Andre Venter: Worldopen endsTechnological Acceleration - A Hidden Law of Nature- August 24, 2003 "What will happen if technology is, as Ray Kurzweil claims, exponentially accelerating..." Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs Also see: Institute for Accelerating Changehttp://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3701 Jon's Radio- August 23, 2003 Microsoft senior developer Chris Brumme doesn't post often to his weblog often, but every one of his essays is a lengthy, authoritative, and candidly self-critical exploration of .NET and CLR arcana, the sort of thing you might expect to read on MSDN (minus the self-criticism, that is). And in fact, the absence of this material from MSDN is controversial. Daypop Top 40http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/08/22.html#a779 Brazilian rocket explodes on pad- August 23, 2003 A Brazilian rocket being prepared for a launch attempt next week exploded on Friday afternoon... spacetoday.nethttp://www.spacetoday.net/Summary/1870 What did Pavlov's dog think about Pavlov- August 22, 2003 "Look at the poor man, every time I am hungry, instead of bringing me food, he rings the bell!" Some people just figure it out, but here on MeFi we already knew it. MetaFilterhttp://www.metafilter.com/mefi/27789 Say Hello to the New X-Men- August 22, 2003 The Mountain Dew-fueled all-nighter is history. Today's supercoders work 40-hour weeks, two to a computer. Welcome to extreme programming, the latest revolution to rock the software world. (by Martha Baer) Wired Newshttp://www.wired.com/news/wiredmag/1,2167,60099,00.html Movable Type meets Mujahedeen- August 22, 2003 Ben Hammersley -- adventurer, athlete, programmer, RSS-wonk, reporter -- has decided to pull up stakes and become a freelance reporter for a while. In Afghanistan. And he's going to report it all in his blog. Jeez. "So, anyway. I figure it's about the time this nano-publishing journalism-of-the-future meme started to get off its collective bottom. So I'm off to Afghanistan for your education and pleasure. I fly to Islamabad tomorrow, and from there by train or bus to Peshawar. On Saturday I'll..http://www.benhammersley.com/dparchives/004246.html Beyond Fear: Required reading for Ashcroft's America- August 22, 2003 One of the books I'm delighted to have had the chance to read here is Bruce Schneier's latest, Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World. I reviewed three or four drafts of this while Bruce was working on it, and I am completely delighted with how it turned out. In Beyond Fear, Schneier has utterly demystified the idea of security with a text aimed squarely at nontechnical individuals. He takes his legendary skill at applying common sense and lucidity to...http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0387026207/downandoutint-20 Chinese Government Cuts Out Microsoft- August 20, 2003 And Brits to switch from MS Word to PDF. Blogalization Communityhttp://blogalization.org/community/weblog.php?id=P859 Interesting 600k Martian-crater closeup- August 20, 2003 (via NewsIsFree) Robot Wisdomhttp://www.newsisfree.com/click/-3,22776956,246/ |