2007 Dec 19, 2:49Despair, Inc. makes humorous shirts and posters that parody the office standard inspirational posters. I haven't been in a while and it looks like they have new stuff with more variety.
parody geek wallpaper shopping technology poster office humor 2007 Dec 12, 9:21Article on amateur atomic clock enthusiasts
clock time wired geek technology science atomic-clock article via:boingboing 2007 Nov 15, 4:03Colossus set to compete against modern PC in decrypting Nazi messages in promotion of museum.
bbc article computer cryptography encryption hardware history turing 2007 Nov 6, 8:06TED talk on ten ways the world could end that no one thinks about.
astronomy video ted humor science earth technology stephen-petranek 2007 Nov 6, 2:46Video of TED lectures. TED is (from Wikipedia) "... an annual conference held in Monterey, California and recently, semi-annually in other cities around the world. TED describes itself as a "group of
remarkable people that gather to exchange ideas of inc
analysis blog video visualization internet social technology ted business news ideas conference 2007 Oct 3, 10:21Tim Berners-Lee writes about principles for new technology in the context of the evolution of HTML and the development of namespaces and XML.
architecture article tim-berners-lee w3c internet history evolution html namespace xml web mmm multimedia-mesh humor test-of-independent-invention 2007 Sep 21, 3:33Article on the graph of the relationships between you and your friends and the associated concepts and issues.
via:infosthetics graph social visualization information privacy blog article larry-osterman 2007 Sep 20, 12:20Article on the fall, division, and name changes of countries affecting top level domain names and vice versa.
dns internet domain icann blog article politics 2007 Aug 16, 8:47More from Keepon the yellow blog dancing robot.
robot robots dancing video music youtube keepon 2007 Aug 13, 3:15Article and video on Mr. Woo a Chinese farmer who creates robots from scavenged materials. Very cool.
robot robots video china diy article humor 2007 Aug 13, 2:05From : "Rarely do we think of mathematicians as glamorous. But during the 1980s, the rising importance of cryptography injected a certain amount of glitz into the discipline.
math article history cryptography 2007 Jul 4, 11:21Photos of a giant high voltage installation
photos steampunk architecture electricity history science technology weird 2007 Jun 21, 2:38Unspun is a social list creation website from Amazon. For instance, you could create a list named '
Most Desired Features for Next Version of Internet Explorer' and users of Unspun fill in and
rank the answers. There's a mix of serious answers that are excellent suggestions, fan-boy answers that are lame, uninformed answers that are already implemented, and hilarious answers that are
awesome. The following is the very short unsorted list of the awesome suggestions.
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Innovative Anti-Phreaking Technology
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Given the work done in IE7 on anti-phishing, subsequent work on anti-phreaking just makes sense.
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AXELROD 2.8 Acceleration with XML Bindings
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I'm not sure what AXELROD 2.8 is but accelerating it sounds good. Also I enjoy binding things to XML so...
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Larger Buttons for My Mighty Fingers
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For maximum humor this should be read by Richard Horvitz as Zim of Invader Zim. This
one makes me laugh every time I read it.
amazon personal ie humor nontechnical 2007 Jun 17, 10:40FTA: "Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these
intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could de
ai article human intelligence internet philosophy evolution essay scifi technology science future singularity 2007 May 21, 2:49Little go carts disguised as giant bunny slippers.
humor technology slippers bunny car 2007 May 21, 10:41FTA: '... product reviews on Amazon give an average rating of 4.2 out of five.' I would've thought people would be more likely to review if they had an unhappy experience with something.
article review inflation economics technology 2007 May 17, 11:48Two AIM bots face off and generate some humorous conversations.
ai humor article im robot science 2007 May 13, 5:11An presentation on 'spimes' objects that are Internet addressable and produce information about themselves and their surroundings
spime google video presentation cyberpunk uri information web technology future
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