DRM
You probably didn’t realize that many color laser printers embed tiny yellow dots on each printed page. These tiny yellow dots amount to a “serial number” for each printer. Why would a printer manufacturer embed such a tracking system without the purchasers knowledge? Seeing Yellow is the brainchild of
Politics
Bruce Schneier has written an excellent piece on terrorism and why it almost always fails to produce the outcome its purveyors hope. But like all cognitive biases, correspondent inference theory fails sometimes. And one place it fails pretty spectacularly is in our response to terrorism. Because terrorism often results in
Sports
Thanks to my friend Kelly Smith for posting a link to this instructional website. As Kelly says, the web and especially the video enhanced web is the perfect medium for instructional content of all types. I especially like this site because with my laptop, I can practice right outside in
Humor
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Apple
Will It Blend? | Presented By Blendtec: “Ouch!” [youtube]qg1ckCkm8YI[/youtube]
Business Excellence
Leadership: Worldwide Anti-US Feelings Suggest Troubling Trend: Anyone that travels the global marketplace knows that negative views of the US are widely held. What often surprises people is the nations in which the population tends to view the US unfavorably. A massive global poll of 45,000 released by the
Politics
Well, I am not advocating that we follow the Chinese lead here, but one wonders what effect this type of policy would have on our own bureaucrats? Quoting from the MSNBC article: China on Tuesday executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog who had become a symbol
Apple
We invite you to add your ideas in the comments, and we ’ll add the ones we think are the best to the master list. (And if anything we bring up here actually is already possible in the iPhone, please let us know. We don’t claim to be
Apple
Cnet follows in sync with the iphone commercials with the real deal. Amazingly, reality is in line with the hype (Apple marketing). read more | digg story
Apple
CNET News.com’s Charles Cooper rankled readers for suggesting that Silicon Valley is the only logical origin for the iPhone. The debate rages on. read more | digg story
Innovation
As I have previously blogged, “Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. Users like you, maybe.” The latest turn in the saga of MS vs. innovation continues. This
Apple
It may not have been the ringtone heard ’round the world, but there sure was a lot of fuss over a phone Friday. At 6 p.m., the Apple iPhone went on sale. “I’m hoping it will make me cool,” Ryan Petty, 37, joked of the phone, which he
