Some early Zune numbers are coming in. Amazing the Zune is number 2 portable device at its debut. Read all about it at Zune reaches No. 2 in its debut week. The "consumer experience" should start filtering to blogs shortly…
The inventiveness of the ancient world never ceases to amaze me. The Antikythera Mechanism was found aboard some ancient roman shipwreck and has recently been meticulously studied. Surprise, the NY Times has a great article about findings so far. Pretty amazing what those ancient Greeks knew & built.
Absolutely stunning video of Richard Dawkins taking on all comers at Randolph-Macon Woman's College. Apparently quite a few "students" from Falwell's Liberty "University" (please note the quotes, enough said) showed up and tried to challenge him. Dawkins brilliantly destroys their arguments and statements. What I find particularly funny is that a number of "scientists" work [...]
Ran across a wonderful post on the interesting people mailing list. Ted Nelson, the legend himself , writes of his latest experience going through airport security. I quote for those too engaged to click on over:
Hi Dave–
Last week I went through security at Newark. I had just put my carry-on, pocket stuff, laptop [...]
I am in the midst of reading a wonderful account of the early days of electricity, Empires of Light. The books covers the euphoria of the inventions, the easy early money, followed by the grueling work of actually turning it into a business that changed people's lives. A riveting story that should be required reading [...]
Looks like Microsoft is set to unleash unholy anti-piracy safeguards in their next version of Office.
The RIAA's Cary Sherman has a Nov 13, 2006 must-read editorial on CNet. In it Sherman calls CEA's President Gary Shapiro statements "extreme", Sherman goes on and describes what he sees as the limits & definition of fair use. Why all the brouhaha? The just recently launched digitalfreedom.org site sponsored by the CEA. [...]
Looks like there is some trouble brewing in PS3 land, NY Times reports the game console is a big miss. This is EXTREMELY bad news for Sony, they have lost the battle in the music player space and are now poised to lose the battle in video games.
Simply stunning, wind powered robots
Today is that fateful day when Microsoft launches the venerable iPod competitor, the Zune. From all reports the Zune is pretty craptacular . Everything from a bizarre song sharing feature to not even playing previous Microsoft DRM-ed music. I really don't get it, if Microsoft is going to take a stab at the market why [...]