Thursday, January 23, 2003

Scooters for Technophiles. What is it like to be one of the first owners of the gyroscopically controlled scooter called a Segway? By John Schwartz. [New York Times: Technology] 8:52:06 AM

The 2003 edition of Macworld was a big hit. If you haven't seen the show, you can still catch the QuickTime 6 stream here. There were a ton of new introductions including something special for the UNIX community - X11 for Mac OS X. Check out the press release, but more importantly, give the beta a try. We've been blown away by the reception so far. There have been more than 100,000 downloads in less than two weeks. Wow! X11 for Mac OS X is a version of the X Window System based on the XFree86 (the de-facto standard) source base that has been seamlessly integrated with Mac OS X's Aqua user interface, Quartz Extreme and OpenGL technologies. High performance, graphically rich UNIX and Linux apps are now a small step away from running on Mac OS X.   [Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog] 8:49:25 AM

Porn Strategy: Share and Snare. The online pornography industry is the antithesis of how the entertainment business is operating these days: It likes the idea of sharing files. By Steve Friess. [Wired News] 8:47:58 AM

Finally -- a great sex manual!. In this era of guilt and bad information "The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex" is an important work of sanity and wisdom. [Salon.com] 8:46:30 AM