Once in a while I wander the web, or somehow somewhere learn something new, cool, important, or just plain fun. This page is a running history what I come across. I'm sure that it will get outdated in no time, but deal with it.
Life's a drag? Need a jump start? or do you just thINk different?
Check out
SuicideGirls - smart, sure, unique,
alive.
Intelligent insanity - For strange stop-action animated fun, check out the view
of 'history' that Seth Green, Matthew Senreich and company have cooked up in the
"Robot Chicken", featured in cable tv's "Adult Swim" lineup.
Here is a good starting point to find out
more.
Apple switches from PowerPC chips to Intel. This is not as black-and-white
as many may think, Apple does get a cheaper and cooler-running chip in the short
term. The Apple contract for IBM was always more about mind-share and
publicity, than profit. IBM's chip fabrication and design teams are
running at near-full capacity, so financially this is not directly an unexpected
or devastating blow. The boys at Blue are among the best chip architect
and fabricators in the world, and THAT is part of the problem. Most of
IBM's power-crew are stuck in a mind-set of ultra-high end design only, and
their planning and management teams have had little success internally coming up
with truly viable and marketable PowerPC for low power and high volume industry
sectors. IBM thinks it would like its Power architecture to take off and
be embraced by other vendors and fabricators, but as can often be the case they
flounder when trying market their often brilliant ideas (there are too many to
list, but for example: the failure of OS/2, the track-point device, and
the PC itself are still sore points among many loyal IBM workers).
This does NOT mean that IBM will fail to create and grow the PowerPC
culture, it just means that it may take longer that it could or should take.
Remember, at least for now, IBM has quietly and brilliantly cornered the
lucrative game console market - Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo ALL use IBM
power-derived chips. The resulting new 'cell' family of processors (found
only in the Playstation) are truly amazing, but do not necessarily fill all
needs for all people right now. The little cell processor is a good start,
and a great example of where PowerPC can go.
IBM, like quite a few companies, is blessed with a glut of genius and
great ideas, but the demands of Wall Street have perverted how innovation
companies operate. Significant investment in long-term/future strategy is
difficult now with bean-counters and Wall Street leaches wanting every penny to
show immediate results, rather than assuring long term prowess, growth and
viability.
Hot, eclectic, sometimes smart, sometimes silly, sometimes useless
often read so you can say that you read it - none the less
W I R E D - is worth a pickup from
time to time. They make a good portion of their magazine content available
online, and free.
Their article on
Women, Sex, & the Science of Orgasm
(July 2005) is actually interesting.
See the latest about one of my favorites:
Absinthe (part of my 'Crimson and Clover' series of short stories)
Thank goodness,
Bush stopped again: judges reject Bush's view that law enforcement should be
able to use cell phone signals to track users' movements without 'probable
cause'.
Births to unmarried women set record, but births by teen females on decline
since 1991
Wasps able to sniff out explosives and ?
Solar subway in Coney Island!
You knew it would happen...
coming soon: online sex games
Quick lick - you might like to hear the latest from
the Epoxies, their new album is called Stop the Future.
here's Synthesized from the album.