Cover of Pink Floyd The Wall The following is an excerpt of an article from the Sept. 30 issue of Rolling Stone. This issue is available Wednesday on newsstands and Friday, Oct. 1, online via Rolling Stone’s premium subscription plan. Roger Waters is about to launch a tour where a 36-foot-high wall will rise up [...]
There Are No Words
September 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Creed, One, 9-11.
15 Facts About Net Neutrality
August 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Infographic from another website (see credits below the fold). Net Neutrality may sound uber-geeky, but consider how much you use the internets. You’re on them right now. Al Franken, Ed Markey, and a few other intelligent members of Congress have spoken up about this issue. If you’re not familiar with the issue, you need to [...]
Happy Birthday Alan Turing!
June 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia Today marks the 98th anniversary of the birth of English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist Alan Turing. Turing was influential in the development of computer science and providing a formalization of the concept of the algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, playing a significant role in the creation of the [...]
Happy 20th Hubble!
April 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia Wow it’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched on the back of the space shuttle STS-31. I remember at first all the jokes about its technical problems, it had poor eyesight, and needed many repairs. HST was not going to give up the fight [...]
The revolution will not be digitized
March 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Image via Wikipedia I like the premise of Joe Trippi’s book, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything“; but I like the lyrics of the original song even more: You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on [...]
Get off of my cloud
January 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia I’ve been listening to all this talk of “The Cloud”, which to me is the new Web 2.0, which replaced the dot-com boom, which used to be the new black. And I think it’s interesting, while also being a load of crap. Users are encouraged to think they can rely on the [...]