Monthly Archives: August 2001

Excellent essay by Cory Doctorow on what ebooks mean for authors.

Douglas Adams’ analysis of technology: 1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn 35 is incredibly exciting and creative and, given opportunity, you can … Continue reading →

Salon has an entertaining interview with Ray Bradbury: There’s so much competition for a young person’s attention nowadays. For the record, why is reading still important? Are you kidding? You can’t have a civilization without that, can you? If you … Continue reading →

After a many-month hiatus, RageBoy is back and blogging with a vengeance.

Principia Mathematica III. Stephen Wolfram thinks he’s close to discovering the program that generates the Universe. I just keep thinking of Pi.

Pork slide!

NASA image processing software coming to the desktop. “With it, amateur photographers, armed with nothing more than their personal computers and a desire to get the most from the images they capture, will have the ability to increase the brightness, … Continue reading →

My new hobby: find a mix on Art of the Mix, download the MP3s from Audiogalaxy, burn it to a CD and listen in the car. I think I can write a perl script with expect, gnut, and cdrecord to … Continue reading →

Why women continue to enroll in self-defense classes as violent crime rates decline.

Why Gnome and KDE are misguided. This should also be titled “Why everyone who thinks Unix is harder than Windows is wrong.”

Reunion pictures are up. Gallery code was lifted from evhead.

I’m off to my summer camp reunion. See you on Monday, I’ll take pictures.

Report predicts thirstier world. One in three people will not have access to enough water by 2025. Suggested solutions include consumers rethinking their diets: it takes 16 times as much water to produce a ton of beef as a ton … Continue reading →

Slashdot is reporting that Loki is filing for bankruptcy. I went to the site thinking I should order those games I’ve been meaning to buy but it appears to be slashdotted. It looks like bankruptcy could be a very good … Continue reading →

My hometown is in the news recently because a 15-year-old girl who goes to my high school was kidnapped and raped by a Long Island couple she met on the Internet. It’s a sad and creepy story. This Globe article … Continue reading →