Monthly Archives: March 2004

Save your fingers

How SawStop Works Thanks to Alex for the link: The SawStop system works by recognizing the difference in the electrical properties of wood and a user. The system induces a high-frequency electrical signal on the blade of a table saw … Continue reading

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Lessig’s new book, Free Culture

== Free Culture == From the site: All creative works – books, movies, records, software, and so on – are a compromise between what can be imagined and what is possible – technologically and legally. For more than two hundred … Continue reading

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Getting out of your employees way

InfoWorld: Fired up IT: March 19, 2004: By Chad Dickerson : APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT : APPLICATIONS About the book: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister From the book review/article (culled from the book): Protecting the productivity of … Continue reading

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The URL says it all, StreamingMarketplace.com

StreamingMarketplace.com

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The powerbooks are taking over

Streaming Media, Inc. From the release: The key features of the Streambox ACT-L3 Portable Video Transport System are: -Real-time compression of 1/2 D1 (352x480i) interlaced video 30 fps on a PowerBook G4 with a 1.25 Ghz CPU or higher. The … Continue reading

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Indie record stores tell us the the RIAA is full of it..

Wired News: Record Stores: We’re Fine, Thanks Interesting, from the article: High prices, rather than file sharing, are what usually stop a kid from buying a CD, Wiley said. Typically, the music industry wants stores to sell CDs for $18 … Continue reading

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Unless I am completely nuts, Rob Glaser doesn’t have a clue

Real’s Glaser exhorts Apple to open iPod | CNET News.com From the article: Because Apple’s iPod music player does not support other proprietary music formats and does not license its own format to rivals, Real’s Rhapsody and other song sites … Continue reading

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Mobile phones go academic

Sociology of the Mobile Phone

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Dyne:bolic gets an update

d y n e . o r g :: dynebolic mailinglist The description: Dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists and artists to stimulate the production and not only the fruition of digital and analog informations. It takes … Continue reading

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Sick, yes really tasteless.

Ananova – Virgin Atlantic clubhouse urinals are the shape of a woman’s open mouth Somebody should take a sledge hammer to them.

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