Interesting Slashdot thread about downloading the human mind … I can never remember my dreams, and I’ve always wanted to be able to download them so I can review them later — kind of like a Tivo for the mind!

Looks like Mitch Kapor is up to something again: “The software is being designed to securely handle personal e-mail, calendars, contacts and other such data in new ways, and to make it simple to collaborate and share information with others without having to run powerful, expensive server computers.” [more here]

Wow … IBM’s ‘Millipede’ Project: “Store the equivalent of 25 DVDs on a surface the size of a postage stamp”

Something for when the trails are too wet to ride … “Building a Home Theater PC”

DAMN! This is so true … My room was exactly the same (including the Atari 800!) and the author must have been in a near-by ‘hood’ because those prefixes look awfully familiar …

“Back in the day, phone prefixes mattered. Flat rate local calls meant the boards in your local zone were free — not phree, which was different. I had a list of them posted on my wall, for a while, but soon enough I never really needed it. I knew my zone. 992, 667; 665; 464 — they were my ‘hood.”

Fun for the entire family …
http://www.audiovisualizers.com/madlab/lcd_proj.htm

Ban Donuts!

Ok, this is my kind of PDA …
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/04/17/modular.computing.ap/

Interesting … Sentient Computing Project: “What could we do if computer programs could see a model of the world? By acting within the world, we would be interacting with programs via the model. It would seem to us as though the whole world were a user interface."

“A full-size fully functional virtual keyboard that can be projected and touched on any surface is shown by Siemens at CeBIT”