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  • TidBITS: Welcome to Internet U, via Video

    I was raised on the most successful initiatives from Public Television, or ETV as it was previously known (E standing for Educational of course). Sesame Street, 3-2-1 Contact, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, and Reading Rainbow were my bread and butter as a kid. via TidBITS Just for Fun: Welcome to Internet U, via Video. I couldn’t…

  • links for 2009-06-17

    The 2007 David Lean Lecture Given by David Lynch 2007 Bafta interview (tags: creativity film)

  • Backup Your Computer Hard Drive, right now

    Backup your Data. No, I’m not kidding, stop what you’re doing right now and buy a backup hard drive. Right Now!

  • Google Wave – The Shape of Things to come

    There’s a lot of hype, but it looks like cloud-based applications will enter a new era when Google Waves hits the market. Lookout Sharepoint, Google’s got Waves.

  • links for 2009-06-13

    Index to Bemer's Computer History Vignettes The man who invented ASCII for IBM recounts some interactions of the early days of the Computer Industry (tags: computer history industry ibm amdahl unisys digital shortcut:computer) Lenel Systems International (tags: UofR security card access shortcut:security) Matrox DigiSuite (Real Time video) RealTime editing FX board (tags: video capture shortcut:video)…

  • AnandTech: AVIVO Video Converter

    ATI Avivo is not ready for prime time. But you should read the Anandtech review all the same to see why. Maybe it can be revved and turned into something comparable to nVidia’s own GPU acceleration efforts.

  • links for 2009-06-12

    Wilson Electronics, Inc. – Wilson Cellular Yagi Antenna (tags: mods mobile phone shortcut:network) ExpressionEngine | Overview This company is a hosting provider too and will include an install of the Expression Engine if you so desire (tags: blog cms software) NAVTEQ: GPS There is no more important provider of Map data than Navteq (tags: maps…

  • Wikipedia edit wars revisited

    I don’t know why there isn’t more work put into visualizing the flow of edits to a text. In paper and pencil and even in the era of the typewriter the slow back and forth of edits/corrections is hard to grasp. But the era of electronic text should make this automatic, shouldn’t it?

  • “Pine Trail”-Intel’s next Atom CPU revision

    Netbooks are a computing platform to reckon with. You only need to look at total sales over the last year to see it’s the only growth area for Intel and the computer manufacturers. I think the performance of Intel Atom CPU’s while not perfect is ‘good enough’. The next target for improvement is to give…

  • More word on Larrabee, the i740 of new GPUs

    Larrabee is getting larger and later. These are not desirable traits if you are competing in a market dominated by nVidia and AMD. You have to have to on time, no bigger than other competitors GPUs as die size is a huge cost variable. Lastly you have to compete on price. If as Intel is…