2010 started with a beep. Actually lots of beeps.
Full story later.
Prof. Ed Lazowska's highly plausible Exponentials R Us: Seven Computer Science Game-Changers from the 2000's, and Seven More to Come.
Via the horrifically erudite and urbane Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Making Light: The Swindle, a link to the must-read faux Steve Jobs's blog rant, A not-so-brief chat with Randall Stephenson of AT&T.
I loved it and I don't even have an iPhone…
I have seen the future, and it is looking at me with Google Goggles.
Interestingly, “Google Goggles” was part of the title of a good 2005 dissertation on search engine bias by Alejandro M. Diaz, Through the Google Goggles: Sociopolitical Bias in Search Engine Design. I doubt he gets a cut.
Mostly I've seen no reason to even want an iPhone. Expensive. Eats battery life. Wants to sell you things.
But this…this…I could actually imagine wanting if I had an iPhone: Brian Eno Releases Second iPhone App.
Lifehacker lists its Top 10 Computer Hardware Fixes and Upgrades – Hardware.
I give myself seven out of ten. In my defense, I don't want a Hackintosh, by the time my laptop screen died (2 laptops ago), it was a computational relic in every other way, and it's not that I don't ever solder, I'm just not that good at it.
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