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The Economist has a special survey on Consumer Power:”Crowned at last” The claim that ?the customer is king? has always rung hollow. But now the digital marketplace has made it come true. The ability to get information about whatever you Continue reading The Customer is King
Three Year’s, and still having fun…
As annouced on Locus Online, At exactly 1:07 PM GMT on March 31, 2005, noted science fiction author Charles Stross ceased his existence as a baseline human being and entered an unknowable posthuman condition. The precipitating event, as far as Continue reading Charles Stross Attains Posthuman Status
Clay Shirky tells Boing Boing his tale of woe: He wanted to Transcript a talk he gave online. A friend had recorded the talk and made him a copy on a DVD. He needed to convert it to AVI format Continue reading How stupid CopyRight Law and bad DRM block You from your own Content
Via the Guardian Unlimited, and only in Britain so far, an arresting new piece of street furniture – a camera that takes your picture and bellows at you to behave yourself. The Flashcam, developed by a company which goes by Continue reading The Shouting Lamppost
Via SFSignal we have Cthulhu. I’m practicing…under Humour/Sci-Fi/SciFi