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…and I still can’t beat down my hard-on. That thing is amazing. I want one so bad. Especially as my MBP is showing wear and tear — I hate to throw the thing in my bag nowadays, especially as I don’t do much heavy lifting, computer wise, when I’m out and about. The EEE would [...]

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Had a long talk with — or rather, I ranted deliriously for about a half hour or more in my (quite literally) malnourished state at — my friend Gary today, about why I’m getting so fucking sick of the Internet.
It was a long and meandering rant, much of which I don’t remember, other than going [...]

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God, this is so beautiful.
ARTIFICIAL.DUMMIES from todo.to.it on Vimeo.
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Those cats at The Onion occasionally knock one out of the park.
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When I get paid, I’m gonna set up a new Skype In account, so I’ll be able to get phone calls whenever I’m in WiFi range. (A friend gave me his old Nokia e61i, and I’ve got Fring running on it, so I’ll get calls that way.) So if you have my GrandCentral number, you [...]

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So the MacBook Air debuted today. Aside from the multitouch trackpad and the 802.11n, I’m not really very excited by this.
Why? Because I don’t care how thin it is. After a certain threshhold, thin doesn’t matter. My MacBook Pro is plenty thin at, what, 1.5″ wide?
The Air has one USB port, no FireWire, a relatively [...]

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Here’s what technology is actually good for: I found an excellent site with information on how to get from the airport in Istanbul to the area with the cheap, good hotels. I copied this into a text file, and sent it via Bluetooth to my new Nokia e61i. Also a Turkish PDF phrasebook.
I leave in [...]

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One Laptop Per Child — XO Giving
I’ve actually played with the XO (or at least, an earlier prototype) and I’ve got to tell you, these things are the coolest gadgets since they invented digital Cheez-Whiz. (There’s no such thing as digital Cheez-Whiz. That’s my point. Think about it.) They’ve got a lot to recommend them [...]

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New Scientist Last Word Blog: Counter-taserism
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An EFFECTIVE taser proof vest consists of any conductive surface where both probes attach creating a (dead short)
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I had an idea for an application a while back, inspired by something from one Bruce Sterling novel or another. The Mook was going to be a chatbot that you could install, which would pretend — in a very limited fashion — to be you if you didn’t want to / couldn’t IM but wanted [...]

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