Tough business, magazines. Even after 161 years, you’ve got to make a profit. Fortunately, the archives will remain online. Is there really so little to satirize in contemporary England? Seems unlikely.
Continue reading... May 30, 2002
Hoist on Their Own Petard
Record industry unveils music format that can’t be played in any computer. From urbanreflex.com
Continue reading... May 30, 2002
Museum of Sex Opening in New York City
The Times reports on the impending opening of the for-profit Museum of Sex on 5th Avenue and 27th Street. The guy behind the museum, Daniel Gluck, has been described in press reports as a “former software executive,” but I’ve been unable to find out his tech connection. When he started this project, he was teamed with artist […]
Continue reading... May 29, 2002
Where Do You Get Off, Buddy?
Interesting project going on at nycbloggers.com — to collect all the webloggers in New York City and organize them by subway stop. I like the idea; I’ve registered and added a linkback logo over on the right.
Continue reading... May 29, 2002
Ground Zero Demolition Ends
Nice piece by Charlie LeDuff of the NYTimes about the dismantling of the last steel column at Ground Zero: Let history show that many of these men and women were here on the afternoon of Sept. 11, having abandoned their jobs elsewhere in the metropolitan region. How they scribbled their names and phone numbers on […]
Continue reading... May 29, 2002
So Why Isn’t This Guy Teaching at Oxford?
WARWICK, England (CNN) — A mathematical formula calculated by a British university professor has found that time actually is money. Economics professor Ian Walker, of central England’s Warwick University, says process can show people just how valuable their time is in relation to any task they have to perform, from a lie-in or cooking a […]
Continue reading... May 29, 2002
Explaining Blogspace
Pretty good piece in Microcontent News about the weblog ecology. (First point: who knew that there’s a trade mag — even an online one — about microcontent?) The piece could use a serious edit, and the top of it shows some startling naivite about the media feeding chain. But when the author turns his attention to […]
Continue reading... May 28, 2002
Feel Any Safer Yet?
This is from The Register, and contains a link to the core document from the ACLU: Face recognition kit fails in Fla airport. How about fifty false positives a day? Authorities here in New York just put in a face recognition system to monitor the line of tourists queuing up to get on the boat […]
Continue reading... May 28, 2002
Whichever, You Can Hardly Blame Them.
This story originated on Gulf News Online, but I heard about it through BoingBoing and New World Disorder: Fighting against what clerics call “penetrating Western culture” with a crackdown on icons of America, Iran’s hardline judiciary has launched a campaign to confiscate all U.S.-made Barbie dolls in Tehran. Recently Moral Police have stepped up arrest […]
Continue reading... May 28, 2002
Point? I Have No Point. Why Do You Ask?
Jerome K. Jerome. “It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.”
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