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Wednesday, August 14, 2002

Greatest Military Blunders Nice discussion of the last century's greatest military blunders. Well written. 9:54:39 PM  Permalink  comment []

Periodic Table of Science Fiction for your PDA [bOing bOing] Michael Swanwick is a busy dude. Though he's a little slow between books, he's busy on the web sites. Last night I mentioned his Goya project on Infinite Matrix. This bOing bOing citing is of another series of short-shorts, this time based on the Periodic Table of the Elements. Cool stuff; wonder which element is beer? 9:41:23 PM  Permalink  comment []

Barnes&Noble.com faces delisting. The giant seller of books online reports in a regulatory filing that it has received a delisting warning from Nasdaq. [CNET News.com] 5:19:40 PM  Permalink  comment []

HyperCard Long Gone? HyperCard Forgotten, but Not Gone. Apple is famous for great software, but HyperCard, one of its best, is programma non grata within the company. Remarkably, the 20-year-old programming environment still has a strong following. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] Wired News seems to have lost its ability to do math. In this excerpt HyperCard is 20 years old. In the story they say it hasn't been updated in about 15 years, even though it was "first released in 1989." HyperCard was actually released in 1988, but Wired isn't even internally consistent. 7:45:15 AM  Permalink  comment []

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