How Mobile Phones Conquered Japan
How Mobile Phones Conquered Japan
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian offers a rich, textured look at the role keitai culture plays in Japanese life, and a glimpse of what the future holds for the rest of us. By Xeni Jardin.
By Xeni Jardin
2:00 a.m. Aug. 19, 2005 PDT
Blue-haired Harajuku high schoolers t...more...Newsreaders Cut to the Chase
...t to the Chase
News junkies can find plenty of sources on the web for the latest news. That's great, and it's a problem. John Gartner takes a look at how newsreaders can help cut the clutter.
By John Gartner
2:00 a.m. April 5, 2005 PDT
Finding exhaustive (exhausting?) coverage of the media's top sto......more... Machines Not Lost in Translation
...something close to Star Trek's universal translator will be harder than building the Enterprise. When you are coming in and giving food to a village, how you would say 'hello' is totally different than if you are a military person at a checkpoint holding a gun pointed in their direction.
According t......more... More Questions for Florida
...votes among the other candidates in the race.
Curtis said he initially believed Feeney wanted the code to see if such fraud were possible and to know how to detect it. The programmer told Feeney that such code could never be undetectable in source code, and he wrote a paper describing how to look fo......more... Researchers: Florida Vote Fishy
...this information, they examined election results for the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates in the state in 1996, 2000 and 2004 to see how support for those candidates and parties measured over eight years in Florida's 67 counties.
They discovered that in the 15 counties using touch-s......more... Rants Raves
...e to disassemble electronics and piece them back together or modify them in unbelievable ways. I'm sure Brandon would disassemble his car to find out how each piece of equipment is essential; that is, if he didn't love it so much.
I really think those four boys deserve to be in the Book of World Rec......more... A Scan of the Headline Scanners
...splayed alphabetically. Moreover, while grouping feeds into folders is possible, NewsGator cannot show you all the items in a folder or even tell you how many items are in there.
NewsGator is useful for those who don't want another application running. But it's best only for those who read a handful......more... Groklaw's Jones Looks Beyond SCO
... patents and the positive side of the SCO legal saga.
What made you decide to start Groklaw?
Actually, in the beginning, I (was) just trying to learn how to blog. I started with the idea of explaining cases in the news, any cases that interested me, very much the way I might if you invited me to din......more... This Palm Reads Your Mind
...of cognitive function.
Some experts think MiniCog could provide valuable guidance to people obsessed with knowing the answer to the eternal question, How am I doing?
I believe that this may be part of a good approach to evaluating an individual's performance at the moment, said Jonathan D. Cowan, Ph......more... |