Tuesday, October 15, 2002

Jason O'grady's PowerPage has a great link to an iBook mod that I wish I had the nerve to try: a Candy Apple iBook Check it out! 8:11:12 PM     According to eWeek, Mac OSX is getting a journaling file system. And it looks like a direct decendant of BeFS! Can't wait to try it. 7:53:59 PM     Scott Johnson offers a sensible comment on this MS PR mess: I have to wonder how a Microsoft marketing person could a) come up with this campaign and b) not expect to get found out. Not to mention the obvious ethical questions of using a Microsoft contractor as the example. A Memo to Microsoft About The Microsoft Switch Campaign. [The FuzzyBlog!] 10:31:07 AM     These are truly creative. I wonder how the image is stablized? I need to dig more to find out. 3D Kite Aerial Photography. Stunning QuickTime VR photos taken with cameras attached to kites. Link Discuss (Thanks, Morgan!) [Boing Boing Blog] 9:06:47 AM     It's Tuesday, and this is still very scary... Scariest item of the week -- and it's only Monday From yesterday's N.Y. Times Week in Review, a brief item noting that an asteroid entered the earth's atmosphere in June somewhere over the Mediterranean and exploded with the force of a Hiroshima-strength nuclear bomb. U.S. instruments detected the explosion and properly identified it as the random natural event it was. A U.S. officer quoted in the story asks us to imagine that the asteroid had been poised over, say, India or Pakistan: "To our knowledge, neither of those nations have the sophisticated sensors that can determine the difference between a natural N.E.O. ["near earth object"] impact and a nuclear detonation." [Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment] 8:29:08 AM     Coming to a Borders near Me? I hope so. My Borders is within 150 yards of a Starbucks. I wonder if I can roam between the two nodes. Not likely.... T-Mobile does WiFi deal with Borders. Deutsche Telekom-owned T-Mobile USA just announced a deal with Borders through which it will install 802.11b networks in over 400 of the book and music chain's US locations. T-Mobile is the company whose "HotSpot" service pumps wireless bandwidth into over 1,200 Starbucks locations (projected to increase to 2,000 stores by 2003). Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 8:13:31 AM

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