Archive for March, 2005
Wednesday, March 30th, 2005
Goin’ digital
We’ll be on the right coast this week, with a new content grabber, the Canon PowerShot S70, wide enough for architectural photography. If the weather smiles on us, there may be things to discuss. Hopefully, the author will find that the transition from emulsion (and a 10-pound SLR with bulky shift lens) to [...]
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Sunday, March 27th, 2005
Anti-gravity room
Hang on to your hat.
How come this guy Ka-Ping shows up everywhere?
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Sunday, March 27th, 2005
The web that will be
It would be nice to have the web be the platform for software development, and after several years of the doldrums, the folks at Google and Yahoo! have grabbed the attention of developers everywhere. They are starting to share former secrets on development sites.
Some of the things that might make it happen for developers, [...]
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Saturday, March 19th, 2005
The human landscape
I wanted to express my affiliation with observers of the edges of landscape. There is something deep and moving about understanding the contradiction between the smallness of the individual when seen in the context of a frontier landscape and the immense power that human civilization has had in changing the face of the planet. [...]
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Thursday, March 17th, 2005
Visions 2: How to codify human knowledge
What is the longest running unfinished project on the web older than the web itself? How about Ted Nelson’s Xanadu project. Did TBL base the web on Xanadu? I haven’t done the reading. Now that hard disks and network storage is so cheap, and processing power is even cheaper, why can’t [...]
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Thursday, March 17th, 2005
End of the world as we know it
OK. There are days when the items in the news look like a conspiracy. Today was one of those days. There’s a thread of the threat of extinction about it all. The headless and heartless U.S. Senate attached a rider to a budget bill to open the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge [...]
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2005
Visons 1: How to build a computer
Unfortunately for the world, we are losing visionaries at an unacceptable rate. This month marked the passing of Jef Raskin, who believed (against all odds) that computer systems can be built that don’t break and are understandable to users. At his death, he was working on putting into use a way for users [...]
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
Another voyage to Italy
Everyone knows how Marty Scorsese should have won at least one Oscar by now. He will probably be in that small group of old timers hung out to wait for a lifetime achievement award.
In 2001, he made an extraordinary introduction to postwar Italian cinema titled My Voyage to Italy. In four [...]
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
p.s. i love you
I spent two nights in ps at the Caliente tropics, lair of the tiki gods and half-price mai tais. The second night, I walked the boulevards under starlight past huge adventist churches and the high school, the mega Ralphs and the frog-filled Tahquitz wash, fresh from Southern California’s wettest winter in recent history, to [...]
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
Why another blog?
What the world needs less of is another blog. Nonetheless, I am going ahead just as other bloggers are showing the white flag. I want to try to address some of the things that have stricken me for better or for worse in our decadent, technological, capitalist society.
Maybe every noun in this blog should [...]
