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Friday, June 21, 2002

Police fear wurst, halt Wienermobile near Pentagon. It's the most famous motorized sausage in the nation, but even the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile can't drive on a restricted road next to the Pentagon. [Twin Cities] 1:51:06 PM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Usability For Cars. TiVo for Your Car "37BetterMotors, designed by the fine Web craftsmen at 37signals, offers a new perspective on what automotive Web sites could be. 37BetterMotors could do for cars what TiVo did for television, turning car ownership or leasing into an activity, not the passive exercise it is currently." [kottke.org] An interesting exercise in usability, sorely needed. Check out their walkthrough for an illustration of how this system would work. [Jenny Levine: Tech Goddess] 10:08:14 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

New Books. My copies of John Cough's "Compiling for the .NET Common Language Runtime" and Martin Fowler's "Refactoring" just arrived... Great! [Commonality] Good choice !, I've heard Peter say Cough's book is good, and Refactoring is a favorite of mine. [Simon Fell] 7:25:34 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Just a reminder.  The Google-it macro for Radio (that lets readers search Google for the titles to your weblog posts) has been out for a couple months (just in case you missed it).  Pretty much cut and paste simple. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 7:25:23 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Another Reason Libraries Should Become WiFi Hotspots. Ben Hammersley on Setting Up a Open Wireless Node "Ben Hammersley writes about setting up his public WiFi node in his Guardian column. Ben's experience is a little unusual -- within a day of setting up his access point, Doc Searls (who was 9000 miles from home), stumbled upon it (and Ben). Later, at a group dinner with a bunch of British geeks, Matt Jones suggested chalking 'WiFi hobo-runes' on the sidewalk marking discovered wireless service, so that other netstumblers and war-walkers may connect to it." [Boing Boing] From the article itself: "...As a writer, with no need to be anywhere but at the end of an internet connection, an email address and a mobile phone number, it's a revolutionary step. But the wondrous convenience of writing in a place designed to bring me regular blasts of caffeine is really nothing compared to the serendipitous meetings it has created: for as the network I set up is free for all to use, and somewhat advertised on the web, this cafe has seen a steady stream of like-minded technology enthusiasts, bloggers, and geared-up layabouts united in the joyous realisation that they never need go to the office again. A correctly enabled laptop, and a coffee addiction later, your first delivery of email over a community wireless network seems to come with angelic music and a parting of the clouds.... Since then, he and many others have used the spare bandwidth on my internet connection, and I've drunk plenty of coffee. In fact, with the caffeine, the only thing wired around here is me." [Jenny Levine: Tech Goddess] 7:14:59 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

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