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Tuesday, September 24, 2002 |
For those of you who haven't picked up the mag from your local newstand.
Wired. Negroponte. Mesh networks and the breakthrough in last mile connectivity (via Rajesh and Anand). This also may be a way to route around censorship that media companies want to install on wireline networks.
Because further down the street, beyond the reach of my system, another neighbor has put in Wi-Fi. And another, and another. Think of a pond with one water lily, then two, then four, then many overlapping, with their stems reaching into the Internet. (Credit for the water lily analogy goes to Alessandro Ovi, technology adviser to European Commission president Romano Prodi.) [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
8:46:52 PM 
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A couple of local businesses here on the 16th Street Mall do the same thing here in Denver.
I Don't Know Why I Find This So Funny, But I Do. Transit Cops Turn to Music to Fight Crime
"Boston transit police have enlisted the late American composers George Gershwin and John Philip Sousa in their fight against crime.
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police are piping in a mix of show tunes and marches at a city subway station in order to drive away the large numbers of aggressive teens who used to loiter there after school, the Boston Globe newspaper reported on Sunday....
MBTA officials said the sounds of brass and strings blaring over the newly installed speakers are already having their desired effect, reducing crowds at the Forest Hills station, where there had been two to three fights daily." [Excite News, via MP3 Insider] [The Shifted Librarian]
8:33:38 PM
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Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's off to work I go...
6:57:58 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Paul W. Swansen.
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