Ryan Greene's Radio Weblog: Friday, September 13, 2002

Friday, September 13, 2002

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"We Have the Right to Kill 4 Million Americans" .... "We Have the Right to Kill 4 Million Americans"
Essay from Al-Qa'ida spokesman Suleiman Abu Gheith explaining why they're fighting the U.S.

We have not reached parity with them. We have the right to kill 4 million Americans - 2 million of them children - and to exile twice as many and wound and cripple hundreds of thousands. Furthermore, it is our right to fight them with chemical and biological weapons, so as to afflict them with the fatal maladies that have afflicted the Muslims because of the [Americans'] chemical and biological weapons.

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posted by Mark Frauenfelder at 13:34 permanent link to this entry [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

comments 9:58:52 PM

Wireless Campuses Changing the Face of Learning

One Glimpse Of The Wireless Future [Slashdot]

Wired article on how college campuses are providing wireless access to students, and how the students and professors are in turn innovating the tech to change campus life and learning. Pretty cool stuff.

categories: Engineering, Technology of Today

comments 1:19:03 PM

I'm with Mark, I'm 1/3 through a course of antibiotics from what is now threatening to become my annual sinus infection/fall allergy action. NOT FUN.

categories: Personal

comments 12:24:55 PM

Tivo Meets the Nielsens

Nielsen, TiVo Try Ratings Game. The famous TV ratings company links up with the real-time recorder to come up with a new way to measure a new audience. By Steve Friess. [Wired News]

No mention if it will log commercial skipping or not. Still, it's a good way to see what people are watching and when. While it is limited to only 20 families at the moment, I imagine that it could be rolled out quickly to all combo Nielsen/Tivo families if either party was interested.

categories: Entertainment, Technology of Today

comments 12:17:26 PM

Go Cringely!

Open Source TV [Slashdot]

Robert X Cringely describes his plan for NerdTV. Pretty cool, he'll be shooting on some JVC PAL miniDV camcorders, with progressive scan CCDS. That streamlines the conversion process and saves on frames per second for when they go go stream it out.

Additionally, the show is coming out in three versions, Nerd, Suit, and Raw, allowing end users to choose which show they want to watch (This Program is rated N for Nerds, by the Open Source Broadcasting Network.)

categories: Entertainment, Web stuff

comments 9:51:33 AM

Word of the Day 9/13/2002

triskaidekaphobia: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. triskaidekaphobia [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]

categories: Words

comments 6:33:01 AM

A Good Start for Solar

A Role for Solar, but It's a Cameo. BP Amoco has 157 solar-powered gasoline stations in the United States and 220 throughout 16 other nations, with plans for more. By Phil Patton. [New York Times: Science]

I'm glad to see someone doing this, as I think local co-generation is the way to go in the future. Being able to both generate (via solar/wind) and store (flywheel) energy locally will go a long way towards both lowering the cost of such installations as well as minimizing brownouts during peak load times.

categories: Business, Engineering, Technology of Today

comments 6:32:31 AM

I don't think we can

Man, Machine: Can't We Get Along?. Sometimes it's hard not to think machines are out to get us. An unusual art installation in Dublin examines people's relationship with electronic devices. Daithí Ó hAnluain reports from Ireland. [Wired News]

We saw this show when we were at the Guinness tour in Dublin, and it was pretty cool to see that they would give up some space for an art exibit.

categories: Technology of Today

comments 6:22:11 AM