes bring out is a more.... In "Consumption of Information Goods and Services in the United States", Pew shows how subsets of the US population function as more.... This tantalizing analysis of what ails the music business uses contracts theory, economics, and information theory perspectives. more.... Google, originally just a search engine, is now also a verb and may quite possibly become a gold mine. Its IPO, when it comes, should more....Fighting Spammers with Honeypots
A honeypot is a computer system set up specifically to attract hackers in order to study their methods. But honeypots can also be more....Raw Data on Corporate R&D Spending
MIT's Technology Review has put together a spreadsheet that rates the world's top 150 companies in terms of spending on research and more....LA County Did Not Ban Master/Slave
You've probably heard that Los Angeles County, Calif. has outlawed the computer system terms, "master" and "slave". That's got to be a more....ONLINE CULTURE
Barrett Lyon's Opte Project to map the Internet in a day is a kind of ego project, a boastful one man enterprise of intellectual/IT more.... BlogShares was a fantasy stock market simulation of, as the name implies, shares in weblogs (see NSD 9.13). It was a fairly popular more....|
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Time Magazine's Top Tech of 2003...
As we move into December, holding our noses with one hand while dragging a still-struggling 2003 to the curb, we find ourselves more.......And Popular Science Has Its Choices, Too
Popular Science weighs in with its own take on the top innovations for 2003, opening with a stunning photo of Burt Rutan's high-tech more.... If you don't have broadband Internet access, the Open Video Project presents a compelling reason to bite the bullet and go for the more.... When Claudia Severa invited Sulpicia Lepidina to her birthday party, nowhere in her mind was what folks would think of her note 2,000 more....The Battlefield of Faith, Philosophy, and Consistency
Religious beliefs can be a complex minefield of contradictions and impassioned ideals. The good people at the Philosophers' Magazine more.... For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, now is the time of year when a steaming bowl of soup appears especially appealing and the Joy more.... This entertaining animated spoof of the recent Matrix trilogy of films highlights the problems inherent in profit-driven factory more....What to Do When Your Net Goes Down
In a world increasingly reliant on the Internet and tools like e-mail, have you considered how you'd cope if the plug were pulled? more....That Cultural Icon, "The Karate Kid"
"Wax on, wax off." Who doesn't know that phrase? Fans of "The Karate Kid" (1984) will appreciate this comprehensive Web site dedicated to more.... Do you like martial arts films? Do you enjoy watching people engaged in beautifully choreographed violence? If you answer "yes" to either more.... The 419 scams are ubiquitous. The only people who've never received one are people who've never had an e-mail address. NSD has covered more....Is My Puppy/Kitten Hot or Not?
These hot-or-not sites are nothing new - we gave you a rate-my-fish site a couple of months ago - but they sure are fun. This one lets more....FLOTSAM & JETSAM
First of all, don't ever call it hari kiri, certainly not if you want to gain the respect of your peers for carrying out this delicate more.... How does your Web page look in Mac OS X's Safari browser? If you don't have a Mac, you can use this Web page to test. Apparently, it's more....National Weather Service RSS Feeds
The US National Weather service is trying out the RSS format for some of its data feeds. The feeds are organized by state and territory and more.... When cute little stocking stuffers just won't do for the holiday season, try instead ToyVault's offerings, from Monty Python's more.... When Bessemer Venture Partners announces its mistakes as loudly as its triumphs, it deserves publicity for rare honesty. Who else would more.... The University of Minnesota offers students this online companion to aid in keeping track of school assignments. Enter the assignment due more....SOFTWARE
There's a considerable body of opinion that the Perl programming language is really a religion. Hence the Perl Advent Calendar, with more....