OLPC: the best designed notebook in the world by Robin Harris
Kate Carruthers This is great commentary on some of the anti-One Laptop discussion recently. Harris makes some good points. I’ve seen on of these PCs and they are beautifully designed and engineered.…
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Twitter is dangerous by ZDNet’s Michael Krigsman
Here is another critique of Twitter – this time as the enemy of corporate confidentiality. Does Krigsman not realise that the problem already exists with mobile phones & PDAs? I…
Pirate Pete
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The Story of Mark Eklund, the Former Catholic School Student Killed in Vietnam = Truth!
This is one of those stories that friends email you with the request to email it to 10 friends for a ‘miracle’. For some reason I decided to check if…
Funny cats and corporate life
moar funny pictures via Aide-mémoire
InfoSec News Subject: [ISN] Warning sounded over ‘flirting robots’
Here is a great story from ISN on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:01:27 -0600 (CST) – now the bad guys can extract personal info using flirting robots. Talk about paranoia…
Journalism Professor Says Citizen Journalists Should Be Regulated
Over at Techdirt it has been noted that “David Hazinski, a journalism professor and former NBC correspondent, claiming that ‘unfettered’ citizen journalism is ‘too risky’ and that it needs to…
Largest Adobe Flash crash in the world
This via Michael Krigsman is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time – it’s an error on the huge billboard in Times Sqaure in New York. “The big…
Philip Rosedale Answers Your Second Life Questions
Over at Freakanomics they did a Q&A with the creator of Second Life, Philip Rosedale about Second Life (aka SL). This is interesting stuff – the questions are wide ranging…
My celebrity look-alikes
I can’t believe that crappy program says I look like these celebrities! via Aide-mémoire