Peeve: Ramadan
Just read a nice little Harlan Ellison story ("Incognita, Inc.") in Ellen and Terri's Year's Best Fantasy & Horror that...
Heat Death
I've had Pamela Zoline's The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories on my bookshelf for who knows how...
Clean clean
PowerBook problem's persisted for months; been meaning to dig up extended warranty for it. They told me when I bought...
Tech vs. Content
Fascinating Mike Godwin article (a work in progress) about the conflict shaping up between what he calls the Content Faction...
Patented Graffiti
Seems there's been a ruling against Palm in the patent-infringement lawsuit brought by Xerox. In '93, Xerox filed for a...
Fractal connections
So, how did A meet F? It's 'cause they both grew up in the Bay Area, right? Well, it's not...
Hacks
In Berlin, an office building is used as an 18x18-pixel display in Blinkenlights. This is nothing new; somewhere there's a...
Leonard II
Turns out Leonard doesn't clip every sentence of dialogue. He cuts what at the start of a phrase, cuts all...
Leonard I
I said, "They ended up watching Get Shorty. I've seen it twice, but I stayed for the opening. Ten minutes,...
Adobe settles (followup)
I mentioned yesterday that Adobe had been sued for incorporating third-party software into their InDesign software without permission. A press...
IBM finds prime factors of 15
According to a Reuters article, researchers at International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) have developed an advanced computer which has found...
How to identify a drug lab
Just happened across a CD-ROM for sale that provides a couple hundred photos of street drugs. The advertising on that...