April 1, 2002

Yahoo Spam Prefs (e.g. Marketing Prefs)

This is a big F-U from Yahoo!

It looks like Yahoo has changed their “Opt-In Marketing Preferences” to assume that everyone wants Spam and phone calls from TELEMARKETERS!

As such, Yahoo has set the “Enroll Me” flag to “YES” on all of your opt-in settings including contacting you via snail mail AND phone (if that information is part of your Yahoo account).

March 26, 2002

Playboy plans ‘Women of Enron’ issue

I guess they gotta make money some how …

http://www.usatoday.com/life/2002/2002-03-26-enron-playboy.htm

Maybe next we’ll see fired Enron and Andersen executives boxing on FOX!

March 22, 2002

Shared Perceptions

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."

March 22, 2002

Touch me, See me, Feel me?

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

March 6, 2002

Six Months After, A Memorial Built On Beams of Light

"Ethereal towers of light, visible for miles around, will pierce the Lower Manhattan skyline starting Monday evening, six months after terrorism changed the world as we knew it."

March 5, 2002

Radio UserLand 8.0 Is a Lab for Group-Forming

“the ability to collaborate in many communities using the tools of hypertext, indexing, search, and cross-referencing.” Jon Udell explores Radio UserLand 8.0

March 5, 2002

2001 Tour De France

An interesting look back at Armstrong’s Tour De France maneuvers

February 25, 2002

Broadband over Water Pipes

Funny! “Here’s how WaterNet works — We’ve developed a unique client-side nozzle (CSN), which functions just like a conventional modem. It connects an ordinary PC to a regular household water faucet, providing an always-on Internet connection.”

February 22, 2002

Chick magnet ;

“what woman couldn’t resist a nice terminal server built into a toaster oven?” [more here]

February 20, 2002

Homebrew antenna shootout

So cool it gives me heartburn …“If you can eat a big can of stew, you can make a high performance antenna” [more here]