Cornerstone: Visual Thinking
Software for Mapping and Visual Thinking
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Interesting visual teh.

[ Looks like a cheaper analogue of MindMap (http://www.conceptdraw.com/en/products/mindmap/). I demoed MindMap recently and found it very intuitive and quite useful for a few regular tasks. Alas, lack of a mac version makes it a no go for now, even if the price tag wasn't an obstacle. Which it is. Still, if I could get my employer to foot the bill, i'd use it a lot. -k]

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Where some other outfit might put a router, Google is putting an entire data center, and the results are profound. Take Internet TV as an example.....

Huh. Interesting, Cringley. Interesting.

PBS: Google's Secret Plans For All That Dark Fiber?

Tim Kehoe has stained the whites of his eyes deep blue. He's also stained his face, his car, several bathtubs and a few dozen children. He's had to evacuate his family because he filled the house with noxious fumes. He's ruined every kitchen he's ever had. Kehoe, a 35-year-old toy inventor from St. Paul, Minnesota, has done all this in an effort to make real an idea he had more than 10 years ago, one he's been told repeatedly cannot be realized: a colored bubble.

Neat...

The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles - Popular Science

What follows is my take on “Ciscogate”, the uproar over researcher Michael Lynn’s presentation at this year’s Black Hat conference, in which he revealed that he was able to remotely execute code on Cisco routers. I have been representing Mike during this crisis, so I’m clearly partisan, and what I can say is limited by attorney-client responsibilities. But while many people are speculating about the facts, there hasn’t been much on the law, which turns out to be really interesting.

Jennifer Granick has posted the first installment of the story about her representing Mike. Its very rare you get to hear the take of a case like this directly from the lawyers involved, so this is a treat.

Earlier I suggested that everyone leave a comment on Jennifer's blog thanking her for representing Mike. I'd like to renew that suggestion. Thanks Jennifer!

After reading this, you might want to check out this collection of comments on Cryptome about the situation. It includes links to pictures of the presentation Mike actually gave, as opposed to the one that is floating around.

And seriously don't miss the truly excellent video floating around of the Cisco temp-workers slicing the materials out of the conference booklets. You can get it here or here.

The Shout | Jennifer Granick | ISS and Cisco v. Granick’s Gambling Plans

Now this is a truly new application of a keyboard, which I am sure will be rather hellishly expensive, but will probably not have any problem finding people to buy it judging from how much some fools are willing to pay for the reduced-size "Happy Hacker" keyboard--particularly since they willingly pay even more for the version where no one bothered to silkscreen labels onto the keys.

I give it a whole three months of this thing on the market before someone codes up a Drempels-style hack to make the keys change color and so on while the keyboard is being used. The possibilities are damn near endless.

Pimp.

[ Agreed. I've wanted this for some time... truly programmable keyboards that i can turn into whatever I want. -k]

This man deserves a patent with a large sack of money pinned to it.

Nice lecture. Isn't the usual "use tables for layout stupid" and "Structure should be seperated from content" rant. This site actually shows you how to break an existing webpage down to its basic structure and built it back up with CSS, DIVs, and more.

I've been working today on using some Javascript to make the Recommendation page have more, but hidden, options. Inserting this into a page that uses tables for layouts is a bitch.

-Memestreams includes CSS defined inline with each page.
-Memestreams uses Tables instead of DIVs for layout. The main page is over 30k, most of it table formatting. I know Tom has a good Co-Lo deal, but the bandwidth savings here will help Memestreams users.

[ I only wish he had said : "The only problem with CSS is that all browser manufactuers are FUCKING ASSHOLES and don't properly support the spec. You'll spend more time dealing with silly goddamn tricks than laying out your page."

Fuck IE. Fuck Firefox, Mozzilla, Safari, and every browser on the planet. There's a spec. If you're gonna call it a standard, then bloody fucking comply with it.

I dare you to try and align a div with the BOTTOM of the screen. Check it out, it's awesome! -k]

Why tables for layout is stupid: problems defined, solutions offered

While I don't really care about forwarding voice mail, the use of DTMF tones to create a reliable datalink layer is something I was trying to do. A pair of FSR radios, some DTMF chips and some PICs and I have a reliable, low speed (~45bps) data communcations with around a mile range for under $50. This is far more flexible then the model airplane remote controls that cost over $75.

Cisco has some info on it too.

[ This wouldn't have anything to do with advanced remote package delivery systems, would it? -k]

AMIS: DTMF Data Link (kind of) [ZIP]

The Internet's primary oversight body approved a plan Wednesday to create a virtual red-light district, setting the stage for pornographic Web sites to use new addresses ending in "xxx"

...
In sum, this is going to start a constitutional fireworks show.
...
.XXX is simply a bad choice for a domain name. They should have used .SEX. XXX implies hard core porn. SEX is far more likely to be acceptable to a wider range of websites and I think would result in fewer legal battles. For example, sites about sex education would love to be listed under .sex, but would refuse to be classified as XXX. However, the conservative christians will want them clumped into the red light district so they can block them more easily, and so the fireworks...

[ But dude "SEX" is a dirty word. Just having that word entered into the official cannon of standard address suffixes would be an offense to Jesus Christ himself. Acceptance of people's interest in sex is a sign of the end times. -k]

CNN.com - Stage set for '.xxx' Internet addresses - Jun 2, 2005

Last night I bought the 1GB version. I really do like it. It's super light, ultra durable, and more important it's an ipod.

What I hate is steve jobs. I hate him. I hate his marketing tactics. I hate the feeling of "completion" I had while I listened to my shiny new shuffle and seeing an ipod poster on the metro wall. What really irked me was the fact that the whole marketing campaign worked on me.

My name is timball and I bow before the temple of Steve Jobs.

[ Resistance is futile. -k]

Apple - iPod shuffle

] This corporation from the picture where you place on and
] the like the desk horizontally, developed the new display
] technology which makes three-dimensional image indicate.
] This display is visible, opening is sent being something
] which in for the education exhibition and the arcade
] game, when from the front it disdains in slanted
] direction, in order image several cm to come up even with
] the naked eye making use of the special glasses.
] In the future, combining with touch panel the performance
] and the like which is operated concerning the picture is
] added, toward commercialization aims within 2 years.
]
] Naked eye three-dimensional display delivering the image
] which barely slips in both eyes, being something which
] makes the 3-D feel, is formed by the software which
] creates the image which responds to the angle which you
] see as the display panel which controls the travelling
] direction of light with the film which arranges the
] minute lens.

Cool.

[ I guess so, from the pictures, seing as the engrish is completely incomprehensible... -k]

Toshiba: Press release (2005.4.15)