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Does a top level domain make a nation? (New Scientist Technology Blog)

2007 Sep 20, 12:20Article on the fall, division, and name changes of countries affecting top level domain names and vice versa.PermalinkCommentsdns internet domain icann blog article politics

Dancing Yellow Robot

2007 Aug 17, 6:33New Scientist had an initial article on Keepon this cute yellow dancing robot and now they've got another article featuring a more traditional music video staring Keepon. (first video link) (second video link)
PermalinkCommentskeepon youtube video personal cute robot nontechnical

New Scientist Technology Blog: Little yellow robot gets dancefloor company

2007 Aug 16, 8:47More from Keepon the yellow blog dancing robot.PermalinkCommentsrobot robots dancing video music youtube keepon

New Scientist Technology Blog: Mr Woo's DIY automatons

2007 Aug 13, 3:15Article and video on Mr. Woo a Chinese farmer who creates robots from scavenged materials. Very cool.PermalinkCommentsrobot robots video china diy article humor

The Uneasy Relationship Between Mathematics and Cryptography

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.PermalinkCommentsmath article history cryptography

Technophilia: Where to find public records online - Lifehacker

2007 Jul 23, 3:19List of sites to find public information on folks.PermalinkCommentsbackground search database birthday library identity privacy public phone lifehack

Dark Roasted Blend: Creepy High Voltage Installations

2007 Jul 4, 11:21Photos of a giant high voltage installationPermalinkCommentsphotos steampunk architecture electricity history science technology weird

Unspun IE List

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.
Innovative Anti-Phreaking Technology
Given the work done in IE7 on anti-phishing, subsequent work on anti-phreaking just makes sense.
AXELROD 2.8 Acceleration with XML Bindings
I'm not sure what AXELROD 2.8 is but accelerating it sounds good. Also I enjoy binding things to XML so...
Larger Buttons for My Mighty Fingers
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.
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The Coming Technological Singularity

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 dePermalinkCommentsai article human intelligence internet philosophy evolution essay scifi technology science future singularity

Tesla's Motorized Pink Bunny Slippers: The Fast and the Furry-ous - Gizmodo

2007 May 21, 2:49Little go carts disguised as giant bunny slippers.PermalinkCommentshumor technology slippers bunny car

Is it just me or is everything great?

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.PermalinkCommentsarticle review inflation economics technology

I Chat, Therefore I Am... | Technology | DISCOVER Magazine

2007 May 17, 11:48Two AIM bots face off and generate some humorous conversations.PermalinkCommentsai humor article im robot science

The Impact of Emerging Technologies: Media Viewer

2007 May 13, 5:21Video interviews with various interesting people on the Internet and other future thoughts.PermalinkCommentsvideo interview science

The Internet of Things: What is a Spime and why is it useful? - Google Video

2007 May 13, 5:11An presentation on 'spimes' objects that are Internet addressable and produce information about themselves and their surroundingsPermalinkCommentsspime google video presentation cyberpunk uri information web technology future

Part II: The Java APIs for Bluetooth Wireless Technology

2007 May 11, 12:51Tutorial on programming Java apps using bluetooth.PermalinkCommentsbluetooth java sun development reference tutorial article research:wii-remote

Technorati Profile for sequelguy

2007 May 4, 12:22My profile on technorati.PermalinkCommentsproldfile me blog

OS-Tan - Gallery: Lamest Technology Mascots Ever (Wired)

2007 May 2, 1:00Apparently there's something called OS-tan in which Windows OSes are represented as anime styled characters. Very odd.PermalinkCommentsarticle os-tan humor images weird anime

BBC NEWS | Technology | BBC to open up archive for trial

2007 Apr 18, 11:22For a trial period the BBC will open its archive online for free. Hopefully this is the start of a trend otherwise in the future the only freely available content will be reruns of Absolutely Fabulous.PermalinkCommentsbbc television archive article ip

Missing Bee Roundup

2007 Apr 15, 4:06For the past several months I've seen various articles suggesting why bees are disappearing. At first I thought this was another crackpot's article that somehow made it onto digg.com. But they keep coming and sometimes from credible sources. After the article I saw tonight I thought I should go back and put together the various articles I've read on this topic. Bees may be disappearing due to pesticides, new organic pathogens, genetically modified crops, mobile phones, or climate change. Apparently, the US hasn't been keeping accurate counts of its bees so we don't know the extent of the situation. There's an interview with Maryann Frazier, M.S., of the Dept. of Etymology at Penn State and a congressional hearing on the matter.

I know this is all very serious and could signal the end of our ecosystem as we know it, but I can't help throwing in the following links as well. The bees could be hiding in this Florida couple's kitchen. Or perhaps they're laying low while being trained by the government to fight terrorism. Or they're hiding in extra dimensions that we mere humans can't perceive (I'm fairly certain that's what this article is suggesting. Really. Read it. Seriously. Its awesome.)PermalinkCommentsroundup personal bees nontechnical

New Scientist Technology Blog: Routers in space

2007 Apr 13, 3:00The Internet... in space! New satelite containing a router scheduled for 2009.PermalinkCommentsarticle blog space internet router cisco iris nasa
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