by Tom | Dec 10, 2001 | General
Windows hack for Web-surfing privacy. Leave no traces on your PC [The Register] 1:53:48 PM Wired: “At the heart of Segway’s detection system are solid-state, silicon gyroscopes that are about the size of the tip of a pencil.” 1:53:27 PM No fun planning in Japan....
by Tom | Dec 7, 2001 | General
Quantum Holography. Neato. 11:58:55 AM Lamo strikes again: WorldCom. The helpful hacker loves port 80 [The Register] 11:42:05 AM WBUR: Al Jazeera headlines in English. “We do not verify the accuracy of these stories; this is merely what Al Jazeera is reporting;...
by Tom | Dec 5, 2001 | General
GooJa Gush-Shalom: Devastating, don’t-miss analysis of Sharon’s recent strategy [Robot Wisdom] 3:26:08 PMTaking Curl for a Whirl. Some of the best minds at MIT, including Tim Berners-Lee, are working on a new Web-building technology called Curl. This...
by Tom | Dec 4, 2001 | General
Viridian Note 00283: Geeks and Spooks.. Bruce Sterling: Viridian Note 00283: Geeks and Spooks. Sealand resident Ryan Lackey has an interesting response. [Hack the Planet] 11:28:33 AM 5pg w/popup pic: Time profiles Ginger [Robot Wisdom] 11:24:04 AM Eureka: Lucid...
by Tom | Nov 30, 2001 | General
Brent has some problems with Jakob Nielsen’s site. Agreed. 5:16:25 PMThe Economist. Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). The idea revolves around the belief that it is possible to hire a specialist firm to handle specific business processes better than an...
by Tom | Nov 29, 2001 | General
Internet Week: Macy’s Doubles Conversion Rate. Rather than try to match shoppers’ search requests against a text catalog of goods, IntuiFind 4 runs keywords through “linguistic module” software that corrects spelling mistakes or translates...
