Sunday, April 18, 2004

More High Speed Internet Growth Broadband Use in US Up Dramatically. Numerous media are covering the Pew Internet and American Life report that broadband internet use is up dramatically in the US. Here’s a chunk from Forbes piece based on a Reuter’s report: More than half of U.S. Internet users now... [datacloud] 4:22:31 PM

Tuning in to Radio Userland I'm still hoping Userland Software will become a bigger company. A new version of Radio Userland would be one of the most excellent things in software. It's all about tuning in. - Gary Tuning in to Radio's wavelength. Computer book reviewer Thomas Duff has covered Radio UserLand Kick Start, my unofficial manual for the software. Because Duff doesn't use Radio to publish his own weblog, his interest in the subject is mostly academic, but I appreciate the scrutiny. Radio's extremely tough to categorize. Though most people think of it as a weblog editor and newsreader, Radio's actually an innovative Internet development environment with a built-in object database, scripting language, and content management system. The weblog and RSS features are just two examples of the kinds of applications you can create with the software, criminally underpriced at $39.95. When one of my editors at Sams was still mystified by Radio after reviewing a dozen chapters of the manuscript, I added a new Chapter 1, Tuning In to Radio UserLand, simply to explain why I'm so geeked about the software. I put the chapter online this morning, and I hope that people who are curious about Radio will give it a read, even if they have no intention of publishing with the software. [Workbench] 10:57:29 AM

Space Age Raumpatrouille Picture of the Month. Hasso Sigbjörnsen leaving Lancet 1. [The Cartoonist] 9:54:44 AM

'To the hip hop hop, you don't stop the rock To the bang bang boogie' Hip + Hop = the big bang. I said a hip hop The hippy, the hippy, to the hip hop hop, you don't stop the rock To the bang bang boogie, say up jumped the boogie To the rhythm of the boogie, the beat Twenty-five years ago, Jimmy Carter was president, a gallon of gas cost 90 cents, andWonder Mike, Big Bank Hank, and Master Gee were ... [Boston Globe -- Living / Arts News] 9:50:49 AM

Eat Healthy Foods! Story on Diabetes Southern Arizona: epicenter of an epidemic. Americans are in grave danger of undoing the greatest achievement of medical science - the doubling of the human life span from four decades just a century ago to nearly 80 years today. The culprits... [Arizona Daily Star: Front Page] 9:42:11 AM

Lost Valentino Film Discovered Lost Valentino film discovered. The Dutch national film archive discovers a copy of the long-lost 1922 Beyond the Rocks. It is an 81′ romantic melodrama about a woman (Gloria Swanson) pushed into a marriage with an older man but who then falls for Valentino's nobleman character on her honeymoon. The Filmmuseum will restore the film, repairing scratches and other minor damage. It has also asked Dutch composers to write a new score to be performed live when it shows the silent movie at its festival in Amsterdam next year. [BBC News] [Cinema Minima] 9:27:38 AM