Intriguing video demos of a two-hand touch surface as a coputer input device – includes tactile feedback (I’ve always wondered why a computer mouse doesn’t give tactile feedback)
Author: Steven Garrity
The yellow Don’t @#%*ing tell me who to support ribbon
Remarkable PBS Frontline episode about private contractors working for the US in Iraq (online in streaming Real or Windows media formats)
Sad photo of Paris 2012 Olympic paraphanalia being sold off (probably photoshopped)
Google is now in the top 100 largest companies in the world. It was incorporated only 7 years ago.
Intellectual Property Rights Vs. Human Rights
Just as I was feeling good about humanity, I visit the CBC Streaming Audio page only to see this message:
Due to rights issues around the Live 8 concert, CBC.ca will stop streaming all CBC Radio One signals at 1 p.m. ET on Saturday, July 2. The streaming will resume sometime after 4 a.m. ET on Sunday July 3.
Rights issues for a human rights concert!? Come on.
Live 8 in my Living Room
Every once and a while I get an insight into just how extraordinary much of the technology we take for granted actually is.
This Saturday morning in my living room in a small city in the northeastern tip of North America, I was walking around with my little laptop. The speakers on the laptop were playing the live audio of Bono and 200,000 people singing Unchained Melody in Hyde Park in London.
Doc Searls is right, Google is a Windows company
Acts of Volition Radio in iTunes (thanks Matt!)