Ned Gulley’s Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 28th, 2002
No sooner did I post the link to the Welsh weblog then I got a nice message from Nic Dafis who runs it. Fortunately he wasn’t at all miffed that I made a little joke about some Welsh that I quoted at random. In fact, I did happen to pick a joke of his, which [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 26th, 2002
It’s been a while since Beautiful Mind came out, but I recently came across this well-written piece by someone who was actually in the math department at Princeton and saw John Nash slinking around (before the movie made him more famous than the Nobel already had). The author, Daniel Grech, does a good job of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 24th, 2002
Mark Frauenfelder (another member of the Boing Boing tribe) has written a fascinating piece on cam girls in Yahoo Internet Life. What’s a cam girl? She’s a new member of the net generation: a teenage girl who wants you to buy her goodies from her Amazon Wish List just ‘cuz she’s so darned cute. As [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 24th, 2002
By the way, in case you’re wondering what the little # sign is next to the time stamps in all my posts, it’s what the Blogger folks call a permanent link (a.k.a. “permalinks”). As they put it, “Permanent links allow other people with websites or blogs to link directly to certain posts you’ve made on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 22nd, 2002
Get some fun stuff from EAMES OFFICE, a comprehensive site dedicated to the work of Charles and Ray Eames. Somehow their stuff manages to look both dated and trendy, and not simply because it’s hip to be retro. The forms (furniture, architecture) don’t appeal to me nearly so much as the ideas (movies, exhibitions). Power [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 20th, 2002
Here’s yet another Piece About Blogs… but a good one. Cory Doctorow, one of the keepers of the Boing Boing flame, has written a blog analysis that resonates with me: My Blog, My Outboard Brain (at the O’Reilly Network). Blogs are the thing that, at one time, I thought bookmark lists were going to be. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 18th, 2002
NPR has a good page about Ron Popeil’s Ronco empire. The Pocket Fisherman, the In-the-Egg Egg Scrambler, the Smokeless Ashtray, Mr. Microphone, I watched all of these many, many times, always wondering who bought the stuff. But people did buy it — Popeil’s pitches changed our relationship with the TV. The Veg-o-Matic actually has a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 16th, 2002
Random interface design note: I have a Bose Acoustic Wave radio/CD player. It’s a solid machine that has served me well, and it has a digital volume control that goes up to 100. Why 100? I guess their industrial designers considered 100 a nice round number (although, like with the car speedometers that go up [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 16th, 2002
Hard drives just keep getting smaller and denser: IBM’s ‘Millipede’ Project Demonstrates Trillion-Bit Data Storage Density. Now you have a place to keep all the files you’ve ever created, all the intermediate drafts of those files, all the movies you’ve ever seen, every song you’ve ever heard, every picture or home movie you’ve ever shot. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 13th, 2002
Here’s a good column by Michael Wolff (appearing in New York Magazine) about one potential future for the post-Napster music industry. It’s seems safe to say that the music business won’t disappear, but it sure might turn into something like the book business. Not a terrible business to be in, but also not one with [...]
