How to destroy the Earth
@Sam’s Archive: Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe. Category:SciFi/Humour/Things to do on a slow day
Rich Interactive Web Clients via Ajax
Jeffrey Veen writes on Scrubbing Innovation into Interaction: Ajax, and links to a essay on Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications at Adaptive Path (where he is a Partner). That’s Ajax as in “Asynchronous JavaScript + XML” (+XHTML+CSS+DOM) aka Continue reading Rich Interactive Web Clients via Ajax
Canadian recording industry wants a "free market" of government subsidies and monopoly protection
Via Boing Boing, Michael Geist gives his view of The University of Toronto hosted “Sound Bytes, Sound Rights: Canada at the Crossroads of Copyright Law” (as previously mentioned , unfortunately I was unable to attend (went sking)). (The hand out Continue reading Canadian recording industry wants a "free market" of government subsidies and monopoly protection
i, robot by Cory Doctorow
A new short story by Cory Doctorow on The Infinite Matrix : i, robot. Enjoy: Arturo Icaza de Arana-Goldberg, Police Detective Third Grade, United North American Trading Sphere, Third District, Fourth Prefecture, Second Division (Parkdale) had had many adventures in Continue reading i, robot by Cory Doctorow
Hula, open source mail and calendar server, and GroupWare bad.
Nat Friedman announces the launch of Hula, a new project to build an open source mail and calendar server and Rich Web Client, with some different ideas. (but will it allow for Tags and Folksonomies?) Plus Jamie Zawinski focus them Continue reading Hula, open source mail and calendar server, and GroupWare bad.
Jay Ingram, Science Guy
Flying out to Calgary last week I was seated next to Jay Ingram well known co-host and producer of Daily Planet, the hour long science magazine on Canada’s Discovery Channel, Toronto Star columnist, Author (most recently: The Velocity of Honey Continue reading Jay Ingram, Science Guy