Monthly Archives: July 2004

Moving Water Molecules By Light

By Ian | July 31, 2004

a new nanotechnology effect Via Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends

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The Secret Swing and Accordion Guy exposed in The Globe and Mail

By Ian | July 31, 2004

The Globe and Mail exposes The Secret Swing first bloged by Joey DeVilla (aka Accordion Guy) back 2 weeks ago (and Here) and then picked up by Boing Boing
The secret is out! and Joey’s Wuffie is up! (How long till you get “Lunched” by Jan Wong?)

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Code 46

By Ian | July 30, 2004

I missed seeing this in last Year Toronto’s International Film festival, but now its comming to “select theaters” August 6th

Code 46 is a love story set in a Brave New World-type near-future where cities are heavily controlled and only accessible through checkpoints. People cannot travel unless they have “papelles,” a special travel permit issued by [...]

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Bouncing around Toronto and 2 post Singularity futures

By Ian | July 30, 2004

Over the last week or so, Elicia and I have been able to spend some extra time doing stuff around Toronto
In addition to a couple of morning tennis matches (which made up for your schedule evening games rained out), and seeing a 2 very good movies ( SpiderMan 2 and Will Smith’s I [...]

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Need directions?

By Ian | July 29, 2004

Via vowe dot net :: Need directions?. If offered, do accept….

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Ebook’s done wrong

By Ian | July 29, 2004

Cory takes a bat to the puffy PR piece on Gizmodo.
for addtional background to the subject : Cory’s own paper Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books, his talk to Microsoft on DRM, and Charlie Stross’s very recent A brief rant about ebooks.
In a related convergence, Russel Beattie writting about celphone/moblie technologies notes :
There’s got to be [...]

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Myths and realities of nano futures

By Ian | July 29, 2004

Via Howard Lovy’s excellent NanoBot comes a link to BBC : Myths and realities of nano futures which set a more measured tone about where the use of these technologies and techniques are today without some of the typical cheerleading of either the magic “fantastic voyage” type or the fear mongering gray (or green or [...]

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Now with Google searching…

By Ian | July 29, 2004

I’ve added Google search of this site to the Navigation bar, so I can find stuff.
Enter your query, hit return, and be amazed (or alarmed)! Only positive positives.