The NYTimes architecture critic, Herbert Muschamp, presents an idea for rebuilding the World Trade Center site, simultaneously fixing another problem with lower Manhattan. Interesting reading.
Continue reading... July 24, 2002
Yeah, That’d Be Good…
From CNet: Year-end surge to lift IT spending. A last-minute shopping spree as IT buyers scrape out their budgets will push computer technology spending beyond 2001 levels, predicts research firm IDC. It’s news to me that IT buyers have budgets to scrape out. But what’s more important to me, frankly, is that IT sellers start […]
Continue reading... July 24, 2002
Transportation for Lower Manhattan
When the World Trade Center was destroyed, a big part of downtown Manhattan’s mass transit hub went with it. The weekly broadsheet NY Observer fronts a story about options for rail in the rebuilding. As with most infrastructure projects in New York, this one is proving difficult, with competing interests from different rail agencies, and […]
Continue reading... July 24, 2002
Eyes on the Road and Hands on the Wheel, Buddy.
XM Satellite Radio will start carrying Playboy Radio on September 3. Playboy Radio?
Continue reading... July 22, 2002
Using Copyright As A Means of Suppressing Press Coverage
A story in the Washington Post says administrators at American University are apparently using copyright as a means to suppress a campus gadfly‘s taping of a public lecture by Tipper Gore. “It is a very technical charge to assert as the basis of campus punishment,” said First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams. “A lawyer can make […]
Continue reading... July 19, 2002
Fool Me Once, Shame on Me. Fool Me Twice….
Semi‘s gonna have a ball with this one. There’s a new director of the Pentagon’s new Information Awareness Office, part of the DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. (It was DARPA’s organizational predecessor that gave the world the Internet. But I digress…) This new director is one John M. Poindexter. Yes, that John Poindexter. […]
Continue reading... July 19, 2002
Segways of San Francisco
The S.F. Chronicle carries a story about the Postal Service’s trial of Segway scooters in Bagdhad on the Bay. The USPS bought 40 scooters at $9,000 per. Scott Tucker, the Postal Service district manager for the San Francisco area, said the Segways would be used on five routes in the Pacific Heights and Steiner Street […]
Continue reading... July 19, 2002
It’ll Be Called ‘The M.E.O.W. Show’.
Meow Mix cat food is apparently shopping around a TV program aimed at cats. Not cat lovers. Cats. CNN points out one of the flaws in the concept: Lacking opposable thumbs, felines will have to rely on their owners to tune in to the half-hour show. The other major flaw? It’s a stupid idea.
Continue reading... July 19, 2002
Roll-Up TVs RSN
Reuters is reporting that scientists in England are on the verge of perfecting really thin-screen televisions: Roll-up, flexible televisions, akin to the melting watches of Salvador Dali’s surreal landscapes, have become possible thanks to a glowing plastic compound perfected in the laboratories of Britain’s Cambridge Display Technology (CDT). “You’re effectively printing televisions,” CDT Chief Executive […]
Continue reading... July 18, 2002