8.30.2003
Magic Lantern Slides - The Berkeley Geography Collection ::: excellent historical photos - related to various california locations
New display technology can hold a color image for 12 years with no power ::: billboards today - paper tomorrow?
A raunchy interview bedevils Schwarzenegger / 1977 chat includes blunt talk on drugs, sex ::: oh, you know that arnold!
8.28.2003
8.27.2003
8.25.2003
8.24.2003
U.S. approves Viagra rival from Glaxo, Bayer ::: bayer can now cure her headache and his limp member
8.22.2003
8.21.2003
8.20.2003
8.19.2003
Remote possibilities grow with redwoods / Tiny sensors a huge help in tracking trees' progress ::: a redwood network - cool
8.18.2003
News: FCC chief dubious about new cable rules ::: yeah - we all know the cable companies are looking out for our best interests
Slashdot | RPC DCOM Cleanup Worm Appears ::: ha! a worm hunter that uses the same exploit, then kills the worm and then closes the hole. dig-it.
8.12.2003
Bhutan to get unmanned phone booths ::: while the rest of the world trys to figure out what to do with internet connected, video recording, gps locating, mp3 playing cellphones, the Bhutanese are just now figuring out how to use a phone booth without a chaperone...
8.11.2003
Man jailed for linking to bomb sites ::: ok - not smart, bad taste, and belligerant, but going to jail just for linking existing information. hello - am i allowed to say police state?
8.10.2003
8.09.2003
san francisco department of public health environmental health section ::: where you can lookup food facility health inspection violations for all 7000 licensees sf.
8.08.2003
8.06.2003
HoloTouch, Inc. - Holographic controls for cellphones, PDAs, ATMs, kiosks, and more ::: that's way better than in minority report!
8.04.2003
A scene from the matrix, in ASCII. ::: cute - follow the link about 1/2 way down the page. the animation source is clearly from the original video. color and density of pixels are converted to ascii characters based on relative "opacity". no big dea there. but i'm interested in how this ascii "stream" of video frames is being played within the browser. i see some minimal javascript and the use of document layers and css. it's still not clear how it works exactly, but it's very interesting.