“Bigger Computer Monitors = More Productivity”
The Wall Street Journal confirms what most people have suspected for a long time: size does matter.
Archive of posts filed under the Interests category.
Topics on my particular interests.
“War against Web tops music biz ‘screw-ups’ list”…
…as anyone living in the last decade with two eyes and a brain could have told you.
French military victories?
I don’t know a lot about history, but if you go to Google.com at the moment, type in French Military Victories, and hit the “I’m feeling lucky” button, you get a fake Google page (yes, it looks real, but it isn’t — look at the address bar) with this text: Did you mean: french military …
“They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know.”
Windows Vista, how do I dislike thee? The New York Times counts the ways — using Microsoft’s internal e-mails from their own staff and board members to do it.
“Windows-based cash machines ‘easily hacked'”
Why am I not surprised?
Internet Explorer 8 to Fully Support Web Standards
The first public beta of IE8 is now available, and the big news is that MS has finally decided to fully support web standards (and it’s about time!). Why the sudden change of heart? They aren’t talking, but OSnews may have tagged it… it’s amazing what a little self-interest will do.
A new kind of CAPTCHA?
CAPTCHAs, the automated tests that are meant to prevent spam-bots from overrunning free e-mail services and comment forms, have been defeated. What’s next? Hopefully not something like this… I tried it three times, and only succeeded twice. Statistics also indicate that it wouldn’t work too well — there are less than 30 variations, so even …
RIP Gary Gygax, “Father of D&D”
A moment of silence please, to mourn the passing of the creator of a game that defined a generation of young nerds, including yours truly. (Thanks, Joshua.)
Pee Used To Create Self-Healing Substance
I can’t say it any better than the BBC: The as-yet-unnamed material – a form of artificial rubber – is made from vegetable oil and a component of urine. The substance, described in the journal Nature, produces surfaces when cut that retain a strong chemical attraction to each other. Pieces of the material join together …
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The Ever-More-Ubiquitous Webcam
In the David Brin SF novel Kiln People, the main character (a detective) follows someone’s movements at one point by tracking them via the public and private webcams that cover nearly every square inch of the city. When the book was first released in 2002, the reader could have been forgiven for thinking that was …