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2001 Apr 12 Writings and Musings
Bob Frankston's articles and essays.»
i C S - INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY
Journal for data/culture dorks.»
Oct 29 Sentient Computing Project Home Page
``What could we do if computer programs could see a model of the world? By acting within the world, we would be interacting with programs via the model. It would seem to us as though the whole world were a user interface.''»
VNC - Virtual Network Computing from AT&T Laboratories Cambridge
Open-source tool that allows you to view any desktop from another - Mac, Windows, Unix.»
Dec 4 The Moral Life of Geeks
A previously unseen Kendall Clark on the moral questions geeks face in choosing their work.»
Dec 28 WordsEye
WordsEye converts sentences to pictures. Type: “John stands on the floor and gives the tree to Mary.” WordsEye creates an image.»
2002 Sep 2 Research at Microsoft
The sheer number of research projects in play at Microsoft is skull-jarring. The number going on in Beijing is surprising. Lots of linguistics and applied statistics work.»
Nov 17 Sex in a Spreadsheet
A story about the human side of data processing.»
Dec 30 Twisted Matrix Laboratories
Useful-looking framework, in Python, for data sharing across a network inside of various applications.»
2003 Feb 5 Circuits of Change
Great piece of fiction about the total lack of corporate cultural resonsibility.»
Mar 6 Esther Dyson's Vision of 2023
Microchip pills, Steve Ballmer, and Moldovan newspapers.»
Apr 28 A Spell to free oneself from Excessive Computer Enchantment
Majickal rebooting.»
2004 Apr 12 Mark comes around to OpenOffice
Be one of us! Be one of us! I use OpenOffice constantly, and save hundreds of dollars by doing so and am happier in the bargain (some tiny MSWord incompatibilities aside). Don't forget the extraordinarily well-documented XML schema for each document type. Never forget!»
Apr 13 Cyberkinetics, Inc.
“Turning thought into action.”»
Tiny Brain Implants
Once there's an emacs mode and Eclipse plugin for this, I'm down.»


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