Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/23/2003 | When files survive, but not the technology to read them “Joe Miller of the University of Southern California recently learned that he could not access data from the 1976 Viking Mars landings, which were stored on magnetic tape; a [15-year-old] digital version of the approximately
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Spam
BBC NEWS | Technology | The most annoying spam of 2002
For geeks
ThinkGeek :: Stuff for Smart Masses – Sorted – all this year’s birthday presents!
Spam
More about spam…. Uh-oh: Spam’s getting more sophisticated – Computerworld
Spam
Congress to take on spam, copyright When the 107th Congress ended its work last November, politicians discarded dozens of technology-related bills that had been briefly considered but were never enacted. Now that the 108th Congress has begun this week, some of those controversial proposals dealing with spam, copyright and Internet
Learning CSS
I have decided that it is essential to learn CSS for my next website, and have found a useful online tutorial/guide at w3schools.com Of course, there’s always Webmonkey and Lissa explains everything at a nicely simple level designed for kids but I suspect the kids don’t need it and we
Crime Online: How web-writers subvert the genre of crime fiction
New media is a completely new form of writing, but it has evolved from other media and genres. Writers have developed poetry, programming, video and cartoons, to name just a few. Here are some creative web-writing projects that have taken crime writing as inspiration, in various ways. Online crime magazines,
Flash Poetry
I’m quite fond of Flash poetry. But sometimes I wonder if the multimedia actually adds anything to the text. From Thom Swiss’ collaborative Flash poetry I look at Flood, in which the form really suits the content, and Shy Boy, which I think would be just as powerful in simple
Fanfiction …
…has a vocabulary all its own slash = homoerotic relationships between main characters. Derived from the slash between Kirk/Spock which was the first type, before fanfic even moved online shipper site = relationshipper = site about romances between two previously platonic characters in a series/book site clique ??? (maybe what
Creativity
Another area of interest Creativity and Cognition (the conference last October 13-16 at Loughborough) http://www.inventionatplay.org/ a “highly interactive, engaging and surprising traveling exhibit that focuses on the similarities between the way children and adults play and the creative processes used by innovators in science and technology.”