Monthly Archives: June 2005

Speculations on the Google Wallet

By Ian | June 24, 2005

During the last week rumors of Google developing an online-payment system (Google Wallet) to rival PayPal surfaced (First on Wall Street Journal then everywhere like:SlashDot, SearchBlog, and The Unofficial Google Weblog) and then had a offical confirmation, by Google CEO Eric Schmidt which was interesting for want wasn’t said:
“We do not intend to offer a [...]

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Margaret Atwood on why we need science fiction….in related news flying pigs circling the Annex

By Ian | June 22, 2005

Via The Guardian, Margaret Atwood on why we need science fiction…She likes us she really likes us….see why this is a big deal Margaret Atwood Vs SF.
I’m too chicken to face the “Wrath of Atwood”, and ask the “question”. Perhaps I’ll just quietly move “Handmaids Tale” and “Oryx and Crake” to [...]

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Remixing the US census and Google Maps

By Ian | June 21, 2005

Via Boing Boing, we have a combining of US census and Google Maps to make GCensus.com (the latest in a long line of G names), by Jimmy Palmer of DrmBlog.com and DrmBlog.org fame (“devoted to the discussion of Digital Rights Management (DRM)”), down to the level of Census Blocks extracted from 10 gigs of data [...]

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Self Life

By Ian | June 20, 2005

and Surprising Expiration Dates:
# Tuna, canned
Unopened: 1 year from purchase dateOpened: 3 to 4 days, not stored in can
# Brown sugar
Indefinite shelf life, stored in a moistureproof container in a cool, dry place.
# Batteries, alkaline
7 years

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Pulp Fiction… in 30 seconds with Bunnies

By Ian | June 19, 2005

Pulp Fiction… in 30 seconds with Bunnies by Angry Alien
More Bunnines : It’s a Wonderful Life …in 30 seconds with bunnies, Jaws and The Shining or The Exorcist and there is allways The Titanic or Alien. All 30 Seconds, all Bunnies. Boy those Bunnies get around!
del.icio.us Tags: humour ; Technorati Tags: humour [...]

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Accelerando! is released to the wild

By Ian | June 17, 2005

Long awaited, Charlie Stross’s Accelerando! is available for downloading (and mindloading) under a Creative Commons license, in various formats (use Bit Torrent to save his bandwidth). Then on July 1st buy the book and support a hard working and nice guy.
I’m currently – slowly – reading it, and doing a mental diff with the [...]

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The Importance of RSS

By Ian | June 16, 2005

The Importance of RSS, and what Google might do next, and who will Google buy next?
Technorati, and del.icio.us would make sense, as value add aplha geek search engines, and then they need a web based rss news reader.
del.icio.us Tags: rss google ; Technorati Tags: rss google

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Russia’s Kliper Spacecraft Showcased at Paris Air Show

By Ian | June 16, 2005

Via Space.com, and following up Getting Space Exploration Right reveals a little more real information on Russian’s successor to the Soyuz, called Kliper (or sometimes “Clipper”?), which is way ahead of NASA’s Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), with a full scale mockup.
European Space Agency (ESA) is on board to ensure it is adapted [...]

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The Paintball gun future

By Ian | June 12, 2005

In the Sunday NYT’s Magazine there was a piece about A Neater Way to Make a Paintball Mess and the new Spyder Electra ACS paintball gun. (image via NYT)
The craftsmanship behind the paintball gun was starling stunning. I also began to reflected on the Bruce Mau’s Massive Change show that recently finished at Toronto’s [...]

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A new variation of cueCat in the Works? Still clueless

By Ian | June 10, 2005

Via Tech Dirt : there’s new effort by the magazine industry in Europe to do a cueCat like system. Keywords sent with SMS (huge in Europe & Asian with teens and young adults ) get you a email with a url link to a special on line “animated” version of a magazine.
At least they [...]

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