13 June 2002

Nvidia gears up graphics tools for games. A new programming language called Cg, built with Microsoft's collaboration, may help developers of computer games render details such as fur and grass more realistically. [CNET News.com] 8:08:52 PM

Terror concerns spark nuke drug sales. Small businesses selling potassium iodide--an FDA-approved drug that mitigates potential effects from radiation exposure--are seeing online sales skyrocket. [CNET News.com] 8:08:42 PM

Bees Boost Coffee Crop Yield [Scientific American] 8:04:36 PM

An International E-Competition Relies on the High-Tech E-Piano. Yefim Bronfman will evaluate the finalists of an international piano competition using a Yamaha Disklavier Pro piano, essentially a 21st-century player piano. [New York Times: Technology] 8:04:22 PM

My new soul brother Glenn Reynolds blogs John Hiler noticing that the unsigned music and unpublished books he's finding via weblogs are pretty good. Yeah. I wrote about this in my Monoculture piece last month. "Perhaps monoculture has run its course. Maybe what's happening now, but it's hard to see, is that each of us is taking more responsibility for getting our own information, for creating our own entertainment, and not giving that power to the centralized entertainment and information industries." [Scripting News] 8:04:14 PM

Doc Searls: There is no demand for messages. [Scripting News] 8:04:05 PM

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