Thursday, March 07, 2002

[Sam Ruby's Radio Weblog] We are starting the process for moving Axis into beta status. 10:08:11 PM

[diveintomark] 1 in 12. Cal Henderson: Color Vision. [via Eric Costello] "1 in 12 people have some sort of color deficiency. When you're designing for the web, this means that 1 in 12 people might not be able to see your site." Site includes Javascript to simulate various types of color blindness. 10:04:48 PM

[The New York Times] Fed Chief Sees Decline Over; House Passes Recovery Bill. Alan Greenspan effectively declared the recession over Thursday, saying a spate of recent economic news suggested that the recovery "is already well under way." 9:59:53 PM

[IDG InfoWorld] Sun on track to meet Q3 goals 5:12:41 PM

[Slashdot] OpenSSH Local Root Hole 11:42:45 AM

[CNET News.com] Explaining the "dot-cons". A candid conversation with New Yorker writer John Cassidy, whose new book chronicles the intellectual and psychological currents marking the rise and fall of the New Economy. don't know if the book is related to the Frontline by the the same title, but the Frontline was really good. Bill Hambrecht is an honorable man 11:29:27 AM

[Slashdot] Building Secure Software a book report on a book I've been eyeing... sounds like it's as good as the table of contents looks... about design and practices for developing code that's supposed to be secure... 8:58:54 AM

[diveintomark] Move along. Spotted randomly on Slashdot: "Emacs religion: control excess, and all shall be saved." The intelligent, sophisticated, wordplay-loving, kicked-out-of-some-of-the-finest-institutions-in-the-country Emacs users in the crowd are groaning now; the rest of you heathens can just go scratch your underdeveloped heads and move along, nothing to see here. 8:56:09 AM

[Scientific American] Genetic Analysis Reveals Complexity of Modern Human Origin so, they did a study of mitochonrial DNA in humans. Mitochondrial DNA is interesting because it doesn't go through the standard recombinant process the rest of your DNA does -- you get it all from you mom (because she give you your first cell it's mitchondria. and mitochondria has it's own DNA (that's a whole 'nother story)). This makes it much easier to track the lineage. This analysis shows that the story of human origins is more complicated that previously thought, with a couple waves and some back and forth between the continents. 8:53:27 AM

[John Robb's Radio Weblog] WSJ.   Productivity of US workers grew at a 5.2% (annual) clip in the fourth quarter of 2001.  Wow!  That's huge.  Technology acceleration at work...  That type of increase would double real incomes of Americans every ~14 years if sustained. interesting... I've heard a couple of analysts mention that there was risk that we were in for a prolonged period of mild deflation -- which, I guess was uncommon except in the last 50 years. I'm not sure how deflation squares with productivity, but it seems like we could be having our cake and eating it too, if it all works out.. 8:48:38 AM

[ZDNet Tech News] Computer spy methods found in LED lights. Scientists have discovered a way to remotely eavesdrop on computer data by monitoring optical signals from the little flashing lights on everything from modems to keyboards and routers. but I love the banks of flashing lights... my favorite place to watch LEDs was in the SDSC supercomputer room... who says Steve Jobs was the first to bring style and cool to computer design?? 8:43:52 AM

[bOing bOing] Elastic artilleryThe rubber-band machinegun's 12 b .... Elastic artillery The rubber-band machinegun's 12 barrels allow you to fire 144 rubber-bands at high accuracy without reloading. The design is based on the Gatling gun and can be rotated a full 360 degrees for extra eye-putting-out goodness. If $400 is more than you want to spend on a rubber-band gun, check out the other pistols available on the site.LinkDiscuss(Thanks, GW!) posted by Cory Doctorow at 06:55 8:35:09 AM

[Slashdot] Network Associates Gives Up Search for PGP Buyer 7:13:48 AM

[Daypop Top 40] "Shockwave.com - Collapse" 7:12:15 AM

[Wired News] This Is a Real Quest for Maps. David Rumsey's online map collection has introduced a revolutionary, accessible way for people to experience old maps by comparing them to modern geospatial data. By Kendra Mayfield.  Cool GUI. 6:05:54 AM