delicious bookmarks- BBC News - Creative brains imagine a smarter tomorrow
- San Francisco Bars to Install Creepy Facial Detection Cameras Inside Venues - San Francisco News - The Snitch
- The Campus Tsunami - NYTimes.com
- University of the People – The world’s first tuition-free online university
- NYU Dean to Devote His Sabbatical to Expanding U. of the People - People - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- The ‘Hunger Games’ Mockingjay - Fiction, for Now - NYTimes.com
- Audiences Now Rarely Drawn to Live Television - NYTimes.com
- In ‘iDisorder,’ a Look at Mobile-Device Addiction - Review - NYTimes.com
- Public Key Cryptography: Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange - YouTube
- Talkatone - Getting Started
- Shared News
- Secure me and my video
- What everyone should know about the human eye
- Aquapulse heart rate monitor finally ships, misses out on Michael Phelps fervor
- Happy Birthday NYCwiki
- App Developers Withdraw From U.S. As Patent Fears Reach 'Tipping Point'
- Shaw Cable's Netflix competitor bypasses bandwidth caps on its way to the TV
- software patents as farce
- Mobile Application Checks Brain Waves for Health Control. Really?
- Senators Ask Spy Chief: Are You Tracking Us Through Our iPhones?
- Apps for NYC
Monthly Archives: May 2004
Wow! Japan copyright laws worse than ours..
Japanese website closed after screenshot-related arrest – Ferrago From the story: Reports this morning inform us of the rather troubling news from Japan that the owner and Editor of popular online gaming site Gamesonline, one of Japan’s most popular news … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Political
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Documentating a defense of open source
Welcome to the Grokline Project: Grokline’s UNIX Ownership History Project From the site: This is an open, community-based, collaborative research project, a living history, designed to carefully trace the ownership history of UNIX and UNIX-like code with the goal of … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Open Source
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RIAA: We must not allow any use, let alone fair use
Mindjack – Will Digital Radio Be Napsterized? by J.D. Lasica From the article: The Recording Industry Association of America has discovered that digital radio broadcasts can be copied and redistributed over the Internet. The horror. And so the RIAA, the … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Political, Streaming and Multi-Media
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Clear Channel using patent to keep bands from selling concert CDs
“>RollingStone.com Another example of patent abuse. From the story: Artists net about ten dollars for every twenty- to twenty-five-dollar concert CD that’s sold, no matter which company they use. But with Clear Channel pushing to eliminate competition, many fear there … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Political, Streaming and Multi-Media
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More evidence of video based networks turning to Flash
Streamingmedia.com: Flash Powers Comcast.net’s Innovative Video Browser The interface is a bit funky but the review is glowing. Sounds a lot like what a dot bomb company I was working for a few years back was trying to develop. I … Continue reading
Posted in Streaming and Multi-Media
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No need for Napster when you can just grab the songs from a stream
Replay Music Although I have appreciated this type of functionality in software such as FreeAmp, I am not sure that I like this as a commercial product. Not only does it add fuel to the music industry’s assault on online … Continue reading
Linux 2.6 comes to RedHat’s Fedora project
A Tip of The Brim With New Fedora Core
Posted in Open Source
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Frontier “kernel” open sourced
Scripting News: 5/17/2004 Very nice.. Frontier is the kernel for other UserLand products such as Radio and Manilla. It will be interesting to see what comes of this.
Posted in Open Source, Social Networking
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Nice C Tutorial
Howstuffworks “How C Programming Works” Thanks to Josh for the pointer.
Posted in Development
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Turn that Game Boy into an embedded development environment
Charmed Labs Check out the Xport 2.0!
Posted in Development, Electronics, Gadgets, Open Source
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