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July 2006

Reminder: Tomorrow, Geek Dinner, July 19 (tomorrow!)

Just a quick reminder that we are having another super-informal-geeky-but-not-exclusively-geeks Geek Dinner, and we have a lovely new location, sponsored by our friends at Permabit. The location is on First Street, in Cambridge, MA, USA, in the so-called Davenport Building, on the second floor.

See you there!

Here are the coordinates:

When: July 19, Wednesday, 6:30pm to 9:30pm

Where: Permabit, 25 First Street, 2nd Floor. Across from the Galleria Mall.

Topics of discussion: AJAXPHPOPMLRSSJAVAETC

Please confirm your attendance by clicking here!

Can you believe these dudes still use typewriters?

A typewriter, you know: a printer with a keyboard built right into it?

Anyway, I care little about the politics of this, but check this letter out, dated May 18, 2006 for crying out loud. Doesn’t even look like an IBM Selectric 🙂

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/20060709hoekstra.pdf

Ok, maybe I’m wrong? Is this a printer rigged with an old typewriter font? Nah I don’t think so. Carbon copies anyone?

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Two books that look good…

I saw these two books in Barnes and Noble. They look quite interesting. I might get them.

The God Theory. I am always interested in the various evolution vs. intelligent design debates, and this book claims to come up with a way to accommodate both into one framework or paradigm.

http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=blogbridge-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0300110561&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000ff&bc1=ffffff&bg1=ffffff&f=ifr

**The Wealth of Networks. ** This is a fairly dense, scholarly book about networks, social and otherwise. Looks very interesting, but honestly, it may be too thick 🙂

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Soccer Fever!

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrShK-NVMIU]

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What’s up with AllofMP3.com?

I was probably the last one to hear about AllofMp3.com. It’s this massive, well organized and apparently solid Mp3 download site. Music is not free, but extremely cheap. It’s apparently hosted in Russia or somewhere else.

The question is of course, “is it legal” and “is it ethical”? Friends of mine who’ve known about it for years (claim to) never use it. I have to say it gives me pause to download the whole “Tapestry” Album (Carole King, from the Jurasic Period) for something like $1.50. Ridonculous.

There apparently have been lawsuits trying to shut down the site. Just today I there’s talk about another one: “...

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Bugging Instant Messaging

I just walked by a room full of people working on computers during a break between presentationsand over in a corner I saw one fellow furiously instant messaging, his fingers flying across the keyboard in a very animated way. I had a sense of what he might be chatting about and I had this subversive thought: what if I could bug IM conversations?

And as these thoughts go, I couldn’t help musing about how one might actually do this.

Well we are here with 400 of our closest friends, with about 350 of us with laptop computers, all on an unsecure wireless network. Hmm. Interesting Rent-a-coder project?

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June 2006

Techmeme Hacked

I am at Gnomedex and the news is spreading like wildfire: TechMeme the venerable site that serves as the early warning of anything interesting, has been hacked! Who would have thought!

[Actually a geekily-amusing self-referential bit of social engineering]

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