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It’s well-known that during wartime down-time, U.S. soldiers sometimes play first-person-shooter games like Halo on Xbox or PS2 consoles. It has even been said that these games help with in-the-field shooting accuracy (as well as helping surgeons’ accuracy during surgery). I’ve always hoped somehow we could get political leaders to challenge each other […]

If you sell technology that has the ability to serve a given function, it is a little weird to disable or ‘nerf’ that function.
For example, if I buy a dvd over the internet from Spain –which I did a few years back– I expected it to work out-of-the-box (it was one by Alejandro […]

I’ve made up my mind to try out Linux after continually reading postive things about it. Quite a few bloggers I respect have written about it or use it, and it seems to permeate many tech circles, as does much of the great stuff I find valuable (like firefox, delicious, wordpress, etc.). […]

In some ways, this is an old story: “Newspapers are less popular since the rise of free online news content.” Yet Wired author Adam L. Penenberg’s article today doesn’t seem like a re-hash. By interviewing various representatives of the younger demographic (18-34 year olds) he makes a pretty solid convincing case for the […]

This Beatles/Jay-Zee VIDEO mashup will delight you, says Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing. DJ Danger Mouse is amazing. I forgot to download it the other day when I read his post, and apparently that site was promptly taken out of comission, but he wrote today about a new mirror available here. […]

Tuesday Mozilla.org released the first full version of Firefox 1.0 on Tuesday! I’ve been using Mozilla browsers intermittently for years, but since last summer I switched over to Firefox exclusively, loading Microsoft’s IE only once in a very rare while with a site that isn’t compliant with current universal web standads. […]

So now that I am a WiFi freeloader, I have undertaken the research project. I found a post on Broadband Reports that scoffed at a confused freeloader who wrote a NYT article about her experience getting “kicked off” (or so she thought). The snobs at BR say she just misunderstood the technology and received an […]

In mid-September 2001, NPR had a segment about a website called Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood. Specifically, the show was referring listeners to the WTC portion of the site, where a number of stories cluster. I looked up the url, discovered a brilliantly democratic and New York loving place to tell and read stories, share history, and […]

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“They told the world that the VCR was to copyright what the boston strangler is to the woman home alone, and predicted that it would be the death of copyright. (source). This is not a new theme. Every time a new technology comes along, those with a vested interest in the old technology first […]