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Category Archives: Technology

Windows Applications that keep me from completing “the switch”

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Originally posted on Combat Consulting
About 18 months ago started using my MacBook Pro for all professional work, ditching my Toshiba and making “the switch”.
Despite really loving my Mac, various professional conventions and some much loved software keep me running a stripped down copy of Windows XP in Parallels nearly full time. Apart from being just [...]

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Free Wi-Fi Zone in Students Park Vandalized

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Originally posted in the  Belgrade Foreign Visitors Club
Typical defacement of a Dorcol building
Telenor recently launched a free wi-fi zone in Student’s Park (Studenski Trg) Belgrade.
The idea was to allow “Students and people will be able to hook up to the Internet using their laptop [...]

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Futurist Ray Kurzweil Sees a Revolution Fueled by Information Technology - NYTimes.com

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Ray Kurzweil’s has a plan for upgrading the “suboptimal software” in your brain . From the New York Times:
Do you have trouble sticking to a diet? Have patience. Within 10 years, Dr. Kurzweil explained, there will be a drug that lets you eat whatever you want without gaining weight.
Worried about greenhouse gas emissions? Have faith. [...]

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Attention Profiling: APML Beginner’s Guide

Friday, May 30, 2008

“APML allows you to share your own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers. The idea is to compress all forms of Attention Data into a portable file format containing a description of your ranked interests.” APML Website
“…consolidated, structured descriptions of people’s interests [...]

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E L L I P T I G O - Glide Bike

Saturday, May 10, 2008

The elliptiGO glide bike combines the best aspects of running and cycling to create a fun and effective means of exercising outdoors.

[From E L L I P T I G O - Glide Bike]

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Country Code Map

Friday, April 18, 2008

Via Kevin Kelly’s ct2

It is available as a 24 x 26 poster ($30).

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Reality Mining

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Ever since I read Timothy D. Wilson’s magnificent “Strangers to Ourselves“, I have been fascinated with the fact that we often know less about ourselves than our closest friends and family (thanks probably to our many cognitive biases) .
Enter MIT’s Reality Mining Project:
[O]ur ultimate goal is to create a predictive classifier that [...]

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Ivo was right about Facebook

Friday, March 28, 2008

South African journalist and pundit Ivo Vegter has rapidly become one of my favourite daily reads (his is one of the 30 surviving feeds in my “daily” list that once numbered 300 feeds).
One contemporary cultural phenomenon that he was dead right about is Facebook. In 2007, when Facebook was peaking, Ivo started [...]

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Audio tape cassette nostalgia at tapedeck.org

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

 
analog audio tape cassette nostalgia - tapedeck.org

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Deep Flight Submarine

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Two things lurk deep in most men’s hearts as the ultimate boy’s toys: Personal flying devices (like jetpacks) and a mini-submarines.
After a recent discussion with a good friend about the perfect underwater filming platform* I found myself revisiting my old love of mini subs and  came across the Deep Flight Submarine.
 

Deep Flight [...]

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