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Prada is opening a new store in Manhattan with something called "elastic time" mirrors.
Move slowly and the mirror reflects your image back to you normally. But if you spin around quickly, you experience what the designers call "elastic time": The mirror slows down your image so you can view yourself from the back. This Wonderlandian trick is pulled off with hidden cameras and a screen that masquerades as a mirror.Cool. Popular science (mostly fluff) story here (via harrumph)
Christopher Locke (remember him from the other day?) and John Patrick (V.P. of internet technology at IBM) have an email conversation about business and the future of the internet (or is it about the internet and the future of businesss?) on line at borders.com. Tom at improprieties has some thoughts, plus pointers to here, and here for more.
This must be out of context somehow, or else he's just saying this to get a laugh watching all the people it bends out of shape, but according to the seattle times, Bill Gates thinks Microsoft is responsible for open source:
Gates also took some credit for the genesis of open-source software. He said Microsoft made it possible by standardizing computers: "Really, the reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines," he said.A few months ago microsoft was calling open source "a cancer" and now it turns out they are actually responsible. Which is it? To be clear, Gates has been adamantly against free software (I know I'm mixing my terms here, but this is an overview) since the very beginning. Read this open letter from Bill Gates to early computer hobbyists from 1976. This same fight has been going on all these years. It's a shame those evil-doer hobbyists kept him from making money.