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I am starting to follow the world of mesh networks and things related to that. One immediate question that has popped up is: now that there are cell towers everywhere, what advantage might there be to creating a new national or global or mobile network based on...
Read more →You know I follow the vagaries of computer voting machines, right? Here’s an interesting article about how one e-voting machine maker is trying to prohibit a researcher from studying the security (= trying to hack into) one of their machines: > “Princeton Professor Edward Felten astonished Congr...
Read more →[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfWsfDweeM4&hl=en]I found my way onto Robin Chase’s blog, Network Musings. She writes about lots of stuff I am interested in. Starting with the top post right now, [“Should Casinos Subsidize Car Travel?”](http://networkmu...
Read more →So my little toy pedagogical application needed a pretty popup box. Actually I wanted one so I could see close up some of the alternatives. In the process I came across three different code snippets, each one doing it in a little bit different way. For you and me, here are the links: - The DOM-popup kit, by Stuart Rackham - The FAMSPAM Facebox package by Chris Wantrath - The Bubble Tooltip kit by Alessandro Fulciniti with an assist by Annalisa Afeltra I tried the first two, but the third looks cool too. I liked Facebox the best. Your mileage may/will vary.
I am constantly downloading applications and utilities off the web to try this or that out. I am as paranoid as the next guy so I do think about where this app came from and what havock it may or may not be planning. Still, I often will choose to ignore my most paranoid impulses and go ahead. I ...
Read more →List of Lists is an entertaining blog. He doesn’t post that often but when he does it’s usually interesting. Check out this post from A List of Lists: > “[….]in keeping with A List of Lists factual theme I’ll...
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> “The new image shows tan clouds moving away from the foot of a 700-metre slope, where dust and material made of water ice and frozen carbon dioxide have just tumbled down.” (from New Scientist) This is one of those times when a picture is worth 1,000 words 🙂
No less an authority as the Freakonomics dudes offer an article about “A Call Girl’s View of the Spitzer Affair” Read this Q & A and many more like it. > “Q. Have you ever had a client as powerful or wel...
Read more →Check out this post from Planet RubyOnRails: > I doubt few of my readers have missed that Apple just released the iPhone SDK. How many read through the fine print? Bottom line is: If you want to sell app...
Read more →Sorry, but for some reason it seems that the cynics win out once more: > “I have acted in a way that violates my obligation to my family and violates my or any sense of right or wrong,” said Mr. Spitzer…” (from The New York Times)
I agree with this post from Feld Thoughts: > Overall, titles don’t (and shouldn’t) matter much in an early stage company, other than for helping people on the outside of the company understand who does what to whom. In my experience, the idea of a COO almost always muddies the water. (from: I Don’t Believe in COO’s)
An interesting post by Cringely, forseeing the imminent demise of most 350 social networks. This quote, only tangentially relevant is good, but you should read the whole post from [I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS](http://www.pbs.o...
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Check out this funny post from The Dilbert Blog: > A reader sent me a link to a story about a Japanese woman who was accused of kicking a hole in some guy’s door, crawling through the hole, and destroying his property. She was acquitted when the court realized that her breasts were too big to allow her to fit through the hole. (from: Right Up My Alley)
First it was Facebook, then (I think) it was Plaxo, then LinkedIn, and now MyBlogLog is offering me a way to publicize all the fascinating stuff I do on other sites. I dunno, there must be 100 other ones that d...
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Another really interesting post from TSA Blog: Evolution of Security: (which should be called ‘The TSA Blog’! ** "Behavior analysis is based on the fear of being discovered**. People...
Read more →Brad Feld, famous Venture Capitalist writes an interesting post about how he might get to the point of telling an entrepreneur “we are passing” in this post from Feld Thoughts: > “We...
Read more →Joining the ranks of the growing number of news aggregation and research sites is Silobreaker, which I first met at Demo 2008. Two things catch my interest with Silobreaker – try it by [clicking here for a search on the topic ‘Google’](http://www.silobreaker.co...
Read more →Here’s a new online light weight database product that picks up where QuickBase leaves off and goes crazy. It’s called blist. It has a far snazzier (and more complicated) user interface than Quickbase. ...
Read more →Do you get fund raising / spam phone calls from very persistent, insistent callers asking for money to ‘Support our Veterans’? I’ve gotten them more than once, and have even donated. For some reason it has stuck me that these particular calls were unusual in the high-pressure tactics they used. So I...
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