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The Dream
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No comments on The DreamE-Ink announced their prototype electronic book display last week. Finally, the dream of a portable, long-lasting electronic book reader may finally be upon us. The contrast and resolution of the display (160dpi) look quite acceptable and I’m not really bothered about the fact that it has no colour; neither do any of my paperbacks. As…
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The steam-powered drum machine
The steam-powered drum machine – an astonishing extract from a journal written in 1894 about a steam-powered drum machine and a 19th century rave (yes, it’s a joke). Via the Culture List and spawned, in part, from the demented mind of Brendan Nelson.
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Excessive Storage
In response to the new 30GB Apple iPod, Creative have just announced a 60GB mp3 player, the Nomad Zen. I feel that things have gotten a bit out of hand here. While more storage is always a good thing, I only have 54GB storage on my computer, and although I occasionally have to burn some…
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Making the extraordinary seem ordinary
A couple of days ago over dinner, I was having one of those typical university conversations about whether the Internet had really changed the world. As was pointed out, “We’re still not buying all of our groceries over the web.” I replied with something about delivery of large perishable goods and how in fact the…
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Never good enough
The big news today is that Apple has launched its new music service. $.99 for a single track and $10 for an album. However, the folks at MetaFilter are positivery derisory of the entire scheme, even though it has almost no DRM issues (burn to CD effectively as many times as you want). What do…
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Natural Artifacts
Natural Artifacts – a well-written post at MetaFilter by someone who has written a program that generates images without human output. Is it art? The creator says no.
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Time wasting
Touch TV moves closer – is any further information required to conclude that MIT Media Lab Dublin is a time and money wasting operation of the highest calibre?
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Roboto!
Japanese scientists want to make robots part of the family – ‘Nuff said, really.
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Mozilla Mail woes
I’ve just spent some time trying to migrate over to Mozilla Mail. I failed miserably. Let me explain why. Firstly, I fired up Mozilla Mail; no problem. Then I told it to import my Outlook Express addressbook. Also, no problem. I was pretty optimistic at this point. Next, I told it to import my Outlook…
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Mozilla 1.3
With the recent release of Mozilla 1.3, I’ve been seriously considering switching to Mozilla Mail from Outlook Express. The only real reason why I want to do this is because Mozilla has Bayesian spam classification, and given that I am getting increasing amounts of spam these days, it would be very useful. My concerns are…
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