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I didn't know the opening guitar chord to "A Hard Day's Night" was such an enigma.

Interesting article from a few weeks ago in the NYT Magazine about "ambient awareness" — how technology (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) allows to have an idea what people are doing and thinking, even though they are miles away.

How did I miss this? Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has agreed to make a film about the founders of social networking site Facebook. Sorkin, who created US TV drama The West Wing and wrote the Tom Hanks movie Charlie Wilson’s War, has even opened a Facebook account to aid his research. "I figured a good first step in my preparation would … Read More

In cartoon form….

But a little widget on my righthand column.  Won’t be operational until tomorrow. For those who must resort to watching Olympics online, NBC, who has sole rights to Olympic broadcasts in the U.S., will be providing thousands of hours of content on the web at NBCOlympics.com.  They’ll have four live streams and 3,000 hours of on-demand video online, which should … Read More

A terafic milestone, according to Google’s report, [O]ur systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once! How do we find all those pages? We start at a set of well-connected initial pages and follow each of their links to new pages. Then … Read More

On July 1, California and Washington joined the list of states (including New York) which ban talking on cell phones while driving. North Carolina, for local readers of this blog, has no such ban in place unless you are a teenagers under the age of 18 or a school bus driver.  But a unviersal ban is probably likely, in every … Read More

This is fun. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog    A webshow about Dr. Horrible, a very inept supercriminal with dubious superpowers, attempting to be accepted into the Evil League of Evil, while winning the heart of the girl he loves. And it’s in the style of a Broadway-style musical. starring Neil Patrick Harris, Nathon Fillion from Firefly, and Felicia Day. Harris … Read More

After four failed marriages, it begins to dawn on me that the problem might actually be her. But maybe not.

It’s Lively: The big thing about Lively is that it’s backed by Google.  Some info: Google thinks Lively will encourage even more people to dive into alternate realities because it isn’t tethered to one Web site like Second Life, and it doesn’t cost anything to use. After installing a small packet of software, a user can enter Lively from other … Read More