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10 January 2007
OpenMoko
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iPhone? We don't need no stinkin' iPhone. We need this : OpenMoko today announced the immediate availability of a completely integ...
Star Trek's Second Life
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Open source client, and now this : After Rosedale's portion ended with an Electric Sheep Company produced Machinima featuring Star Trek ...
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The Open Source Bathroom
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You know you're a geek... when you're running Cat5 cable in the bathroom : Yes, that's Cat-5, and it's everywhere in this pl...
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Love and the Long March Spirit
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John Battelle calls search engines "databases of intentions"; in this respect the top ten lists of queries say a lot about us. In...
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Hardcore Coding
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I've never really had the urge to hack on the Linux kernel (not least because I am the world's worst programmer - Fortran, anyone?) ...
The Other Thunderbird
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No, not that one , this one : Sandia National Laboratories’ 8960-processor Thunderbird Linux cluster, developed in collaboration with Dell, ...
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09 January 2007
Afforesting the Dell
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Blige, I thought, Mikey's seen the light : In a speech today at the Consumer Electronics Show here, Mr. Dell urged the electronics indus...
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Scratching an Icon
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Who is this Steve Jobs whereof they speak? I just don't get the mindless adulation of this person (try reading " The Journey is th...
All the World's a Stage/Film/MMORPG/Virtual World
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More signs of the times: Disney CEO Bob Iger showed off the revamped Disney.com during his CES keynote yesterday, but there was little &quo...
First Open Access Journal on Open Access
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It seems hard to believe, but if Peter Suber, Mr Open Access, says so, it must be true: Open Access Research is a new peer-reviewed OA jou...
Microsoft Vista: "Checked" by the NSA
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News that the US's official eavesdropper, the National Security Agency, has had a hand in Vista is going to go down really well with th...
Chinese Whispers About Dell and GNU/Linux
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As this Reg article points out, Dell's attitude to GNU/Linux has always been somewhat ambivalent. So news that a Dell box running the...
Lost in Translation
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I wrote recently about the goings-on at the Council of the European Union, and their strange reason for not supporting GNU/Linux users. Bu...
08 January 2007
Google Reaches for the Stars
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One of the most important shifts in science at the moment is towards dealing with the digital deluge. Whether in the field of genomics, par...
UKPMC: A Name to Remember
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If, like me, you're a fan of PubMed Central, and you live in Europe, here's some good news: UK PubMed Central has just opened, prov...
Second Life Opens up the Client
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Fantastic news: Linden Lab has released the source code for the Second Life client under the GNU GPL v2. Nice historical context, too: In...
Of Sears and Seers
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People often ask: "but what's Second Life for ?" Maybe this is the answer : IBM, which recently set up a business group to ex...
From Code Re-use to Stuff Re-use
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One of the strengths of open source is that you don't have to re-invent the wheel; instead, you can re-use what others have done. A key...
The More Than Middling Middle Kingdom
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The news that the Chinese Lemote Technology Corporation has released its first PCs based on the Loongson/Godson chip is interesting for a...
It's Hard to Be Good
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I applaud the way Bill Gates is putting his vast wealth to good use through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, just as I despise the w...
Mmm, Yes, But
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Antony Mayfield points to an interesting piece in the Guardian that worries about what it calls the Mmm, Yes, But culture that blogs can ...
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Google Earth Meets Second Life
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Apparently , Google Earth now has a layer that includes user-generated buildings: What you get is the best of 3D Warehouse 's textured b...
07 January 2007
Real-time Google Earth
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Well, almost .
Coming Your Way: Geoethics
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Given the current state of the planetary commons, I fear we are going to be needing these sooner than expected.
05 January 2007
London Games Academy?
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If you believe, as I do, that there is a general convergence between films, virtual worlds and gaming, then it makes sense to nurture gaming...
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