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Wi-Gear’s iMuffs Bluetooth headphones .. iMuffs
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For those people I know who wouldn’t otherwise know about this:
Excerpt:
Firefox 1.0.1 out, squashes most security bugs
The first update to open-source browser Firefox is out. Released late yesterday, Firefox 1.0.1 aims to fix a slew of vulnerabilities. Foremost among those are domain-spoofing and cross-site scripting bugs. According to the Mozilla Foundation, 1.0.1’s release was pushed […]

Truer words (about software development) were never spoken. Typical of jwz to say something so profound and so utterly ignored by 99% of the sw-devs/sw-marketers in the world, to their peril.
Groupware Bad
If you want to do something that’s going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that […]

NY Times: SBC Said to Be in Talks to Buy AT&T. A deal, if reached, would be the final chapter in the 120-year history of AT&T, the first technological giant of the modern age and the original model for telecommunications companies worldwide. A deal would be a reunion of sorts, putting back together some of […]

Finally, and thanks to a number of Stardock programs, I have no more icons on my desktop (technically, they’re hidden).
Instead, there are “sliding drawer” tabs from the left side of the screen. Each drawer is a category of my own devising and contains the icons that would typically be somewhere on my desktop… if […]

Salon.com Technology | Turmoil in blogland
Publishing tool LiveJournal nurtures a dazzling array of unorthodox subcultures. But will diversity continue to flourish in the wake of its purchase by blogging start-up Six Apart?

Excerpt from:
MacDevCenter.com: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac was Made — An Interview with Andy Hertzfeld
When I first flipped through the pages of Andy Hertzfeld’s Revolution in The Valley, I realized that I was not merely stepping back into the history of the Macintosh, but into the genesis of personal computing itself. Regardless […]

Cory Doctorow:
EFF’s helped win another victory this week! We filed a brief in RIAA vs Charter, a case where the music industry was asserting the legal right to require your ISP to turn over your information if you’d been accused of copyright infringement — rather than waiting until they’d proven their case. The court ruled […]

Xeni Jardin:
Following up on this previous BoingBoing post:
Problem — No effective system of mass, international alert existed in South Asia to quickly warn those in harm’s way of the tsunami’s approach.

One approach to a solution, created in the span of about 24 hours by an impromtu volunteer geek corps — A tech system called […]

This is an excerpt. If you have kids, especially younger than 2 yrs, pay attention to the link in the last paragraph here. Then go to the site and read the rest of the post.
When I want to creep myself out, I walk around the neighborhood at 9 PM and count the number […]

Mark Frauenfelder:

IT Conversations has an 18 minute audio interview with William Gibson, from Moira Gunn’s Tech Nation program.
Link…excerpt from: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/31/william_gibson_inter.html

Wikipedia has started to hit the big time. Accordingly, several critical articles have come out, including “The Faith-Based Encyclopedia” by a former editor-in-chief of Britannica and a very widely-syndicated AP article that was given such titles as “When […]

Fancy stuff you can do in the Google search box. In case you didn’t know, of course.
Google Help Central
Google Help : Cheat Sheet

Sigh. I have a bunch of Monster stereo/video cable already; in the future, I’ll be patronizing someone else for those needs. These guys have gone way past reasonable in defending their trademark.
DenverPost.com - BUSINESS
The Brisbane, Calif.-based company has filed trademark lawsuits across the country against companies using the word “monster.” Discovery Channel has […]

Bristol Centre for Applied Nonlinear Mathematics | Publications | 2004 | Abstract of preprint 2004.3
This paper explains how one can crochet the Lorenz manifold, the two-dimensional stable manifold of the origin of the Lorenz system

The Graphing Calculator Story
Pacific Tech’s Graphing Calculator has a long history. I began the work in 1985 while in school. That became Milo, and later became part of FrameMaker. Over the last twenty years, many people have contributed to it. Graphing Calculator 1.0, which Apple bundled with the original PowerPC computers, originated under unique circumstances.
I […]

Okay, so this site leans toward marketing schtuff but a couple of the entries are interesting for the non-marketing info they contain. This entry and the next have links to two that I’ve found today.
Creating Passionate Users: Getting past the brain’s crap filter.
Because in so many ways, Your Brain Is Not Your Friend. It […]

Understanding and Reading a Blog — John C. Dvorak
John C. Dvorak’s
Understanding and Reading a Blog (for Newcomers)
With five million or more bloggers out there and even more readers it is assumed that everyone knows how to read a blog, or how they work. From my blogging experience I can say that this is definitely not […]