Not a Bad Idea: You should die first, start out dead and get it out of the way. Then you wake up in a nursing home, feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension. When you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day. […]

PC Consumes 8.5 Watts, Has No Moving Parts: someone has taken that boatload of cash and decided to put together the Solo Computer, a roughly-hewn prototype of a power-sipping PC with no moving parts that needs just 8.5 watts of solar power to run. That’s a fraction of the roughly 300 watts sucked up by […]

vanillasite.at :: about : Vanilla is a simple, extensible hypertext system and framework for developing small-scale web applications written in REBOL. This humble website is the official home of Vanilla. ——- a bliki?

The No Nonsense Guide To Women’s Rights :: AK Press: How much has life really changed for women during the last decade? Has the women’s movement affected women all over the world? Has it changed women’s relationships with men? van der Gaag answers these questions with hard, sometimes disturbing, evidence. Many women have made huge […]

Joseph Turow is asking a bunch of questions about links and hyperlinks. No one has assembled the powers that be in regards to links before? I’m pretty sure that isn’t the case, given the focus of hypertext conferences. the social processes of hyperlinks? to what extent is the hyperlink a working principle in the social […]

the Cincy airport does not have free wi-fi…. In this day and age, all concourses should have wifi, there is no excuse not to make people’s lives in airports just that much easier. if you want to have two levels of access, one somewhat slow for email and web, and then one super fast for […]

Teaching and Developing Online.: June 2006 Archives: Quote of the Day If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it. Pierre Gallois ——— yes, i think David Noble and Langdon Winner both […]

Florida weighs in on post-modernism: (g) The history of the United States, including the 2 period of discovery, early colonies, the War for Independence, 3 the Civil War, the expansion of the United States to its 4 present boundaries, the world wars, and the civil rights 5 movement to the present. The history of the […]

Alex Halavais » The Hyperlinked Society: Joseph Turow at the Annenberg School for Communication (U. Penn) is organizing a conference called The Hyperlinked Society. He’s managed to invite some really cool people to come and talk, and somehow I managed to get invited too. I grateful for the opportunity to get to talk with these […]