The Future We Were Promised
1950s illustrator Arthur Radebaugh’s work envisioned a world much cooler than the one we currently inhabit. In Table of Malcontents.
Archive for January, 2007
Placeblogger: Get Your Local Fix
The local rag is great for news of street potholes and who’s on the police blotter. But a new blog aggregator aims to help you find local blogs to get your neighborhood news. Plus: Tutorial: Converting HTML to XHTML. In Monkey Bites.
Private Eye-in-the-Sky Nips Crime
A surveillance helicopter patrols Jackson, Mississippi, using a zoom camera, high-powered searchlight and infrared camera to prevent crime. And the city’s not going broke to pay for it. In 27B Stroke 6.
Corporate Podcasting Finds a Way
A company known for mix CDs sold at the Gap claims it can cut the licensing deal for corporations to use music from musicians in their so-called podcasts. But is this patronage model any good for the artists? In Listening Post.
Gadget Lab: The Gamer’s Grail
The gang at Gadget Lab retools for the new year, but first they aim a double-barrel blast of reviews your way. Check out a souped-up PC gaming rig, a geeky smartphone and the ultimate Bluetooth earbuds. From Gadget Lab.
Web 2.0 Acquisition Bait
What do Technorati, Digg, FeedBurner, Zillow and Facebook have in common? They’d all make excellent trophies for the wannabe Web 2.0 entrepreneur flush with cash. By Christopher Null from Wired magazine.
Touring the Home of the Future
Magical, musical, invasive and even persuasive, tomorrow’s fanciful furnishings cater to our every whim, even those we’re barely aware of. Commentary by Momus.
Gallery: Chaos in Berlin
Hackers and sympathizers converge at the 23rd annual Chaos Communication Congress — 4,200 of them — flying their mini surveillance copters and wearing LED clothes.
Cozying Up to Blackhat Hackers
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Why Jim Christy, the Pentagon’s toughest internet crime fighter, hangs out with hackers. By Robin Mejia for Wired magazine.
Inside Seagate’s R&D Labs
As Moore’s Law runs out of steam, the big leaps in computer technology are coming from hard-drive manufacturers. How about a 300-terabit iPod in a few years — big enough to store the entire uncompressed Library of Congress? Rob Beschizza tours Seagate’s labs in Pittsburgh.
