Via Boing^2: “Surprise! Computer scientists model the exclamation point” – – /sigh again? As A will no doubt attest, this is nothing new. There have been biological and mathematical models of “surprisingness” for quite a while. (Decades, if I’m not mistaken.) Does science have to take place at UC Berkley USC to be important or […]
Via TUAW: the Internet iTunes Registry – – upload the XML dump of your iTunes Library and join the info smorgasboard! On first glance, this seems an awful lot like a variation on what I was talking about recently in “programming serendipity” – – it’s a little too soon for it to be “the lazy […]
Paul Thorrott over at “SuperSite for Windows” posts part two of his Windows Vista Beta 1 vs. Mac OS X “Tiger”, breaking down the key parts that are to give two cents about. Best line out of the whole thing: My educated guess is that Vista won’t be as secure as OS X, however, because […]
Hot on the heels of my last rumination on the subject, the (so-called) rumors start flying about the next Mac mini release being A/V-oriented as something of an Apple PVR/media center device. TUAW and Gizmodo both follow-up on the ThinkSecret post that highlights the “Kaleidoscope” Mac mini as scheduled for release come MacWorld in January. […]
Washington Post article “Omen on the High Court?” remarks on the recent damage to the “Authority” statue on the Supreme Court’s building yesterday (28-Nov): At the foot of the Supreme Court steps, where engineers were photographing the remains of the Vermont marble pieces and carefully loading them into crates, one onlooker nudged a friend: “Notice […]
There’s some kind of “build your own bike” web meme going around. Basically everyone is posting there 10 Steps (always 10 Steps) on how to build their own bike. For most folks it’s more like “list 10 ingredients” than “10 steps”. I’m not participating per se (I have no real interest in building a bike […]