Okay, since I'm not at my home computer too much any more, I've been running most of my stuff off a suite of Firefox, Thunderbird, etc on a thumb drive. I have GAIM, but I can't get it to copy my settings from my home version, and I'd like to be able to be on IM and see the people there. Anybody know how to do that?

This Wired article is about very cool stuff. Methods of augmenting human senses through things like feedback belts and tongue sensors and so on. I think that sort of stuff's awesome. They talk about how the brain re-maps once it has a chance to get used to the new sense, and how it can make things noticeable humans usually can't notice. It's ( Read more... )

The X-Prize folks are running a prize for a car that can do 100 miles per gallon and be viable in the car market, including business plan and all. Official site here.

Nifty!

Remember in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, how Judge Doom wanted to buy the trolleys and shut them down to build freeways and make people buy cars?

That's actually somewhat true, except with GM doing the buying, not a toon judge. Well, here, let me quote about National City Lines: "Between 1936 and 1950, National City Lines (NCL), a holding company ( Read more... )

A lot of everyday frustrations with technology (among many other things) come from a simple root. The interface of the technology wasn't designed for the ease of use for the user, it was designed for the ease of building or or saving money or reusing an old design or to look "cool" or whatever the needs of the designer are. The best interfaces ( Read more... )

There are other colors besides white, black, silver, and beige. It's possible to make things these colors. Please use some of these colors on things such as computers and other bits of technology once in a while. Thank you.

It's kinda creepy how much information cameras save to the pictures they take. I imagine it's not that hard to strip it out, but I just noticed it when I was uploading some pics to flickr so I can start posting things about my trip. Well, since I have to be at work StupidEarly tomorrow, the post will have to wait.

This summer, as I've said, I plan to go a-wandering a bit. And I would like to document this visually as well as with words. And the best way to do that in this modern age of marvelous magic is with a digital camera. However, I'm not full of money to splurge on such a thing. But buying something cheap and crappy rather than something good and ( Read more... )

Every so often, I am struck dumb with amazement at the amazingly incredible things we can do, that we take utterly for granted. In this case, speakers. Recorded sound. Right now, I'm listening to music recorded years before I was born, played mostly by dead men. It comes from two boxes up on the shelf above my computer. And it sounds near ( Read more... )