Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Thursday, October 23, 2003

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Testing Apple's iSight: "The iSight is a well-designed webcam with features which will be incorporated into other companies' webcams in the near future, no doubt. Pity then, that Apple didn't pull out all of the stops to make it more than just a very nice looking and expensive webcam; its automatic functions could have been a lot better." (The Star via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]


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Human Genome story: "John Sundman, a man who had three children with rare, horrible diseases, discovered that the human genome was being mapped for profit, with the intention of rendering the results into a proprietary storehouse to be sold to the highest bidder. That's why he's taken a compelling interest in the human genome project, a successful effort to map the genome and turn the data over to the public domain." [Boing Boing Blog]