Thursday, March 27, 2003

Brain Music: Not Much to Dance To. Several hundred curious -- and brave -- souls gather for a 'deconcert' in which their brain waves are recorded, mixed and played back. The brain makes a variety of noises, it turns out, none of which are likely to make the pop charts. Michelle Delio reports from Toronto. [Wired News] 6:59:21 PM    comment []  trackback []

Cell Phone Number Portability Finally A Reality? [Slashdot] 6:58:14 PM    comment []  trackback []

Gallery of Socialist Realist posters from Cuba, China and the Soviet Union. Posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba and China The former Soviet Union, Cuba, and China: three countries where posters played an important political role and received a large amount of artistic attention. This is a selection of 145 political posters, famous masterpieces as well as equally beautiful but unknown examples drawn from the collection of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. 6:48:22 PM    comment []  trackback []

Why XML Doesn't Suck Tim at it again.  Good read. "Recently in this space I complained that XML is too hard for programmers. That article got Slashdotted and was subsequently read by over thirty thousand people; I got a lot of feedback, quite a bit of it intelligent and thought-provoking. This note will argue that XML doesn't suck, and discuss some of the issues around the difficulties encountered by programmers...." [ongoing] 1:25:48 AM    comment []  trackback []

When Your Speaker System Bends Over Backward to Please. "Like other compact home-theater speaker packages, the 5.1HT Signature Reference System from Acoustic Specialties includes five satellite speakers and a box that holds a subwoofer, a surround decoder and amplifiers. What's different is that this is the system's only box. By Ivan Berger." [via New York Times: Technology] 1:11:48 AM    comment []  trackback []