Engadget reports about a man who had his thumbs whittled because he had problems hitting the right keys on his iPhone. Whittling your thumb is pretty much just what you would think: the doctors make a small cut in each thumb and shaved down the bones, then they adjust the [...]
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August, 2007
Wi-Fi disaster response
One of the arguments for municipal wi-fi networks is disaster response communication and last week in Minneapolis it worked as planned. The city opened up their subscription service to everyone after the bridge collapsed and the company that runs the system put in three additional access points near the disaster [...]
Paid content model is on the way out
Do you hear the cries of all the old school newspaper publishers mourning the lost of their precious paid content model? Well, I live close enough to Little Rock to hear Walter Hussman’s wail and know that he will be the very last to admit it’s dead. Here’s two evidences [...]
Peer to peer still around
If your are headed to a college campus in the next couple of weeks you might want to check out Wired’s Education 2.0: The College Student’s Guide to File Sharing. It covers all the latest clients to take advantage your campuses’ high speed network and some of the legal risks [...]
Taking a media fast
Danna Walker at American University writes in the Washington Post that she asked her Understanding Mass Media course to take an electronic media fast for 24 hours abstaining from any kind of electronic media. The students responses to life without any kind of electronic media were very interesting… “I really [...]
Did you know?
Spend eight minutes actually learning something on YouTube with Did You Know 2.0. Some of the great facts I learned include One of every eight couples who married in 2005 met online. People who turn 21 this year have already sent 250,000 emails and IMs. Seventy percent of four year [...]
Try Wufoo for forms
When I first started designing websites one of the biggest problems I had was creating forms because I had no clue when it came to programming and servers. If I had access to a service like Wufoo I might not have had to learn vbscript, php and cdonts. You can [...]