01
2002
OS X Dock for Windows
I’m not sure if I like the Dock in OS X, but now there’s ObjectDock for Windows.
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27
2002
Simpson Quotes
Cool Mandi’s House of Simpson Quotes.
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27
2002
Guide Horses?
We’re all familiar with guide dogs, but I had never heard of guide horses. They are awfully cute!
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27
2002
SETI@home stats in XML
You can now retrieve SETI@home user statistics in XML format.
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27
2002
Mozilla Link Prefetching
Mozilla 1.2 now includes link prefetching – something to experiment with this weekend.
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27
2002
Ironic
From a 1997 article by John Ashcroft:
The Clinton administration would like the Federal government to have the capability to read any international or domestic computer communications. The FBI wants access to decode, digest, and discuss financial transactions, personal e-mail, and proprietary information sent abroad — all in the name of national security. To accomplish this, President Clinton would like government agencies to have the keys for decoding all exported U.S. software and Internet communications.
This proposed policy raises obvious concerns about Americans’ privacy, in addition to tampering with the competitive advantage that our U.S. software companies currently enjoy in the field of encryption technology. Not only would Big Brother be looming over the shoulders of international cyber-surfers, but the administration threatens to render our state-of-the-art computer software engineers obsolete and unemployed.
There is a concern that the Internet could be used to commit crimes and that advanced encryption could disguise such activity. However, we do not provide the government with phone jacks outside our homes for unlimited wiretaps. Why, then, should we grant government the Orwellian capability to listen at will and in real time to our communications across the Web?
The protections of the Fourth Amendment are clear. The right to protection from unlawful searches is an indivisible American value. Two hundred years of court decisions have stood in defense of this fundamental right. The state’s interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens’ Bill of Rights.
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26
2002
Our Next TV?
Since Michele has been bitten by the redecorating bug (I think she’s watched one too many episodes of Trading Places), I have this funny feeling that one of these will be our next TV.
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26
2002
A Font & Typography Weblog
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26
2002
Usability Research
From the Wichita State Univiersity Software Usability Research Laboratory: research on optimal web design and their Usability News newsletter.
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25
2002
Scanning Your Car Radio?
The Sacramento Bee ran a story yesterday entitled The signs have ears in which a company (Alaris Media Network) claims that their freeway billboards scan passing cars and determine which stations their radios are tuned to, then tailor the ads displayed based on the information gathered. This seems highly unlikely to me – we’re talking about radio receivers here, not transmitters, what kind of signal would be detectable (especially from a radio encased inside a metal vehicle hundreds of feet from the sign and moving at high speed). Does anyone else think that this is just a scam to sell more advertising?
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