A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

This dense book took me forever to read in bits and bites on the subway and during lunch. Covers too much ground to summarize here, perhaps after a re-read.

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Thumbnails of cracked Apple II games.

Apple announces new iPods.

New version of iTunes for OS X.

Furthermore archive, my favorite Wired News feature.

GIMP for OS X, oh the humanity.

Google as random number generator.

Visible Workings is dedicated to the “error -5000” error message.

Cory’s notes on the social life of smart dust session.

First computer bug.

Need to Know covers Etech.

The Tyranny of Structurelessness.

Many to Many weblog on social software.

A neophiliac feedback loop amplifies new ideas regardless of merit.

The Paradox of the Best Network.

David Isenberg’s web site.

The Rise of the Stupid Network.

David Weinberger’s weblog.

The BBC’s plans for digital democracy (iCan).

Fax your MP.

Matt Jones quote “the right kind of wrong” a LeAnn Rimes song.

The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell.

Smart dust: the particles of dust that could be watching you.

Swarms and Mobs at This Year’s Etech.

Life Cycle of a Technology (Don Norman).

2003 Foresight Institute conference.

Ad blocking with CSS for Mozilla.

Eric Drexler curriculum vitae.

50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA.

iStorm is Hydra with integrated drawing and chat. trying it out now

Mike Tyson tech support.

Collaborative notes on Stewart’s play + social software talk.

Collective notes (via Hydra) of Meg’s talk on the margins of the writable web.

Cory’s notes on Google keynote.

Here’s why Google can’t search the whole web.

The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine.

Really personalized advertising

Greg Elin had the best idea at the LazyWeb as Competitive Sport BOF last night. He wants a way to dump calendar items, tasks, and the like out of his calendaring system (iCal, Outlook, etc.) and have those items display as ads on the web sites that he visits. So, when he goes to Slashdot, a banner ad tells him to stop for orange juice on the way home. When he goes to news.com, there’s an ad telling him that his mother’s birthday is coming up.

In a later conversation, Matt Haughey outlined a proof-of-concept approach to the problem. He’d use Mozilla to override the stylesheet, strip out the current ads, and plug in his own ads, which would be created by pulling them out of iCal and using a Perl or PHP graphics program in conjunction with a local web server to serve them on the fly.

Greg said he would be willing to pay a small amount for this service, and I bet quite a few other people would as well.

Old Google interface.

Xerox Parc’s Sparrow, community shared pages.

Craig Silverstein answers questions on Slashdot.

Dean Allen launches Textbox hosting system using TextPattern.

Agent Frank.

Meg’s PowerPoint presentation From the Margin of the Writable Web.

Richard Feynman’s There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom.

Finite and Infinite Games.

Diane Ackerman is serious about play.

Windley on the Chandler presentation.

The Game Neverending.

Raph Koster - Current and future developments in online games.

Martin Buber. “Play is the exultation of the possible”