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The second browser war. Nice article on the near future struggle as the web and the desktop OS collide (combine?) This is like the stuff I used to talk about concerning Mozilla and how it was going to change everything because it is not just a browser, but a cross platform application environment. Mozilla is still an important piece, but the great hope is now WHAT-WG rather than XUL.
I think people have to understand this possibility (that the web will, in some important senses, be the future desktop operating system) to understand the potential of google.
Completely unconfirmed, yet believable, iPod rumor:
AirPod.
Summary: airport wireless add-on for iPod.
Attaches to bottom of iPod via dock connector.
Mates cleanly; appears to make the iPod ~1 inch taller.
Powered via 4G iPod's "enhanced" battery.
Requires 4G iPod; earlier models not supported.
Streams iPod audio via AirTunes to Airport Express.
Capable of streaming at line level or with volume control.
Enables wireless iPod syncing.
Includes "pass through" dock connector on bottom, allowing iPod, with AirPod attached, to operate while docked or with other external dock connector power source. Additional dock connector accessories can therefore be "piggy-backed" onto AirPod.
$99
Mini mini sci-fi story (or story idea) CPU's beyond the edge.
From a complete dump of Metafilter's front-page post database back to July 1999 (thanks, Matt!), I extracted the unique domains linked from each entry and added them all up.About what you'd expect except what the heck is boston.com doing so high up?
The Top 50 results are below...
This is not the new G5 iMac that is about to be introduced but I think it is a really nice concept design.
Apple is recalling 28,000 batteries that it shipped with 15 inch Powerbooks:
The recall affects laptops sold since January which contain batteries made during the last week of December 2003 only.When did you buy Bill? Probably worth a look.
The batteries have the model number A1045 and serial numbers that begin with HQ404, HQ405, HQ406, HQ407 or HQ408.
Battletorrent: making BitTorrent "completely effortless for complete neophytes":
Instead of downloading the torrent file, the user downloads an executable that contains a fully functional bittorrent client and the torrent file (say, "The_Grey_Album.torrent"). When the user runs it, the program begins downloading the Grey Album. The user can get files using bittorrent without needing to know or understand what bittorrent is.
Clay Shirkey's The Possibility of Spectrum as a Public Good. Yet another recap of why radio interference is no longer a problem, and how this should change FCC regulation policy. Very short and to the point for such a complex issue. Best summary yet.
Blobjects to Spimes, Bruce Sterling's 2004 SIGGRAPH speach.
Back from vacation. Little Compton, Rhode Island was beautiful once again. This was my second year at the same location, although over the winter they knocked down the house and built a new one in its place.
I hurt my back and spent much of the week laying on the floor, but oddly this didn't upset me too much. I managed to sit up for the fabulous meals.
Also I left my cellphone on the windowsill one night where it got drenched with rain. When I turned it on I just got a sickly yellow blinking screen. I tried to reboot it a few times over the next couple of days, but never had any luck. Now this morning, after sitting for many days and completely draining the battery, I plugged it in and it appears to work. Occasionally the screen will get this jittery thing, but otherwise it appears okay. I am surprised because the thing got *wet*.
Anyway, it's very nice to be back in the center of the world.