The worst passwords of 2011. If you are on that list prepare to be hacked.… Read the rest
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technology, internet, media, future
October 1972: Birth of the Packet Man
Packets, packets, got your packets here!
Going way back into the ‘what is the internet?’ file, here’s a great article about the actual first pitch and live demo of the internet (then called by it’s acronym ARPANET).
Yes, it did … Read the rest
Creator of the WWW Credits Steve
Internet old timers know the story, but with Steve Jobs’ passing I thought it important to bring it up again.
The guy who developed/invented the world wide web, HTML, and the http protocol back in 1990 claims he couldn’t have … Read the rest
Thank You For All Of It
Steve Jobs: 1955-2011.
Where would the tech world, perhaps the world as a whole, be without Steven P. Jobs? The concepts he developed in his teens and twenties regarding if/how/when/why we interact with computers built entire industries. Appleholics like myself … Read the rest
Data Mining Your Past, Present, & Future
Lots of privacy-politics news lately: First off our good buddies at Facebook want even more information, and will happily put it on a timeline and sell it to the highest bidder for you.
If you find this a little … Read the rest
The Microsoft Copy Machine
I’ve been following the Windows8/Metro debut online and it struck me that this is one of the largest examples of Microsoft being a “me-too” type of company I’ve seen in a while, complete with a fatal flaw in their copied … Read the rest
My First Laptop
I’ve been more or less living on a laptop since about 2002. I had a desktop machine as my only rig from ’87-’96 (Atari, Apple, Tandy, Gateway, Dell, IBM, white boxes, you name it…) and around 1996 I was finally … Read the rest
Touch the Music
Here’s a nice overview article on some of the tech that’s changing music making, particularly the iPad. As someone who’s produced several tracks with just a laptop, an interface, a mic, and a midi board, this is a big change. … Read the rest
The Self-Powered Future
Self-powering feels good. Sustainability feels good. It’s not always easy or even cheaper, but it does feel good to *not* waste. I get that buzz when I ride my bike. People who farm/garden/build their natural environment feel it. I’ve never … Read the rest
Respect.
If you got the idea of empowering people through a friendly, logical computer interface, you’ve liked this guy for a long time.
If you got the idea that UNIX power should have a mainstream use, you’ve liked this guy for … Read the rest
Long Lost Relatives?
Wow. Mexican researchers have completed their models of earth’s ejecta (this outstanding word is the stuff the earth would eject out of it’s gravity after getting hit).
Turns out that not only would our moon and Mars be logical targets … Read the rest
More Sites!
I got lots going on it seems, and another website just popped up to that end:
This is my music and software publishing company.
Collinwood Sun LLC publishes music from 2MERICA, Roaming Crazy, Ezraz, and Winnie … Read the rest
Progress, Washington, Same Sentence
Obama just did this: More than doubled the required average fleet MPG by 2025 for US automakers.
Lots of info there —basically each car company has a range of vehicles. Those vehicles all have a miles per gallon score. … Read the rest
They Predicted My Daily Existence 45 Years Ago
Who sits around all day staring blankly into a variety of screens pushing buttons, generally spending the day watching video, browsing pointless crap, and viewing how far in debt they are?
Who does that? C’mon it’s 2011.
We do that … Read the rest
Fun With Cameras
See how the iPhone 4’s camera manages to capture guitar strings being played.
The strings don’t actually look like that when filmed in super slo-mo — the cool waveform patterns are caused by the iPhone’s shutter rolling through the frame … Read the rest
“I am inventing electricity… and you look like an asshole”
134 Years and Counting…
Stop Calling Me Old! And Get Off My Lawn You Damn Kids!
1st Atari releases it’s retro video game pack for the iPad, containing most of their original stand-up games ported to the iOS.
Then someone mocks up an iPad-to-arcade kit for April Fools Day. Wouldn’t that be cool? Yay Photoshop and … Read the rest