Had a long talk with — or rather, I ranted deliriously for about a half hour or more in my (quite literally) malnourished state at — my friend Gary today, about why I’m getting so fucking sick of the Internet. It was a long and meandering rant, much of which I don’t remember, other than […]
Tag Archives: Technology
A-Life Graffiti
God, this is so beautiful. ARTIFICIAL.DUMMIES from todo.to.it on Vimeo.
I, For One, Welcome Our Robot Overlords. And Here's Tom With The Weather.
Those cats at The Onion occasionally knock one out of the park.
Phone Update
When I get paid, I’m gonna set up a new Skype In account, so I’ll be able to get phone calls whenever I’m in WiFi range. (A friend gave me his old Nokia e61i, and I’ve got Fring running on it, so I’ll get calls that way.) So if you have my GrandCentral number, you […]
MacBook Air: Not Massively Impressed, In General
So the MacBook Air debuted today. Aside from the multitouch trackpad and the 802.11n, I’m not really very excited by this. Why? Because I don’t care how thin it is. After a certain threshhold, thin doesn’t matter. My MacBook Pro is plenty thin at, what, 1.5″ wide? The Air has one USB port, no FireWire, […]
Simple Useful Technology
Here’s what technology is actually good for: I found an excellent site with information on how to get from the airport in Istanbul to the area with the cheap, good hotels. I copied this into a text file, and sent it via Bluetooth to my new Nokia e61i. Also a Turkish PDF phrasebook. I leave […]
One Laptop Per Child — XO Giving
One Laptop Per Child — XO Giving I’ve actually played with the XO (or at least, an earlier prototype) and I’ve got to tell you, these things are the coolest gadgets since they invented digital Cheez-Whiz. (There’s no such thing as digital Cheez-Whiz. That’s my point. Think about it.) They’ve got a lot to recommend […]
Go ahead — tase me, bro
New Scientist Last Word Blog: Counter-taserism [From the comments:] An EFFECTIVE taser proof vest consists of any conductive surface where both probes attach creating a (dead short) There are special clothes that are made from fabric that has a high dialectric strenth that stops tasers in their tracks but is very expensive due to the […]
Twitter is my mook
I had an idea for an application a while back, inspired by something from one Bruce Sterling novel or another. The Mook was going to be a chatbot that you could install, which would pretend — in a very limited fashion — to be you if you didn’t want to / couldn’t IM but wanted […]
New Wacom Cintiq — 12 inch!
Oh, my God, I really, really, really want this badly. This is the new smaller Cintiq, which — if you’re not familiar — is a pressure sensitive LCD drawing tablet. You draw right on the display, and the stylus is both pressure and angle sensitive, which makes digital drawing as natural as real drawing. Probably […]