Calorie Restriction vs. Accelerating Change
Over a month ago I attended Accelerating Change 2004. I agree with Peter McCluskey’s take: an unexpected but mostly well done and welcome focus on current developments and lots of excitement about...
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Center for Decentralization
This evening I had the pleasure of attending an open house for the CommerceNet Labs center for decentralization or Zlab. I’ve been meaning to write about Zlab for awhile, and I’m taking advantage of...
View ArticleSearch 2005
Many of John “Searchblog” Battelle’s predictions for 2005 seem like near certainties, e.g., a fractious year for the blogosphere and trouble for those who expect major revenues from blogging. Two...
View ArticleN-level blog entry references
Dear LazyWeb, Bloglines, Technorati and probably others do a passable job of presenting direct references to a blog entry. (Minor complaints: With Bloglines you have to subscribe to a feed or preview...
View ArticleccPublisher 1.0
Nathan Yergler just cut ccPublisher 1.0, a Windows/Mac/Linux desktop app that helps you license, tag, and distribute your audio and video works. I’m very biased, but I think it’d be a pretty neat...
View ArticleDon’t Forget Your Turmeric
Betterhumans cites a study that found curcumin (turmeric, the spice that makes curry yellow) inhibits the accumulation of destructive beta-amyloid plaques and breaks up existing plaques in genetically...
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Lexus, Mercedes, Porsche
Tyler Cowen cites a Harper’s Index factoid: Number of American five-year-olds named Lexus: 353 One of them works at Raisins, featured in the first South Park episode I ever watched and still my...
View ArticleIndividual Rights Management
Cory Doctorow correctly lambastes those soft on DRM for the umpteenth time. The following excerpt sparked a thought: DRM isn’t protection from piracy. DRM is protection from competition. Reminds me of...
View ArticleFlip a coin, don’t recount, revote, and litigate
Votes for Washington state governor cast in November have now been counted three times. One candidate won the first two counts (first by 261 votes, then 42) , the other won the second recount by 129...
View ArticleDeployment Matters
Most popular descriptions of why BitTorrent works so well are off the mark, The BitTorrent Effect in the current Wired Magazine included. Excerpts: The problem with P2P file-sharing networks like...
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