Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
To quote the very interesting site
These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD — part of a test conducted by the US government during it’s dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950’s. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject is the medico that jabbed him.
Overlay 3000 URLs on top of each other, and the general color of the web is a nice gray.
Apparently the pregnant model is looking for a husband after the father of the child she’s carrying decided he didn’t want to have anything to do with her. Are you single and looking? Thanks to Chris for the link.
End of AP’s story on CES in Sunday’s Oregonian had this:
“One interesting little device debuting at the trade show claims to put truth detection voice analysis on the bridge of your nose.”
“Voice Analysis Eyeglasses” provide real-time analysis on the inside of the lenses about whoever is talking at the time, says its maker, the Israeli company Nemesysco, which developed the technology for counterterrorism and government customers.”
“A chip inside the glasses is able to read the voice frequency of the person you are talking to,” said Beata Gutman, a spokeswoman for the company. “The voice is analyzed through that chip, and there are lights that indicate whether the person is lying.”
“She said the truth spects were expected to be available at the end of January for $400 to $500.”
Raises all sorts of intriguing questions, doesn’t it? If it works, that is.
Can’t find anything on that particular product on their Website but do find an equally intriguing press release from late ’02 about “LOVE-SENSE,” which the company calls “the first-ever PC software that can detect love!” by analyzing the voice over the phone in real time to “detect deep emotional feelings.”
Sure, yeah, right. I believe that, don’t you?
How have computers been depicted in film? Bookmark this site for good reference.
There are at at least 10 dead folks who make over $8 million a year. The estate of Elvis, for example, rakes in $40-million per year.
Meanwhile, I’m still trying to pay my bills. Link from the Bastard.
I don’t like software pirates, either, as, generally, they hurt the little guys more than they hurt the big guys. Nick Bradbury, as a software developer, has a good commentary about how it’s the little guys who are getting hurt, and he provides telling examples and stats.
While I agree that people like Nick should never get screwed by pirates, I do have one thought on this: The thing is about piracy stats is that they, generally, assume that the person would pay for the software otherwise. If they had the money, would they pay for your software? No, they probably wouldn’t. For most of these guys, it’s just the thrill of having pirated software that drives them. If that software is cut off from them, most of the leechers out there will just find another chunk of software to use that they can get for free.
What it comes down to it that pirates are cheapskates, and they’re not going to pay for anything, period. And these stats, while very telling, assume that the pirates would pay for the software if they could. So while software companies make claims of losing tons of money, would they be making it otherwise? These pirates wouldn’t pay for it, even if they could. Yes, there are folks who are selling pirated software, and those people are wrong, and certainly if you use the software, you should pay the full value for it, but the stats need to quit assuming that the person who pirates would actually pay — there’s no money lost unless that person makes a legitimate person use it without paying.
Just my two cents. Nick’s software is great, and I’ve paid for my copy of FeedDemon (and use TopStyle lite, as it came with HomeSite, another great product that Nick created that Macromedia now owns). Little guys shouldn’t get screwed, and software should be paid for, one way or another.
Could you write, cast, shoot, score, and edit an entire movie in a day? For $10,000, these guys gave it a whirl. Interesting concept with bios of some of the competitors and a timeline of the day’s events.
Since everybody else is linking to this, I might as well: 101 ways to save the Internet.
’tis that time of the year where everybody publishes a “Best of” or “Most something-a-rather” list for the year, and this year is no different. While Barney‘s pounding out a story highlighting the stories of the year locally, here are a few that I have sitting in my inbox (feel free to suggest more):
Those are ones I’ve seen today, and I’ll add more as I come across them. Feel free to comment here and I’ll add it to this list.