Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
The Accelerando Technical Companion is a technical companion to Charlie Stross’s latest novel, Accelerando, Cool! and part of Wikibooks, a collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit……..as an addition to my ExoCortex…I could use this….I was thinking (I know, Continue reading Accelerando Technical Companion
ExoCortex : From Greek “exÅ” for outside; and from Latin “cortex” for bark, the cortex is the outermost layer of the brain. My ExoCortex is my Brain outside my Brain. Hardware or Software. Clear? Early examples include 6,620 B.C.E. and Continue reading Found Words: ExoCortex
DataSpill: the kind of word I would expect security guru Bruce Schneier to use. DataSpill is the Digital equivalent of an oil spill, when a company springs a leak and spews confidential consumer or corporate information out in to the Continue reading Found Words: DataSpill
Me2Me : a variation on P2P (Person to Person) file sharing. Me2Me (Me-to-Me) is sharing Media and Data on different devices for use by me. Example : Listening to a CD track on my stereo, then converting it to MP3 Continue reading Found Words: Me2Me
Author Cory Doctorow – and Boing Boing co-editor, and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) European Outreach Coordinator – is doing a Book Launch at Toronto’s Bakka Phoenix Books on Monday July 11 (2005)@ 7PM to celebrate his newest book “Someone Comes Continue reading Cory Doctorow @ Toronto’s Bakka Phoenix Books on July 11
the acronym “BANANA” (like the fruit) stands for “Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody” which appears to be the universial version of “NIMBY” (“Not In My Back Yard”). BANANA’s would be the most extreme anti-growth or anti-X activists, in that Continue reading Found Words: BANANA