Monthly Archives: July 2001

Morpheus Out of the Underworld

Posted on July 30, 2001 by hatch

this is old news to those in the P2P space, but MusicCity's Morpheus has already eclipsed Napster on the number of simultaneous users … From: OpenP2P.com: Morpheus Out of the Underworld [Jul. 02, 2001]

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Lance wins #3

Posted on July 29, 2001 by hatch

Congratulations to Lance Armstrong for his 3rd Tour de France win!

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The Jet powered beer cooler

Posted on July 29, 2001 by hatch

this is hilarious (found on slashdot) … turbo cooled beer! http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/

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Increasingly Cross-Trusted Variable Groupware

Posted on July 26, 2001 by hatch

From Doc Searls BuzzPhraser ™

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Damn, the Internut never ceases to amaze me

Posted on July 26, 2001 by hatch

currently you can buy a Webvan stock certificate for $510 on eBay! more here: "Webvan, Drkoop stocks winners–on eBay"

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Distributed file systems

Posted on July 26, 2001 by hatch

found this post about Microsoft's Farsite on Geeknews, but it sounds a lot like Ian Clarke's "distributed decentralized information storage and retrieval system" (i.e. Freenet)

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Slashdot: TRS-80 Laptops Still Plugging Along

Posted on July 25, 2001 by hatch

hey … i think i know this guy … found on Slashdot: jfruhlinger writes: "The San Francisco Chronicle ran this story about the very first laptop, and the fact that it's still in use by non-hobbyists. It's biggest selling point … Continue reading →

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Tenth Star Trek film lands a director

Posted on July 25, 2001 by hatch

"Director Stuart Baird ("U.S. Marshals," "Executive Decision") has signed on to shoot the 10th installment of the "Star Trek" feature franchise." From: Tenth "Trek" beams up director

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Google gets a rival from Jersey

Posted on July 24, 2001 by hatch

And it's not a Soprano … New Jersey "technology company Hawk Holdings has launched an internet search engine called Teoma which is set to rival favourite Google."

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Penny sized CDs from Princeton

Posted on July 24, 2001 by hatch

found on Geeknews: "Stephen Chou …a Princeton University electrical engineer has created CDs that can concentrate data 800 times more efficiently than current discs." [more here]

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People stay in line at DMV after man defecates on floor

Posted on July 24, 2001 by hatch

after spending a few hours at the DMV yesterday i'm certainly not surprised by this

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Buy more RAM now!

Posted on July 24, 2001 by hatch

from CNN "Memory prices drop by 85 percent"

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Scissoring the climbs

Posted on July 21, 2001 by hatch

tips on dealing with those tough climbs on your mountain bike … Scissoring "…works because of the bodys far greater mass (five or six times that of the bike) and the momentum gained by standing up to lurch the bike … Continue reading →

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Third Voice + Open Source + RDF = Semantic Web

Posted on July 19, 2001 by hatch

looks like the W3C is taking Third Voice's web site "annotation" idea, opening the development and splashing it with Metadata to make way for the Semantic Web …interesting: "Annotea is part of the W3C's Semantic Web project, which aims to overhaul the … Continue reading →