Timothy N. Hornyak: Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots
Hornyak offers a detailed overview of Japanese robot development tracing the history of robotics all the way from the 1600's through today's modern, state-of-the-art wonders like Asimo.
Jennifer Ouellette
'Black Bodies and Quantum Cats' is the type of book that inspired me to study physics as a child and enabled me to develop a life long love of science and technology.
Synthetic Worlds : The Business and Culture of Online Games
Who would have guessed that the modal demographic for online gamers is 40+ year old women? Or that billions of real dollars change hands between gamers as they buy and sell virtual items?
Lawrence Lessig: Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
The Search
How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
Satisfaction
The Science of Finding True Fulfillment - Listened to the author being interviewed on the NPR Science Friday show via podcast. Very impressive.
Do You Speak American?
A great and often insightful exploration of the 'American' language
Podcasting Hacks
Podcasting is revolutionizing the way we communicate and even the way we think
The Man Behind the Microchip
Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley - An excellent and extremely well written exploration into Robert Noyce and the industry he created that changed the world
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Google's been hinting that they would roll out services based on Google accounts for a while, and there have been clues from time to time. One of the most interesting, at least from a strategic perspective, is the ability to customize your own Google home page. And, it's already gone live.
Almost every SEO and website optimization site you visit claims that with just a few simple changes and some attention to content, you can dramatically increase the results you get from your website. Is it pure, unadulterated hogwash, or is it really possible? We decided to run a simple test to find out.
Digital Life Expo 2005
Originally uploaded by hustler of culture.
Someone has a great sense of humor.
When I first started this blog, several years ago, the title ‘PDA Dreams’ seemed very relevant, and even exciting. I had a lot of passion centered around PDAs and their associated technology. And, I devoured every article and bit of information on them I could possibly find. Now I find that the situation has changed dramatically in a surprisingly short period of time.
... or at least the desktop. According to the writeup on their What's New in Google Desktop 2 (Beta) page, the latest release, or should I say pseudo-release since it's "Beta", includes everything including the kitchen sink. Whoever designed the page had a real sense of humor as well since it has lots of not-so-hidden references.
Mankind craves constant stimulation, and is willing to do almost anything to get it. We hate being bored. So it isn’t too surprising that the game and toy industry accounts for billions of dollars in annual sales. Pokemon, at the height of the character’s popularity, was responsibile for over 8 billion dollars in sales annually.
And, when you stop and analyze it, there is actually several orders of magnitude more pure computing power in a Sony PSP game console than there is in the Space Shuttle.
Of course, people are going to try to leverage the latest and greatest technology in order to make a buck or two. A recent example is the use of advanced AI techniques used as the heart of a Flash simulation of Darth Vader playing a game of 20 questions. All that technology and development, harnessed to sell more Burger King Whoppers.
Sync magazine has a short article that documents a little known, but extremely important aspect of the Apple saga - how the Apple logo came to be, and why for many years it sported all the colors of the rainbow-
"There were many people who said Apple would go bankrupt if they went ahead with the logo," says Rob Janoff, the graphic designer credited with thinking up the world-famous emblem.
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