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Load one physical CD, get two icons on my desktop

I know all this Sony rootkit/DRM stuff has made me paranoid. I loaded my Sarah McLachlan CD into my Mac (a single CD), and **two different CDs appear ...

The future of software?

Tim Bray likes Adium, the Mac OS X inter-network IM client. He says: > “Software of the future will be Open Source, will have a sophisticated and smart user interface, will take responsibility for making sure it’s up to date, and will meet essential human needs. Like Adium.” (from ongoing, Tim Bray’s Blog) Hmm, couldn’t agree with you more 😉 Technorati Tags: future, software

Web Two Point No?

Om Malik writes that “The Web 2.0 Hit By Outages”, saying: > “Over past 48 hours, there have been reports of Web 2.0 outages. Six Apart, one of the biggest blog service provider is experiencing serious downtime, which has left many a few in...

Can I do this?

I’d like to create a web page that list all web pages that don’t link to themselves. Technorati Tags: odd

Funny

Good for a 1 minute chuckle:  > “In my lifetime, I have made nearly 15,000 credit card transactions. I purchase almost everything on plastic. What bugs me about credit card transactions is the signing. Who checks the signature? Nobody checks the signature.” (from The Credit Card Prank) Technorati Tags: funny

Robin Good has interesting predictions

Robin Good has some interesting predictions and prognostications.  > “If you stop looking for a second at the hundreds of interesting ne...

Using AJAX to do word processing on the web

You may not have heard of this, but we are now starting to see quite decent word processing applications implemented directly in the browser, using a technique that has become known as “AJAX” – Asyncrhonous Javascript And XML. As usual there is debate about what AJAX really means, who invented it (M...

They are all fake…

Check out these amusing images which I came across on the Advertising/Design Goodness Blog. Yes, they are all fake, but very cool!   Technorati Tags: advertising, attention, cool

Long tail UI Widget

This is kind of cool. I am playing around with the Last.FM music service. Among the many things it does, is that It ‘watches’ ever...

Web 2.0, I knew ye well. Here comes Web 2.5

Check out Liam Breck’s new blog. > “Next, the religion of The Network Is The Computer has indoctrinated the congregation to ignore an obvious issue with connectivity: We depend on PCs only because electricity is ubiquitous and reliable. If the power is out, you’ve usually got acts of god in progress, and little divine inspiration for work.” (from Web 2.5: Always-on-you Web 2.0 Tools) Welcome, Liam! Technorati Tags: web2.0

[GEEK] Maybe Attention.xml and OPML shouldn’t always travel together

Cori Schiegel convinced me: > “Personally, I want the data the AttentionRecorder is collecting to be used, but I don’t want to freight porting my feeds from one platform to another with those additio...

[GEEK] Unified name space for aggregator extensions for OPML?

There’s been a lot of discussion (follow these links for more links) of late about how to extend OPML, including...

Goodnight Irene – Huddie Ledbetter, aka Leadbelly

Tivo will be able to transfer videos to Ipods… But…

Hot news for Tivo and iPod Fans. Coming soon to a computer near you! > “TiVo Inc. today is expected to announce a service that allows its digital video recorders to save programs to iPods and PlayStation Portables, further untethering television from time and place.” (from [LA Times](http://ww...

Big news from Iraq, if it’s true…

Zarqawi probably killed! according to Iraq the Model. > “According to these two sources, Iraqi and US military forces in Mosul think that Zarqawi, al-Qaeda leader in Iraq was possibly killed in a raid on a house where members ...

Dilbert Torture

According to Dilbert (or is it Scott Adams) we are approaching the whole question of torture in the wrong way: > “The objective is to think up a form of torture that’s effective but doesn’t sound so bad when the rest of...

Very funny: Build a better Bush

** **Click here for more hilarity! (Thanks Larry) Technorati Tags: funny

The $100 Laptop

You might have heard of Nicholas Negroponte’s (Wikipedia bio – maybe better than the one he wrote himself!)  project to create a so-called hundred dollar laptop. He spoke about it at the recent Pop!Tech conference, and the first prototype was unveiled last night. Andy Carvin got a chance to play with it and prepared this very interesting video documentary about it. Check it out.

Web 2.0 — mash ups — Kayak — and nude beaches ?!

Did you know that Curacao is the 7th favorite place that travelers from Boston consider when they are looking for nude beaches in the Caribean? Miami is the first, Aruba the second. This important bulletin brought to you by Kayak Buzz, a ...

All you ever wanted to know about Crypto

Looks like this is practically an online book on the topic. Also, WikiPedia has a detailed entry on the subject. (Via Digg) Technorati Tags: crypto