Universal Rule

Book Reviews

Thursday, July 3, 2003

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The great leap: "60,000 years ago humans were on the brink of extinction. An evolutionary eyeblink later, there are over 6 billion of us. How did we do it?" [Guardian Unlimited > [ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]]

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Laptop Sales Beat Desktops for First Time: "Sales of laptop computers in U.S. stores outpaced those of desktop computers for the first time in May, according to a survey." [New York Times: Technology > [ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]]

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Surgery of Modern Warfare: "I have been involved in many many fights, several feuds, two major rivalries, and at least one imbroglio that I am able to recall, and throughout all of these conflicts, I have never, ever lost."

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Thoughts on groups.: "Clay Shirky's new piece, A Group is its own World Enemy is a wonderful look at on-line interactions." [Teal Sunglasses]

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It's all fun and games: "It took less than two days for the new European Union President, from Italy, to piss off the Germans. [...] This is just further confirmation that the EU is simply a giant Day Care center for overpaid, middle-aged, spineless bureaucrats. Please keep up the good work guys, my news would be so boring without the nightly comic relief you gang of merry-makers provide."

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Rummy and Berly: "[...] finally the EU has a leader up to Rumsfeld's standards of inflammable oratory (actually he surpasses Rummy)."

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Japanese rocket crashes in Sweden: "According to the Swedes on #joiito, a Japanese space probe just crashed in Sweden. I can't find anything about on English or Japanese language sites. Anyone know anything about this?" [Joi Ito's Web]

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Hecler heckled: "Silvio has upset the Germans [...] The audio of this is hilarious."

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Serving stuff ain't free...: "[...] doesn't it sometimes seem that bloggers (who all pretty much know that net stuff isn't free, because someone has to pay for computers and programmers and electricity and networks and ISPs and all that stuff somehow) think it's okay for people to make money online -- as long as it doesn't interfere with the stuff they want to use for free?" [Teal Sunglasses]

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Amazon weblog: "An Amazon developer is keeping a weblog about what it's like to be an Amazon developer. [via Anil] I wonder what sort of weblog policies they have, and how closely this is monitored before/after publishing." [onfocus.com]

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A very nice interview: "There's a very nice interview with my friend (and hopefully yours) John Hodgman over at mediabistro.com. Lots of funny stuff and insight, as you'd expect from the Hodg-man." [megnut]

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Berlusconi jibe sparks EU storm: "The EU is plunged into a grave diplomatic crisis after the Italian leader compared a German MEP to a Nazi guard." [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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Apple Offering Renewal Gifts To .Mac Members: "Those who renew will have their choice of a free copy of The Sims, EverQuest, or $20 off a purchase of more than $20 at the online Apple Store." (MacMinute via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]