2002-02-13»
Wed Feb 13 12:07:00 2002»How much do people hate winners? And how much do winners hate losers? A lot, it seems. I’ll stick my neck out here, though, and say this shows how much undergraduate test subjects hate each other.
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2002-02-04»
Mon Feb 4 17:10:00 2002»Gzip can detect whether a piece of writing is written by a particular author, with 90% accuracy. Yes, gzip. – via Honeyguide
2002-01-28»
Mon Jan 28 18:45:00 2002»Edwin Armstrong, and how patent battles drove the inventor of regeneration, superhets and frequency modulation to suicide. – from Doomed Engineers, via Bruce Sterling’s blog
2002-01-27»
Sun Jan 27 15:18:00 2002»I think this is a very accurate description of how being a participant on a TV show feels.- Plasticbag.org
A tally of my spam inbox shows that I get about 677KB of it a day. That would take about 4 minutes to download if I was on a 2.8 modem – which I’m not, admittedly. It’s still 100 or so messages to ignore. Thank goodness for Spamassassin.
2002-01-23»
Wed Jan 23 12:32:00 2002»Woz announces he’s working on a GPS handheld to help you find lost things. GPS is going to be the next kick-you-in-the-face consumer technology, oh yes, you mark my words. Oh yes.
2002-01-22»
Tue Jan 22 13:42:00 2002»It always pays to keep a record. A guy who turned up at a hospital claiming to suffer from amnesia may be identified, thanks to an apparent previous career as a French porn star. – Romanesko’s Obscure Store
2002-01-21»
Mon Jan 21 16:35:00 2002»One for Yoz: Tea And Chocolate Beneficial For Heart Health, Studies Suggest – ScienceDaily
A Solar-powered, heavily distributed, networked Afghanistan sounds a bit too good to be true. How much faith should we have in ideals? Enough to test them ourselves, or enough to test them on others?
2002-01-20»
Sun Jan 20 15:10:00 2002»Today’s reading: Ammon Hennacy and David D. Friedman. At least I’ll know the truth’s between them somewhere.
2002-01-09»
Wed Jan 9 13:22:00 2002»The Queen as ship’s counsellor. – Drudge
The Digital Path: Smart Contracts and the Third World – like Zooko, I guess I’m looking for incremental hacks while dreaming of re-installations. – Zooko
Back. Christmas in Chelmsford, New Year in Prague, back in London. Quinn flew back to California today to warn them of my forthcoming arrival. Now I’m Quinnless; so what’s the good in that?
2001-12-08»
Sat Dec 8 10:30:00 2001»Clambering over the heavy folds of morning to bring you:
Boo-ya! At last, a critique of Web design I can get my teeth into. Also, a new determinating term: stylist. – A List Apart
Call me cranky, but contrast Nigo’s t-shirts and posters to the painstakingly worked-out, user-need-driven work of one of the creators featured in British Rail Design , say Jock Kinneir himself. Is this an unfair comparison, a sterling example of apples v. oranges? Absolutely. Because only one of the two works in the field of design.
The other is best described as a stylist.
Read the copyright fine print; win a car. – Boing Boing
Flash stylists for civil liberties! – Tom Paine
How to win at Rock, Stone, Scissors and therefore have cheaper sex in a Japanese whorehouse. – AccordionGuy
Two things about this XBox modders’ story (via Slashdot). First, that Microsoft asked him to take down the BIOS image *twelve hours* after it went up (that’ll be Google-as-limit-on-free-speech). Second: he’s got an MP3 up of the phone request.
Ever since I worked at the Guardian and we uploaded the Aitken/Ritz faxes, I’ve always wanted articles to include as footnotes the supporting evidence: MP3s of phone calls, the notes, the e-mails, the books read, the employees interviewed. Journalists say it’s hard to do because of legal implications and the difficulty of preserving anonymity. That’s often true, but not always. What is always true is that this paraphernalia is often halting, confused, and a bit amateurish. Few journalists can bare to listen to their interview tapes themselves, let alone hand them over to the public. One part of a journalists’ job is to polish and re-edit this mess until you have a coherent, lively, readable tale.
But the truth isn’t lively, readable or professional. And it’s coherent in a way that we can’t anticipate. I think the faster we learn to discriminate between storytelling and the universe, the better.
On which note, Seth has a piece on the stories we tell ourselves of crypto and usability.